2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup

The 2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the ninth Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's two major beach soccer championships at the time, held in May 2007, in Tarragona, Spain. Ukraine won the championship for the first time, with France finishing second. Portugal beat 2005 champions Switzerland in the third place play off to finish third and fourth respectively.

2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Tournament details
Host countrySpain
Dates3 May - 5 May 2007
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Ukraine (1st title)
Runners-up France
Third place Portugal
Fourth place  Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored89 (7.42 per match)

Eight teams participated in the tournament who played in a straightforward knockout tournament, starting with the quarter finals, with extra matches deciding the nations who finished in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth place. This was the last tournament until 2009 to use this format.[1]

Participating nations

Matches

Main tournament

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
3 May 2007
 
 
 France5
 
4 May 2007
 
 Poland1
 
 France6
 
3 May 2007
 
 Portugal5
 
 Portugal5
 
5 May 2007
 
 Greece3
 
 France0
 
3 May 2007
 
 Ukraine3
 
  Switzerland7
 
4 May 2007
 
 Spain5
 
  Switzerland4
 
3 May 2007
 
 Ukraine5 Third place
 
 Ukraine4
 
5 May 2007
 
 Italy3
 
 Portugal (a.e.t.)2
 
 
  Switzerland1
 

Fifth to eighth place deciding matches

The following matches took place between the losing nations in the quarter finals to determine the final standings of the nations finishing in fifth to eighth place. The semi finals took place on the same day of the semi finals of the main tournament and the play offs took place on the day of the final.

  Fifth to eighth place semi finals     Fifth place play off
                 
  QF1  Poland 5  
  QF2  Greece 2    
       Poland (pen.) 2
       Spain 2
  QF3  Spain 5    
  QF4  Italy 3   Seventh place play off
 
 Italy 7
   Greece 4

Winners

 2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Winners: 

Ukraine
First title

Final standings

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