Copa América of Beach Soccer

Copa América of Beach Soccer

Organising body	CONMEBOL
Founded	2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Region	South America (CONMEBOL)
Number of teams	10
Current champions	Brazil (3rd title)
Most successful team(s)	Brazil (3 titles)
Website	conmebol.com
2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer

The Copa América of Beach Soccer (named natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Fútbol Playa) is a biennial international beach soccer tournament contested between the senior men's national teams of the 10 members of CONMEBOL.^[1] It is beach soccer's version of the better known Copa América in its parent sport, association football.

The tournament is organized by the governing body for football in South America, CONMEBOL,^[2] who established the event in 2016^[3] following their declaration of commitment a year prior, to develop beach soccer on the continent.^[4] Exhibition-style events also held under the Copa América title took place in 1994–99, 2003 and 2012–14,^[5] but this fully competitive incarnation of the Copa América is the first to be officially sanctioned and organized by CONMEBOL,^[6] who also organize the other official Copa América events in association football and futsal.

Since 2023, it has been the main beach soccer championship disputed exclusively by South American national teams. It was previously one of two main championships along with the longer running World Cup qualification tournament, established in 2006. However, CONMEBOL announced the abolishment of the latter in 2022, in favour of having the Copa América double-up as its qualifiers for the World Cup instead. At this time, the tournament was also switched from taking place in even years to odd years.^[7]

Brazil are the current champions.

Results

Year	Location		Final				Third Place Play-off
			Winners	Score	Runners-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2016 details	Santos, Brazil		Brazil	12–2	Paraguay		Venezuela	7–6	Uruguay
2018 details	Asia District, Peru		Brazil	7–3	Paraguay		Uruguay	7–4	Ecuador
2020	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[8]		Originally scheduled for 10–17 May. Initially postponed[9] and subsequently cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]
2022 details	Luque, Paraguay		Paraguay	3–2	Brazil		Chile	3–2	Venezuela
2023 details	Rosario, Argentina[11][12]		Brazil	13–5	Argentina		Colombia	7–5	Paraguay
2025 details	Chile

Performance

Successful nations

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third Place	Fourth Place		Total top 4
Brazil	3 (2016, 2018, 2023)	1 (2022)	–	–		4
Paraguay	1 (2022)	2 (2016, 2018)	–	1 (2023)		4
Argentina	–	1 (2023)	–	–		1
Uruguay	–	–	1 (2018)	1 (2016)		2
Venezuela	–	–	1 (2016)	1 (2022)		2
Chile	–	–	1 (2022)	–		1
Colombia	–	–	1 (2023)	–		1
Ecuador	–	–	–	1 (2018)		1

All-time top goalscorers

As of 2023

The following table shows the all-time top 15 goalscorers.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Daniel Cedeño	Ecuador	27
2	Billy Velezmoro	Peru	24
	Jorge Bailon	Ecuador
4	Rodrigo	Brazil	16
5	Carlos Carballo	Paraguay	15
6	Alejander Vaamonde	Venezuela	14
	Carlos Valentín Benítez	Paraguay
	Edson Hulk	Brazil
	Lautaro Benaducci	Argentina
	Pedro Moran	Paraguay
11	Filipe da Silva	Brazil	13
	Mauricinho	Brazil
13	Datinha	Brazil	12
	Lucas Medero	Argentina
	Milciades Medina	Paraguay
	Néstor Medina	Paraguay
	Sócrates Vidal	Peru

Sources: 2016, 2018; Match reports: 2022, 2023.

Overall standings

As of 2023

Pos	Team	App	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	PPG	Win %
1	Brazil	4	23	22	0	0	1	177	54	+123	66	2.87	95.7% (22–1)
2	Paraguay	4	23	14	0	1	8	128	97	+31	43	1.87	65.2% (15–8)
3	Uruguay	4	21	10	0	2	9	83	88	–5	32	1.52	57.1% (12–9)
4	Peru	4	20	9	0	1	10	82	78	+4	28	1.40	50.0% (10–10)
5	Argentina	4	21	8	1	0	12	71	99	–28	26	1.24	42.9% (9–12)
6	Colombia	4	21	6	0	3	12	67	84	–17	21	1.00	42.9% (9–12)
7	Venezuela	4	21	7	0	0	14	66	90	–24	21	1.00	33.3% (7–14)
8	Chile	4	21	7	0	0	14	69	101	–32	21	1.00	33.3% (7–14)
9	Ecuador	4	21	5	1	3	12	94	106	–12	20	0.95	42.9% (9–12)
10	Bolivia	4	20	5	1	0	14	67	107	–40	17	0.85	30.0% (6–14)

Key: Appearances App / Won in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Won in Extra Time W+ = 2 Points / Won in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Lost L = 0 Points / Points per game PPG

Appearances & performance timeline

Key

1st – Champions 2nd – Runners-up 3rd – Third place 4th – Fourth place

5th–10th — Fifth to tenth place  ×  – Did not participate     – Hosts Apps — Total appearances

Year Team	2016 (10)	2018 (10)	2022 (10)	2023 (10)	2025 (10)		Apps ⁄4
Argentina	10th	5th	6th	2nd	TBD		5
Bolivia	7th	6th	10th	8th	TBD		5
Brazil	1st	1st	2nd	1st	TBD		5
Chile	6th	8th	3rd	6th	TBD		5
Colombia	8th	9th	8th	3rd	TBD		5
Ecuador	9th	4th	9th	9th	TBD		5
Paraguay	2nd	2nd	1st	4th	TBD		5
Peru	5th	7th	5th	7th	TBD		5
Uruguay	4th	3rd	7th	5th	TBD		5
Venezuela	3rd	10th	4th	10th	TBD		5

See also

• Copa América de Futsal

References

1. "Copa America confirmed for March". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
2. "Intensas actividades en el calendario de Fútbol Playa" (in Spanish). Paraguayan Football Association. 16 September 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
3. "Histórica primera Copa América de Playa, Paraguay pelea el título con Brasil" (in Spanish). Paraguayan Football Association. 17 December 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
4. "Beach soccer: CONMEBOL bets on its competitive expansion". CONMEBOL. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
5. "Copa America" (in Portuguese). cbsb.com.br. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
6. "Apoio da CONMEBOL eleva visibilidade do beach soccer na América do Sul" (in Portuguese). CBSB - Confederação de Beach Soccer do Brasil. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
7. "Calendario de torneos de la CONMEBOL 2023" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 7 July 2022.
8. "Selección Colombia de fútbol playa se prepara en Medellín para la Copa América de Río". Indeportes Antioquia. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
9. "COVID-19 Se pospuso el Sudamericano Sub-17 de Fútbol Femenino Uruguay 2020". Uruguayan Football Association. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
10. "Lista de torneos cancelados en la edición 2020". CONMEBOL. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
11. Fechas y Sedes de los Torneos CONMEBOL 2023
12. Rosario fue confirmada como la sede de la Copa América de Fútbol Playa

External links

• CONMEBOL, official website
• Beach Soccer Worldwide, official website
• Copa América, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)