The 2014 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the fourteenth edition of the Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's main, regular international beach soccer championships organised every two years by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), held in August 2014, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Just six nations took part as in 2008, compared to the usual eight, and the teams were not the top-ranked nations from the preceding Euro Beach Soccer League season as in the past but a mix of teams from the divisions as listed below. The competition started with a round-robin ground stage for only the third time, instead of a straight knock-out tournament, with the top two nations from the groups competing in a final match for the title, the others in the respective positions in their groups playing for third and fifth place in classifying matches to determine the final standings.
Spain won the championship for the fourth time, their third win in their last five appearances and their fourth title overall.
Participating teams The teams were announced on August 7. Team2013 EBSL FinishParticipationPrevious1*Division B, 12th2nd(2008)Division B, Runners-up2nd(2007)Division B, 3rd4th(2006, 2009, 2010)Division A, 4th14th(1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)Division A, 3rd13th(1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)Division A, Champions (2013 EBSL Winners)5th(2005, 2009, 2010, 2012) Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year. * = hosts of this year 1Note: 1998-2010 annual basis (excluding 2000), biennial basis post-2010.
Group stage Group A TeamQualification12200159+66Advance to final2201159-42Play-offs320021113-20
Group B TeamQualification12200107+36Advance to final221017703Play-offs32002710-30
Classification matches Fifth place play-off
Third place play-off
Final
Winners
Awards Top scorer Noel Ott11 goalsBest player Juan Manuel Lima (Juanma)Best goalkeeper Dávid Ficsór
Goalscorers
11 goals Noel Ott 7 goals Llorenç Gomez 5 goals Dejan Stankovic Gábor Simonyi 4 goals Theofilos Triantafyllidis Asif Zeynalov Sabir Allahguliyev 3 goals Antonio Mayor Hernández Juanma
Aleksei Krutikov Yury Krasheninnikov 2 goals Mo Jaeggy Sandro Spaccarotella Zeynal Zeynalov Renat Sultanov Daniel Pajón Gómez Viktor Fekete Aleksey Makarov Artur Paporotnyi Péter Ábel Salavador Ardil 'Chyki' Kirill Romanov Yury Kotov
1 goal Phillipp Borer Christos Salapatas Athanasios Kakaroumpas Amid Nazarov Miguel Santiso Mosquera 'Kuman' Norbert Sebestyen Jomard Bakshaliyev Spyridon-Evangelos Gkritzalis-Papadopoulos Stavros Amanatidis Konstantinos Papastathopoulos
Final standings
References