# CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship

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 the United States and El Salvador with three titles each (the latter of whom are also the current champions), with two and Panama with one.

## Results

* Joint championship with CONMEBOL
There have been ten editions of the championship as of 2023. 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.
| Year | Location | | Final | Final | Final | | Third place match | Third place match | Third place match |
| Year | Location | | Champions | Score | Runners-up | | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place |
| 2005 | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship |
| 2006 details | Puntarenas, Costa Rica | | United States | | Canada | | Costa Rica | | Mexico |
| 2007 | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship |
| 2008 details | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | | Mexico | | El Salvador | | United States | | Costa Rica |
| 2009 details | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | | El Salvador | 6–3 | Costa Rica | | Mexico | 5–4 | United States |
| 2010 details | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | | Mexico | 5–3 | El Salvador | | United States | 7–5 | Costa Rica |
| 2013 details | Nassau, Bahamas | | United States | 5–4 (a.e.t.) | El Salvador | | Mexico | 8–7 | Costa Rica |
| 2015 details | Costa del Sol, El Salvador | | Mexico | 4–0 | Costa Rica | | El Salvador | 5–2 | United States |
| 2017 details | Nassau, Bahamas | | Panama | 4–2 | Mexico | | El Salvador | 7–2 | Guadeloupe |
| 2019 details | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | | Mexico | 6–2 | United States | | El Salvador | 8–3 | Panama |
| 2021 details | Alajuela, Costa Rica | | El Salvador | 6–4 | United States | | Guatemala | 5–2 | Mexico |
| 2023 details | Nassau, Bahamas | | United States | 5–0 | Mexico | | El Salvador | 3–2 | Bahamas |
| 2025 details | Nassau, Bahamas | | El Salvador | 2–1 | Guatemala | | United States | 6–2 | Bahamas |
    Round-robin ^ Indicates this edition was played as a round-robin tournament. There was no final or third place match.

## Performance
### Successful nations

| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Total top 4 |
| Mexico | 4 (2008*, 2011*, 2015, 2019*) | 2 (2017, 2023) | 2 (2009*, 2013) | 2 (2006, 2021) | 10 |
| United States | 3 (2006, 2013, 2023) | 2 (2019, 2021) | 3 (2008, 2011, 2025) | 2 (2009, 2015) | 10 |
| El Salvador | 3 (2009, 2021, 2025) | 3 (2008, 2011, 2013) | 4 (2015*, 2017, 2019, 2023) | – | 10 |
| Panama | 1 (2017) | – | – | 1 (2019) | 2 |
| Costa Rica | – | 2 (2009, 2015) | 1 (2006*) | 3 (2008, 2011, 2013) | 6 |
| Guatemala | – | 1 (2025) | 1 (2021) | – | 2 |
| Canada | – | 1 (2006) | – | – | 1 |
| Bahamas | – | – | – | 1 (2023*, 2025*) | 1 |
| Guadeloupe | – | – | – | 1 (2017) | 1 |
    * Hosts
    a. ^ Also fourth in 2007 joint event.
    b. ^ Also third in 2005 joint event; winner of 2007 joint event.

### Awards

| Year | Top goalscorer(s) | Gls | Best player | Best goalkeeper | Fair play | Best young player |
| 2006 | Ricardo Villalobos | 7 | Francis Farberoff | Jim Larkin | Canada | not awarded |
| 2008 | Agustín Ruiz | 6 | Ricardo Villalobos | Luis Rodas | not awarded | not awarded |
| 2009 | Agustín Ruiz | 8 | Richard Sterling | José Portillo | not awarded | not awarded |
| 2010 | Frank Velásquez | 12 | Frank Velásquez | Miguel Estrada | not awarded | not awarded |
| 2013 | Nicolas Perera | 11 | Agustín Ruiz | Christopher Toth | not awarded | not awarded |
| 2015 | Frank Velásquez | 15 | Ramón Maldonado | Miguel Estrada | not awarded | not awarded |
| 2017 | Marlon Meza Ramón Maldonado | 12 | Alfonso Maquensi | Diego Villaseñor | Canada | Jamal Haynes |
| 2019 | Nicolas Perera | 13 | Benjamín Mosco | Diego Villaseñor | Panama | Exon Perdomo |
| 2021 | Frank Velásquez | 11 | Rubén Batres | Eliodoro Portillo | Mexico | Antonio Chávez |
| 2023 | Jason Urbina | 11 | Nicolas Perera | Gabriel Macías | Bahamas | not awarded |

### All-time top goalscorers

As of 2023
The following table shows the all-time top 20 goalscorers.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Frank Velásquez | El Salvador | 62 |
| 2 | Agustín Ruiz | El Salvador | 51 |
| 3 | Nicolas Perera | United States | 49 |
| 4 | Lesly St. Fleur | Bahamas | 44 |
| 5 | Greivin Pacheco | Costa Rica | 41 |
| 6 | Rubén Batres | El Salvador | 31 |
| 7 | Alessandro Canale | United States | 26 |
| 7 | Exxon Perdomo | El Salvador | 26 |
| 7 | Kevon Woodley | Trinidad and Tobago | 26 |
| 10 | Ramón Maldonado | Mexico | 25 |
| 10 | Rohan Reid | Jamaica | 25 |
| 12 | Ricardo Villalobos | Mexico | 19 |
| 13 | Alfonso Maquensi | Panama | 18 |
| 13 | Ángel Rodríguez | Mexico | 18 |
| 13 | Anthony Chimienti | United States | 18 |
| 13 | Elmer Robles | El Salvador | 18 |
| 13 | Herber Ramos | El Salvador | 18 |
| 13 | Marlon Meza | Belize | 18 |
| 13 | Miguel González | Guatemala | 18 |
| 20 | Jhonatan Sánchez | Costa Rica | 17 |

### All-time table

As of 2023
Joint event results not included.
| Pos | Team | App | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Win % (W−L) |
| 1 | Mexico | 10 | 49 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 235 | 119 | 116 | 114 | 2.33 | 79.6 (39−10) |
| 2 | United States | 10 | 52 | 36 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 268 | 134 | 134 | 113 | 2.17 | 75.0 (39−13) |
| 3 | El Salvador | 9 | 47 | 33 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 293 | 140 | 153 | 105 | 2.23 | 80.9 (38−9) |
| 4 | Costa Rica | 10 | 43 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 189 | 171 | 18 | 64 | 1.49 | 55.8 (24−19) |
| 5 | Bahamas | 8 | 36 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 146 | 145 | 1 | 42 | 1.17 | 41.7 (15−21) |
| 6 | Trinidad and Tobago | 6 | 28 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 103 | 101 | 2 | 39 | 1.39 | 46.4 (13−15) |
| 7 | Panama | 5 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 98 | 71 | 27 | 35 | 1.59 | 59.1 (13−9) |
| 8 | Guatemala | 6 | 27 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 116 | 108 | 8 | 35 | 1.30 | 48.1 (13−14) |
| 9 | Canada | 5 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 73 | 97 | −24 | 24 | 1.20 | 40.0 (8−12) |
| 10 | Guadeloupe | 4 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 53 | 93 | −40 | 16 | 1.00 | 37.5 (6−10) |
| 11 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 38 | 55 | −17 | 12 | 1.00 | 33.3 (4−8) |
| 12 | Belize | 5 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 53 | 92 | −39 | 12 | 0.71 | 29.4 (5−12) |
| 13 | Jamaica | 6 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 96 | 145 | −49 | 12 | 0.46 | 15.4 (4−22) |
| 14 | Guyana | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 41 | −9 | 9 | 1.00 | 33.3 (3−6) |
| 15 | Barbados | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 32 | 54 | −22 | 6 | 0.67 | 22.2 (2−7) |
| 16 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 5 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 50 | 131 | −81 | 6 | 0.33 | 11.1 (2−16) |
| 17 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 27 | 91 | −64 | 3 | 0.25 | 8.3 (1−11) |
| 18 | Bonaire | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 35 | −28 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.0 (0−3) |
| 19 | Puerto Rico | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 49 | −39 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.0 (0−7) |
| 20 | Dominican Republic | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 57 | −49 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.0 (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

    ‡. ^ In some years, teams knocked-out at round 1 or the quarter-finals played no further matches (these results are marked as R1 or QF). In other years, classification matches were then played to determine all final placements.

#### Timeline

| YearTeam | 2006 (5) | 2008 (4) | 2009 (6) | 2010 (8) | 2013 (10) | 2015 (16) | 2017 (16) | 2019 (16) | 2021 (11) | 2023 (12) | 2025 (8) | Apps ⁄11 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | 11th | R1 | × | × | × | 3 |
| Bahamas | × | × | 6th | 8th | 6th | 7th | 6th | QF | QF | 4th | q | 9 |
| Barbados | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | 15th | × | × | × | × | 2 |
| Belize | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | 13th | R1 | R1 | R1 | × | 5 |
| Bonaire | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | × | × | × | 1 |
| Canada | 2nd | × | 5th | 5th | 8th | × | 10th | × | × | × | × | 5 |
| Costa Rica | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 4th | 4th | 2nd | 9th | R1 | QF | QF | q | 11 |
| Dominican Republic | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | R1 | × | 2 |
| El Salvador | × | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | q | 10 |
| Guadeloupe | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | 4th | QF | •• | R1 | × | 4 |
| Guatemala | × | × | × | 6th | 5th | 6th | DQ | QF | 3rd | QF | q | 7 |
| Guyana | × | × | × | × | •• | × | 12th | R1 | × | × | × | 2 |
| Jamaica | 5th | × | × | 7th | 9th | 8th | 8th | R1 | × | × | × | 6 |
| Mexico | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 2nd | q | 11 |
| Panama | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | 1st | 4th | QF | QF | q | 6 |
| Puerto Rico | × | × | × | × | 10th | R1 | × | × | × | × | × | 2 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | × | × | × | × | 7th | 5th | 7th | QF | QF | QF | q | 7 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | 14th | R1 | R1 | R1 | × | 5 |
| United States | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 1st | 4th | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | q | 11 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | × | × | × | × | × | R1 | 16th | R1 | × | × | × | 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 successfully qualified from the above events.

#### Timeline

| YearTeam | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | Total |
| Bahamas | | | | | | | | | R1 | | | | | 1 |
| Canada | | QF | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Costa Rica | | | | | R1 | | | R1 | | | | | | 2 |
| El Salvador | | | | R1 | R1 | 4th | QF | | | | R1 | | | 5 |
| Mexico | | | 2nd | R1 | | QF | | R1 | R1 | R1 | | R1 | | 7 |
| Panama | | | | | | | | | R1 | | | | | 1 |
| United States | R1 | R1 | R1 | | | | R1 | | | R1 | R1 | R1 | | 7 |
| Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | Total number of unique qualifiers | 7 |