The 2015 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship was a beach soccer tournament which took place in Costa del Sol, El Salvador on 28 March – 4 April 2015. This was the first time the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship was held in Central America. All matches were played at Estadio de Fútbol Playa (Costa del Sol) in La Paz Department, with an official capacity of 2,000.
The tournament served as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifier for teams from North, Central America and Caribbean which are members of CONCACAF, where the top two teams qualified for the 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Portugal. In the final, Mexico defeated Costa Rica to be crowned champions, and both teams qualified for the 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Participating teams and draw
The following 16 teams entered the tournament.
Note: Guadeloupe is not a FIFA member and thus ineligible to qualify for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
The draw of the tournament was held on 27 January 2015, 10:00 local time (UTC−6), at San Salvador. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, with the following seeding:
Group stage
Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat.
All times are local, Central Standard Time (UTC−6).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Fifth place semi-finals
Semi-finals
Seventh place match
Fifth place match
Third place match
Final
Final ranking
Awards
Top goalscorers
- 15 goals
- Francisco Velásquez
- 13 goals
- Lesly St. Fleur
- 11 goals
- 9 goals
- 8 goals
- Nicolas Perera
- 7 goals
- Daemion Benjamin
Source: CONCACAF.com
References
External links
- CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championships El Salvador 2015, beachsoccer.com
- Beach Soccer, CONCACAF.com
- FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Portugal 2015 – Qualifiers – North, Central America and Caribbean, FIFA.com
