2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer

2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer
Copa América de Fútbol Playa Chile 2025
Tournament details
Host country	Chile
City	Iquique
Dates	22 February – 2 March
Teams	10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	Cavancha Beach
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (4th title)
Runners-up	Paraguay
Third place	Chile
Fourth place	Colombia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	27
Goals scored	218 (8.07 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rodrigo (10 goals)
	← 2023 2027 →

The 2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Futbol Playa) was the fifth edition of the Copa América of Beach Soccer, the international beach soccer competition organised by CONMEBOL for the men's national teams of South America. It was held at Cavancha Beach in Iquique, Chile between 22 February and 2 March 2025.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

For the second 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 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup held in Seychelles. The defending champions were Brazil.^[5]

Teams

Teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL participated.^[1]

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance
Argentina	5th	Runners-up (2023)
Bolivia	5th	Sixth place (2018)
Brazil (holders)	5th	Champions (2016, 2018, 2023)
Chile (hosts)	5th	Third place (2022)
Colombia	5th	Third place (2023)
Ecuador	5th	Fourth place (2018)
Paraguay	5th	Champions (2022)
Peru	5th	Fifth place (2016, 2022)
Uruguay	5th	Third place (2018)
Venezuela	5th	Third place (2016)

Venue

Chile was named as host country on 11 November 2024.^[1] Iquique was confirmed as host city by the Football Federation of Chile on 6 January 2025, with Cavancha Beach, located in northern Chile on the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, as the venue for all the matches.^[4]

Iquique	Iquique 2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer (Chile)
Cavancha Beach
20°13′54″S 70°08′50″W / 20.231745°S 70.147334°W / -20.231745; -70.147334

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.^[6]

Draw

The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place at 12:00 PYST (UTC−3) on 11 November 2024 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, under the following procedure:^[1]^[2]

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the tournament in 2023 (shown in brackets).

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

to Group A: as the hosts, Chile
to Group B: as the last champions, Brazil

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
Argentina (2) Colombia (3)	Paraguay (4) Uruguay (5)	Peru (7) Bolivia (8)	Ecuador (9) Venezuela (10)

Match officials

On 23 January 2025, CONMEBOL announced a total of 22 referees appointed for the tournament.^[7]^[8]

Mariano Romo
Carlos Maidana
Jaimito Suárez
Luis Mojica
Luciano Andrade
Lucas Estevão
Cristian Galaz
Manuel Martin
Jorge Iván Gómez
Ferley Fuentes
Brandon Amay
Jean Villamar
Javier Marcillo
Micke Palomino
Alex Valdivieso
Diego Santander
Jorge Martínez
Silvio Coronel
Aecio Fernández
Lucas Hernández
Gerand Rivas
Darwin Busto

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.^[9]

Teams were awards 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 loss.^[10]

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points, their rankings are determined as follows:

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

All match times are in local time, CHI (UTC−3).^[2]^[3]^[4]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WE	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colombia	4	3	0	0	1	20	16	+4	9^[a]	Semi-finals
2	Chile (H)	4	3	0	0	1	13	10	+3	9^[a]	Semi-finals
3	Uruguay	4	1	1	1	1	14	13	+1	6	Fifth place play-off
4	Bolivia	4	0	1	0	3	13	16	−3	2	Seventh place play-off
5	Ecuador	4	0	0	0	4	11	16	−5	0	Ninth place play-off

Source: Copa America
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head: Chile 2–3 Colombia

22 February 2025