2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
2006 edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
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The 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the second edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, governed by FIFA. Overall, this was the 12th edition of a world cup in beach soccer since the establishment of the Beach Soccer World Championships which ran from 1995–2004 but was not governed by FIFA. It took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2–12 November 2006.
| Copa do Mundo de Futebol de Areia da FIFA Rio de Janeiro 2006 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Brazil |
| City | Rio de Janeiro |
| Dates | 2–12 November |
| Teams | 16 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Brazil (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Uruguay |
| Third place |  France |
| Fourth place |  Portugal |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 286 (8.94 per match) |
| Attendance | 179,800 (5,619 per match) |
| Top scorer | Madjer (21 goals) |
| Best player | Madjer |
| Fair play award | France |
← 2005 2007 → | |
The winners of the tournament were hosts Brazil, who won their first FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup title and their tenth world title overall.
Major changes to format
After the 2005 World Cup, beach soccer continued to grow and spread worldwide at a fast rate. Therefore, FIFA established the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers, to try to allow more nations to play in the World Cup, as well as getting more national teams involved in the sport. FIFA also increased the number of participating teams in the World Cup from 12 to a record-high 16 teams. This also meant that nations would no longer be invited to play in the World Cup but would have to qualify.
With the establishment of the qualifying rounds, FIFA decided to standardise each World Cup, meaning that from this World Cup onwards, each confederation would have the same number of teams participating in each World Cup and that the 16 teams would be split up into four groups of four teams, with the top two teams moving on to the quarter-finals.
Qualifying rounds
African zone
African nations were allocated 2 berths at the World Cup. The championship took place between September 28 and September 30, 2006. Cameroon and Nigeria were the two finalists, meaning they both qualified for the World Cup. Cameroon defeated Nigeria in the final to win the title.
Asian zone
Asian nations were allocated 3 berths at the World Cup. The championship took place between May 22 and May 26, 2006. Bahrain and Japan were the two finalists, meaning they both qualified for the World Cup. Bahrain defeated Japan in the final to win the title. Iran and China were knocked out in the semi-finals and played each other in the third place play off. Iran beat China to claim the third berth at the World Cup.
European zone
European nations were allocated 5 berths at the World Cup. Instead of having a specific tournament for World Cup qualification, qualification was achieved through the 2006 Euro Beach Soccer League which took place earlier in the year. The nations who made it to the second stage of the Superfinal qualified to the World Cup being Spain, Portugal, Poland and Italy. To decide who would claim the fifth berth, the defeated nations in the competition came back to play in a straight knockout tournament, with the winner progressing to the World Cup. The nation which won the tournament was France who beat Switzerland in the final.
North, Central American and Caribbean zone
North, Central American and Caribbean nations were allocated 2 berths at the World Cup. The championship took place between September 13 and September 17, 2006. The United States and Canada were the two finalists, meaning they both qualified for the World Cup. The United States defeated Canada in the final to win the title.
Oceanian zone
Oceanian nations were allocated 1 berth at the World Cup. The championship took place between August 31 and September 3, 2006. The Solomon Islands and Vanuatu were the two finalists. The Solomon Islands defeated Vanuatu in the final to win the title and qualify for the World Cup.
South American zone
South American nations were allocated 3 berths at the World Cup. The championship took place between March 5 and March 12, 2006. Brazil and Uruguay were the two finalists, meaning they both qualified for the World Cup. Brazil defeated Uruguay in the final to win the title. Argentina and Venezuela were knocked out in the semi-finals and played each other in the third place play off. Argentina beat Venezuela to claim the third berth at the World Cup.
Teams
These are the teams that qualified for the World Cup:
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Asian zone: African zone: European zone: |
North, Central American and Caribbean zone: Oceanian zone:
South American zone:
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Venue
As with the previous FIFA editions of the World Cup held in Rio, the tournament once again took place at the Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena.
| Rio de Janeiro |
2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (Brazil) | |
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| Copacabana Beach Soccer Arena | ||
| 22°58′S 43°10′W | ||
| Capacity: 10,000 | ||
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Group stage
The 16 teams present at the finals in Brazil were split into 4 groups of 4 teams. Each team played the other 3 teams in its group in a round-robin format, with the top two teams advancing to the quarter finals. The quarter finals, semi finals and the final itself was played in the form of a knockout tournament.
All matches are listed as local time in Rio de Janeiro, (UTC-3)
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | W+ | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Brazil |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 10 | 19 | 9 |
 Japan |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 22 | –7 | 3 |
 Poland |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 18 | –6 | 3 |
 United States |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 20 | –6 | 3 |
- Japan, Poland and the USA were tied on 3 points each, and one win against each other in their head-to-head records;
- The nations were then ranked based on Goal Difference in the matches between the three (Japan +1, Poland +1, USA -2);
- Finally, the next criterion was Goals For between Japan and Poland, in the matches between the three (Japan +13, and Poland +10), in which resulted on Japan taking the group's runner-up position.
| United States | 4–8 | Japan |
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Xexeo  10'Farberoff 17'Morales 30'Chimienti 35' |
Report | 2', 16', 25' Yoshii 10' Kuroki 19', 35' Kawaharazuka 27' Maruo |
| Brazil | 9–2 | Poland |
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| Benjamin 2' Betinho 10', 14'Buru 12', 31'Junior Negão 12', 35'André 16', 34' |
Report | 19' Żuk 36' Saganowski |
| Brazil | 10–2 | Japan |
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| Buru 2', 16', 18', 27' Junior Negão 9', 20' Bruno 9', 11', 12' Bueno 26' |
Report | 5' Shiokawa 32' Uehara |
| Poland | 2–4 | United States |
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| Saganowski 5' Żuk 27' |
Report | 4' Chimienti 17' Tanguinod 19' Astorga 29' Chimienti |
| Brazil | 10–6 | United States |
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| Junior Negão 2', 21' Benjamin 4', 5', 6'Bruno 10', 12', 15'Buru 24'Betinho 25' |
Report | 10', 12', 24' Xexeo 11', 23' Astorga 25' Taguinod |
| Poland | 8–5 | Japan |
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| Saganowski 1', 15', 22', 23', 26' Ziober 15'Bartczak 24'Polakowski 32' |
Report | 2', 29', 36' Kawaharazuka 15' Kuroki 19' Toma |
Group B
Group C
| Team | Pld | W | W+ | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| Portugal |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 9 | 20 | 9 |
| Uruguay |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 3 |
 Solomon Islands |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 26 | –14 | 3 |
 Cameroon |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 18 | –10 | 2 |
| Solomon Islands | 5–2 | Cameroon |
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| Naka 5', 18', 31', 35' Omokirio 8' |
Report | 32' Ngiladjoe 33' Eyoum |
| Uruguay | 10–5 | Solomon Islands |
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| Coco 4' Aguirre 12', 22'Fabian 13'Pampero 14', 25'Damian 21'Matias 28'Parrillo 30'Seba 32' |
Report | 16', 31' Koto 20' Rogy 29' Naka 36' Omokirio |
| Solomon Islands | 2–14 | Portugal |
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| Anisua 20' Luwi 23' |
Report | 2', 8', 13', 14' Madjer 4' Marinho 9', 18' Alan 17' Jorge 23', 35' Gustavo 25' Hernâni 27', 31' Belchior 36' Loja |
Group D
Knockout stage
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 9 November 2006 | ||||||||||
| France | 3 | |||||||||
| 11 November 2006 | ||||||||||
| Japan | 2 | |||||||||
| France | 2 (0) | |||||||||
| 9 November 2006 | ||||||||||
| Uruguay (pen.) | 2 (1) | |||||||||
 Argentina | 1 | |||||||||
| 12 November 2006 | ||||||||||
| Uruguay | 2 | |||||||||
| Uruguay | 1 | |||||||||
| 9 November 2006 | ||||||||||
| Brazil | 4 | |||||||||
| Brazil | 12 | |||||||||
| 11 November 2006 | ||||||||||
 Canada | 1 | |||||||||
| Brazil | 7 | |||||||||
| 9 November 2006 | ||||||||||
| Portugal | 4 | Third place | ||||||||
| Portugal | 6 | |||||||||
| 12 November 2006 | ||||||||||
 Bahrain | 2 | |||||||||
| France | 6 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 4 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play off
Final
Winners
| 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Champions |
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 Brazil First title 10th world title |
Awards
Top scorers
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Final standings
External links
- FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Rio de Janeiro 2006 Archived 2019-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, FIFA.com