2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship


The 2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship was a beach soccer tournament which took place in Nassau from 20 to 26 February 2017. This was the second time that the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship was held in the Bahamas. All matches were played at the Malcolm Beach Soccer Facility.
The tournament aimed to crown the best beach soccer nation on the continent and also served as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifier for teams from North, Central America and Caribbean which are members of CONCACAF, where the top two teams qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup also to be held in the Bahamas.
In a shock turn of events, the considerably inexperienced Panama thwarted all four of the nations who have dominated the tournament historically to surprisingly claim their first title. Panama's group stage victory all but condemned 2015 runners up Costa Rica to their earliest ever exit, their defeat of two-time winners, the United States, in the quarter-finals also ensured the Americans' most premature departure. They then defeated former World Cup semi-finalists El Salvador in the semi-finals and three time and defending champions Mexico in the final.
As the finalists, Panama and Mexico qualified for the World Cup, the former for the first time, the latter for the fifth time.
This was a groundbreaking CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship; it marked only the second time in the seven championships to date that the quartet of Costa Rica, El Salvador, the United States and Mexico did not all finish together in some combination in first through fourth place.

Participating teams and draw

The following 16 teams entered the tournament.
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The draw of the tournament was held on 17 October 2016, 10:00, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Doral, Florida. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, with the following seeding based on the BSWW Beach Soccer rankings:
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Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat. The top two teams from each group advance to the quarter-finals, while the bottom two teams from each group enter the placement stage for 9th to 16th place.
All times are local, EST.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Placement stage (9th–16th place)

Bracket (9th–12th place)

Bracket (13th–16th place)

13th place first round

9th place first round

13th place second round

9th place second round

15th place match

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

Knockout stage

The quarter-final matchups were decided by a draw, with the group winners matched up with the group runners-up.

Bracket (1st–4th place)

Bracket (5th–8th place)

Quarter-finals

5th place semi-finals

Semi-finals

The winners qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Awards

Winners

Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

Top goalscorers

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Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, including Bahamas which qualified as hosts.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1
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