2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Italy |
| Dates | 4 June - 6 June 2010 |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Russia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Portugal |
| Third place |  Italy |
| Fourth place |  Spain |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 12 |
| Goals scored | 126 (10.5 per match) |
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The 2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the twelfth Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's three major beach soccer championships of the 2010 beach soccer season, held in June 2010, in Rome, Italy, for the second year in a row. Russia won the championship for the first time, with six time champions Portugal finishing second. Italy beat last year's champions Spain in the third place playoff, ending their run of two consecutive titles, 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.[1]
Participating nations
[edit]Matches
[edit]Main tournament
[edit]| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 4 June 2010 | ||||||||||
| Italy | 8 | |||||||||
| 5 June 2010 | ||||||||||
 Hungary | 3 | |||||||||
| Italy | 7 | |||||||||
| 4 June 2010 | ||||||||||
| Portugal | 10 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 2 | |||||||||
| 6 June 2010 | ||||||||||
 Switzerland | 1 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 4 | |||||||||
| 4 June 2010 | ||||||||||
| Russia | 6 | |||||||||
| Russia | 8 | |||||||||
| 5 June 2010 | ||||||||||
 France | 2 | |||||||||
| Russia | 7 | |||||||||
| 4 June 2010 | ||||||||||
| Spain | 5 | Third place | ||||||||
| Spain | 8 | |||||||||
| 6 June 2010 | ||||||||||
 Poland | 3 | |||||||||
| Italy | 5 | |||||||||
| Spain | 4 | |||||||||
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 | Hungary
| 1 | |||||||
| QF2 | Switzerland
| 7 | |||||||
| Switzerland
| 6 | ||||||||
| Poland
| 5 | ||||||||
| QF3 | France
| 5 | |||||||
| QF4 | Poland
| 7 | Seventh place playoff | ||||||
| France
| 7 | ||||||||
| Hungary
| 5 | ||||||||
Winners
[edit]| 2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup Winners: |
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 Russia First title |
Final standings
[edit]| Rank | Team |
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| 1 | Russia
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| 2 | Portugal
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| 3 | Italy
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| 4 | Spain
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| 5 | Switzerland
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| 6 | Poland
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| 7 | France
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| 8 | Hungary
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