2012 Euro Beach Soccer League

2012 Euro Beach Soccer League
Tournament details
Teams	21 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Switzerland (1st title)
Runners-up	Russia
Third place	Italy
Fourth place	Romania
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	521 (8.68 per match)
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The 2012 Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL) is an annual European competition in beach soccer, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). The competitions allows national teams to compete in beach soccer in a league format over the summer months. Each season ends with a Superfinal, deciding the competition winner.

This season, there are eight teams participating in two divisions in each Stage (there are three Stages this year, as opposed to four) that will face each other in a round-robin system. Division A consists of the 8 top teams in Europe based on the BSWW European Ranking. Division B consists of 12 of the lower ranked teams and new entries to the competition. Each division has its own regulations and competition format. This was due to the European qualifying tournament for the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup being held during the EBSL season.

Each team competes in two preliminary events to see their points obtained accumulated into an overall ranking that will determine the teams that qualify for the Superfinal. The top six teams of Division A (including the individual Stage winners) will play in the Superfinal in The Hague, the Netherlands from August 23 – 26. The top four teams of Division B (including the individual Stage winners) plus the worst team in Division A and the host team Netherlands will play in the Promotional Final to try to earn promotion to Division A for the 2013 season.

Beginning this season, the Power Horse energy drink company has signed on to become the new sponsor of the EBSL. The logo has been slightly modified to show this.

Eligible EBSL teams

The teams from Division A will compete for the Euro Beach Soccer League title while the teams from Division B will compete for promotion into next year's Division A.^[1]

**2012 Euro Beach Soccer League Divisions**
DIVISION A		DIVISION B
France	Romania	Andorra	England	Hungary
Italy	Russia	Azerbaijan	Estonia	Norway
Poland	Spain	Belarus	Germany	Turkey
Portugal	Switzerland	Czech Republic	Greece	Ukraine

Note: Netherlands qualifies for Promotion Final as host nation without playing a match.

Stage 1 Terracina, Italy – June, 8 – 10

Participating nations

Final standings

Division A, Group A

Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	+/-	Pts
Russia	3	3	0	0	16	8	+8	9
Portugal	3	1	1	1	12	9	+3	5
Spain	3	0	1	2	12	17	–5	2
France	3	0	0	3	14	20	–6	0

clinched Superfinal Berth

Division A, Group B

Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	+/-	Pts
Switzerland	3	2	0	1	20	15	+5	6
Poland	3	0	2	1	21	23	–2	4
Italy	3	1	0	2	16	13	+3	3
Romania	3	1	0	2	12	18	–6	3

clinched Superfinal Berth

Division B

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	+/-	Pts
Belarus	3	2	1	15	9	+6	6
Czech Republic	3	2	1	12	5	+7	6
Hungary	3	2	1	15	17	–2	6
Norway	3	0	3	9	20	–11	0

Belarus win the stage on goal average

clinched Promotional Final Berth

Schedule and results

All kickoff times are of local time in Terracina (UTC+02:00).

8 June 2012

10:00

Czech Republic	7 – 0	Norway
P. Stejskal 8' T. Zidlicky 10' D. Filinger 10' T. Hurab 13' M. Chalupa 19' M. Salak 27' M. Bocek 35'	Report

Rive di Traiano, Terracina

8 June 2012

11:15

Hungary	3 – 9	Belarus
P. Abel 15' T. Weisz 29' S. Badalik 33'	Report	13', 18' V. Krupitsa 15', 29', 31' I. Bryshtsel 20' Karpau 27', 33' V. Bokach 29' I. Miranovich

Rive di Traiano, Terracina

8 June 2012

12:30

Switzerland	4 – 5	Romania
D. Stankovic 2', 13' S. Spaccarotella 23' A. Schirinzi 33'	Report	5' L. Croitoru 5', 33' Maci 27' I. Posteucă 34' L. Chirilă

Rive di Traiano, Terracina

Referee:

Michael Scheffers

8 June 2012