The Grand Prix de Futsal is an international
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
competition of the same kind of the
FIFA Futsal World Cup
The FIFA Futsal World Cup is an international futsal competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. Since the first edition that took place in 1989 in the Netherlan ...
but with invited nations and held annually in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It was first held in 2005.
History
In 2007, the sixteen participating nations are divided in the first stage in four groups of four teams each. The nations play against each other once within their respective groups, and the two best placed teams of each group qualify to the second stage, which is the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals winners qualify to the semifinals. The semifinal winners play the final, while the losers play the third-place playoff.
Five teams took part in the 2018 tournament between 30 January and 4 February 2018.
Results
Summaries
Performance by nations
Participating nations
;Legend
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1st — Champions
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2nd — Runners-up
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3rd — Third place
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4th — Fourth place
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AFC (Asia)
CAF (Africa)
CONCACAF (North, Central America and the Caribbean)
CONMEBOL (South America)
OFC (Oceania)
UEFA (Europe)
References
External links
* http://www.futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=20795
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International futsal competitions hosted by Brazil
International futsal competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 2005
2005 establishments in Brazil