2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will be the 11th edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the premier international beach soccer championship contested by men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. Previous editions before 2005 were not governed by FIFA and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championships. Overall this will be the 21st edition of the championship since its establishment in 1995. This will be the sixth tournament to take place ; the World Cup took place annually until 2009.
First intimated in November 2017 at the FIFA Beach Soccer Workshop when it was announced that the World Cup would continue to be held every two years for the period 2018–2024, the bidding process was opened by FIFA in May 2019 and concluded with the announcement of Russia as the hosts in October 2019. The tournament is scheduled to take place in Moscow in July 2021.
Portugal are the defending champions.
Host selection
The bidding schedule to determine the hosts was as follows:- 9 May 2019 – FIFA opens the bidding process.
- 5 June 2019 – Deadline for national associations to declare interest of hosting to FIFA.
- 7 June 2019 – FIFA circulates documents detailing the application campaign and conditions of participation to the bidding associations to analyse.
- 1 July 2019 – Deadline for associations to reaffirm their bidding intentions by agreeing to the terms of the documents.
- 30 August 2019 – Deadline for nations to prepare and submit their complete bidding packages to be evaluated by FIFA.
- 24 October 2019 – Hosts announced by FIFA.
Qualification
A total of 16 teams will qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Russia who qualify automatically as hosts, 15 other teams will qualify from six separate continental competitions.The process of qualification to the World Cup finals will begin in 2020 and end in 2021.
- AFC: The Asian qualifiers will take place in Thailand between 18–28 March 2021. A total of 16 teams are expected to compete.
- CAF: The African qualifiers were due to take place in Jinja, Uganda between 23–29 November 2020. However, Uganda had withdrawn from hosting, and a new host will be chosen, with the tournament scheduled to take place within the period of December 2020 and April 2021.
- CONCACAF: To be confirmed.
- CONMEBOL: To be confirmed.
- OFC: The Oceanian qualifiers will take place in Tahiti in January 2021.
- UEFA: The European qualifiers were due to take place in Jesolo, Italy between 11–20 September 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were postponed until the first half of 2021.
| Confederation | Qualifying tournament | Team | App | Last | Best performance |
| AFC | 2021 AFC Beach Soccer Championship | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| AFC | 2021 AFC Beach Soccer Championship | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| AFC | 2021 AFC Beach Soccer Championship | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| CAF | 2020 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| CAF | 2020 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| CONCACAF | 2021 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| CONCACAF | 2021 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| CONMEBOL | 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification | TBD | TBD | TBD | |
| CONMEBOL | 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| CONMEBOL | 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| OFC | 2021 OFC Beach Soccer Nations Cup | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| UEFA | Host nation | 8th | 2019 | ||
| UEFA | 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| UEFA | 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| UEFA | 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| UEFA | 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |