The Euro Beach Soccer Cup (EBSC), originally known as the European Pro Beach Soccer Championships until 2004, was a biennial (previously annual) beach soccer competition contested between European men's national teams, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). Having started in 1998, the tournament was one of the oldest and longest running beach soccer competitions in Europe and the world. It is currently merged with Euro Beach Soccer League.

History

Historically, the top eight ranking teams from the previous Euro Beach Soccer League qualified to contest the cup, hence the similar naming, with the first edition in 1998 starting off the back of the first EBSL season earlier in the year. However, due to saturation in the calendar in recent years, the once major championship has been somewhat back-benched. The participating teams are not always the best ranked as in the past (notably in 2008 and 2014), with entry requirements being more lax/down to invitation, and the tournament has been moved to every two years, the last annual edition coming in 2010.

Portugal are the most successful team and the current champions, having won the tournament for the seventh time in 2016 having failed to win since 2006.

The cup is played as a straight knock-out tournament, other than in the 1998, 2008 and 2014 editions when a group stage was used first before a set of knock-out rounds.

In 2016, BSWW began a women's edition of the event, to be hosted annually.

Men's tournaments Results YearLocationFinalThird place play-offAwardsWinnersScoreRunners-upThird placeScoreFourth placeTop ScorerBest PlayerBest Goalkeeper1998 Details Siracusa, Italy3–2 11–4 Alan Alan Thomas Gruetter1999 Details Alicante, Spain6–2 8–7 —2001 Details Maspalomas, Spain 4–3 5–4 Marco Bruschini Madjer Roberto Valeiro2002 Details Barcelona, Spain 2–1 9–6 Ramiro Amarelle Madjer Jürgen Rollmann2003 Details Liège, Belgium 6–3 6–3 Massimo Agostini Hernâni Claude Barrabe2004 Details Lisbon, Portugal 8–3 9–9 a.e.t.(4–3) pen. Madjer Madjer João Carlos2005 Details Moscow, Russia 4–3 5–4 Pasquale Carotenuto Andrey Bukhlitskiy Nico Jung2006 Details Naples, Italy 9–8 6–4 Pasquale Carotenuto Pasquale Carotenuto Christophe Eggimann2007 Details Tarragona, Spain 3–0 2–1 Dejan Stankovic Jérémy Basquaise Volodymyr Hladchenko2008 Details Baku, Azerbaijan2–0 4–3 Dejan Stankovic Nico Roberto Valeiro2009 Details Rome, Italy 6–4 7–5 Madjer Nico Nico Jung2010 Details Rome, Italy 6–4 5–4 Madjer Ilya Leonov Andrey Bukhlitskiy2012 Details Moscow, Russia 4–2 5–4 Madjer Dejan Stankovic Giuseppe Soria Aleksey Makarov Andrey Bukhlitskiy2014 Details Baku, Azerbaijan 8–6 7–4 Noel Ott Juanma Dávid Ficsór2016 Details Belgrade, Serbia6–38–0 Gabriele Gori Elinton Andrade Elinton Andrade

Successful national teams TeamTitlesRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTotal Top four (from 15)7 (1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2016)3 (1999, 2010, 2012)3 (2005, 2007, 2009) — 134 (1999, 2008, 2009, 2014)4 (1998, 2001, 2002, 2004)1 (2003)1 (2010) 102 (2010, 2012)1 (2005)2 (2014, 2016) — 51 (2005)3 (2008, 2009, 2014)1 (2012)2 (2006, 2007) 71 (2007) — —1 (2005) 2 —3 (2003, 2006, 2007)2 (1999, 2002)1 (2004) 6 —1 (2016)5 (1998, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010)3 (1999, 2002, 2012) 9 — —1 (2008) — 1 — — — 3 (1998, 2001, 2003) 3 — — — 2 (2009, 2016) 2 — — — 1 (2014) 1 — — — 1 (2008) 1

Overall standings As 2016 PosTeamPartPldWWEWPLGFGADifPts1134231236237146+9110021544280115243160+838531442180222203198+55641440151123217210+74851235151118181197–16486618140048848+404273960034131+1018841250164157–16169515401104876–2813103940053137–61211516301126692–2610123930064551–69132620042125–46142620042444–20615131002913–43162610052347–243172601051833–15218130003615–90191300031025–15020130003932–23021250005633–270 Note: Win in Common Time W = 3 Points / Win in Extra Time WE = 2 Points / Win in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Lose L = 0 Points

Team appearances These are the nations who have appeared in the Euro Beach Soccer Cup since 1998. Legend – Champions – Runners-up – Third place – Fourth place 5th − Fifth place 6th − Sixth place 7th − Seventh place 8th − Eighth place QF – Quarterfinals or seventh/eighth place R1 – Round 1 (group stage) • – Did not play – Hosts

1998 (7) 1999 (4) 2001 (8) 2002 (8) 2003 (8) 2004 (8) 2005 (8) 2006 (8) 2007 (8) 2008 (6) 2009 (8) 2010 (8) 2012 (8) 2014 (6) 2016 (8) Total Appearances ••••••••• 3rd••• 6th•2 ••••QF••QF•••••••2 •••• 5thQFQF••••••••3 •••5th•5th•••6th•••••3 R14thQF 3rd 2nd4thQF 2nd 2nd•6thQFQF••12 4th•4th6th4th••QF•••••••5 ••••••••QF••••4th•2 •••••••6th••4thQF•5th4th5 •••QF•••••••••••1 3rd 3rd 3rd4th 6th 3rd6th 3rdQF5th QF 3rd4th• 2nd14 ••QF••••••••••••1 •••••6th•••4th•••••2 ••••••••5th•QF6th5th••4 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 1st 3rd• 3rd 2nd 2nd• 1st 13 ••••••••••••QF••1 •••••• 2nd•••5th 1st 1st 3rd 3rd6 1R1••••••••••••• 8th2 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd5th5th 6th 1st 1st 4th 6th 1st 7th15 R1•QFQFQFQF 1st 4th4th 2nd 2nd5th 3rd 2nd6th14 ••QF••••••••••••1 ••••••4th• 1st •••••5th3

1 Includes one appearance as Yugoslavia

Women's tournaments Results YearLocationFinalThird place play-offAwardsWinnersScoreRunners-upThird placeScoreFourth placeTop ScorerBest PlayerBest Goalkeeper2016 Details Cascais, Portugal2–16–6 a.e.t. 2–0 pens. Molly Clark Andrea Mirón Suzanne Stutz2017 Details Nazaré, Portugal4–31–0 Gemma Hillier Grytsje Van den Berg Lucy Quinn2018 Details Nazaré, Portugal2–06–3 Anastasia Gorshkova Marina Fedorova Maria Jose Pons2019 Details Nazaré, Portugal3–26–5 a.e.t.5 players Marina Fedorova Viktoriia Silina2020 Nazaré, PortugalNazaré to host the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal and Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup 2020. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 August 2020.Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Successful national teams TeamTitlesRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTotal topfour (from 4)2 (2018, 2019) — — — 21 (2016) 2 (2018, 2019) — — 31 (2017) — —3 (2016, 2018, 2019) 4 — 2 (2016, 2017) 2 (2018, 2019) — 4 — — 1 (2016) — 1 — — 1 (2017) — 1 — — — 1 (2017) 1

References

External links http://theroonba.com/beach98.htm http://www.beachsoccer.com/