2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name = FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
year = 2005
other_titles =
size = 150px
caption = Official logo
country = Brazil
dates = May 8 – May 15
num_teams = 12
confederations = 6
venues = 1
cities = 1
champion = FRA
count = 1
second = POR
third = BRA
fourth = JPN
matches = 20
goals = 164
attendance =
top_scorer = flagicon|POR Madjer (12 goals)
player = flagicon|POR Madjer
updated =

The 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the first edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup under the direct control of the global association football governing body FIFA. Previous editions were not organised by FIFA, and were held under the title "Beach Soccer World Championship". In 2005 FIFA took over the governing of beach soccer and the control of the tournament passed onto them. The tournament took place from May 8 to May 15 2005, in Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Organisation

12 teams were present at the finals in Brasil, each split into 4 groups of 3 teams. Each team played the other 2 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 would be played as in a knockout tournament. In the case of a drawn match in the knockout phase, sudden death penalties will be taken.

quads

*2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (squads)

Matches

Group stages

Group A

footballbox
date = May 8, 2005; 12:00
team1 = Uruguay flagicon|URU
score = 7–3
team2 = flagicon|RSA South Africa
goals1 = Martin Chueco German Fabian Ricar Ricar Martin
goals2 = Ricardo Francisco Bheki Mthembu Bheki Mthembu
stadium = Copacabana Beach----footballbox
date = May 9, 2005
team1 = Ukraine flagicon|UKR
score = 8–1
team2 = flagicon|RSA South Africa
goals1 = Yevgen Varenytsya Victor Moroz Dmytro Koryenyev Oleksandr Pylypenko Yevgen Varenytsya Dmytro Koryenyev Sergiy Bozhenko Yevgen Varenytsya
goals2 = Darren Dicks
stadium = Copacabana Beach----footballbox
date = May 10, 2005
team1 = Uruguay flagicon|URU
score = 5–4
team2 = flagicon|UKR Ukraine
goals1 = Seba Ricar German Seba German
goals2 = Yevgen Varentsya Sergiy Bozhenko Oleksandr Pylypenko Dmytro Koryenyev
stadium = Copacabana Beach

Group D

coring awards

164 goals were scored during the tournament, an average of 8.2 per match

References

* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesf/fifabeach05.html Results] (provided by RSSSF)
* [http://fifa.com/en/comp/BSWC/0,4101,BSWC-2005-2,00.html FIFA overall standings]
* [http://fifa.com/en/news/feature/0,1451,106827,00.html FIFA competition report]
* [http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=116 Information on match scorers]