The 2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Futbol Playa) was the fifth edition of the Copa América of Beach Soccer, the international beach soccer competition organised by CONMEBOL for the men's national teams of South America. It was held at Cavancha Beach in Iquique, Chile between 22 February and 2 March 2025.
For the second time, the tournament acted as the South American qualification for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup following CONMEBOL's decision to determine its representatives in the World Cup via the Copa America instead of its specific qualifying tournament that ran until 2021. The top three teams qualified for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup held in Seychelles. The defending champions were Brazil.
Teams Teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL participated.
TeamAppearance Previous best performance 5th (2023) 5th (2018) (holders) 5th (2016, 2018, 2023) (hosts) 5th (2022) 5th (2023) 5th (2018) 5th (2022) 5th (2016, 2022) 5th (2018) 5th (2016)
Venue Chile was named as host country on 11 November 2024. Iquique was confirmed as host city by the Football Federation of Chile on 6 January 2025, with Cavancha Beach, located in northern Chile on the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, as the venue for all the matches.
Iquique Cavancha Beach
Squads
Each national team had to enter a squad of a maximum of 12 and a minimum of 10 players, including at least of two goalkeepers.
Draw The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place at 12:00 PYST (UTC−3) on 11 November 2024 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, under the following procedure:
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the tournament in 2023 (shown in brackets).
Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to position one of the groups:
to Group A: as the hosts, to Group B: as the last champions,
The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two based on their seeding, in order from the highest seeds placed in Pot 1, down to the lowest seeds placed in Pot 4. From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Match officials On 23 January 2025, CONMEBOL announced a total of 22 referees appointed for the tournament.
Mariano Romo Carlos Maidana Jaimito Suárez Luis Mojica Luciano Andrade Lucas Estevão Cristian Galaz Manuel Martin Jorge Iván Gómez Ferley Fuentes Brandon Amay Jean Villamar Javier Marcillo Micke Palomino Alex Valdivieso Diego Santander Jorge Martínez Silvio Coronel Aecio Fernández Lucas Hernández Gerand Rivas Darwin Busto
Group stage The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams finishing in third through fifth proceeded to play in consolation matches against the teams finishing in the same position in the other group to determine their final rank.
Teams were awards three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a loss.
Tiebreakers If two or more teams are equal on points, their rankings are determined as follows:
All match times are in local time, CHI (UTC−3).
Group A
Group B
Final stages All match times are in local time, CHI (UTC−3).
Bracket
Semi-finals
Ninth place play-off
Seventh place play-off
Fifth place play-off
Third place play-off
Final
Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup The following three teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Seychelles.
Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup1only FIFA era (since 2005) (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2024) (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021) (debut) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Final ranking
Broadcasting The tournament's broadcasters by country are as follows: Argentina: DSports Bolivia: Tigo Sports Brazil: sportv / TV Globo Chile: TVN / DSports Colombia: Caracol TV / RCN / DSports Ecuador: DSports Paraguay: Tigo Sports Peru: DSports Uruguay: DSports Venezuela: Televen / DSports United States: TUDN / VIX
For all countries outside the Americas, the tournament is being streamed on YouTube.
References
External links at copaamerica.com