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Euro Beach Soccer League

The Euro Beach Soccer League is an annual European competition in beach soccer. 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...

(EBSL) is an annual European competition in beach soccer

Beach soccer

Beach soccer, also known as beach football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand. The game emphasises skill, agility and shooting at goal....

. The competitions allows national teams to compete in beach soccer in a league format over the summer months. Each season ends with a superfinal, deciding the competition winner.

There are 8 teams participating in each event that will face each other in a knock-out system. The three best placed teams out of each stage and the best fourth, join host and defending champion Portugal

Portugal national beach soccer team

The Portugal national beach soccer team represents Portugal in international beach soccer competitions, and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. They are the only team to put Brazil out of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, having done it...

in the Superfinal that will be played in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

from August 22–24. The best 3 (three) teams of each group (Stage 1 and Stage 2) plus the best 4th of both Stage 1 and Stage 2 will qualify for the Superfinal in Vila Real de Santo António (Portugal

Portugal

Participating Nations

Euro Beach Soccer League – Stage 1
Lignano Sabbiadoro

Lignano Sabbiadoro

Lignano Sabbiadoro is a village and comune within the province of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region . It is one of the main summer resorts in northern Italy and in the Adriatic Sea coast.-History:...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

June 20–22

Euro Beach Soccer League – Stage 2
Tignes

Tignes

Tignes is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It is also a ski resort near Val d'Isère, that are linked together as the "Espace Killy" region...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

July 4–6

Euro Beach Soccer League – Superfinal
Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal

Portugal

August 22–24

EBSL 2008 Regular Phases

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The best 3 (three) teams of each group (Stage 1 and Stage 2) plus the best 4th of both Stage 1 and Stage 2 will qualify for the Superfinal in Vila Real de Santo António (Portugal

Portugal

Euro Beach Soccer League – Stage 1 Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy June – 20–22

Results and match schedule (GMT+1)

June 20 – Matches

15:15 Switzerland 11 x 2 Austria

16:30 Spain 9 x 2 Greece

17:45 Poland (4)5 x 5(3) Czech Republic

19:00 Italy 8 x 2 Andorra

June 21 – Matches

15:15 Greece 8 x 3 Austria

16:30 Czech Republic 5 x 4 Andorra

17:45 Spain 2 x 4 Switzerland

19:00 Poland 3 x 7 Italy

June 22 – Matches

7th & 8th place: 14:15 Austria 4 x 3 Andorra

3rd – 6th place: 15:30 Czech Republic 4 x 1 Spain

3rd – 6th place: 16:45 Greece 2 x 5 Poland

Final: 18:00 Switzerland (2)5 x 5(1) Italy

Final Standings:

1. *

2. *

3. *

4. *

5.

6.

7.

8.

(*) clinched Superfinal Berth

Individual Awards:

Best player: Roberto Pasquali

Best goalkeeper: Nico Jung

Top scorer: Stankovic

Dejan Stankovic (beach soccer)

Dejan Stankovic better known as Stankovic is a Swiss beach soccer player of Serbian origin. He plays in forward position.-National team: Switzerland**Euro Beach Soccer League fourth place: 2005...

– 10 goals

Euro Beach Soccer League – Stage 2 Tignes, France – July 4–6

Results and match schedule (GMT+1)

July 4 – Matches

14:45 Norway 4 x 3 Estonia

16:00 Turkey 7 x 3 England

17:15 Russia 10 x 0 Netherlands

18:30 France 12 x 4 Hungary

July 5 – Matches

14:45 Netherlands 5 x 3 Estonia

16:00 England 1 x 3 Hungary

17:15 Turkey 4 x 7 France

18:30 Norway 0 x 5 Russia

July 6 – Matches

7th & 8th place: 14:45 Estonia 3 x 2 England

3rd – 6th place: 16:00 Netherlands 5 x 3 Turkey

3rd – 6th place: 17:15 Hungary 3 x 2 Norway

Final: 18:30 Russia 8 x 3 France

Final Standings:

1. *

2. *

3. *

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

(*) clinched Superfinal Berth

Individual Awards:

Best player: Stéphane François

Best goalkeeper: Andrey Bukhlitskiy

Andrey Bukhlitskiy

Andrey Nikolayevich Bukhlitsky is a Russian beach soccer player who represents Russia in international competitions. His role is goalkeeper....

Top goal scorer: Egor Shaykov – 7 goals

FIFA Fair play award: Adil

EBSL 2008 Superfinal

EBSL

Euro Beach Soccer League

Superfinal – Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal

Portugal

(GMT)

Results and match schedule

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Knockout Stage

Final standing

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Euro Beach Soccer League

Champion)
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Euro Beach Soccer League

runner-up)
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Awards

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Madjer
Madjer
João Victor Saraiva , better known as Madjer, is a Portuguese beach soccer player. He plays in forward position, and has won numerous awards at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups for his goalscoring abilities....

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!colspan="3"| Top Goal Scorer
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Madjer
Madjer
João Victor Saraiva , better known as Madjer, is a Portuguese beach soccer player. He plays in forward position, and has won numerous awards at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups for his goalscoring abilities....

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|colspan="3" align="center"|11 goals
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!colspan="3"| Best Goalkeeper
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|colspan="3" align="center"| Ran Reijer
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