Beach Soccer World Cup 2002

Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name = Beach Soccer World Cup
year = 2002
other_titles =
size = 150px
caption = Official logo
country = Brazil
dates = January 13 – January 20
num_teams = 8
confederations = 3
venues = 2
cities = 2
champion = BRA
count = 7
second = POR
third = URU
fourth = THA
matches = 16
goals = 145
attendance =
top_scorer = flagicon|BRA Neném (9 goals)flagicon|POR Madjer (9 goals)
flagicon|URU Nico (9 goals)
player = flagicon|BRA Neném
updated =

The 2002 Beach Soccer World Cup was the eight edition of the Beach Soccer World Championships. The tournament continued to change its location, this time completely out of Rio de Janeiro to Vitória, Espírito Santo and Guarujá, São Paulo. 2002 also saw Brazil reclaim their title after losing it to Portugal in the previous competition.

Organization

The organization went back to how it was done from 1995-1997. This meant that there were no quarter finals as only 8 teams competed in 2 groups of 4 teams, with 2 teams progressing to the semi-finals.

Teams

From the 8 teams, 4 teams came from Europe, 3 teams came from South America including the hosts Brazil and 1 team from Asia.

European Zone:
*beachsoccer|POR
*beachsoccer|ESP
*beachsoccer|ITA
*beachsoccer|FRA

South American Zone:
*beachsoccer|URU
*beachsoccer|ARG

Asian Zone:
*beachsoccer|THA

Hosts:
*beachsoccer|BRA

Group Stage

Group A

Final team standings

Best Goalkeeper Award

ources

*http://www.rsssf.com/tablesb/beachwk02.html