The CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship is the main championship for beach soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, contested between senior men's national teams of the members of CONCACAF. It is the sport's version of the better known CONCACAF Gold Cup in association football. North America's governing body for football, CONCACAF, organize the championship, with cooperation from Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).

The winners of the championship are crowned continental champions; the tournament also acts as the qualification route for North American nations to the upcoming edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup and is therefore also known as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONCACAF qualifier. Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2010; the World Cup then became biennial, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit.

The championship was established in 2006 after FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the best national team(s) in their region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup (previously, nations were simply invited to play without having to earn their place). The first edition was preceded by a joint qualification tournament with CONMEBOL in 2005; a second and final joint event was held in 2007. FIFA currently allocate North America two berths at the World Cup and hence the top two teams (the winners and the runners-up) qualify to the World Cup finals.

Mexico are the most successful nation with four titles. They are followed by El Salvador (current champions) and the United States with three titles each, and Panama with one.

Results Joint championship with CONMEBOL

There have been eleven editions of the championship as of 2025. For all tournaments, the top two teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

In terms of qualification to the World Cup, Mexico and the United States have achieved the most, placing well enough in the championship to advance to the World Cup finals on seven occasions each. Along with El Salvador and Costa Rica, these four are the only nations to qualify to the World Cup more than once thus far.

YearLocation Final Third place matchChampionsScoreRunners-upThird PlaceScoreFourth Place2005Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship2006details Puntarenas, Costa Rica 2007Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship2008details Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2009details Puerto Vallarta, Mexico6–35–42010details Puerto Vallarta, Mexico5–37–52013details Nassau, Bahamas5–4 8–72015details Costa del Sol, El Salvador4–05–22017details Nassau, Bahamas4–27–22019details Puerto Vallarta, Mexico6–28–32021details Alajuela, Costa RicaCosta Rica to host 2021 Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship!. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 25 February 2021.6–45–22023details Nassau, Bahamas5–03–22025details Nassau, Bahamas2–16–2

Performance Successful nations TeamTitlesRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTotal top 44 (2008*, 2011*, 2015, 2019*) 2 (2017, 2023) 2 (2009*, 2013) 2 (2006, 2021) 103 (2009, 2021, 2025)3 (2008, 2011, 2013) – 103 (2006, 2013, 2023) 2 (2019, 2021) 3 (2008, 2011, 2025) 2 (2009, 2015) 101 (2017) – – 1 (2019) 2 – 2 (2009, 2015) 1 (2006*) 3 (2008, 2011, 2013) 6 – 1 (2025) 1 (2021) – 2 – 1 (2006) – – 1––– 2 (2023*, 2025*) 1 – – – 1 (2017) 1

Awards YearTop goalscorer(s)GlsBest playerBest goalkeeperFair playBest young playerRef. 2006 Ricardo Villalobos7 Francis Farberoff Jim Larkinrowspan=6 2008 Agustín Ruiz6 Ricardo Villalobos Luis Rodasrowspan=5 2009 Agustín Ruiz8 Richard Sterling José Portillo 2010 Frank Velásquez12 Frank Velásquez Miguel Estrada 2013 Nicolas Perera11 Agustín Ruiz Christopher Toth 2015 Frank Velásquez15 Ramón Maldonado Miguel Estrada 2017 Marlon Meza Ramón Maldonado12 Alfonso Maquensi Diego Villaseñor Jamal Haynes 2019 Nicolas Perera13 Benjamín Mosco Diego Villaseñor Exon Perdomo 2021 Frank Velásquez11 Rubén Batres Eliodoro Portillo Antonio Chávez 2023 Jason Urbina11 Nicolas Perera Gabriel Macías 2025 Emerson Cerna6 Emerson Cerna Eliodoro Portillo Wood Julmis

All-time top goalscorers As of 2025

The following table shows the all-time top 20 goalscorers. RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Frank Velásquez 642 Agustín Ruiz 523 Nicolas Perera 494 Lesly St. Fleur 445 Greivin Pacheco 416 Rubén Batres 337 Ramón Maldonado 298 Alessandro Canale 279 Exon Perdomo 26 Kevon Woodley 11 Rohan Reid 2512 Alfonso Maquensi 2313 Miguel González 2114 Heber Ramos 2015 Elmer Robles 19 Ricardo Villalobos 17 Gabriel Silveira 18 Marlon Meza Ángel Rodríguez Anthony Chimienti

Sources:2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021–2023: CONCACAF match reports.

All-time table As of 2025

Joint event results not included. PosTeamAppPldWW+WPLGFGAGDPtsPPGWin % (W−L)111573822152841431411202.1173.7 (42−15)21052371593161491671182.2782.7 (43−9)311523811122471311161172.2576.9 (40−12)411461923221921857641.3952.2 (24−22)5941151124160162−2481.1741.5 (17−24)67321402161291236441.3850.0 (16−16)76251203101068125391.5660.0 (15−10)8731130018112113−1391.2641.9 (13−18)9520800127397−24241.2040.0 (8−12)10416501105393−40161.0037.5 (6−10)1131240083855−17121.0033.3 (4−8)12517311125392−39120.7129.4 (5−12)136264002296145−49120.4615.4 (4−22)142930063241−991.0033.3 (3−6)152920073254−2260.6722.2 (2−7)165182001650131−8160.3311.1 (2−16)17312100112791−6430.258.3 (1−11)18130003735−2800.000.0 (0−3)192700071049−3900.000.0 (0−7)20260006857−4900.000.0 (0−6) Key: Appearances App / Won in normal time W = 3 points / Won in extra-time W+ = 2 points / Won on penalty shoot-out WP = 1 point / Lost L = 0 points / Points per game PPG

Appearances and performance timeline The following is a performance timeline of the teams who have appeared in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and how many appearances they each have made. Legend

– Champions – Runners-up – Third place – Fourth place 5th–16th – Fifth to sixteenth place QF – Quarter-finals R1 – Round 1 (group stage)

× – Did not enter •• – Entered but withdrew DQ – Disqualified – Hosts Apps – No. of appearances

Timeline 2006 (5) 2008 (4) 2009 (6) 2010 (8) 2013 (10) 2015 (16) 2017 (16) 2019 (16) 2021 (11) 2023 (12) 2025 (8) Apps ×××××R111thR1×××3 ××6th8th6th7th6thQFQF4th4th9 ×××××R115th××××2 ×××××R113thR1R1R1×5 ×××××××R1×××1 2nd ×5th5th8th×10th××××5 3rd4th2nd4th4th2nd9thR1QFQFR111 ××××××××R1R1×2 ×2nd1st2nd2nd3rd3rd3rd1st3rd1st10 ×××××R14thQF••R1×4 ×××6th5th6thDQQF3rdQF2nd7 ×××ו•×12thR1×××2 5th××7th9th8th8thR1×××6 4th1st3rd1st3rd1st2nd1st4th2ndR111 ×××××R11st4thQFQFR16 ××××10thR1×××××2 ××××7th5th7thQFQFQFR17 ×××××R114thR1R1R1×5 1st3rd4th3rd1st4th5th2nd2nd1st3rd11 ×××××R116thR1×××3

Performance of qualifiers at the World Cup

The following is a performance timeline of the CONCACAF teams who have gone on to appear in the World Cup, having qualified from the above events.

Legend

– Champions – Runners-up – Third place – Fourth place – Hosts (qualify automatically)

QF – Quarter-finals R1 – Round 1 (group stage) q – Qualified for upcoming tournament Total – Total times qualified for World Cup

Timeline 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 Total R1 1 QF 1 R1 R1 2 R1 R1 4th QF R1 q 6 q 1 2nd R1 QF R1 R1 R1 R1 7 R1 1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 7Total number of unique qualifiers 8

References

External links Beach Soccer, at CONCACAF official website Beach Soccer Worldwide, official website