2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Tournament details
Host countryItaly
Dates4 June - 6 June 2010
Teams8 (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 played12
Goals scored126 (10.5 per match)

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

Matches

Main tournament

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
4 June 2010
 
 
 Italy8
 
5 June 2010
 
 Hungary3
 
 Italy7
 
4 June 2010
 
 Portugal10
 
 Portugal2
 
6 June 2010
 
  Switzerland1
 
 Portugal4
 
4 June 2010
 
 Russia6
 
 Russia8
 
5 June 2010
 
 France2
 
 Russia7
 
4 June 2010
 
 Spain5 Third place
 
 Spain8
 
6 June 2010
 
 Poland3
 
 Italy5
 
 
 Spain4
 

Fifth to eighth place deciding matches

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

 2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Winners: 

Russia
First title

Final standings

Rank Team
1 Russia
2 Portugal
3 Italy
4 Spain
5  Switzerland
6 Poland
7 France
8 Hungary

References

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