Beach soccer at the 2023 European Games

Beach soccer
at the 2023 European Games
Beach soccer ; at the 2023 European Games
Venue	Tarnów Beach Arena
Location	Tarnów, Poland
Dates	27 June – 1 July
Competitors	167 from 9 nations
Teams	14
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The beach soccer tournament at the 2023 European Games will be held; the discipline was confirmed to be part of the Games on 30 August 2021.^[1] It will be the third edition of beach soccer at the European Games following 2015 and 2019.

Two events will take place: the men's tournament the women's tournament. The former will take place for the third time at the Games, and the latter for the first time. A total of 14 teams will participate (eight in the men's competition and six in the women's).^[2]

Portugal are the defending gold medallists of the men's tournament.

Competition schedule

G	Group stage	C	Classification	½	Semifinals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Gold medal match

Date Event	Tue 27	Wed 28	Thu 29	Fri 30		Sat 1
Men	G	G	G	C	½	C	B	F
Women	G	G	G	C	½		B	F

Qualification

Men's tournament

Poland qualify automatically as the host country. The remaining teams qualified through the 2022 Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL). The top six teams of the Superfinal qualified along with the winners of the Promotion Final.^[2]

Means of qualification	Date of competition	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host country	—		1	Poland
2022 EBSL Superfinal	10–11 September 2022	Alghero	6	Azerbaijan Italy Portugal Spain Switzerland Ukraine
2022 EBSL Promotion Final	27–31 July 2022	Chișinău	1	Moldova
Total			8	^[3]^[4]

Women's tournament

Poland qualify automatically as the host country. The remaining teams qualified through the 2022 Women's Euro Beach Soccer League (WEBSL). The top five teams of the Superfinal qualified.^[2]

Means of qualification	Date of competition	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host country	—		1	Poland
2022 WEBSL Superfinal	10–11 September 2022	Alghero	5	Czech Republic^[a] Italy Portugal Spain Ukraine
Total			6	^[4]

Participating NOCs

The following National Olympic Committees (NOCs), as per the outcome of qualification events, will participate (the number of participating athletes of each NOC are shown in parentheses).

Azerbaijan (12)
Czech Republic (12)
Italy (24)
Moldova (12)
Poland (24)
Portugal (24)
Spain (23)
Switzerland (12)
Ukraine (24)

Medal summary

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament^[6] details	Switzerland Silvano Kessler Angelo Wüest Michael Rodrigues Tobias Steinemann Sandro Spaccarotella Dejan Stankovic Noël Ott Glenn Hodel Patrick Rüttimann Eliott Mounoud Ariel Schranz Gabriel Pereira	Italy Sebastiano Paterniti Alessandro Miceli Gianmarco Genovali Fabio Sciacca Tommaso Fazzini Emmanuele Zurlo Marco Giordani Luca Bertacca Samuele Sassari Alessandro Remedi Ovidio Alla Leandro Casapieri	Spain Francisco Donaire Antonio Riguard Jose Oliver Jose Arias David Ardil Francisco Mejías Domingo Cabrera Pedro Garcia Miguel Santiso Antonio Mayor Chiky Ardil Jose Caballero
Women's tournament^[7] details	Spain Jennifer Pedro de Blas Andrea Mirón Andrea Alcaide Martín María Corbacho Lorena Asensio Ruiz Adriana Manau Sara González Rodríguez Carolina González Portela Jessica Higueras Cristina González Chaves Laura Gallego Silvente	Ukraine Anastasiia Klipachenko Mariia Tykhonova Yuliia Dekhtiar Yuliia Kostiuk Myroslava Vypasniak Viktoriia Kyslova Iryna Dubytska Taisiia Babenko Iryna Vasylyuk Alona Kyrylchuk Anna Shulha Anastasiia Terekh	Portugal Jamila Marreiros Ema Toscano Joana Flores Inês Branco Cruz Cristiana Costa Mélissa Gomes Érica Ferreira Petra Reis Andreia Silva Catarina Clara Mesquita Sofia Vicente Marta Simões

Medal table

Notes

^ England originally qualified, but because England does not have an independent NOC they cannot compete and so were subsequently replaced by the Czech Republic.^[5]

References

^ "20 sports now confirmed for European Games 2023 with addition of beach soccer and kickboxing". Around the Rings. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Euro Beach Soccer League: 2022 structure announced". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 16 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^ "Moldova win 2022 EBSL Division B!". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b Houston, Michael (14 September 2022). "Beach soccer field confirmed for 2023 European Games". Inside the Games. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
^ "Who will play in the women's beach soccer tournament at the European Games". European Games 2023. 1 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
^ "Beach Soccer – Men's – Medallists" (PDF). european-games.org. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
^ "Beach Soccer – Women's – Medallists" (PDF). european-games.org. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.

[GBR-6] England originally qualified, but because England does not have an independent NOC they cannot compete and so were subsequently replaced by the Czech Republic.^[5]

[1] "20 sports now confirmed for European Games 2023 with addition of beach soccer and kickboxing". Around the Rings. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

[qualification-2] "Euro Beach Soccer League: 2022 structure announced". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 16 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

[3] "Moldova win 2022 EBSL Division B!". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

[qualified-4] Houston, Michael (14 September 2022). "Beach soccer field confirmed for 2023 European Games". Inside the Games. Retrieved 15 September 2022.

[5] "Who will play in the women's beach soccer tournament at the European Games". European Games 2023. 1 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

[7] "Beach Soccer – Men's – Medallists" (PDF). european-games.org. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.

[8] "Beach Soccer – Women's – Medallists" (PDF). european-games.org. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.

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