Beach soccer at the 2023 European Games

Beach soccer
at the 2023 European Games
VenueTarnów Beach Arena
LocationTarnów, Poland
Dates27 June – 1 July
Competitors167 from 9 nations
Teams14
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The beach soccer tournament at the 2023 European Games will be held; the discipline was confirmed to be part of the Games on 30 August 2021.[1] It will be the third edition of beach soccer at the European Games following 2015 and 2019.

Two events will take place: the men's tournament the women's tournament. The former will take place for the third time at the Games, and the latter for the first time. A total of 14 teams will participate (eight in the men's competition and six in the women's).[2]

Portugal are the defending gold medallists of the men's tournament.

Competition schedule

G Group stage C Classification ½ Semifinals B Bronze medal match F Gold medal match
Date
Event
 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 1
Men G G G C ½ C B F
Women G G G C ½ B F

Qualification

Men's tournament

Poland qualify automatically as the host country. The remaining teams qualified through the 2022 Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL). The top six teams of the Superfinal qualified along with the winners of the Promotion Final.[2]

Means of qualification Date of competition Venue Berths Qualified
Host country — 1  Poland
2022 EBSL Superfinal 10–11 September 2022 Italy Alghero 6  Azerbaijan
 Italy
 Portugal
 Spain
  Switzerland
 Ukraine
2022 EBSL Promotion Final 27–31 July 2022 Moldova Chișinău 1  Moldova
Total   8 [3][4]

Women's tournament

Poland qualify automatically as the host country. The remaining teams qualified through the 2022 Women's Euro Beach Soccer League (WEBSL). The top five teams of the Superfinal qualified.[2]

Means of qualification Date of competition Venue Berths Qualified
Host country — 1  Poland
2022 WEBSL Superfinal 10–11 September 2022 Italy Alghero 5  Czech Republic[a]
 Italy
 Portugal
 Spain
 Ukraine
Total   6 [4]

Participating NOCs

The following National Olympic Committees (NOCs), as per the outcome of qualification events, will participate (the number of participating athletes of each NOC are shown in parentheses).

Medal summary

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's tournament[6]
details 		 Switzerland
Silvano Kessler
Angelo Wüest
Michael Rodrigues
Tobias Steinemann
Sandro Spaccarotella
Dejan Stankovic
Noël Ott
Glenn Hodel
Patrick Rüttimann
Eliott Mounoud
Ariel Schranz
Gabriel Pereira 		 Italy
Sebastiano Paterniti
Alessandro Miceli
Gianmarco Genovali
Fabio Sciacca
Tommaso Fazzini
Emmanuele Zurlo
Marco Giordani
Luca Bertacca
Samuele Sassari
Alessandro Remedi
Ovidio Alla
Leandro Casapieri 		 Spain
Francisco Donaire
Antonio Riguard
Jose Oliver
Jose Arias
David Ardil
Francisco Mejías
Domingo Cabrera
Pedro Garcia
Miguel Santiso
Antonio Mayor
Chiky Ardil
Jose Caballero
Women's tournament[7]
details 		 Spain
Jennifer Pedro de Blas
Andrea Mirón
Andrea Alcaide Martín
María Corbacho
Lorena Asensio Ruiz
Adriana Manau
Sara González Rodríguez
Carolina González Portela
Jessica Higueras
Cristina González Chaves
Laura Gallego Silvente 		 Ukraine
Anastasiia Klipachenko
Mariia Tykhonova
Yuliia Dekhtiar
Yuliia Kostiuk
Myroslava Vypasniak
Viktoriia Kyslova
Iryna Dubytska
Taisiia Babenko
Iryna Vasylyuk
Alona Kyrylchuk
Anna Shulha
Anastasiia Terekh 		 Portugal
Jamila Marreiros
Ema Toscano
Joana Flores
Inês Branco Cruz
Cristiana Costa
Mélissa Gomes
Érica Ferreira
Petra Reis
Andreia Silva
Catarina Clara Mesquita
Sofia Vicente
Marta Simões

Medal table

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Spain1012
2 Switzerland1001
3 Italy0101
 Ukraine0101
5 Portugal0011
Totals (5 entries)2226

See also

Notes

  1. ^ England originally qualified, but because England does not have an independent NOC they cannot compete and so were subsequently replaced by the Czech Republic.[5]

References

  1. ^ "20 sports now confirmed for European Games 2023 with addition of beach soccer and kickboxing". Around the Rings. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Euro Beach Soccer League: 2022 structure announced". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 16 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Moldova win 2022 EBSL Division B!". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b Houston, Michael (14 September 2022). "Beach soccer field confirmed for 2023 European Games". Inside the Games. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Who will play in the women's beach soccer tournament at the European Games". European Games 2023. 1 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Beach Soccer – Men's – Medallists" (PDF). european-games.org. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Beach Soccer – Women's – Medallists" (PDF). european-games.org. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.