2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Spain |
| Dates | 3 May - 5 May 2007 |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Ukraine (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  France |
| Third place |  Portugal |
| Fourth place |  Switzerland |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 12 |
| Goals scored | 89 (7.42 per match) |
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The 2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the ninth Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's two major beach soccer championships at the time, held in May 2007, in Tarragona, Spain. Ukraine won the championship for the first time, with France finishing second. Portugal beat 2005 champions Switzerland in the third place playoff to finish third and fourth respectively.
Eight teams participated in the tournament who played in a straightforward knockout tournament, starting with the quarterfinals, with extra matches deciding the nations who finished in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth place. This was the last tournament until 2009 to use this format.[1]
Participating nations
[edit]Matches
[edit]Main tournament
[edit]| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 3 May 2007 | ||||||||||
| France | 5 | |||||||||
| 4 May 2007 | ||||||||||
 Poland | 1 | |||||||||
| France | 6 | |||||||||
| 3 May 2007 | ||||||||||
| Portugal | 5 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 5 | |||||||||
| 5 May 2007 | ||||||||||
 Greece | 3 | |||||||||
| France | 0 | |||||||||
| 3 May 2007 | ||||||||||
| Ukraine | 3 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 7 | |||||||||
| 4 May 2007 | ||||||||||
 Spain | 5 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 4 | |||||||||
| 3 May 2007 | ||||||||||
| Ukraine | 5 | Third place | ||||||||
| Ukraine | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 May 2007 | ||||||||||
 Italy | 3 | |||||||||
| Portugal (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 1 | |||||||||
Fifth to eighth place deciding matches
[edit]The following matches took place between the losing nations in the quarterfinals to determine the final standings of the nations finishing in fifth to eighth place. The semifinals took place on the same day of the semifinals of the main tournament and the playoffs took place on the day of the final.
| Fifth to eighth place semi finals | Fifth place playoff | ||||||||
| QF1 | Poland
| 5 | |||||||
| QF2 | Greece
| 2 | |||||||
| Poland (pen.)
| 2 | ||||||||
| Spain
| 2 | ||||||||
| QF3 | Spain
| 5 | |||||||
| QF4 | Italy
| 3 | Seventh place playoff | ||||||
| Italy
| 7 | ||||||||
| Greece
| 4 | ||||||||
Winners
[edit]| 2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup Winners: |
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 Ukraine First title |
Final standings
[edit]| Rank | Team |
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| 1 | Ukraine
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| 2 | France
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| 3 | Portugal
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| 4 | Switzerland
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| 5 | Poland
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| 6 | Spain
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| 7 | Italy
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| 8 | Greece
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References
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