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2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer

international football competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ131516151 ↗
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The 2025 Copa América of Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Futbol Playa) was the fifth edition of the Copa América of Beach Soccer, the international beach soccer competition organised by CONMEBOL for the men's national teams of South America. It was held at Cavancha Beach in Iquique, Chile between 22 February and 2 March 2025.

For the second time, the tournament acted as the South American qualification for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup following CONMEBOL's decision to determine its representatives in the World Cup via the Copa America instead of its specific qualifying tournament that ran until 2021. The top three teams qualified for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup held in Seychelles. The defending champions were Brazil.

Teams

Teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL participated.

Venue

Chile was named as host country on 11 November 2024. Iquique was confirmed as host city by the Football Federation of Chile on 6 January 2025, with Cavancha Beach, located in northern Chile on the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, as the venue for all the matches.

Squads

Each national team had to enter a squad of a maximum of 12 and a minimum of 10 players, including at least of two goalkeepers.

Draw

The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place at 12:00 PYST (UTC−3) on 11 November 2024 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, under the following procedure:

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the tournament in 2023 (shown in brackets).

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