2009 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
The 2009 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the eleventh Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's three major beach soccer championships of the 2009 beach soccer season, held in May 2009, in Rome, Italy. Spain won the championship for the third time, with former champions Switzerland finishing second. Six time champions Portugal beat Hungary in the third place play off to finish third and fourth respectively.
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Italy |
| Dates | 22 May - 24 May 2009 |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Spain (3rd title) |
| Runners-up |  Switzerland |
| Third place |  Portugal |
| Fourth place |  Hungary |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 12 |
| Goals scored | 106 (8.83 per match) |
Eight teams participated in the tournament who played in a straightforward knockout tournament, starting with the quarter finals, with extra matches deciding the nations who finished in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth place.[1]
Matches
Main tournament
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 22 May 2009 | ||||||||||
| Portugal | 11 | |||||||||
| 23 May 2009 | ||||||||||
 Poland | 1 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 6 | |||||||||
| 22 May 2009 | ||||||||||
| Spain | 7 | |||||||||
| Spain (pen.) | 3 | |||||||||
| 24 May 2009 | ||||||||||
 Russia | 3 | |||||||||
| Spain | 6 | |||||||||
| 22 May 2009 | ||||||||||
| Switzerland | 4 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 9 | |||||||||
| 23 May 2009 | ||||||||||
 France | 3 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 6 | |||||||||
| 22 May 2009 | ||||||||||
| Hungary | 1 | Third place | ||||||||
 Italy | 2 | |||||||||
| 24 May 2009 | ||||||||||
| Hungary | 5 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 7 | |||||||||
| Hungary | 5 | |||||||||
Fifth to eighth place deciding matches
The following matches took place between the losing nations in the quarter finals to determine the final standings of the nations finishing in fifth to eighth place. The semi finals took place on the same day of the semi finals of the main tournament and the play offs took place on the day of the final.
| Fifth to eighth place semi finals | Fifth place play off | |||||||
| QF1 | Poland |
1 | ||||||
| QF2 | Russia |
6 | ||||||
| Russia |
8 | |||||||
| France |
4 | |||||||
| QF3 | France |
3 | ||||||
| QF4 | Italy |
1 | Seventh place play off | |||||
| Poland |
4 | |||||||
| Italy |
3 | |||||||
Final standings
| Rank | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Spain |
| 2 | Switzerland |
| 3 | Portugal |
| 4 | Hungary |
| 5 | Russia |
| 6 | France |
| 7 | Poland |
| 8 | Italy |