FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA)
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The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers (UEFA) are a new process for European 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....

 teams to qualify for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is a bi-annual international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament has taken place every year since its establishment in 1995, when it was originally supervised...

, introduced by FIFA for the 2008 world cup
2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, governed by FIFA. Previous editions before 2005 were not governed by FIFA and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championships. Overall this was the fourteenth edition of the World Cup since...

 and beyond. Before then the top five teams from the Euro Beach Soccer League
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...

 qualified for the world cup but the new format gives more countries an opportunity to qualify. They are similar to the beach soccer championships in other confederations. Times when only four teams qualify is when the host nation of the world cup has been European that year.

Now that the world cup takes place every two years, so will the qualifiers, starting with the qualifiers for the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the sixth edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, governed by FIFA. Previous editions before 2005 were not governed by FIFA and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championships. Overall this was the 16th edition of the World Cup since its...

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Tournaments

Year Location Final Third place match Fifth Place
Champion Score Runner-Up Third Place Score Fourth Place
2008
2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for was the first FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification championship for Europe, held in May 2008, in Benidorm, Spain....

Benidorm
Benidorm
Benidorm is a coastal town and municipality located in the comarca of Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante, Valencian community, Spain, by the Western Mediterranean....

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

4 – 3 4 – 2 N/A
2009
2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA)
-Quarter-finals:-5th place play-off:-5th place:-Semi-finals:-3rd place:-Final:...

Castellón
Castellón de la Plana
Castellón de la Plana or Castelló de la Plana is the capital city of the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

8 – 4 8 – 6
2011
2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for UEFA was a beach soccer tournament played in Bibione, Italy from July 11 – July 18, 2010, which determined the four teams that qualified to the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Ravenna, Italy. All matches were played at a temporary stadium on...

Bibione, 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...

4 – 2 5 – 2 N/A

Successful nations

Team Titles Runners-up Third-place Fourth Place Fifth Place
2 (2008, 2009) - - - -
1 (2011) - - - -
- 2 (2008, 2011) - 1 (2009) -
- 1 (2009) 2 (2008, 2011) - -
- - 1 (2009) 1 (2011) -
- - - 1 (2008) 1 (2009)

Nations who have qualified for the world cup

These are the nations who have been successful enough in the competition to qualify to appear in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is a bi-annual international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament has taken place every year since its establishment in 1995, when it was originally supervised...

, to represent Europe. The numbers in brackets shows how many times that country has qualified over the three years the tournament has been held. (3) (3) (2) (2) (2) (1)
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