page_title: Beach soccer
section_title: International
hierarchical_section_title: Beach soccer / Main beach soccer tournaments / International
context_page_description: Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.
  The game emphasises skill, agility and accuracy in shooting at the goal.
  Whilst football has been played informally on beaches for many years, the introduction of beach soccer was an attempt to codify rules for the game. This was done in 1992 by the founders of Beach Soccer Worldwide, a company set up to develop the sport and responsible for the majority of its tournaments to this day. This was a major foundation for what is now known as beach soccer and what has led to the sport rapidly growing in popularity.
  The irregularity of the soft-sand playing surface leads to a totally different style of play than is used in football, with a greater degree of improvisation. The compact field, much smaller than a normal football field, allows players to score from anywhere on the sand, leading to an average of sixty attempts at goal in a single game. With an average scoring rate of one goal every three or four minutes, around eleven goals are scored in total during an average game.
context_section_description: FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
  Intercontinental Cup
  BSWW Mundialito
  Mundialito de Clubes
  Persian Beach Soccer Cup
caption: Game at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2006
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