Grand Prix de Futsal

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The Grand Prix de Futsal is an international futsal competition of the same kind of the FIFA Futsal World Championship but with invited nations and held annually in Brazil. It was first held in 2005.

1 Competition format
2 Participants
3 Prize money
4 Results
5 References

[edit] Competition format

In 2007, the sixteen participating nations are divided in the first stage in four groups of four teams each. The nations play against each other once within their respective groups, and the two best best placed teams of each group qualify to the second stage, which is the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals winners qualify to the semifinals. The semifinal winners play the final, while the losers play the third-place playoff.^[1]

[edit] Participants

The participants at the 2007 Grand Prix de Futsal are Angola, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Egypt, Iran, Hungary, Mozambique, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Slovenia, Uruguay, and Uzbekistan. The competitions started October 20, 2007.^[2]

The participants at the 2008 Grand Prix de Futsal are Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Mozambique, Paraguay, Peru, Serbia, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The competitions started October 31, 2008.^[3]

[edit] Prize money

1st - $50,000
2nd - $30,000
3rd - $20,000

[edit] Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2005 Details	Brusque, Brazil	Brazil	7 - 3	Colombia	Argentina	3 - 1	Uruguay
2006 Details	Caxias do Sul, Brazil	Brazil	5 - 3	Italy	Croatia	4 - 3	Argentina
2007 Details	Lages, Joinville and Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil	Brazil	4 - 0	Iran	Argentina	5 - 4	Hungary
2008 Details	Fortaleza, Brazil	Brazil	3 - 2	Argentina	Ukraine	5 - 4	Paraguay