2014 Euro Beach Soccer Cup

2014 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Tournament details

Host country	Azerbaijan
Dates	28 - 31 August
Teams	6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (4th title)
Runners-up	Switzerland
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Hungary
Tournament statistics
Matches played	9
Goals scored	86 (9.56 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Noel Ott
Best player	Juanma

The 2014 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the fourteenth edition of the Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's main, regular international beach soccer championships organised every two years by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), held in August 2014, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Just six nations took part as in 2008, compared to the usual eight, and the teams were not the top-ranked nations from the preceding Euro Beach Soccer League season as in the past but a mix of teams from the divisions as listed below. The competition started with a round-robin ground stage for only the third time, instead of a straight knock-out tournament, with the top two nations from the groups competing in a final match for the title, the others in the respective positions in their groups playing for third and fifth place in classifying matches to determine the final standings.^[1]

Spain won the championship for the fourth time, their third win in their last five appearances and their fourth title overall.^[2]

Participating teams

The teams were announced on August 7.^[1]

Team	2013 EBSL Finish	Participation	Previous¹
Azerbaijan*	Division B, 12th	2nd	(2008)
Greece	Division B, Runners-up	2nd	(2007)
Hungary	Division B, 3rd	4th	(2006, 2009, 2010)
Spain	Division A, 4th	14th	(1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)
Switzerland	Division A, 3rd	13th	(1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)
Russia	Division A, Champions (2013 EBSL Winners)	5th	(2005, 2009, 2010, 2012)

Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

* = hosts of this year

¹Note: 1998-2010 annual basis (excluding 2000), biennial basis post-2010.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD+/-	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	2	2	0	0	15	9	+6	6	Advance to final
2	Greece	2	0	1	1	5	9	-4	2	Play-offs
3	Azerbaijan	2	0	0	2	11	13	-2	0	Play-offs

Switzerland v Greece

28 August 2014
17:30

Switzerland	6–1	Greece
Mo Borer Ott Stankovic Spacca	Report	Triantafyllidis

Greece v Azerbaijan

29 August 2014
18:45

Greece	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Azerbaijan
Triantifyllidis Salapatas Kakaroumpas	Report	Zeynal Renat Asif

Azerbaijan v Switzerland

30 August 2014
18:45

Azerbaijan	8–9	Switzerland
Asif Zeynal Sabir Amid Renat	Report	Ott Spacca Stankovic Mo

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD+/-	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	2	2	0	10	7	+3	6	Advance to final
2	Russia	2	1	1	7	7	0	3	Play-offs
3	Hungary	2	0	2	7	10	-3	0	Play-offs

Spain v Hungary

28 August 2014
18:45

Spain	6–4	Hungary
Juanma Pajon Antonio Kuman Llorenç	Report	Fekete Simonyi Sebestyen

Russia v Hungary

29 August 2014
17:30

Russia	4–3	Hungary
Makarov Paporotnyi Krutikov	Report	Abel Simonyi

Russia v Spain

30 August 2014
17:30

Russia	3–4	Spain
Makarov Krash	Report	Antonio Chiky Llorenç

Classification matches

Fifth place play-off

Azerbaijan v Hungary

31 August 2014
16:15

Azerbaijan	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Hungary
Jomard Sabir	Report	Simonyi
	Penalties
Zeynal Asif Sabir	1-2	Sebestyen Simonyi Abel

Third place play-off

Russia v Greece

31 August 2014
17:30

Russia	7–4	Greece
Krutikov Romanov Krash Kotov	Report	Gkritzalis Triantifyllidis Amanatidis Papastathopoulos

Final

Spain v Switzerland

31 August 2014
18:45

Spain	8–6	Switzerland
Llorenç Juanma Chyki	Report	Stankovic Ott

Winners

2014 Euro Beach Soccer Cup Champions
Spain Fourth title

Awards

Top scorer
Noel Ott
11 goals
Best player
Juan Manuel Lima (Juanma)
Best goalkeeper
Dávid Ficsór

Goalscorers

11 goals

Noel Ott

7 goals

Llorenç Gomez

5 goals

Dejan Stankovic
Gábor Simonyi

4 goals

Theofilos Triantafyllidis
Asif Zeynalov
Sabir Allahguliyev

3 goals

Antonio Mayor Hernández
Juanma

Aleksei Krutikov
Yury Krasheninnikov

2 goals

Mo Jaeggy
Sandro Spaccarotella
Zeynal Zeynalov
Renat Sultanov
Daniel Pajón Gómez
Viktor Fekete
Aleksey Makarov
Artur Paporotnyi
Péter Ábel
Salavador Ardil 'Chyki'
Kirill Romanov
Yury Kotov

1 goal

Phillipp Borer
Christos Salapatas
Athanasios Kakaroumpas
Amid Nazarov
Miguel Santiso Mosquera 'Kuman'
Norbert Sebestyen
Jomard Bakshaliyev
Spyridon-Evangelos Gkritzalis-Papadopoulos
Stavros Amanatidis
Konstantinos Papastathopoulos

Final standings

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	B	Spain	3	3	0	0	18	13	+5	9	Champions
2	A	Switzerland	3	2	0	1	21	17	+4	6	Runners-up

3	B	Russia	3	2	0	1	14	11	+3	6	Third place
4	A	Greece	3	0	1	2	9	16	−7	2	Fourth place

5	B	Hungary	3	0	1	2	10	13	−3	2	Fifth place
6	A	Azerbaijan	3	0	0	3	14	16	−2	0	Sixth place

Source: Standings, BSWW

References

1 2 "Baku to host the Euro Beach Soccer Cup 2014". beachsoccer.com. 7 August 2014.
↑ "Spain claims fourth Euro Beach Soccer Cup!". beachsoccer.com. 31 August 2014.

Euro Beach Soccer Cup

1998 1999 2000¹ 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012² 2014 2016

¹ No tournament. ² Start of biennial basis

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, April 23, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.