Euro Beach Soccer League

Euro Beach Soccer League

Founded	1998
Confederation	UEFA
Divisions	EBSL Division A EBSL Division B
Number of teams	26 (12 in Division A, 14 in Division B)
International cup(s)	Intercontinental Cup
Current champions	Ukraine (1st title) (2016)
Most championships	Spain  Portugal (5 titles)
TV partners	Eurosport[1]
2017 Euro Beach Soccer League

The Euro Beach Soccer League (Euro BS League or EBSL) is an annual European competition in beach soccer.

History

Started in 1998 as the European Pro Beach Soccer League, the competitions allow national teams to compete in beach soccer in a league format over the summer months. Each season ends with a superfinal in Marseille deciding the competition winner. In 2006 and 2007, the five top teams of this superfinal qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup later that year. Portugal and Spain are the most successful nations, winning the league five times each.

Results

The awards shown were presented after the Superfinal. However note the following – awards presented to the players listed between 1998 and 2007 were based on those players' performances and goals amassed over the entire season. From 2008 onwards, the players listed received the awards based solely on their performance in the season-ending Superfinal.^[2]

Year	Winners	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Best player	Top scorer	Best goalkeeper	Fair Play Award
1998	Germany	Italy	Portugal	Spain	Ramiro Amarelle	Ramiro Amarelle	Not awarded	Not awarded
1999	Spain	France	Portugal	Italy	Madjer	Setién	José Miguel Mateus	Not awarded
2000	Spain	Portugal	France	Italy	Ramiro Amarelle	Ramiro Amarelle	Abel	Eric Cantona
2001	Spain	Portugal	Italy	France	Ramiro Amarelle	Madjer	Roberto Valeiro	Jiménez
2002	Portugal	Spain	France	Turkey	Gianni Fruzzetti and Tamer Ay	Alan and Angelo Schirinzi	Roberto and Serr	Pointon
2003	Spain	France	Portugal	Switzerland	Ramiro Amarelle	Madjer	Lingenhag	Scales and Larsen
2004	France	Portugal	Ukraine	Italy	David	Madjer	Roberto Valeiro	Larsen and Fuat
2005	Italy	Portugal	France	Switzerland	Cristiano Scalabrelli	Ramiro Amarelle	Bruno Alves	Madjer
2006	Spain	Portugal	Poland	Italy	Madjer	Madjer	Roberto Valeiro	Not awarded
2007	Portugal	France	Russia	Spain	Dejan Stankovic	Dejan Stankovic and Ramiro Amarelle	Andrey Bukhlitskiy	Russia
2008	Portugal	Netherlands	Russia	Italy	Madjer	Madjer	Ran	Adil Muftuoglu
2009	Russia	Portugal	Italy	Spain	Madjer	Paolo Palmacci and Madjer	Andrey Bukhlitskiy	Not awarded
2010	Portugal	Italy	Russia	Switzerland	Madjer	Dejan Stankovic	Andrey Bukhlitskiy	Not awarded
2011	Russia	Switzerland	Portugal	Romania	Dejan Stankovic	Dmitry Shishin	Valentin Jäggy	Not awarded
2012	Switzerland	Russia	Italy	Romania	Dmitry Shishin	Dejan Stankovic	Valentin Jäggy	Not awarded
2013	Russia	Portugal	Switzerland	Spain	Ilya Leonov	Dejan Stankovic	Dona	Not awarded
2014	Russia	Spain	Portugal	Switzerland	Noel Ott	Anatoly Peremitin and Llorenç Gomez	Dona	Not awarded
2015	Portugal	Ukraine	Russia	Spain	Ihor Borsuk	Dejan Stankovic	Andrade	Not awarded
2016	Ukraine	Portugal	Russia	Spain	Be Martins	Paolo Palmacci	Vitaliy Sydorenko	Not awarded
2017

Performance by team

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Portugal	5 (2002, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015)	8 (2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016)	5 (1998, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2014)	–
Spain	5 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006)	2 (2002, 2014)	–	6 (1998, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016)
Russia	4 (2009, 2011, 2013, 2014)	1 (2012)	5 (2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2016)	–
France	1 (2004)	3 (1999, 2003, 2007)	3 (2000, 2002, 2005)	1 (2001)
Italy	1 (2005)	2 (1998, 2010)	3 (2001, 2009, 2012)	5 (1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Switzerland	1 (2012)	1 (2011)	1 (2013)	4 (2003, 2005, 2010, 2014)
Ukraine	1 (2016)	1 (2015)	1 (2004)	–
Germany	1 (1998)	–	–	–
Netherlands	–	1 (2008)	–	–
Poland	–	–	1 (2006)	–
Romania	–	–	–	2 (2011, 2012)
Turkey	–	–	–	1 (2002)

References

External links

• BeachSoccer.com
• BeachSoccer.ch