2014 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
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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 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 ...
championships organised every two years by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), held in August 2014, in
Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
, 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. Spain won the championship for the fourth time, their third win in their last five appearances and their fourth title overall.


Participating teams

The teams were announced on August 7. : 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

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Group B

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Classification matches


Fifth place play-off


Third place play-off


Final


Winners


Awards


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 Aleksey Sergeyevich Makarov (russian: Алексей Сергеевич Макаров; born 20 August 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player currently active as a forward. Career Makarov began his professional beach soccer team in the FC Str ...
* 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


References

{{Euro Beach Soccer Cup Euro Beach Soccer Cup 2014 in beach soccer 2014 in Azerbaijani sport International association football competitions hosted by Azerbaijan