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2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
كأس العالم لكرة القدم الشاطئية 2024
Tournament details
Host countryUnited Arab Emirates
CityDubai
Dates15–25 February 2024
Teams16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
← 2021
2025 →

The 2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will be the 12th edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the premier international beach soccer championship contested by men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. Overall, this will be the 22nd edition of a world cup in beach soccer since the establishment of the Beach Soccer World Championships which ran from 1995 to 2004 but which was not governed by FIFA; all world cups took place annually until 2009 when it then became a biennial event.

This edition was originally set to be the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup; at the FIFA Beach Soccer Workshop in November 2017, it was announced that the World Cup would continue to be held biennially in odd-numbered years for the period 2018–2024.[1][2] The bidding process for said edition was subsequently opened by FIFA in October 2021,[3] concluding with the selection of the United Arab Emirates as the hosts in December 2022.[4] The tournament was initially set to take place from 16 to 26 November 2023.[5] However, in June 2023, the tournament was delayed until 15 to 25 February 2024,[6] in order to provide more time to the organisers to prepare for the event.[7] As a consequence, it's original 2023 branding was dropped, and it subsequently became referred to as the 2024 edition.[8] It will take place in Dubai, the second city to host multiple times[a] having also hosted the 2009 edition.[4]

Russia are the defending champions.[Note RFU] However, all senior Russian national teams are currently banned indefinitely from competing in FIFA competitions.[9]

Host selection

The original bidding schedule to determine the hosts was as follows:[10]

  • 6 October 2021 – FIFA opens the bidding process.
  • 29 October 2021 – Deadline for national associations to declare interest of hosting to FIFA.
  • 1 November 2021 – FIFA circulates documents detailing the application campaign and conditions of participation to the bidding associations to analyse.
  • 26 November 2021 – Deadline for associations to reaffirm their bidding intentions by agreeing to the terms of the documents.
  • 30 January 2022 – Deadline for nations to prepare and submit their complete bidding packages to be evaluated by FIFA.
  • 31 March 2022 – Hosts announced by FIFA.

On 8 December 2021, FIFA revealed that five associations had affirmed their bidding intentions:[11]

On 14 February 2022, FIFA announced that three of the five associations had submitted bids through to the final stage of the process,[12] with Colombia and Thailand withdrawing.

Confirmation of the awarding of hosting rights was due to be announced at the FIFA Council meeting in Doha, Qatar on 31 March 2022.[10] However, no announcement was made; it was then due to be awarded at its meeting in Auckland, New Zealand on 22 October 2022, but it was announced at the meeting that the decision had been deferred again until a subsequent Council meeting.[13] The United Arab Emirates was awarded the hosting rights to the 2023 tournament, while Seychelles was awarded for the 2025 edition on 16 December 2022.[14]

Qualification

A total of 16 teams have qualified for the final tournament. In addition to the United Arab Emirates who qualified automatically as the host country, 15 other teams qualified from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 14 March 2023.[15]

The process of qualification to the World Cup finals began in October 2022 and ended in August 2023.

Note: The appearance statistics below refer only to the FIFA era of world cups in beach soccer (since 2005); see this article for the inclusion of World Championships era stats (1995–2004).

Confederation Qualified through Team App Last Best performance
AFC
(Asia; 3 teams + hosts) 		Host nation  United Arab Emirates 8th 2021 Group stage (seven times)
2023 AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup  Iran 8th 2017 Third place (2017)
 Japan 12th 2021 Runners-up (2021)
 Oman 5th 2021 Group stage (2011, 2015, 2019, 2021)
CAF
(Africa; 2 teams) 		2022 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations  Egypt 1st n/a Debut
 Senegal 9th 2021 Fourth place (2021)
CONCACAF
(Central, North America and Caribbean; 2 teams) 		2023 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship  Mexico 7th 2019 Runners-up (2007)
 United States 7th 2021 Group stage (six times)
CONMEBOL
(South America; 3 teams) 		2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer  Argentina 9th 2015 Quarter-finals (2005, 2006, 2008, 2013)
 Brazil 12th 2021 Champions (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2017)
 Colombia 1st n/a Debut
OFC (Oceania; 1 team) 2023 OFC Beach Soccer Nations Cup  Tahiti 7th 2021 Runners-up (2015, 2017)
UEFA
(Europe; 4 teams) 		2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA)  Belarus 3rd 2021 Group stage (2019, 2021)
 Italy 9th 2019 Runners-up (2008, 2019)
 Portugal 11th 2021 Champions (2015, 2019)
 Spain[Note ESP] 9th 2021 Runners-up (2013)
  1. ^
    Note ESP: Ukraine originally qualified. However, on 27 September 2023, it was announced that the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine had refused to sanction the Ukrainian national team's participation in the tournament, in protest at the Belarus national team being allowed to compete, whom it believes should be barred from entering due the country's role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[16] Ukraine previously qualified for, but also boycotted the 2021 World Cup due to its venue being in Russia.[17][18] They were replaced by Spain, who statistically finished in fifth place in the UEFA qualifiers[19] and therefore enter as lucky losers.

Draw

The draw to split the 16 teams into four groups of four took place at 18:30 GST (UTC+4) on 6 October 2023 at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library in Dubai.[20] The drawing of lots was performed by Bakhit Saad and Christian Karembeu.[21] It was conducted under the following procedure:[22]

The teams were first divided into four pots of four based upon a ranking created by FIFA considering each team's performances at the World Cup over the past five editions (since 2013); the more recent the tournament, the more weight was given to those results. Bonus points were also awarded to the teams which won their confederation's championship during qualifying. Using this ranking, the best performing teams were placed in Pot 1 (plus the hosts), the next best performers were placed in Pot 2 and so on. This resulted in the following composition pots:

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
The numbers in parentheses show the BSWW World Ranking of the teams at the time of the draw, out of 102 nations.[23] The rankings are displayed for context only; it had no influence on the draw.

The draw started with Pot 1. As the hosts, the United Arab Emirates were automatically assigned to position A1. The highest-ranked team, Brazil, was automatically assigned to position D1. The other teams were then drawn – the first out was placed into Group C and the second, D. The teams from Pot 2 were then drawn – the first out was placed into Group A, second into B and so on. The same was repeated for Pots 3 and 4. The exact positions in the groups the teams were allocated to was determined by the drawing of lots from an auxiliary pot. Teams from the same confederation could not be drawn into the same group.

The draw resulted in the following groups:[24]

Group A
Pos Team
A1  United Arab Emirates
A2  Egypt
A3  United States
A4  Italy
Group B
Pos Team
B1  Spain
B2  Iran
B3  Tahiti
B4  Argentina
Group C
Pos Team
C1  Senegal
C2  Belarus
C3  Colombia
C4  Japan
Group D
Pos Team
D1  Brazil
D2  Oman
D3  Portugal
D4  Mexico

Group stage

The match schedule was published on the 6 October, following the draw.[25]

In the group stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (one period of three minutes) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner. Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat. The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.[26]

Tiebreakers

The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows:[26]

  1. points obtained in all group matches;
  2. goal difference in all group matches;
  3. number of goals scored in all group matches;

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

  1. points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  2. goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  3. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
    • Yellow card: −1 points;
    • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
    • Direct red card: −4 points;
    • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
  5. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

All times are local, GST (UTC+4).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United Arab Emirates (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  Egypt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 15 February 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host
United States Match 1 Italy
United Arab Emirates Match 3 Egypt
Italy Match 9 Egypt
United Arab Emirates Match 11 United States
Egypt Match 17 United States
Italy Match 19 United Arab Emirates

Group B

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Spain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  Iran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Tahiti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Argentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 15 February 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Tahiti Match 2 Argentina
Spain Match 4 Iran
Spain Match 10 Tahiti
Argentina Match 12 Iran
Argentina Match 18 Spain
Iran Match 20 Tahiti

Group C

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Senegal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  Belarus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 16 February 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Colombia Match 5 Japan
Senegal Match 7 Belarus
Japan Match 14 Belarus
Senegal Match 16 Colombia
Belarus Match 21 Colombia
Japan Match 23 Senegal

Group D

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  Oman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 16 February 2024. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Portugal Match 6 Mexico
Brazil Match 8 Oman
Mexico Match 13 Oman
Brazil Match 15 Portugal
Oman Match 22 Portugal
Mexico Match 24 Brazil

Knockout stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
22 February
 
 
Winners Group D
 
24 February
 
Runners-up Group C
 
Winners QF 1
 
22 February
 
Winners QF 3
 
Winners Group B
 
25 February
 
Runners-up Group A
 
Winners SF 1
 
22 February
 
Winners SF 2
 
Winners Group C
 
24 February
 
Runners-up Group D
 
Winners QF 2
 
22 February
 
Winners QF 4Third place match
 
Winners Group A
 
25 February
 
Runners-up Group B
 
Losers SF 1
 
 
Losers SF 2
 

Quarter-finals

Winners Group DMatch 25Runners-up Group C
Winners Group CMatch 26Runners-up Group D
Winners Group BMatch 27Runners-up Group A
Winners Group AMatch 28Runners-up Group B

Semi-finals

Winners QF 3Match 29Winners QF 1
Winners QF 4Match 30Winners QF 2

Third place match

Losers SF 1Match 31Losers SF 2

Final

Winners SF 1Match 32Winners SF 2

References

Notes
  1. ^
    a: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hosted the first three editions in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
  2. ^
    Note RFU: Russia are the de facto defending champions, having competed as the RFU in 2021 – In accordance with the ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and a December 2020 decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the team from Russia was not permitted to use the Russian name, flag, or anthem at the 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup; it competed as the team of the Russian Football Union (RFU), and used the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee.[27]
Citations
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  7. ^ "Resilience, by Joan Cuscó, Beach Soccer Worldwide President". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023. ...potentially reschedule the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2023 to February 2024. This adjustment would allow the UAE FA to ensure the provision of a competition that lives up to the prestigious legacy of the tournament
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  9. ^ "Football Union of Russia withdraws appeal over FIFA ban". Al Jazeera. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
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  13. ^ "Meeting in Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau sees key transfer system regulations approved". FIFA. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022. It was also decided that four items would be presented at a subsequent FIFA Council meeting, namely the appointment of hosts for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2023™, proposed amendments to the FIFA Disciplinary Code and to the FIFA Code of Ethics, and the approval of the FIFA Football Agent Regulations.
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  20. ^ "FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2024 draw to take place this Friday". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
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External links

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