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2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

Field	Value
other_titles	Copa do Mundo de Futebol de Areia da FIFA Rio de Janeiro 2005
image	2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.png
country	Brazil
city	Rio de Janeiro
dates	8–15 May
num_teams	12
confederations	6
venues	1
cities	1
champion_other
count	1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches	20
goals	164
attendance	110500
top_scorer	POR Madjer (12 goals)
player	POR Madjer
fair_play
prevseason	[2004](2004-beach-soccer-world-championships)
nextseason	[2006](2006-fifa-beach-soccer-world-cup)

The 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the first edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, an international beach soccer competition contest by men's national teams and organized by FIFA. Overall, it was the 11th edition of a world cup in beach soccer since its establishment with the first Beach Soccer World Championships in 1995. It took place in at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 8 and 15 May.

France defeated Portugal 1–0 in a penalty shootout, following a 3–3 draw after extra-time, to win their first title.

Organisation

The 12 teams present at the finals in Brazil were split into four groups of three teams. Each team played the other two teams in its group in a round-robin format, with the top two teams advancing to the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final itself was played in the form of a knockout tournament.

Teams

Qualification

European teams gained qualification by finishing in the top three spots of the 2004 Euro Beach Soccer League. The final spot was contested between the next four best teams in a small knockout tournament a few days before the World Cup began which saw Spain win. South American and North American qualification was gained by finishing in the top spots of the 2005 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship. The other nations received invites.

This was the first edition of the World Cup in which every continent had a representative.

Entrants

Asian zone:

African zone:

European zone:

North, Central American and Caribbean zone:

Oceanian zone:

South American zone:

Host nation:

(South America) Notes:

1 Teams making their debut.

Players

Main article: 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup squads

Group stage

All matches are listed as local time in Rio de Janeiro, (UTC-3)

Group A

Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2	2	0	13	3	+10	6
2	1	1	5	5	0	3
2	0	2	3	13	−10	0

Nenem Bruno Betinho Benjamin Juninho Sanae

David

Junior Negão Nenem Juninho

Group B

Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2	2	0	13	3	+10	6
2	1	1	3	6	−3	3
2	0	2	5	12	−7	0

Madjer

Testa Toma Nakamura

Alan Madjer Jonas Belchior Marinho Astorga Farberoff

Group C

Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2	2	0	12	7	+5	6
2	1	1	12	6	+6	3
2	0	2	4	15	−11	0

Chueco
Parrillo
Fabian
Ricar Mthembu

Varenytsya
Moroz
Koryenyev
Pylypenko Bozhenko

Ricar
Parrillo Bozhenko Pylypenko Koryenyev

Group D

Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2	2	0	13	3	+10	6
2	1	1	5	9	−4	3
2	0	2	2	8	−6	0

Ottavy
Sciortino
Edouard

Acosta

Sciortino
Sansoni
Ottavy
Samoun
Cardoso Hilaire

Knockout stage

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Quarter-finals

Mendy Cardoso Edouard Cantona Nico

Belchior
Madjer Pylypenko Moroz

Parrillo Makino Toma

Jorginho
Nenem
Juninho
Benjamin
Buru E. Hilaire Acosta

Semi-finals

Bruno
Nenem Madjer Marinho Jorginho Madjer

Sciortino
Cardoso

Third place play-off

Wakabayashi Buru Juninho Nenem Benjamin Romário Jorginho

Final

Belchior

Winners

Awards

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
POR Madjer	BRA Nenem	ESP Amarelle
POR Madjer	BRA Nenem	FRA Mendy
12 goals	9 goals	8 goals
****

Top scorers

;12 goals

POR Madjer ;9 goals
BRA Nenem ;8 goals
FRA Anthony Mendy ;6 goals
BRA Romário
BRA Benjamin
BRA Buru
FRA Jairzinho Cardoso ;5 goals
POR Belchior
URU Ricar
POR Alan ;4 goals
ESP David
URU Parrillo
BRA Juninho
JPN Takeshi Kawaharazuka ;3 goals
UKR Yevgen Varenytsya
ESP Amarelle
UKR Dmytro Koryenyev
UKR Oleksandr Pylypenko
UKR Sergiy Bozhenko
FRA Noel Sciortino
BRA Junior Negão
FRA Thierry Ottavy ;2 goals
BRA Bruno
RSA Ricardo Francisco ;2 goals (cont.)
ARG Alberto Acosta
ARG Ezequiel Hilaire
ARG Federico Hilaire
URU Martin
ESP Nico
URU Seba
UKR Victor Moroz
POR Jonas
FRA Didier Samoun
FRA Jean-Marc Edouard
BRA Jorginho
POR Marinho
JPN Masahito Toma ;25 others scored 1 goal each ;Own goal
ESP Valeiro (for France)

Final standings

Position	Team
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

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