1998 Euro Beach Soccer Cup

1998 Euro Beach Soccer CupTournament details

Host country| Italy
Dates| 1–6 September 1998
Teams| 7 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)| 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions|  Portugal (1st title)
Runners-up|  Spain
Third place|  Italy
Fourth place|  Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 11
Goals scored| 103 (9.36 per match)

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The 1998 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the first Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's two major beach soccer championships at the time, held in September 1998, in Siracusa, Italy. Portugal won the championship, with Spain finishing second. Hosts Italy beat Germany in the third place play off to finish third and fourth respectively.

Seven nations participated in the tournament who were split into two groups of three and four, playing each other once in the groups. The second placed teams in each group played in a third place play off and the winners of each group played in a final match to decide the winner of the tournament.[1]

## Participating nations

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* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Portugal
* Spain
* Switzerland
* Yugoslavia

## Group stage

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### Group A

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Portugal | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 8 | +16 | 9
Germany | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 3
France | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 20 | -8 | 3
Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 21 | -8 | 3
Qualified for final | Qualified for third place play off

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Germany | 7 - 5|  Switzerland

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Portugal | 11 - 3|  France

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2 September 1998

France | 4 - 3|  Germany

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2 September 1998

Portugal | 9 - 2|  Switzerland

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4 September 1998

Portugal | 4 - 3|  Germany

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4 September 1998

Switzerland | 6 - 5|  France

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### Group B

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Spain | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6
Italy | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 3
Yugoslavia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 0
Qualified for final | Qualified for third place play off

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Italy | 3 - 4|  Spain

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2 September 1998

Spain | 4 - 1|  Yugoslavia

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4 September 1998

Italy | 6 - 3|  Yugoslavia

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## Knockout stage

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### Third place play off

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6 September 1998

Italy | 11 - 4|  Germany

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### Final

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6 September 1998

Portugal | 2 - 2 (1-0 p)|  Spain

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## Winners

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1998 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Winners:

Portugal
First title

## Final standings

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Rank  | Team

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1 |  Portugal
2 |  Spain
3 |  Italy
4 |  Germany
5 |  France
6 |  Switzerland
7 |  Yugoslavia

## References

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1. ^ http://roonba.com/1998.htm [dead link]

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