Beach Soccer Worldwide

Beach Soccer Worldwide
AbbreviationBSWW
Formation1994 (founding partners)
25 October 2000 (merger)
TypeInternational sport federation
HeadquartersBarcelona, Spain
Region served
Worldwide
Membership
211 national associations
Official languages
English
President
Joan Cuscó[1]
Vice-president
Gabino Renales[2]
AffiliationsFIFA,
International Olympic Committee[3]
Staff
<50[4]
Websitewww.beachsoccer.com

Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) is the organisation responsible for the founding and growth of association football's derivative sport of beach soccer. The founding partners of BSWW codified the rules of beach soccer in 1992, with BSWW as it is known today having been officially founded in late 2000 as a singular institution to develop the sport and organise international beach soccer competitions across the globe, primarily between national teams.[5] The company is recognised as playing the biggest role in helping to establish the rules of beach soccer, to spread and evolve the sport around the world as cited by FIFA who took on governing body status of the sport from BSWW in 2005.[6] Having established the sport's key regulations, FIFA acknowledged BSWW's framework, making their rules the official laws of beach soccer and now controls them and any modifications.

Today, under the recognition of FIFA, BSWW continues to be main organisation that organises beach soccer tournaments and development (with FIFA's assistance) around the world, mainly in Europe, including the Euro Beach Soccer League, BSWW exhibition tour events and others, having involved over 110 national teams in the sport, as well as newly founded club competitions.[7][8] Its founders also established the Beach Soccer World Championships; BSWW created a partnership with FIFA, FIFA Beach Soccer S.L., in 2005 to manage the tournament as the newly named FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the only major international beach soccer tournament that BSWW does not have a hand in organising but which is all the management of FIFA.[9]

Members of the organisation serve on FIFA's Beach Soccer Committee.

First international matches was played in 1993 for men and 2009 for women.[10][11] Now (July 2023) 193 Men / 64 Women club and 101 Men / 23 Women national team sorted in World Ranking.[12]

  1. ^ "BSWW President Joan Cuscó receives AIPS Award". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 9 June 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Ukraine FA president welcomes BSWW Vice president". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 22 July 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021. Gabino Renales
  3. ^ "Beach Soccer Worldwide – Beach Soccer" (PDF). eurolympic.org. April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 23, 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Keep up with Beach Soccer Worldwide". linkedin.com. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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  10. ^ "beach SOCCER RESULTS". August 16, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-08-16.
  11. ^ "Beach Soccer Worldwide". December 4, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-12-04.
  12. ^ "Rankings".