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Abbreviation | BSWW |
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Formation | 1994 (founding partners) 25 October 2000 (merger) |
Type | International sport federation |
Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
Region served | Worldwide |
Membership | 211 national associations |
Official languages | English |
President | Joan Cuscó[1] |
Vice-president | Gabino Renales[2] |
Affiliations | FIFA, International Olympic Committee[3] |
Staff | <50[4] |
Website | www |
Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) is the organisation responsible for the founding and growth of association football's derivative sport of beach soccer. The founding partners of BSWW codified the rules of beach soccer in 1992, with BSWW as it is known today having been officially founded in late 2000 as a singular institution to develop the sport and organise international beach soccer competitions across the globe, primarily between national teams.[5] The company is recognised as playing the biggest role in helping to establish the rules of beach soccer, to spread and evolve the sport around the world as cited by FIFA who took on governing body status of the sport from BSWW in 2005.[6] Having established the sport's key regulations, FIFA acknowledged BSWW's framework, making their rules the official laws of beach soccer and now controls them and any modifications.
Today, under the recognition of FIFA, BSWW continues to be main organisation that organises beach soccer tournaments and development (with FIFA's assistance) around the world, mainly in Europe, including the Euro Beach Soccer League, BSWW exhibition tour events and others, having involved over 110 national teams in the sport, as well as newly founded club competitions.[7][8] Its founders also established the Beach Soccer World Championships; BSWW created a partnership with FIFA, FIFA Beach Soccer S.L., in 2005 to manage the tournament as the newly named FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the only major international beach soccer tournament that BSWW does not have a hand in organising but which is all the management of FIFA.[9]
Members of the organisation serve on FIFA's Beach Soccer Committee.
First international matches was played in 1993 for men and 2009 for women.[10][11] Now (July 2023) 193 Men / 64 Women club and 101 Men / 23 Women national team sorted in World Ranking.[12]
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