FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup records and statistics explained

This is a list of records and statistics of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, including the Beach Soccer World Cup events held before FIFA sanctioning in 2005.

Debut of national teams

YearDebuting teamsSuccessor teams
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valign=top; align=center1995,,,,,,, 88
valign=top; align=center1996,, 311
valign=top; align=center1997,, 314
valign=top; align=center,, 317
valign=top; align=center, 219
valign=top; align=center2000120
valign=top; align=center2001121
valign=top; align=center122
valign=top; align=centerNone022
valign=top; align=center2004, 224
valign=top; align=center2005, 226
valign=top; align=center2006,,,,, 632
valign=top; align=center2007,, 335
valign=top; align=center2008136
valign=top; align=center2009, 238
valign=top; align=center2011, 240
valign=top; align=center2013141
valign=top; align=center142
valign=top; align=center,, 345
valign=top; align=center2019146
valign=top; align=center2021147
valign=top; align=center2024, 249
valign=top; align=center2025150

Overall team records (2005–present)

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win in normal time, 2 points for a win in extra time, 1 point is awarded for a win in penalty shoot-out and 0 for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored. Only the points from the 2005 tournament onward are counted.

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1126553237405196+209166
21156323417304193+111106
3841263210199134+6586
4938162416171140+3156
51246172126170205−3556
6936170019149136+1051
7732142115125130−547
8627141210150127+2346
9730141213141141046
10934132217166141+2545
1193014011596103−743
12421120369767+3039
13832101219122132−1034
14825522167288−1621
156205121288119−3119
16516600107671+518
177255021860107−4717
1831241163948−915
19519410146398−3514
20515400114564−1812
215154001155105−5012
223930063228+49
237203001764106−429
241410121226−144
252710152138−174
261310021518−33
27131002714−73
282610052637−113
292610052442−183
30130102812−42
31130012612−61
322600151235−231
33130003712−50
34130003612−60
3512000228−60
36130003817−90
37130003414−100
38120002313−100
39120002415−110
40130003622−160
41260006831−230

Overall team records (total)

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win in normal time, 2 points for a win in extra time, 1 point is awarded for a win in penalty shoot-out and 0 for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.

The following table shows the overall statistics of all 21 world cups, combining the results of both the Beach Soccer World Cup era and the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup era.

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12110997039798301+497294
21887534426465301+164171
31771303434280285–5100
41560311028242228+1495
5944273212206144+6289
61868252437278309–3179
71250230423212221–973
81657230133167211–4470
91556182234196266–7060
101550180032169233–6454
11730151212159144+1549
12628141211127125+246
13831122215153126+2742
14521110098178+333
157266111895115–2021
166205121288119–3119
17516600107671+518
18622502155390–3717
19721411156683–1715
20519410146398–3514
215154001155105–5012
2231030163463–2910
233930063228+49
2441230093553–189
251520032031–116
262610141830–124
272710152138–174
282710151634–184
291310021518–33
301310021016–63
31131002714–73
321410031422–83
332610052637–113
342610052442–183
353810072233–113
364910082256–343
372600151235–231
382600151342–291
3912000215–40
4012000228–60
41120002413–90
42120002518–130
43130003712–50
44130003414–100
45130003622–160
46240004629–230
47260006831–230

Comprehensive team results by tournament

Legend

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

Beach Soccer World Championshipswidth=5 rowspan=52FIFA Beach Soccer World Cupwidth=5 rowspan=52Appearances
1995

(8)
1996

(8)
1997

(8)
1998

(10)
1999

(12)
2000

(12)
2001

(12)
2002

(8)
2003

(8)
2004

(12)
2005

(12)
2006

(16)
2007

(16)
2008

(16)
2009

(16)
2011

(16)
2013

(16)
2015

(16)
2017

(16)
2019

(16)
2021

(16)
2024

(16)
2025

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Beach Soccer World Championshipswidth=5 rowspan=2FIFA Beach Soccer World Cupwidth=5 rowspan=2Appearances
1995

(8)
1996

(8)
1997

(8)
1998

(10)
1999

(12)
2000

(12)
2001

(12)
2002

(8)
2003

(8)
2004

(12)
2005

(12)
2006

(16)
2007

(16)
2008

(16)
2009

(16)
2011

(16)
2013

(16)
2015

(16)
2017

(16)
2019

(16)
2021

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2024

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Awards

The following documents the winners of the awards presented at the conclusion of the tournament. Eight awards are currently presented.

Golden Ball

The adidas Golden Ball award is awarded to the player who plays the most outstanding football during the tournament. It is selected by the media poll.

World Cupwidth=200Golden Ballwidth=200Silver Ballwidth=200Bronze BallRef(s)
2005 Brazil Madjer Neném Amarelle[1]
2006 Brazil Madjer Benjamin Bruno[2]
2007 Brazil Buru Madjer Morgan Plata[3]
2008 France Amarelle Benjamin Belchior[4]
2009 United Arab Emirates Dejan Stankovic Madjer Benjamin[5]
2011 Italy Ilya Leonov André Frank Velásquez[6]
2013 Tahiti Bruno Xavier Ozu Moreira Raimana Li Fung Kuee[7]
2015 Portugal Heimanu Taiarui Alan Madjer[8]
2017 Bahamas Mohammad Ahmadzadeh Mauricinho Datinha[9]
2019 Paraguay Ozu Moreira Jordan Santos Bê Martins[10]
2021 Russia Noël Ott Artur Paporotnyi Raoul Mendy[11]

Golden Shoe

The adidas Golden Shoe is awarded to the top scorer of the tournament. If more than one player are equal by the same goals, the players will be selected based on the most assists during the tournament.

World Cupwidth=140Golden ShoeGoalswidth=140Silver ShoeGoalswidth=200Bronze ShoeGoalsRef(s)
2005 Brazil Madjer12 Neném9 Anthony Mendy8
2006 Brazil Madjer21 Benjamin12 Bruno10
2007 Brazil Buru10 Morgan Plata9 Bruno8
2008 France Madjer13 Amarelle11 Belchior10
2009 United Arab Emirates Dejan Stankovic16 Madjer1110
2011 Italy André14 Madjer12 Frank Velásquez9
2013 Tahiti Dmitry Shishin11 Bruno Xavier10 Agustín Ruiz7[12]
2015 Portugal Pedro Morán8 Madjer8 Noël Ott8[13]
2017 Bahamas Gabriele Gori17 Rodrigo9 Mohammad Ahmadzadeh9
2019 Paraguay Gabriele Gori16 Emmanuele Zurlo10 Fedor Zemskov10
2021 Russia Glenn Hodel12 Dejan Stankovic10 Takuya Akaguma10

Golden Glove

The Golden Glove Award is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament.

World CupGolden GloveRef(s)
2008 France Roberto Valeiro
2009 United Arab Emirates Mão
2011 Italy Andrey Bukhlitskiy
2013 Tahiti Dona
2015 Portugal Jonathan Torohia
2017 Bahamas Peyman Hosseini
2019 Paraguay Elinton Andrade
2021 Russia Eliott Mounoud

FIFA Fair Play Award

The FIFA Fair Play Award is given to the team who has the best fair play record during the tournament with the criteria set by FIFA Fair Play Committee.

TournamentFIFA Fair Play AwardRef(s)
2005 Brazil
2006 Brazil
2007 Brazil
2008 France
2009 United Arab Emirates
2011 Italy
2013 Tahiti
2015 Portugal
2017 Bahamas
2019 Paraguay
2021 Russia

Top goalscorers

From the data available the table below lists the all-time top 30 goalscorers, totalling goals scored by players across both world cup iterations.

RankPlayerTeamGoals
width=50 erawidth=50FIFA erawidth=85Total
1 52 88 140
2 37 38 75
3 54 18 72
4 71 0 71
5Benjamin 30 35 65
6 55 9 64
7 32 27 59
843 6 49
90 47 47
106 39 45
11 8 35 43
12 2 39 41
0 41
14 André 13839
15 34 0 34
16 0 3333
1730 0 30
Nico 12 18
19Juninho 25 4 29
2028 0 28
0 28
Ricardo Martinez 1 27
2322 5 27
240 26 26
25Didier Samoun France7 18 25
Brazil25 0
Switzerland0 25
Pedro Morán 0 25
29Pape Jean Koukpaki 0 23 23
Brazil0 23
Brazil23 0
Sources:
1995–2001 (combined list), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
Notes:
  • Note that the source for 1995–2002 is a list of the players with the most goals from all those tournaments combined; players must have scored at least 10 goals overall to make the list; players with less goals are not listed. This means for players who subsequently scored enough goals to make the above all-time table, if they played between 1995–2002 and scored less than 10 goals, they would not have made the source lists and therefore any goals they did score during that time are a) unknown and b) missing from the above table (if they did score any).
  • Note that there are some discrepancies between FIFA's individual match reports and FIFA's top scorers lists for the same tournament; the data for this table is taken from the latter.
  • During the early years of beach soccer, goals scored in a penalty shootout were often combined with goals scored during regulation time when the match score was reported – note that it is also possible such goals may have been counted in a player's goal tally in the sources.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Rio de Janeiro 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130328164421/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/beachsoccerworldcup/riodejaneiro2005/awards/index.html . dead . March 28, 2013 . Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com . 20 July 2015.
  2. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Rio de Janeiro 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130328165121/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/beachsoccerworldcup/riodejaneiro2006/awards/index.html . dead . March 28, 2013 . Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com . 20 July 2015.
  3. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Rio de Janeiro 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130328164845/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/beachsoccerworldcup/riodejaneiro2007/awards/index.html . dead . March 28, 2013 . Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com . 20 July 2015.
  4. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Marseilles 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130328164235/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/beachsoccerworldcup/marseilles2008/awards/index.html . dead . March 28, 2013 . Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com . 20 July 2015.
  5. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Dubai 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110701195827/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/beachsoccerworldcup/dubai2009/awards/index.html . dead . July 1, 2011 . Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com . 20 July 2015.
  6. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Italy 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160413125037/http://www.fifa.com:80/tournaments/archive/beachsoccerworldcup/italy2011/awards/index.html. 13 April 2016. 20 July 2015. FIFA.com.
  7. Web site: FIFA.com. 29 September 2013. And the winners are…. https://web.archive.org/web/20190714100038/https://www.fifa.com/beachsoccerworldcup/news/and-the-winners-are-2182862. dead. July 14, 2019. 30 September 2020. en-GB.
  8. Web site: FIFA.com. 19 July 2015. Taiarui and Moran strike gold. https://web.archive.org/web/20210428054732/https://www.fifa.com/beachsoccerworldcup/news/taiarui-and-moran-strike-gold-2666263. dead. April 28, 2021. 30 September 2020. en-GB.
  9. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bahamas 2017 Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20071113071814/http://www.fifa.com/beachsoccerworldcup/awards/index.html . dead . November 13, 2007 . Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com . 30 May 2017.
  10. Web site: Ozu, Gori and Andrade take home individual honours. https://web.archive.org/web/20191202012149/https://www.fifa.com/beachsoccerworldcup/news/ozu-gori-and-andrade-take-home-individual-honours. dead. December 2, 2019. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com. 1 December 2019. 1 December 2019.
  11. Web site: Swiss trio are Russia 2021's golden boys. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA.com. 29 August 2021. 30 August 2021.
  12. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Tahiti 2013. 20 July 2015. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association.
  13. Web site: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Dubai 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110701195827/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/beachsoccerworldcup/dubai2009/awards/index.html. dead. July 1, 2011. 20 July 2015. FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association.