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2017 CONMEBOL South American Beach Soccer League
Liga Sudamericana de Fútbol Playa
North zone event, LimaSouth zone event, LambareFinals, Rio de JaneiroMap showing the locations of the events of the 2017 season
Tournament details
Host countries
Peru Paraguay Brazil
Dates
Regular season: 12–23 September 2017 Finals: 5–6 October 2018
The 2017 CONMEBOL South American Beach Soccer League was the first edition of the South American Beach Soccer League (named natively in Spanish as the CONMEBOL Liga Sudamericana de Fútbol Playa), a continental league competition for South American men's national beach soccer teams. Organised by the governing body for South American football, CONMEBOL, as part of its Development Department's Evolution Program, all ten members of the continental confederation took part, with both senior and Under 20s teams participating in the league events.
The teams were first divided into two geographically based zones (North and South) to compete in a round robin tournament against other members of their own zone. The winners of each zone then proceeded to face each other in the Finals to contest the title.
The regular season events took place in September 2017, whilst, due to delays, the finals did not take place until October 2018.
Brazil won the league after, as North zone champions, they defeated South zone champions Paraguay in the finals.
Format
The league operates under the following format:
The ten nations have been split into two zones, North and South, comprising five nations each.
Each zone hosts one round of fixtures involving all five nations of said zone, split into two categories of matches; a set of matches contested between the senior representative teams and a set of matches contested between the Under 20s teams.
Teams compete in round robin format exclusively against other teams in their own category.
Points earned by the nations in both the senior and the Under 20s matches are combined into one single cumulative table.
The nation top of the table with the most points after all matches are completed are deemed zone champions. The winning nations of each zone's event proceed to the Finals.
In the Finals, the North zone champion will face the South zone champion in both senior team fixtures and Under 20s team fixtures.
The victors of these matches will be crowned league champions.
Agua Dulce Beach in Lima, the venue of the North zone event
The North zone regular season event took place in the Peruvian capital of Lima. All matches were hosted in a purpose built arena on Agua Dulce Beach in the district of Chorrillos, organised in cooperation with the Peruvian Football Federation.
Matches are listed as local time in Lima, PET (UTC-5).
Barra Olympic Park; the Olympic Tennis Centre is shown bottom right.
The zone winners play each other for the league title; their senior teams play each other over two legs, as do their under 20s representatives for a total of four matches comprising the finals. The winners are the nation which accumulates the most points from all four matches combined.
Originally, the finals were scheduled for May 2018 in Xiamen, China. However, due to a last minute decision by the organisers, the finals were postponed on April 30 until after the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
North zone event,
South zone event, Lambare
Finals,
Brazil (1st title)
Paraguay
Peru
Team Ecuador
Team Venezuela
Team Colombia
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Team Chile
Team Argentina
Team Uruguay
Team Bolivia
