2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer
# 2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer

The 2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Futbol Playa) was the fourth edition of the Copa América de Beach Soccer, the international beach soccer competition organised by CONMEBOL for the men's national teams of South America. It was held in Rosario, Argentina between 11 and 19 March 2023.

For the first time, the tournament acted as the South American qualification for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup following CONMEBOL's decision to determine its representatives in the World Cup via the Copa America instead of its specific qualifying tournament that ran until 2021. The top three teams qualified for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup to be held in the United Arab Emirates.

Brazil won their third Copa América Beach Soccer title by beating the hosts Argentina 13–5 in the final. The defending champions Paraguay was unable to retain their title after losing in the semi-finals to Brazil, leading them to play the third place match against Colombia, which they also lost by a 5–7 score. Champions Brazil, runners-up Argentina and third place Colombia qualified for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

## Teams

Teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL will take part.

| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
| - | - | - |
| Argentina (hosts) | 4th | Fifth place (2018) |
| Bolivia | 4th | Sixth place (2018) |
| Brazil | 4th | Champions (2016, 2018) |
| Chile | 4th | Third place (2022) |
| Colombia | 4th | Eighth place (2016, 2022) |
| Ecuador | 4th | Fourth place (2018) |
| Paraguay (holders) | 4th | Champions (2022) |
| Peru | 4th | Fifth place (2016, 2022) |
| Uruguay | 4th | Third place (2018) |
| Venezuela | 4th | Third place (2016) |

## Venue

Argentina was named as host country of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 30 September 2022. Rosario was confirmed as host city by the Argentine Football Association on 14 February 2023, with the Estadio Arena, located within the Predio Ferial Parque Independencia, as the venue for all the matches.

| Rosario | Rosario2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (Argentina) | Rosario2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (Argentina) |
| - | - | - |
| Predio Ferial Parque de la Independencia | Rosario2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (Argentina) | Rosario2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (Argentina) |
| 32°57′49″S 60°39′37″W﻿ / ﻿32.963504°S 60.660209°W﻿ / -32.963504; -60.660209 | Rosario2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (Argentina) | Rosario2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (Argentina) |

## Squads

Each national team had to enter a squad of a maximum of 12 and a minimum of 10 players, including at least of two goalkeepers (Regulations Article 47).

## Draw

The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place at 12:00 PYST (UTC–3) on 16 February 2023 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, under the following procedure:

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the tournament in 2022 (shown in brackets).

Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to position one of the groups:

* to Group A: as the hosts, Argentina
* to Group B: as the last champions, Paraguay

The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two based on their seeding, in order from the highest seeds placed in Pot 1, down to the lowest seeds placed in Pot 4. From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B.

| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| - | - | - | - |
| Brazil (2) Chile (3) | Venezuela (4) Peru (5) | Uruguay (7) Colombia (8) | Ecuador (9) Bolivia (10) |

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A :

| Group A PosTeam A1 Argentina A2 Brazil A3 Peru A4 Uruguay A5 Ecuador | Group B PosTeam B1 Paraguay B2 Chile B3 Venezuela B4 Colombia B5 Bolivia |
| - | - |

## Match officials

On 23 February 2023, CONMEBOL announced a total of 20 referees appointed for the tournament.

* Mariano Romo
* Carlos Maidana
* Pablo Defelippi
* Jaimito Suárez
* Noe Parra
* Lucas Estevão
* Luciano Andrade
* Mayron Dos Reis
* Cristian Galaz
* Ricardo Zúñiga
* Jorge Iván Gómez
* Ferley Fuentes
* Jean Villamar
* Brando Amay
* Micke Palomino
* Alex Valdivieso
* Christian Altez
* Aecio Fernández
* Luis Coy
* Gerand Rivas

## Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams finishing in third through fifth proceeded to play in consolation matches against the teams finishing in the same position in the other group to determine their final rank.

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 (Regulations Article 19).

If two or more teams are equal on points, their rankings are determined as follows (Regulations Article 20):

* points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* goal difference in all group matches;
* number of goals scored in all group matches;
* fewest red cards;
* fewest yellow cards;
* drawing of lots by CONMEBOL.

All match times are in local time, ART (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL in the schedule published after the draw. 14 March is allocated as a rest day.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Brazil | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 7 | +28 | 12 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Argentina (H) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 17 | −3 | 8 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Uruguay | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 17 | −3 | 6 | Fifth place play-off |
| 4 | Peru | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 17 | −6 | 3 | Seventh place play-off |
| 5 | Ecuador | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 30 | −16 | 0 | Ninth place play-off |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Colombia | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 9 | +5 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Paraguay | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 12 | +17 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Chile | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 18 | −6 | 6 | Fifth place play-off |
| 4 | Bolivia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 18 | −8 | 6 | Seventh place play-off |
| 5 | Venezuela | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 17 | −8 | 0 | Ninth place play-off |

* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Colombia 3, Paraguay 0.
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Chile 3, Bolivia 0.

## Final stages

All match times are in local time, ART (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL.

### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 18 March | 18 March |
| Brazil | 7 |
| Brazil | 7 | 19 March | 19 March |
| Paraguay | 4 | 19 March | 19 March |
| Paraguay | 4 | Brazil | 13 |
| 18 March | 18 March | | Brazil | 13 |
| 18 March | 18 March | Argentina | 5 |
| Colombia | 0 | Argentina | 5 |
| Argentina | 2 | | |
| Argentina | 2 | Third place play-off | Third place play-off |
| | | 19 March | 19 March |
| | | Paraguay | 5 |
| | | Colombia | 7 |
| Ninth place play-off | Ninth place play-off |
| 18 March | 18 March |
| Ecuador | 2 |
| Venezuela | 1 |
| Seventh place play-off | Seventh place play-off |
| 18 March | 18 March |
| Peru | 6 |
| Bolivia | 3 |
| Fifth place play-off | Fifth place play-off |
| 19 March | 19 March |
| Uruguay | 5 |
| Chile | 4 |

## Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The following three teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup only FIFA era (since 2005) |
| - | - | - |
| Brazil | 18 March 2023 | 11 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021) |
| Argentina | 18 March 2023 | 8 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) |
| Colombia | 19 March 2023 | 0 (debut) |

    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

## Final ranking

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Brazil | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 16 | +39 | 18 |
| | Argentina (H) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 30 | −9 | 11 |
| | Colombia | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 16 | +5 | 12 |
| 4 | Paraguay | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 9 |
| 5 | Uruguay | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 21 | −2 | 9 |
| 6 | Chile | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 23 | −7 | 6 |
| 7 | Peru | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 20 | −3 | 6 |
| 8 | Bolivia | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 24 | −11 | 6 |
| 9 | Ecuador | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 31 | −15 | 3 |
| 10 | Venezuela | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 19 | −9 | 0 |
