2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer

The 2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Futbol Playa) will be 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 will be held in Chile between 22 February and 2 March 2025.[1][2]

2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer
Copa América de Fútbol Playa Chile 2025
Tournament details
Host countryChile
Dates22 February – 2 March
Teams10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
2023
2027

For the second time, the tournament will act 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 will qualify for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup held in Seychelles. Brazil are the defending champions.

Teams

edit

Teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL will take part.[1]

Team Appearance Previous best performance
  Argentina 5th Runners-up (2023)
  Bolivia 5th Sixth place (2018)
  Brazil (holders) 5th Champions (2016, 2018, 2023)
  Chile (hosts) 5th Third place (2022)
  Colombia 4th Third place (2023)
  Ecuador 5th Fourth place (2018)
  Paraguay 5th Champions (2022)
  Peru 5th Fifth place (2016, 2022)
  Uruguay 5th Third place (2018)
  Venezuela 5th Third place (2016)

Venue

edit

Chile was named as host country. As of December 2024, details of the host city and venue have not been announced.

Squads

edit

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

edit

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:[1][2]

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,   Chile
  • to Group B: as the last champions,   Brazil

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 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

The draw resulted in the following groups:[2]

Group A
Pos Team
A1   Chile
A2   Colombia
A3   Uruguay
A4   Bolivia
A5   Ecuador
Group B
Pos Team
B1   Brazil
B2   Argentina
B3   Paraguay
B4   Peru
B5   Venezuela

Match officials

edit

As of December 2024, the match officials have not been announced.

Group stage

edit

The top two teams of each group advance 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.

Each team earns 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 defeat.

If two or more teams are equal on points, their rankings are determined as follows:

  1. points between the teams concerned;
  2. goal difference between the teams concerned;
  3. goals scored between the teams concerned;
  4. goal difference in all group matches;
  5. goals scored in all group matches;
  6. fewest red cards;
  7. fewest yellow cards;
  8. drawing of lots by CONMEBOL.

All match times are in local time, CHI (UTC−3).

Group A

edit
Pos Team Pld W WE WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Chile (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2   Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3   Uruguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fifth place play-off
4   Bolivia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Seventh place play-off
5   Ecuador 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ninth place play-off
Updated to match(es) played on 21 February 2025. Source: [citation needed]
(H) Host
v
v

v
v

v
v

v
v

v
v

Group B

edit
Pos Team Pld W WE WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2   Argentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3   Paraguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fifth place play-off
4   Peru 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Seventh place play-off
5   Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ninth place play-off
Updated to match(es) played on 21 February 2025. Source: [citation needed]
v
v

v
v

v
v

v
v

v
v

Final stages

edit

All match times are in local time, CHI (UTC−3).

Bracket

edit
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
1 March
 
 
 
 
2 March
 
 
 
 
 
1 March
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Third place play-off
 
 
2 March
 
 
 
 
 
 

Semi-finals

edit
v
v

Ninth place play-off

edit
v

Seventh place play-off

edit
v

Fifth place play-off

edit
v

Third place play-off

edit
v

Final

edit
v

Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

edit

The following three teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Seychelles.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup1
only FIFA era (since 2005)
1 March 2025
1 March 2025
2 March 2025
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Final ranking

edit
Pos Team Pld W WE WP L GF GA GD Pts
    Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Argentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4   Paraguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5   Uruguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6   Chile (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7   Peru 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8   Bolivia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9   Ecuador 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10   Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Updated to match(es) played on 21 February 2025. Source: [citation needed]
(H) Host

References

edit
  1. ^ a b c "CONMEBOL Copa América Fútbol Playa 2025™: Group Draw | CONMEBOL Copa América". copaamerica.com. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "CONMEBOL Copa América Fútbol Playa 2025™: Groups Confirmed | CONMEBOL Copa América". copaamerica.com. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
edit