The 2017 Mundialito de Clubes was the fifth edition of the '' Mundialito de Clubes'' (Club World Cup in English), a

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international club beach soccer competition contested between top men's clubs from across the world (existing clubs and teams specially assembled for the event). The tournament is loosely similar to the FIFA Club World Cup in

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, however participating teams are not regional champions, entering via invitation. Organised by

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(BSWW) and other local entities in Brazil, the competition took place in

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between December 14 and 17, featuring eight clubs.

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were incumbent champions but did not enter a team this year. The tournament was won by

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who became the first team to win two Mundialito de Clubes titles, beating Iranian club Pars Jonoubi 5–4 in the final.

Teams

Eight invited clubs entered the competition, representing six different nations and three continents. Africa, North America and Oceania are unrepresented.

Squads

Venue

One venue was used in the city of

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. *An arena with a capacity of 2,000 at Rua Serra da Mantiqueira (Rua da Feira) hosted the matches.

Draw

The draw to split the eight teams into two groups of four was conducted by BSWW and took place in the afternoon of November 30. Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups: *to Group A: as the São Paulo based host club,

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*to Group B: the other seeded club,

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The remaining six teams were split into three pots of two, shown in the below table. The clubs were paired into pots based on similar geographical proximity. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.

Group stage

All times are local, BRST ( UTC–2).

Group A

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Group B

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Play-offs

Seventh place play-off

Fifth place play-off

Third place play-off

Final

Awards

Top goalscorers

''Players with 3 or more goals'' ;7 goals * Igor Rangel ( Botafogo) ;6 goals * Benjamin Jr. (

) *

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) ;5 goals * Farid Boulokbashi ( Pars Jonoubi) * Nelito (

) * Boris Nikonorov (

) ;4 goals * Pablo Perez ( Levante) * Angelo Agustini ( Rosario Central) * Mostafa Kiani ( Pars Jonoubi) * Dejan Stankovic (

) ;3 goals * Thanger Nascimento (

) * Anderson Wesley (

) * Duarte Vivo (

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) * Mohammad Masoumizadeh ( Pars Jonoubi) * Moslem Mesigar ( Pars Jonoubi) * Ali Mirshekari ( Pars Jonoubi) * Ozu Moreira (

) * Deiwerson Pureza Oureza (

) *

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Final standings

References

External links

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