Beach soccer at the 2019 European Games explained

Size:100 px
Country:Belarus
Dates:25–29 June
Num Teams:8
Confederations:1
Venues:Olympic Sports Complex
Count:1
Matches:20
Goals:171
Top Scorer: Gabriele Gori[1]
(11 goals)
Prevseason:2015
Nextseason:2023

The beach soccer tournament at the 2019 European Games was held from 25 to 29 June. It was the second edition of beach soccer at the European Games.

Eight men’s teams, comprising 96 athletes, competed over five days of competition.[2] [3]

Medalists

Men[4]
Elinton Andrade
Nuno Belchior
Ruben Brilhante
Rui Coimbra
João Gonçalves
André Lourenço
Tiago Petrony
Bê Martins
Jordan Santos
Léo Martins
Madjer
Pedro Silva

David Ardil
Salvador Ardil
Domingo Cabrera
José Cintas
Francisco Donaire
Adrián Frutos
Llorenç Gómez
Pablo López
Antonio Mayor
Mario Soria
Eduard Suárez
Javier Torres

Philipp Borer
Silvan Conrad
Glenn Hodel
Valentin Jaeggy
Jan Ostgen
Noël Ott
Sandro Spaccarotella
Nico Stalder
Dejan Stankovic
Tobias Steinemann
Nicholas Stucki
Angelo Wüest

Qualification

Belarus is qualified as host country. The remaining seven teams have qualified through the 2018 Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL). The top six teams in the Superfinal will qualify with the top team from the Promotional Final.[5]

Means of qualificationDate of competitionVenueBerthsQualified
Host country   1
2018 EBSL Superfinal 6–9 September 2018 6




2018 EBSL Promotion Final 1
Total   8

Draw

The draw was held on 4 April 2019 in the conference hall of the National Olympic Stadium Dynamo in Minsk, Belarus.[6] [7]

Seedings

Group round

All times are local (UTC+3).

Group A

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Group B

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Classification matches

5–8th place semifinals

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Fifth place match

Knockout round

Semifinals

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Gold medal match

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Beach Soccer – Men – Individual Statistics – Goalscorers. MEGOC. 29 June 2019. 30 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190630144534/https://storage.googleapis.com/sns-odf-prod/BCSMTEAM--------------------------/C85A%20-%20Men%20-%20Individual%20Statistics%20(Sat,%2029%20Jun%202019%20-%2020:21).pdf. 30 June 2019. dead.
  2. Web site: Beach Soccer. https://web.archive.org/web/20190616212821/https://minsk2019.by/en/tsrd/BCS/results. dead. 16 June 2019. minsk2019.by. 17 June 2019.
  3. News: Competition schedule for beach soccer approved. minsk2019.by. 17 April 2019. 17 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190420190326/https://minsk2019.by/en/news/1058. 20 April 2019. dead.
  4. Web site: Beach Soccer – Men – Medallists. MEGOC. 29 June 2019. 1 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190701160226/https://storage.googleapis.com/sns-odf-prod/BCSMTEAM--------------------------/C92C%20-%20Men%20-%20Team%20Medalists%20(Sat,%2029%20Jun%202019%20-%2020:22).pdf. 1 July 2019. dead.
  5. http://www.beachsoccer.com/news/the-ebsl-2018-revealed The EBSL 2018, revealed!
  6. News: Draw for Minsk 2019 beach soccer events to be held on 4 April 2019. minsk2019.by. 14 March 2019. 14 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190621065237/https://minsk2019.by/en/news/952. 21 June 2019. dead.
  7. News: Results of the beach soccer draw. minsk2019.by. 5 April 2019. 14 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190621065235/https://minsk2019.by/en/news/1028. 21 June 2019. dead.