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Beach soccer at the 2015 European Games
Tournament details
Host countryAzerbaijan
Dates24–28 June
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)Beach Arena, Baku
Final positions
Champions Russia (1st title)
Runners-up Italy
Third place Portugal
Fourth place  Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played20
Goals scored152 (7.6 per match)
Top scorer(s)Portugal Nuno Belchior[1]
(8 goals)
2019

The beach soccer tournament at the Baku 2015 European Games was held from 24 to 28 June. It was the first edition of beach soccer at the European Games.

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

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men[2]  Russia
Andrey Bukhlitskiy
Yury Gorchinskiy
Yuri Krasheninnikov
Ilya Leonov
Aleksey Makarov
Ivan Ostrovskii
Artur Paporotnyi
Anatoly Peremitin
Kirill Romanov
Egor Shaykov
Dmitry Shishin
Anton Shkarin
 Italy
Francesco Corosiniti
Alessio Frainetti
Gabriele Gori
Simone Marinai
Matteo Marrucci
Simone Del Mestre
Michele Di Palma
Paolo Palmacci
Giuseppe Platania
Dario Ramacciotti
Stefano Spada
Emmanuele Zurlo
 Portugal
Elinton Andrade
Tiago Batalha
Nuno Belchior
Alan Cavalcanti
Rui Coimbra
José Maria Fonseca
Bruno Novo
Tiago Petrony
Bernardo Santos
Jordan Santos
João Victor Saraiva
Bruno Torres

Qualification

Azerbaijan is qualified as host country. The remaining seven teams have qualified through the 2014 Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL). The top three teams from each group in the Superfinal will qualify. The top team from the Promotional Final, excluding the 12th team from Division A, will also qualify.[3]

Means of qualification Date of competition Venue Berths Qualified
Host country    1  Azerbaijan
2014 Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal 17 August 2014 Spain Torredembarra 6  Russia
 Spain
 Portugal
  Switzerland
 Italy
 Ukraine
2014 Euro Beach Soccer League Promotional Final 17 August 2014 Spain Torredembarra 1  Hungary
Total   8

Group round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Portugal 3 2 1 0 0 17 13 +4 8 Semifinals
2   Switzerland 3 2 0 0 1 17 14 +3 6
3  Ukraine 3 1 0 0 2 11 11 0 3 5–8th place semifinals
4  Azerbaijan (H) 3 0 0 0 3 9 16 −7 0
Source: Baku2015
(H) Host
Portugal 6–5  Switzerland
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Gionni Matticoli (Italy)
Ukraine 3–1 Azerbaijan
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Laurynas Aržuolaitis (Lithuania)

Portugal 5–4 (a.e.t.) Ukraine
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Amin Utulu (Malta)
Azerbaijan 4–7  Switzerland
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Łukasz Ostrowski (Poland)

Switzerland 5–4 Ukraine
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Laurynas Aržuolaitis (Lithuania)
Azerbaijan 4–6 Portugal
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Gionni Matticoli (Italy)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Italy 3 2 0 0 1 12 9 +3 6[a] Semifinals
2  Russia 3 2 0 0 1 14 12 +2 6[a]
3  Spain 3 1 0 1 1 9 8 +1 4 5–8th place semifinals
4  Hungary 3 0 0 0 3 9 15 −6 0
Source: Baku2015
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Russia 4–6 Italy
Spain 1–1 (a.e.t.) Italy
Report
Penalties
3–1
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Ingilab Mammadov (Azerbaijan)
Hungary 3–5 Russia
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Oleg Cebotari (Moldova)

Spain 5–2 Hungary
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Russia 4–6 Italy
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Sofien Benchabane (France)

Italy 5–4 Hungary
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Oleg Cebotari (Moldova)
Russia 5–3 Spain
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Antonio Pereira (Portugal)

Classification matches

Bracket

 
5–8th place semifinals5th place match
 
      
 
27 June
 
 
 Ukraine4
 
28 June
 
 Hungary2
 
 Ukraine3
 
27 June
 
 Spain6
 
 Spain3
 
 
 Azerbaijan1
 
7th place match
 
 
28 June
 
 
 Hungary3
 
 
 Azerbaijan2

5–8th place semifinals

Ukraine 4–2 Hungary
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Mikhail Prokharau (Belarus)

Spain 3–1 Azerbaijan
Report
Beach Arena, Baku

Seventh place match

Hungary 3–2 Azerbaijan
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Richard de Bruijn (Netherlands)

Fifth place match

Ukraine 3–6 Spain
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Mikhail Prokharau (Belarus)

Knockout round

Bracket

 
SemifinalsGold medal match
 
      
 
27 June
 
 
 Italy7
 
28 June
 
  Switzerland4
 
 Italy2
 
27 June
 
 Russia3
 
 Portugal1
 
 
 Russia2
 
Bronze medal match
 
 
28 June
 
 
  Switzerland5
 
 
 Portugal6

Semifinals

Italy 7–4  Switzerland
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Ago Kärtmann (Estonia)

Portugal 1–2 Russia
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Amin Utulu (Malta)

Bronze medal match

Switzerland 5–6 Portugal
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Gionni Matticoli (Italy)

Gold medal match

Italy 2–3 Russia
Report
Beach Arena, Baku
Referee: Sofien Benchabane (France)

References

  1. ^ "Beach Soccer – Men – Individual Statistics – Goalscorers" (PDF). Baku 2015. 28 June 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Beach Soccer – Men – Medallists" (PDF). Baku 2015. 28 June 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  3. ^ Qualification summary