CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship

CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
Organizing bodyCONCACAF
Founded2006; 18 years ago (2006)
RegionNorth America, Central America and the Caribbean
Number of teams12–16
Qualifier forFIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
Current champion(s) United States (3rd title)
Most successful team(s) Mexico (4 titles)
Websiteconcacaf.com
2023 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship

The CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship is the main championship for beach soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, contested between senior men's national teams of the members of CONCACAF.[1] It is the sport's version of the better known CONCACAF Gold Cup in association football. North America's governing body for football, CONCACAF, organize the championship,[2] with cooperation from Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).[3]

The winners of the championship are crowned continental champions;[4] the tournament also acts as the qualification route for North American nations to the upcoming edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup[1] and is therefore also known as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONCACAF qualifier.[5] Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2010; the World Cup then became biennial, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit.

The championship was established in 2006 after FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the best national team(s) in their region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup (previously, nations were simply invited to play without having to earn their place).[6] The first edition was preceded by a joint qualification tournament with CONMEBOL in 2005; a second and final joint event was held in 2007.[7][8] FIFA currently allocate North America two berths at the World Cup[9] and hence the top two teams (the winners and the runners-up) qualify to the World Cup finals.[5]

Mexico are the most successful nation with four titles.[10] They are followed by the United States with three titles (also current champions), El Salvador with two and Panama with one.

Results

  •   Joint championship with CONMEBOL

There have been ten editions of the championship as of 2023. For all tournaments, the top two teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

In terms of qualification to the World Cup, Mexico and the United States have achieved the most, placing well enough in the championship to advance to the World Cup finals on seven occasions each. Along with El Salvador and Costa Rica, these four are the only nations to qualify to the World Cup more than once thus far.

Year Location Final Third place match
Champions Score Runners-up Third Place Score Fourth Place
2005 Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship
2006
details 		Costa Rica Puntarenas, Costa Rica
United States 		[round-robin]
Canada
Costa Rica 		[round-robin]
Mexico
2007 Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship
2008
details 		Mexico Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Mexico 		[round-robin]
El Salvador
United States 		[round-robin]
Costa Rica
2009
details 		Mexico Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
El Salvador 		6–3
Costa Rica
Mexico 		5–4
United States
2010
details 		Mexico Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Mexico 		5–3
El Salvador
United States 		7–5
Costa Rica
2013
details 		The Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas
United States 		5–4 (a.e.t.)
El Salvador
Mexico 		8–7
Costa Rica
2015
details 		El Salvador Costa del Sol, El Salvador
Mexico 		4–0
Costa Rica
El Salvador 		5–2
United States
2017
details 		The Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas
Panama 		4–2
Mexico
El Salvador 		7–2
Guadeloupe
2019
details 		Mexico Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Mexico 		6–2
United States
El Salvador 		8–3
Panama
2021
details 		Costa Rica Alajuela, Costa Rica[11]
El Salvador 		6–4
United States
Guatemala 		5–2
Mexico
2023
details 		The Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas
United States 		5–0
Mexico
El Salvador 		3–2
Bahamas
Round-robin ^ Indicates this edition was played as a round-robin tournament. There was no final or third place match.

Performance

Successful nations

Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place Total top 4
 Mexico[a] 4 (2008*, 2011*, 2015, 2019*) 2 (2017, 2023) 2 (2009*, 2013) 2 (2006, 2021) 10
 United States[b] 3 (2006, 2013, 2023) 2 (2019, 2021) 2 (2008, 2011) 2 (2009, 2015) 9
 El Salvador 2 (2009, 2021) 3 (2008, 2011, 2013) 4 (2015*, 2017, 2019, 2023) – 9
 Panama 1 (2017) – – 1 (2019) 2
 Costa Rica – 2 (2009, 2015) 1 (2006*) 3 (2008, 2011, 2013) 6
 Canada – 1 (2006) – – 1
 Guatemala – – 1 (2021) – 1
 Guadeloupe – – – 1 (2017) 1
 Bahamas – – – 1 (2023*) 1
* Hosts
a. ^ Also fourth in 2007 joint event.
b. ^ Also third in 2005 joint event; winner of 2007 joint event.

Awards

Year Top goalscorer(s) Gls Best player Best goalkeeper Fair play Best young player Ref.
Costa Rica 2006 Mexico Ricardo Villalobos 7 United States Francis Farberoff Canada Jim Larkin  Canada not awarded [1]
Mexico 2008 El Salvador Agustín Ruiz 6 Mexico Ricardo Villalobos El Salvador Luis Rodas not awarded [2]
Mexico 2009 El Salvador Agustín Ruiz 8 Costa Rica Richard Sterling El Salvador José Portillo
Mexico 2010 El Salvador Frank Velásquez 12 El Salvador Frank Velásquez Mexico Miguel Estrada
The Bahamas 2013 United States Nicolas Perera 11 El Salvador Agustín Ruiz United States Christopher Toth [3]
El Salvador 2015 El Salvador Frank Velásquez 15 Mexico Ramón Maldonado Mexico Miguel Estrada [4]
The Bahamas 2017 Belize Marlon Meza
Mexico Ramón Maldonado 		12 Panama Alfonso Maquensi Mexico Diego Villaseñor  Canada Guyana Jamal Haynes [5]
Mexico 2019 United States Nicolas Perera 13 Mexico Benjamín Mosco Mexico Diego Villaseñor  Panama El Salvador Exon Perdomo [6]
Costa Rica 2021 El Salvador Frank Velásquez 11 El Salvador Rubén Batres El Salvador Eliodoro Portillo  Mexico United States Antonio Chávez [7]
The Bahamas 2023 El Salvador Jason Urbina 11 United States Nicolas Perera Mexico Gabriel Macías  Bahamas not awarded [8]

All-time top goalscorers

As of 2023

The following table shows the all-time top 20 goalscorers.

Rank Player Team Goals
1 Frank Velásquez  El Salvador 62
2 Agustín Ruiz  El Salvador 51
3 Nicolas Perera  United States 49
4 Lesly St. Fleur  Bahamas 44
5 Greivin Pacheco  Costa Rica 41
6 Rubén Batres  El Salvador 31
7 Alessandro Canale  United States 26
Exxon Perdomo  El Salvador
Kevon Woodley  Trinidad and Tobago
10 Ramón Maldonado  Mexico 25
Rohan Reid  Jamaica
12 Ricardo Villalobos  Mexico 19
13 Alfonso Maquensi  Panama 18
Ángel Rodríguez  Mexico
Anthony Chimienti  United States
Elmer Robles  El Salvador
Herber Ramos  El Salvador
Marlon Meza  Belize
Miguel González  Guatemala
20 Jhonatan Sánchez  Costa Rica 17
Sources:
2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021–2023: CONCACAF match reports.

All-time table

As of 2023

Joint event results not included.

Pos Team App Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts PPG Win % (W−L)
1  Mexico 10 49 37 1 1 10 235 119 116 114 2.33 79.6 (39−10)
2  United States 10 52 36 2 1 13 268 134 134 113 2.17 75.0 (39−13)
3  El Salvador 9 47 33 1 4 9 293 140 153 105 2.23 80.9 (38−9)
4  Costa Rica 10 43 19 2 3 19 189 171 18 64 1.49 55.8 (24−19)
5  Bahamas 8 36 13 1 1 21 146 145 1 42 1.17 41.7 (15−21)
6  Trinidad and Tobago 6 28 13 0 0 15 103 101 2 39 1.39 46.4 (13−15)
7  Panama 5 22 11 0 2 9 98 71 27 35 1.59 59.1 (13−9)
8  Guatemala 6 27 11 0 2 14 116 108 8 35 1.30 48.1 (13−14)
9  Canada 5 20 8 0 0 12 73 97 −24 24 1.20 40.0 (8−12)
10  Guadeloupe 4 16 5 0 1 10 53 93 −40 16 1.00 37.5 (6−10)
11  Antigua and Barbuda 3 12 4 0 0 8 38 55 −17 12 1.00 33.3 (4−8)
12  Belize 5 17 3 1 1 12 53 92 −39 12 0.71 29.4 (5−12)
13  Jamaica 6 26 4 0 0 22 96 145 −49 12 0.46 15.4 (4−22)
14  Guyana 2 9 3 0 0 6 32 41 −9 9 1.00 33.3 (3−6)
15  Barbados 2 9 2 0 0 7 32 54 −22 6 0.67 22.2 (2−7)
16  Turks and Caicos Islands 5 18 2 0 0 16 50 131 −81 6 0.33 11.1 (2−16)
17  U.S. Virgin Islands 3 12 1 0 0 11 27 91 −64 3 0.25 8.3 (1−11)
18  Bonaire 1 3 0 0 0 3 7 35 −28 0 0.00 0.0 (0−3)
19  Puerto Rico 2 7 0 0 0 7 10 49 −39 0 0.00 0.0 (0−7)
20  Dominican Republic 2 6 0 0 0 6 8 57 −49 0 0.00 0.0 (0−6)

Key: Appearances App / Won in normal time W = 3 points / Won in extra-time W+ = 2 points / Won on penalty shoot-out WP = 1 point / Lost L = 0 points / Points per game PPG

Appearances and performance timeline

The following is a performance timeline of the teams who have appeared in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and how many appearances they each have made.

Legend
‡. ^ In some years, teams knocked-out at round 1 or the quarter-finals played no further matches (these results are marked as R1 or QF).
In other years, classification matches were then played to determine all final placements.
Timeline
Year
Team
 2006
Costa Rica
(5) 		2008
Mexico
(4) 		2009
Mexico
(6) 		2010
Mexico
(8) 		2013
The Bahamas
(10) 		2015
El Salvador
(16) 		2017
The Bahamas
(16) 		2019
Mexico
(16) 		2021
Costa Rica
(11) 		2023
The Bahamas
(12) 		Apps
⁄10
 Antigua and Barbuda × × × × × R1 11th R1 × × 3
 Bahamas × × 6th 8th 6th 7th 6th QF QF 4th 8
 Barbados × × × × × R1 15th × × × 2
 Belize × × × × × R1 13th R1 R1 R1 5
 Bonaire × × × × × × × R1 × × 1
 Canada 2nd × 5th 5th 8th × 10th × × × 5
 Costa Rica 3rd 4th 2nd 4th 4th 2nd 9th R1 QF QF 10
 Dominican Republic × × × × × × × × R1 R1 2
 El Salvador × 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 9
 Guadeloupe × × × × × R1 4th QF •• R1 4
 Guatemala × × × 6th 5th 6th DQ QF 3rd QF 6
 Guyana × × × × •• × 12th R1 × × 2
 Jamaica 5th × × 7th 9th 8th 8th R1 × × 6
 Mexico 4th 1st 3rd 1st 3rd 1st 2nd 1st 4th 2nd 10
 Panama × × × × × R1 1st 4th QF QF 5
 Puerto Rico × × × × 10th R1 × × × × 2
 Trinidad and Tobago × × × × 7th 5th 7th QF QF QF 6
 Turks and Caicos Islands × × × × × R1 14th R1 R1 R1 5
 United States 1st 3rd 4th 3rd 1st 4th 5th 2nd 2nd 1st 10
 U.S. Virgin Islands × × × × × R1 16th R1 × × 3

Performance of qualifiers at the World Cup

Main article: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup records and statistics

The following is a performance timeline of the CONCACAF teams who have gone on to appear in the World Cup, having successfully qualified from the above events.

Legend
Timeline
Year
Team
 Brazil
2005 		Brazil
2006 		Brazil
2007 		France
2008 		United Arab Emirates
2009 		Italy
2011 		French Polynesia
2013 		Portugal
2015 		The Bahamas
2017 		Paraguay
2019 		Russia
2021 		United Arab Emirates
2023 		Seychelles
2025 		Total
 Bahamas R1 1
 Canada QF 1
 Costa Rica R1 R1 2
 El Salvador R1 R1 4th QF R1 5
 Mexico 2nd R1 QF R1 R1 R1 R1 7
 Panama R1 1
 United States R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 7
Total number of unique qualifiers 7

References

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  11. ^ Costa Rica to host 2021 Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship!. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 25 February 2021.