# 2015 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship

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:
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 (3 teams were drawn to Pot 3) |
| El Salvador (assigned to A1)  Mexico (assigned to B1)  United States (assigned to C1)  Costa Rica (assigned to D1) | Guatemala  Bahamas  Jamaica  Trinidad and Tobago | Puerto Rico | Antigua and Barbuda  Barbados  Belize  Guadeloupe  Panama  Turks and Caicos Islands  U.S. Virgin Islands |

## 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.
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* The top two teams from each group advance to the quarter-finals.
All times are local, Central Standard Time (UTC−6).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | WE | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | El Salvador (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 6 | +25 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Jamaica | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 15 | +4 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Belize | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 3 | |
| 4 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 20 | −16 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | WE | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Mexico | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | +16 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Guadeloupe | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 19 | −5 | 3 | |
| 4 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 23 | −15 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | WE | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Bahamas | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 13 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Barbados | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 24 | −10 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | WE | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Costa Rica | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 9 | +16 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Guatemala | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 7 | +13 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Panama | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 13 | +4 | 3 | |
| 4 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 38 | −33 | 0 | |

## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 2 April | 2 April | | | |
| United States | 7 | | | |
| United States | 7 | 3 April | 3 April | | |
| Jamaica | 3 | 3 April | 3 April | |
| Jamaica | 3 | United States | 3 | |
| 2 April | 2 April | | United States | 3 | |
| 2 April | 2 April | Mexico | 4 | |
| Mexico | 5 | Mexico | 4 | |
| Mexico | 5 | | | | 4 April | 4 April |
| Guatemala | 2 | | | | 4 April | 4 April |
| Guatemala | 2 | | | | Mexico | 4 |
| 2 April | 2 April | | | | | Mexico | 4 |
| 2 April | 2 April | | | | Costa Rica | 0 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | | | | Costa Rica | 0 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 3 April | 3 April | | | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 3 April | 3 April | | | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | Costa Rica | 2 | | | |
| 2 April | 2 April | | Costa Rica | 2 | | | |
| 2 April | 2 April | El Salvador | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| El Salvador | 6 | El Salvador | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| El Salvador | 6 | | | | 4 April | 4 April |
| Bahamas | 0 | | | | 4 April | 4 April |
| Bahamas | 0 | | | | United States | 2 |
| | | | | | El Salvador | 5 |
| Fifth Place Semi-finals | Fifth Place Semi-finals | Fifth Place | Fifth Place |
| 3 April | 3 April |
| Jamaica | 3 |
| Jamaica | 3 | 4 April | 4 April |
| Guatemala | 9 | 4 April | 4 April |
| Guatemala | 9 | Guatemala | 3 |
| 3 April | 3 April | | Guatemala | 3 |
| 3 April | 3 April | Trinidad and Tobago | 4 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 4 | Trinidad and Tobago | 4 |
| Bahamas | 1 | | |
| Bahamas | 1 | Seventh Place | Seventh Place |
| | | 4 April | 4 April |
| | | Jamaica | 7 |
| | | Bahamas (a.e.t.) | 9 |

### Final
## Final ranking

* Qualified for 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
| Rank | Team |
| | Mexico |
| | Costa Rica |
| | El Salvador |
| 4 | United States |
| 5 | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 6 | Guatemala |
| 7 | Bahamas |
| 8 | Jamaica |
| 9–16 | Antigua and Barbuda |
| 9–16 | Barbados |
| 9–16 | Belize |
| 9–16 | Guadeloupe |
| 9–16 | Panama |
| 9–16 | Puerto Rico |
| 9–16 | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 9–16 | U.S. Virgin Islands |

## Awards

| Best Player (MVP) | Top Scorer(s) | Best Goalkeeper |
| Ramón Maldonado | Francisco Velásquez | Miguel Estrada |

## Top goalscorers
### 15 goals

* Francisco Velásquez

### 13 goals

* Lesly St. Fleur

### 11 goals

* Greivin Pacheco Quesada
* Kevon Woodley

### 9 goals

* José Ruiz
* Miguel González Enríquez
* Ángel Sáenz Gómez
* Rohan Reid

### 8 goals

* Nicolas Perera

### 7 goals

* Daemion Benjamin
Source: CONCACAF.com