Mundialito de Clubes

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Mundialito de Clubes
Organising bodyBSWW
Founded2011
RegionInternational (FIFA)
Number of teams8
Current championsRussia FC Lokomotiv Moscow
(3rd title)
Most successful team(s)Russia Lokomotiv Moscow
(3 titles)
WebsiteMundialito de Clubes

The Mundialito de Clubes (English: Club World Cup) is an international club beach soccer competition contested between top men's clubs from around the world. The tournament is loosely similar to the FIFA Club World Cup in association football, however participating teams are not regional champions, instead entering via invitation.

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the competition was founded by BSWW with Brazilian sports agency Koch Tavares in 2011.[1] The first five editions hosted in Brazil whilst the sixth saw the event hosted in Europe; the tournament should not be confused with BSWW's existing Mundialito, which takes place in Portugal for national teams.

Portuguese and Russian sides Braga and Lokomotiv Moscow are the most successful teams with two titles each.[2]

Teams and players[edit]

In the first two editions (2011 and 2012), squads were specially assembled to represent well known association football clubs from around the world – these teams were incarnated purely to compete in this event.[3] Players of many nationalities (of which they were considered the best of) were invited to play; they were then allocated to one of the clubs specifically for the purpose of the event using a draft system conducted by BSWW.[4] The draft system was then retired.

In the next two editions (2013 and 2015), the clubs and their squads that competed either already exist beforehand (i.e. competed in a domestic club league in their country) or remained specially assembled purely for the competition, but now with squads materialised behind the scenes with players choosing to play for said team at their own discretion rather than via a draft.

Since 2017, all competing teams have been pre-existing clubs that compete in their country's domestic league. Teams are no longer materialised specifically for this event.

Results[edit]

Year Host Teams Final Third Place Match
Winners Score Runners-up 3rd place Score 4th place
2011
Details
Brazil
São Paulo
10 Brazil
Vasco da Gama
4–2 Portugal
Sporting CP
Brazil
Flamengo
5–4
(a.e.t.)
Russia
Lokomotiv Moscow
2012
Details
Brazil
São Paulo
12 Russia
Lokomotiv Moscow
6–4 Brazil
Flamengo
Brazil
Vasco da Gama
5–4 Portugal
Sporting CP
2013
Details
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
8 Brazil
Corinthians
3–3 (a.e.t.)
1–0 (pens)
Brazil
Flamengo
Brazil
Vasco da Gama
3–1 Brazil
Botafogo
2015
Details
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
8 Spain
Barcelona
4–4 (a.e.t.)
3–2 (pens)
Brazil
Vasco da Gama
United Arab Emirates
Al-Ahli
4–4 (a.e.t.)
3–2 (pens)
Brazil
Fluminense
2017
Details
Brazil
São Paulo
8 Russia
Lokomotiv Moscow
5–4 Iran
Pars Jonoubi
Brazil
Corinthians
3–2 Brazil
Flamengo
2019
Details
Russia
Moscow[5]
8 Portugal
Braga
7–6 Italy
Catania
Brazil
Flamengo
4–3 Russia
Spartak Moscow
2020
Details
Russia
Moscow[6]
8 Portugal
Braga
8–3 Russia
Spartak Moscow
Russia
Lokomotiv Moscow
6–2 Japan
Tokyo Verdy
2021
Details
Russia
Moscow[7]
8 Russia
Lokomotiv Moscow
6–4 Portugal
Braga
Brazil
Vasco da Gama
10–6 Belarus
Dinamo Minsk

Performance[edit]

By club[edit]

Key
  • GS – Group stage
  • QF – Quarter final
(there were no placement matches for 5th to 12th place pre-2017)
  • Apps – Total appearances
Team 2011 2012 2013 2015 2017 2019 2020 Apps
United Arab Emirates Al-Ahli GS GS 3rd 3
Turkey Alanyaspor 7th 1
Spain Barcelona QF QF GS 1st 4
Belarus BATE Borisov 8th 1
Argentina Boca Juniors GS QF 2
Brazil Botafogo 4th 6th 2
Portugal Braga 1st 1st 2
Italy Catania 2nd 1
Brazil Corinthians QF QF 1st GS 3rd 5
Brazil Flamengo 3rd 2nd 2nd GS 4th 3rd 6th 7
Brazil Fluminense 4th 1
Switzerland Grasshopper 8th 1
Spain Levante UD GS 5th 6th 5th 4
Russia Lokomotiv Moscow 4th 1st 1st 7th 3rd 5
Italy Milan GS QF GS 3
Iran Pars Jonoubi 2nd 1
Uruguay Peñarol GS 1
Argentina Rosario Central 7th 1
Brazil Santos FC GS QF 2
Brazil São Paulo FC GS 1
United States Seattle Sounders QF GS 2
Russia Spartak Moscow 4th 2nd 2
Portugal Sporting CP 2nd 4th GS 8th 5th 5
Japan Tokyo Verdy 4th 1
Brazil Vasco da Gama 1st 3rd 3rd 2nd 4

By country[edit]

Nation Winners Runners-up Third Fourth
Brazil Brazil 2 (2011, 2013) 3 (2012, 2013, 2015) 5 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019) 3 (2013, 2015, 2017)
Russia Russia 2 (2012, 2017) 1 (2020) 1 (2020) 2 (2011, 2019)
Portugal Portugal 2 (2019, 2020) 1 (2011) 1 (2012)
Spain Spain 1 (2015)
Iran Iran 1 (2017)
Italy Italy 1 (2019)
United Arab Emirates United Emirates 1 (2015)
Japan Japan 1 (2020)

By confederation[edit]

Confederation Winners Runners-up Third Fourth
UEFA 5 (2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020) 3 (2011, 2019, 2020) 1 (2020) 3 (2011, 2012, 2019)
CONMEBOL 2 (2011, 2013) 3 (2012, 2013, 2015) 5 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019) 3 (2013, 2015, 2017)
AFC 1 (2017) 1 (2015) 1 (2020)

Awards[edit]

Year MVP Best goalkeeper Top goalscorer(s)
2011 Uruguay Sarandí Pampero (Vasco da Gama) Portugal Paulo Graça (Sporting CP) Brazil André (Flamengo), 16 goals
2012 Brazil Benjamin (Flamengo) Ukraine Vitalii Sydorenko (Lokomotiv Moscow) Portugal Madjer (Sporting CP), 10 goals
2013 Brazil Mão (Corinthians) Brazil Mão (Corinthians) Brazil Eudin (Flamengo), 7 goals
2015 Japan Ozu Moreira (Barcelona) French Polynesia Jonathan Torohia (Barcelona) Brazil Datinha (Barcelona)
Brazil Lucão (Vasco da Gama)
Brazil Bokinha (Vasco da Gama)
Brazil Nelito Oliveira (Sporting CP), 7 goals
2017 Brazil Nelito Oliveira (Lokomotiv Moscow) Russia Maxim Chuzhkov (Lokomotiv Moscow) Brazil Igor (Botafogo), 7 goals
2019 Portugal Bê Martins (Braga) Brazil Rafael Padilha (Braga) Brazil Lucão (Catania), 12 goals
2020 Brazil Filipe (Braga) Brazil Rafael Padilha (Braga) Spain Eduard Suarez (Levante), 10 goals

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Founding
  2. ^ Moscow 2 titles
  3. ^ Representative clubs
  4. ^ Draft
  5. ^ "Мундиалито без "Кристалла"? Но они так нужны друг другу!". Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  6. ^ Mundialito de Clubes Moscow 2020. Beach Soccer Worldwide.
  7. ^ Куско сообщил, что у BSWW есть соглашение о проведении клубного Мундиалито-2021 в Москве. Beach Soccer Russia.

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