The CONCACAFBeach Soccer Championship, also known as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONCACAF qualifier is the main championship for beach soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, contested between senior men's national teams of the members of CONCACAF. It is the sport's version of the better known CONCACAF Gold Cup in association football. The winners of the championship are crowned continental champions; the tournament also acts as the qualification route for North American nations to the upcoming edition of the FIFABeach Soccer World Cup. Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2010; the World Cup then became, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit. The championship was established in 2006 after FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the bestnational team in their region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup. The first edition was proceeded by a joint qualification tournament with CONMEBOL in 2005; a second and final joint event was held in 2007. FIFA currently allocate North America two berths at the World Cup and hence the top two teams qualify to the World Cup finals. North America's governing body for football, CONCACAF, have organised the championship since its inception, in cooperation with Beach Soccer Worldwide. Mexico are the most successfulnation with three titles. The United States have won two titles and, additionally, they won the 2007 joint event. Along with El Salvador and Costa Rica, this quartet have dominated the championship, finishing in the top four together in five of the seven tournaments. Panama are the current champions.
Results
Joint championship with CONMEBOL
There have been seven editions of the championship as of 2017. For all tournaments, the top two teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. In terms of qualification to the World Cup, Mexico and El Salvador have achieved the most, finishing well enough in the championship to advance to the World Cup finals on four occasions each. Along with the United States and Costa Rica, these four nations are the only ones to qualify more than once thus far.
Performance
Successful nations
Overall statistics
As of 2017 Joint event results not included
Pos
Team
App
Pld
W
W+
WP
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Avg. Pts
Win %
1
7
32
24
0
1
7
165
71
+94
73
2
7
34
22
2
0
10
160
90
+70
70
3
6
29
17
1
4
7
162
98
+64
57
4
7
32
13
2
3
14
134
123
+11
46
5
3
16
9
0
0
7
63
54
+9
27
6
5
22
8
1
0
13
82
94
–12
26
7
5
20
8
0
0
12
73
97
–24
24
8
3
13
5
0
1
7
65
52
+13
16
9
2
9
4
0
2
3
42
30
+12
14
10
2
9
3
1
1
4
34
48
–14
12
11
2
9
4
0
0
5
32
48
–16
12
12
5
23
4
0
0
19
91
132
–41
12
13
2
9
3
0
0
6
23
33
–10
9
14
1
6
2
0
0
4
22
28
–6
6
15
2
9
2
0
0
7
32
54
–22
6
16
2
9
1
0
0
8
26
63
–37
3
17
2
7
0
0
0
7
10
49
–39
0
0
0
18
2
9
0
0
0
9
16
70
–54
0
0
0
Key: Appearances App / Won in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Won in Extra TimeW+ = 2 Points / Won in Penalty shoot-outWP = 1 Point / Lost L = 0 Points
Appearances & performance timeline
The following is a performance timeline of the teams who have appeared in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and how many appearances they each have made. ;Legend
The following is a performance timeline of the CONCACAF teams who have gone on to appear in the World Cup, having successfully qualified from the above events. ;Legend
