Beach soccer at the 2015 Mediterranean Beach Games
# Beach soccer at the 2015 Mediterranean Beach Games

Beach soccer at the 2015 Mediterranean Beach Games in Pescara took place from 2 to 6 September 2015 at the Arena del Mare. One event took place, the men's tournament.

The event was organised in cooperation with Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).

Hosts Italy won the gold medal.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men | Italy Francesco Corosiniti Simone Del Mestre Michele Di Palma Gabriele Gori Simone Marinai Matteo Marrucci Raffaele Ortolini Pietro Palazzolo Paolo Palmacci Dario Ramacciotti Stefano Spada Emanuele Zurlo | Egypt Moustafa Abdelmoneim Ahmed Ahmed Mohamed Attia Aly Elbarbary Ahmed Fayed Mohamed Hassan Hassane Hussein Mohamed Issa Eslam Salama Moustafa Shaaban Eslam Taha | Libya Abdulkader Aledresi Abdulmohaimen Almaddukh Adel Alshareef Abdulrouf Bdiri Sand Masaud Munir Masoud Abdissalam Msallem Hany Mushata Tariq Qutayt Emadeddin Shawesh Esam Shrif |

## Participating teams

Twelve teams took part in the first edition of beach soccer at the Mediterranean Beach Games.

The draw to split the twelve teams into three groups of four took place on 18 July.

* Albania
* Algeria
* Egypt
* France
* Greece
* Italy
* Lebanon
* Malta
* Morocco
* Libya
* Tunisia
* Turkey

## Group stage

Key

* Advanced to the knockout stage (group winners and best runners-up)
* Placement matches

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Italy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 8 | +24 | 9 |
| 2 | Lebanon | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 6 |
| 3 | Tunisia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 15 | –5 | 3 |
| 4 | Algeria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 33 | –8 | 0 |
| 2 September 2015, at 11:30 Arena del Mare #2, Pescara | Lebanon | 10–4 | Algeria | Report |
| 2 September 2015, at 15:15 Arena del Mare #2, Pescara | Tunisia | 1–11 | Italy | Report |
| 3 September 2015, at 17:30 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Lebanon | 3–2 | Tunisia | Report |
| 3 September 2015, at 21:15 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Italy | 16–6 | Algeria | Report |
| 4 September 2015, at 17:30 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Algeria | 1–7 | Tunisia | Report |
| 4 September 2015, at 21:15 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Italy | 5–1 | Lebanon | Report |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Egypt | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 6 | +12 | 7 |
| 2 | Morocco | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 6 |
| 3 | Turkey | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 6 | +12 | 3 |
| 4 | Malta | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 32 | –28 | 0 |

    1. Egypt were found to have breached BSWW regulations in their match against Turkey, and were therefore deducted 2 points

| 2 September 2015, at 10:15 Arena del Mare #2, Pescara | Egypt | 3–2 | Turkey | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 September 2015, at 14:00 Arena del Mare #2, Pescara | Malta | 2–7 | Morocco | Report |
| 3 September 2015, at 16:15 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Egypt | 11–2 | Malta | Report |
| 3 September 2015, at 20:00 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Morocco | 3–2 | Turkey | Report |
| 4 September 2015, at 16:15 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Turkey | 14–0 | Malta | Report |
| 4 September 2015, at 20:00 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Morocco | 2–4 | Egypt | Report |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Libya | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 6 | +13 | 6 |
| 2 | France | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 4 |
| 3 | Albania | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 25 | –13 | 3 |
| 4 | Greece | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 12 | –3 | 2 |
| 2 September 2015, at 9:00 Arena del Mare #2, Pescara | Greece | 1–3 | Libya | Report |
| 2 September 2015, at 12:45 Arena del Mare #2, Pescara | Albania | 2–6 | France | Report |
| 3 September 2015, at 15:00 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Greece | 5–7 | Albania | Report |
| 3 September 2015, at 18:45 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | France | 2–2 (a.e.t.) 2–0 (p) | Libya | Report |
| 4 September 2015, at 15:00 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Libya | 14–3 | Albania | Report |
| 4 September 2015, at 18:45 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | France | 2–3 (a.e.t.) | Greece | Report |

## Placement matches

### 9th–12th place play-offs

All fourth placed teams plus the worst ranked third place team contested 9th through 12th place.

| Semifinals | Semifinals | 9th place match | 9th place match |
| - | - | - | - |
| Albania | 5 |
| Malta | 2 | | |
| Malta | 2 | Albania | 3 (1) |
| | | Greece (p) | 3 (3) |
| Algeria | 1 | Greece (p) | 3 (3) |
| Greece | 9 | | |
| Greece | 9 | 11th place match | 11th place match |
| | | Malta | 7 |
| | | Algeria | 6 |

**Semi-finals**

| 5 September 2015, at 14:30 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Albania | 5–2 | Malta | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 September 2015, at 15:45 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Greece | 9–1 | Algeria | Report |

**11th place match**

| 6 September 2015, at 10:00 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Malta | 7–6 | Algeria | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |

**9th place match**

| 6 September 2015, at 11:15 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Albania | 3–3 (a.e.t.) 1–3 (p) | Greece | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |

### 5th–8th place play-offs

Worst and second best runners-up plus the best and second best third place teams contested 5th through 8th place.

| Semifinals | Semifinals | 5th place match | 5th place match |
| - | - | - | - |
| Lebanon (a.e.t.) | 5 |
| Tunisia | 4 | | |
| Tunisia | 4 | Lebanon | 2 |
| | | France | 3 |
| Turkey | 2 | France | 3 |
| France | 5 | | |
| France | 5 | 7th place match | 7th place match |
| | | Tunisia | 3 |
| | | Turkey | 4 |

**Semi-finals**

| 5 September 2015, at 19:45 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Lebanon | 5–4 (a.e.t.) | Tunisia | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 September 2015, at 21:00 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | France | 5–2 | Turkey | Report |

**7th place match**

| 6 September 2015, at 12:30 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Tunisia | 3–4 | Turkey | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |

**5th place match**

| 6 September 2015, at 13:45 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Lebanon | 2–3 | France | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |

## Knockout stage

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| - | - | - | - |
| Egypt | 6 |
| Libya | 5 | | |
| Libya | 5 | Egypt | 1 |
| | | Italy | 5 |
| Morocco | 0 | Italy | 5 |
| Italy | 5 | | |
| Italy | 5 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | Libya | 4 |
| | | Morocco | 3 |

### Semi-finals

| 5 September 2015, at 17:15 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Egypt | 6–5 | Libya | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 September 2015, at 18:30 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Italy | 5–0 | Morocco | Report |

### Bronze medal match

| 6 September 2015, at 15:00 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Libya | 4–3 | Morocco | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |

### Final – Gold medal match

| 6 September 2015, at 16:50 Arena del Mare #1, Pescara | Egypt | 1–5 | Italy | Report |
| - | - | - | - | - |

* Mediterranean Beach Games beach soccer gold medallists
* Italy First title

## Final standings

| Pos | Team |
| - | - |
| | Italy |
| | Egypt |
| | Libya |
| 4 | Morocco |
| 5 | France |
| 6 | Lebanon |
| 7 | Turkey |
| 8 | Tunisia |
| 9 | Greece |
| 10 | Albania |
| 11 | Malta |
| 12 | Algeria |
