Beach soccer at the 2023 European Games

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Beach soccer
at the 2023 European Games
Beach soccer at the 2023 European Games.png
VenueTarnów Beach Arena
Location Tarnów, Poland
Dates27 June – 1 July
Competitors167 from 9 nations
Teams14
←  2019
2027  →

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.

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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

GGroup stageCClassification½SemifinalsBBronze medal matchFGold medal match
Date
Event
Tue 27Wed 28Thu 29Fri 30Sat 1
Men GGGC½CBF
Women GGGC½BF

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 qualificationDate of competitionVenueBerthsQualified
Host country—1Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
2022 EBSL Superfinal10–11 September 2022 Flag of Italy.svg Alghero 6Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
2022 EBSL Promotion Final27–31 July 2022 Flag of Moldova.svg Chișinău 1Flag of Moldova.svg  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 qualificationDate of competitionVenueBerthsQualified
Host country—1Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
2022 WEBSL Superfinal10–11 September 2022 Flag of Italy.svg Alghero 5Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic [lower-alpha 1]
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Flag of Ukraine.svg  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).

Medal summary

Medalists

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's tournament [6]
details 		Flag of Switzerland.svg  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		Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Sebastiano Paterniti
Alessandro Miceli
Gianmarco Genovali
Francesco Sciacca
Tommaso Fazzini
Emmanuele Zurlo
Marco Giordani
Luca Bertacca
Samuele Sassari
Alessandro Remedi
Ovidio Alla
Leandro Casapieri		Flag of Spain.svg  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 		Flag of Spain.svg  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		Flag of Ukraine.svg  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		Flag of Portugal.svg  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

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1012
2Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1001
3Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 0101
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 0101
5Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 0011
Totals (5 entries)2226

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 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]

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