2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup

2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Tournament details
Host country Italy
Dates 4 June - 6 June 2010
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Russia (1st title)
Runners-up  Portugal
Third place  Italy
Fourth place  Spain
Tournament statistics
Matches played 12
Goals scored 126 (10.5 per match)

The 2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the twelfth Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's three major beach soccer championships of the 2010 beach soccer season, held in June 2010, in Rome, Italy, for the second year in a row. Russia won the championship for the first time, with six time champions Portugal finishing second. Italy beat last year's champions Spain in the third place play off, ending their run of two consecutive titles, to finish third and fourth respectively.

Eight teams participated in the tournament who played in a straightforward knockout tournament, starting with the quarter finals, with extra matches deciding the nations who finished in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth place.[1]

Participating nations

Matches

Main tournament

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
4 June 2010        
  Italy  8
5 June 2010
  Hungary  3  
  Italy  7
4 June 2010
    Portugal  10  
  Portugal  2
6 June 2010
   Switzerland  1  
  Portugal  4
4 June 2010
    Russia  6
  Russia  8
5 June 2010
  France  2  
  Russia  7 Third place
4 June 2010
    Spain  5  
  Spain  8   Italy  5
  Poland  3     Spain  4
6 June 2010

Fifth to eighth place deciding matches

The following matches took place between the losing nations in the quarter finals to determine the final standings of the nations finishing in fifth to eighth place. The semi finals took place on the same day of the semi finals of the main tournament and the play offs took place on the day of the final.

Fifth to eighth place semi finals Fifth place play off
      
QF1  Hungary 1
QF2   Switzerland 7
  Switzerland 6
 Poland 5
QF3  France 5
QF4  Poland 7

Winners

 2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Winners: 

Russia
First title

Final standings

Rank Team
1  Russia
2  Portugal
3  Italy
4  Spain
5   Switzerland
6  Poland
7  France
8  Hungary

References