The 2011
Euro Beach Soccer League (''EBSL'') is an annual European competition in beach soccer. 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.
There are seven teams participating in two divisions in each Stage (there are four Stages) 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 the lower ranked teams and new entries to the competition. Each division has its own regulations and competition format.
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 five teams of Division A (including the individual Stage winners) plus the host team Russia play in the Superfinal in
Moscow
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Russia
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) from August 26–29. The top five teams of Division B (including the individual Stage winners) plus the worst team in Division A will play in the Promotional Final to try to earn promotion to Division A for the 2012 season.
Teams
Stage 1 Bern, Switzerland – May, 27 – 2
Participating nations
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It had been earlier announced that Hungary would be the third team participating in Division B.
Final standings Division A
Final standings Division B
Schedule and results
All kickoff times are of local time in Bern (
UTC+02:00).
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Individual awards
MVP: Juanma Lima ()
Top Scorer: Giuseppe Soria () — 5 goals
Best goalkeeper: Simone Del Mestre ()
Stage 2 Berlin, Germany – July, 8 – 1
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Final standings Division A
Final standings Division B
Schedule and results
All kickoff times are of local time in Berlin (
UTC+02:00).
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Individual awards
MVP:
Dmitry Shishin
Dmitry Vladimirovich Shishin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Шишин; born 14 March 1986) is a Russian beach soccer player currently active as forward, playing for the Russia national beach soccer team and BSC Kristall. ...
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Top Scorer:
Dmitry Shishin
Dmitry Vladimirovich Shishin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Шишин; born 14 March 1986) is a Russian beach soccer player currently active as forward, playing for the Russia national beach soccer team and BSC Kristall. ...
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Best goalkeeper:
Andrey Bukhlitskiy
Andrey Nikolayevich Bukhlitsky (russian: Андрей Николаевич Бухлицкий; born 7 February 1982) is a former Russian beach soccer player who represented Russia in international competitions. His role was goalkeeper.
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Stage 3 Ravenna, Italy – July, 22 – 2
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Final standings Division A
Final standings Division B
Schedule and results
All kickoff times are of local time in Ravenna (
UTC+02:00).
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Individual awards
MVP:
Maci (footballer), Maci ()
Top Scorer: Boguslaw Saganowski () and Dejan Stankovic () — 5 goals
Best goalkeeper: Simone Del Mestre ()
Stage 4 Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands – July, 29 – 3
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Final standings Division A
Final standings Division B
Schedule and results
All kickoff times are of local time in The Hague (
UTC+02:00).
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Individual awards
MVP:
Egor Shaykov ()
Top Scorer:
Belchior () — 6 goals
Best goalkeeper: Xan ()
Cumulative standings
Division A
Division B
Netherlands are ranked ahead of Israel based on fair play points
EBSL Superfinal and Promotional Final – Moscow, Russia – August, 4 –
Superfinal and Promotional Final Divisions
The Divisions for the
Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal have been determined. 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.
Division A (Superfinal)
Group A Standings
Group B Standings
Schedule and results
All kickoff times are of local time in Moscow (
UTC+04:00).
Round-Robin
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Fifth-place Match
Third-place Match
Championship final match
Individual awards
MVP:
Dejan Stankovic ()
Top Scorer:
Dmitry Shishin
Dmitry Vladimirovich Shishin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Шишин; born 14 March 1986) is a Russian beach soccer player currently active as forward, playing for the Russia national beach soccer team and BSC Kristall. ...
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Best goalkeeper: Valentin Jaeggy ()
Final Division A Standing
Division B (Promotional Final)
Group A Standings
Group B Standings
Schedule and results
All kickoff times are of local time in Moscow (
UTC+04:00).
Round-Robin
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Fifth-place Match
Third-place Match
Promotional Final Match
Final Division B Standing
See also
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Beach soccer
Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.
Whilst football has been played informally on beaches, the introduction of ''beach soccer'' was an a ...
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Euro Beach Soccer League
References
External links
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