2012 Euro Beach Soccer League


The 2012 Euro Beach Soccer League is an annual European competition in beach soccer, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide. 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.
This season, there are eight teams participating in two divisions in each Stage that will face each other in a round-robin system. Division A consists of the 8 top teams in Europe based on the BSWW European Ranking. Division B consists of 12 of the lower ranked teams and new entries to the competition. Each division has its own regulations and competition format. This was due to the European qualifying tournament for the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup being held during the EBSL season.
Each team competes in two preliminary events to see their points obtained accumulated into an overall ranking that will determine the teams that qualify for the Superfinal. The top six teams of Division A will play in the Superfinal in The Hague, the Netherlands from August 23 – 26. The top four teams of Division B plus the worst team in Division A and the host team Netherlands will play in the Promotional Final to try to earn promotion to Division A for the 2013 season.
Beginning this season, the Power Horse energy drink company has signed on to become the new sponsor of the EBSL. The logo has been slightly modified to show this.

Eligible EBSL Teams

The teams from Division A will compete for the Euro Beach Soccer League title while the teams from Division B will compete for promotion into next year's Division A.


Note: Netherlands qualifies for Promotion Final as host nation without playing a match.

Stage 1 Terracina, Italy – June, 8 – 10

Participating Nations

Division A, Group A

Team
3300168+89
3111129+35
30121217–52
30031420–60

Division A, Group B

Team
32012015+56
30212123–24
31021613+33
31021218–63

Division B

Team
3201159+66
3201125+76
32011517–26
3003920–110

Belarus win the stage on goal average

Schedule & Results

All kickoff times are of local time in Terracina.
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Individual Awards

MVP: Paolo Palmacci

Top Scorer: Paolo Palmacci

Best goalkeeper: Andrey Bukhlitskiy

Stage 2 Berlin, Germany – August, 3 – 5

Participating Nations

Team
3300156+99
30211115–44
31021413+13
30031218–60

Final standings Division B

Team
330094+59
32011411+36
3102910–13
3003815–70

Schedule & Results

All kickoff times are of local time in Berlin.
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Individual Awards

MVP: Dmitry Shishin

Top Scorer: Dmitry Shishin

Best goalkeeper: Danila Ippolitov

Stage 3 Torredembarra, Spain – August, 17 – 19

Participating Nations

Team
32011714+36
30211112–14
31021719–23
31029903

Final standings Division B

Team
3300277+209
32011611+56
3102915–63
3003625–190

Schedule & Results

All kickoff times are of local time in Torredembarra .
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Individual Awards

MVP: Oleg Zborovskyi

Top Scorer: Oleg Zborovskyi

Best goalkeeper: Paulo Graça

Cumulative standings

clinched Superfinal Berthclinched Promotional Final Berthclinched Promotional Final Berth

Ranking & tie-breaking criteria: Division A – 1. Points earned 2. Goal difference 3. Goals scored | Division B – 1. Points earned 2. Highest stage placement 3. Goal difference 4. Goals scored.

Division A

Division B

EBSL Superfinal and Promotional Final – The Hague, Netherlands – August, 23 – 26

Superfinal and Promotional Final Divisions

The Divisions for the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal have not yet been determined. The teams from Division A will compete for the Euro Beach Soccer League title while the teams from Division B will compete for promotion into next year's Division A.

Division A (Superfinal)

Group A Standings

Group B Standings

Schedule & Results

All kickoff times are of local time in The Hague.

Round-Robin

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Fifth-place Match

Third-place Match

Championship Final Match

Final Division A Standing

RankTeam
1
2
3
4
5
6

Division B (Promotional Final)

Group A Standings

Group B Standings

Schedule & Results

All kickoff times are of local time in The Hague.

Round-Robin

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Fifth-place Match

Third-place Match

Championship Final Match

Final Division B Standing

RankTeam
1
2
3
4
5
6

BSWW increased the number of participating teams in Division A from eight to twelve in 2013, meaning five nations, rather than the usual one, were promoted at the end of this season.