South American Beach Soccer League
The CONMEBOL South American Beach Soccer League, named natively in Spanish as the "CONMEBOL Liga Sudamericana de Fútbol Playa", is a continental league competition for South American men's national beach soccer teams. The competition is organised by the governing body for South American football, CONMEBOL, who started the league in 2017 as part of its Development Department's "Evolution Program". All ten members of the continental confederation take part in the league, with both senior and under 20s teams representing each nation; therefore, a total of 20 teams participate. The league consists of two  phases: the regular season and the finals. The teams are first divided into two geographically based conferences, the North zone and South zone, to compete in a round robin tournament against the other members of their own zone during the regular season. The winners of each zone then proceed to face each other in the finals to contest the league title. Brazil are the current champions. Competition structure. The league operates under the following format: Conferences. The current allocation of the ten member nations of CONMEBOL into the North zone and the South zone is as follows: The composition of  the zones has been the same in the four editions to date, save for 2019. Results. The following shows the results of the finals in which the regular season champions of the respective zones play against each other for the league title. The nation that earns the most points from the four matches that comprise the finals, wins the league. The league did not take place at all in 2020 or 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in South America.