Denmark national beach soccer team represents Denmark in international beach soccer competitions, but is not controlled by the Danish Football Association (DFA), the governing body for football in Denmark. The DFA have decided to wait before being affiliated with an official national beach soccer team. However the team is recognised by the sport's governing body, Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) and competes as Denmark's representative team in BSWW and FIFA sanctioned tournaments.
Denmark made an early entrance onto the international beach soccer scene by competing in the 1996 World Championship, finishing 6th out of 8 teams. At the tournament, played on Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Denmark's squad included former Ballon d'Or winner Allan Simonsen and lost 1–7 to Brazil. However a Danish team did not return to internationals for 17 years until 2013 to compete in a BSWW Tour event in Sweden. In 2016, Denmark committed a team to multiple events in the beach soccer calendar for the first time, debuting in both the Euro Beach Soccer League and World Cup qualifiers.
Since then, Danish beach soccer has progressed to the sport's top international tier: the squad has reached Division A of the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal, contested among Europe's eight leading nations. Danish players have regularly been nominated for individual honours at the Beach Soccer Stars awards. Axel Damm was shortlisted for the Best Men's Player award in four consecutive years, from 2022 to 2025; the team's head coach and former captain, Casper Dorph Jørgensen, was shortlisted for the same award in 2022 and 2023; goalkeeper Gustav Madsen was shortlisted for Best Men's Player in 2023 and for Best Men's Goalkeeper in 2024, before winning the Rising Star award later in 2024; and forward Carl Oscar Wegeberg was shortlisted for Best Men's Player in 2025. From 2023 to 2026 the team was coached by the Spaniard Llorenç Gómez, who had himself been voted the world's best player at the 2018 Beach Soccer Stars awards and was shortlisted for the 2025 Best Coach award during his spell in charge of Denmark.
Recent history Denmark competed in Division A of the Euro Beach Soccer League in 2024, finishing third at the opening stage in Tirrenia, Italy, but ending the season 12th and last after the Superfinal in Alghero. In October 2024 the team played in the European qualifying tournament for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Cádiz, Spain, where they beat Czechia twice, Moldova, and Italy after extra time, but were eliminated in the second group stage. At the 2025 Superfinal in Viareggio Denmark finished 7th of 8, winning the seventh-place play-off 5–4 against France with a golden goal.
Casper Dorph Jørgensen, who had captained the side for five years, took over as head coach ahead of the 2026 season. A co-founder of Copenhagen BSC, he coaches the team unpaid; as the squad is not funded by the Danish Football Association, it relies on sponsorship and grants. The sport is organised nationally in Denmark by Strandfodbold Danmark, founded in 2025. Training is further constrained by winter weather: with only three indoor sand halls in the country, the squad has trained on frozen pitches wrapped in plastic film and neoprene socks to stay warm, prompting the 2026 formation of the multi-sport Dansk Strand Alliance, which aims to expand indoor training capacity. Players otherwise cover most of their own costs, a situation the coach has likened to "sending a Series 5 team to play the Champions League". In April 2026 Denmark finished as runners-up at the El Salvador Beach Soccer Cup in San Salvador, beating hosts El Salvador 3–2 and Colombia 3–1 either side of a 10–3 defeat to Brazil, with Axel Damm finishing as the tournament's joint top scorer. Damm, who has scored 79 goals via scissor kicks over his career, has attracted loan interest from clubs elsewhere in Europe and South America.
Later in 2026 Denmark reached the final of the Euro Beach Soccer League regular phase for the first time. Unbeaten in the group stage in Chișinău, Moldova, they beat the hosts 4–0 in the semi-final before losing the final 4–3 after extra time to Italy on 2 August 2026; goalkeeper Gustav Ravn Madsen was named the tournament's best goalkeeper. The result secured a place at the Superfinal in Viareggio, held 8–13 September 2026, where Denmark were drawn in Group A with Italy, Germany and Moldova.
Squad member Ole Hansen, from Randers, has described his first cap for the team as an experience in Italy he said he would never forget.
Goalkeeper Gustav Madsen, who took up the sport during the COVID-19 pandemic, became the first goalkeeper to win the Rising Star award at the Beach Soccer Stars Gala in Dubai in February 2024.
Player records Most goals in a single match: six, by Villads De Fries Emborg, in an 8–8 draw against Switzerland (Switzerland won 12–11 on penalties) at the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal third-place play-off in Viareggio, Italy, on 13 September 2026. Fastest hat-trick: Axel Damm, who scored three goals – all scissor (bicycle) kicks – in just over two minutes during the third period of a 7–1 win over Norway at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup UAE 2024 Baku European Pre-Qualifier, on 2 July 2023. Youngest player: Carl Oscar Wegeberg, who was 17 years and 341 days old when he made his debut against Luxembourg on 28 June 2019, having been born on 22 July 2001.
Players statistics Statistics correct as of September 2026, except for Henrik Rædkjær, Casper Dorph Jørgensen, Dennis Dorph and Rasmus Lyng, whose caps and goals are as last recorded in September 2023, before they left the squad; Oskar Jørgensen's goal tally has been corrected to the number verifiable from goalscorer records in this article's match history.
No. Pos. Name Age Caps Goals Active 1 GK Oliver Levin 57 7 Yes 2 DF Lukas Frandsen 47 26 Yes 5 MF Oskar Jørgensen 34 8 Yes 6 MF Carl Oscar Wegeberg (vice-captain) 58 41 Yes 10 MF Axel Damm 84 79 Yes 12 FW Rasmus Lucht (captain) 15 10 Yes 21 GK Gustav Madsen 41 34 Yes 22 FW Klaus Ryding 43 6 Yes FW Bertram Jensen 22 8 Yes FW Villads De Fries Emborg 12 11 Yes FW Ole Hansen 20 7 Yes FW Tobias Pilgaard 21 8 Yes DF Felix Schmidt 10 4 Yes FW Laurits Stubgaard Jørgensen 10 6 Yes FW Jacob Hoedeman 10 6 Yes 7 DF Casper Dorph Jørgensen 51 14 No 8 MF Dennis Dorph 39 4 No 9 FW Henrik Rædkjær 52 39 No 11 FW Rasmus Lyng 42 6 No
Head Coach: Casper Dorph Jørgensen Assistant Coach: Terry Bowes Mental Coach: Brian Easler Goalkeeper Coach: Diego Garrido Gómez Physiotherapist: Federico Rossin Staff: Luca Malinconico Staff: Nicoló Rossetti
Achievements Beach Soccer World Championship best: 6th place 1996 Euro Beach Soccer League best: runners-up, regular phase, Division A (2026) 2016 position: 13th place, Division B 2017 position: 13th place, Division B 2018 position: 12th place, Division B 2019 position: 13th place, Division B 2022 position: 7th place, Division B 2023 position: 8th place, Division A 2024 position: 12th place, Division A 2025 position: 7th place, Division A 2026 position: runners-up in the regular phase, Division A; qualified for the Superfinal FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA) best: 5th/6th place 2016 position: none 2021 position: 13th place 2023 position: 5th/6th place 2025 position: eliminated in the second group stage El Salvador Beach Soccer Cup best: runners-up 2026 position: runners-up
World ranking
Results
All-time record Correct as of September 2026 TournamentPldWW+LGFGADifPtsBeach Soccer World Championship31021016–63BSWW Tour matches61052231–93Euro Beach Soccer League5420434211240–2964FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA)231211182110–2835Total8634552325397–72105
Matches
1996 1996 matches
2013 2013 matches
2016 2016 matches
2017 2017 matches
2018 2018 matches
2019 2019 matches
2021 2021 matches
2022 2022 matches
2023 2023 matches
2024 2024 matches
2025 2025 matches
2026 2026 matches
External links
BSWW Profile DBU - Beach Soccer Results Strandfodbold Danmark (official governing body) Goal highlights, 2026 El Salvador Beach Soccer Cup (HvidovreNyt, YouTube)