Mundialito de Clubes

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

Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow is the most successful team with three titles.[2]

Teams and players

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

Year Host Teams Final Third Place Match
Winners Score Runners-up 3rd place Score 4th place
2011
Details

São Paulo
10
Vasco da Gama
4–2
Sporting CP

Flamengo
5–4
(a.e.t.)

Lokomotiv Moscow
2012
Details

São Paulo
12
Lokomotiv Moscow
6–4
Flamengo

Vasco da Gama
5–4
Sporting CP
2013
Details

Rio de Janeiro
8
Corinthians
3–3 (a.e.t.)
1–0 (pens)

Flamengo

Vasco da Gama
3–1
Botafogo
2015
Details

Rio de Janeiro
8
Barcelona
4–4 (a.e.t.)
3–2 (pens)

Vasco da Gama

Al-Ahli
4–4 (a.e.t.)
3–2 (pens)

Fluminense
2017
Details

São Paulo
8
Lokomotiv Moscow
5–4
Pars Jonoubi

Corinthians
3–2
Flamengo
2019
Details

Moscow[5]
8
Braga
7–6
Catania

Flamengo
4–3
Spartak Moscow
2020
Details

Moscow[6]
8
Braga
8–3
Spartak Moscow

Lokomotiv Moscow
6–2
Tokyo Verdy
2021
Details

Moscow[7]
8
Lokomotiv Moscow
6–4
Braga

Vasco da Gama
10–6
Dinamo Minsk

Performance

By club

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
Al-Ahli GS GS 3rd 3
Alanyaspor 7th 1
Barcelona QF QF GS 1st 4
BATE Borisov 8th 1
Boca Juniors GS QF 2
Botafogo 4th 6th 2
Braga 1st 1st 2
Catania 2nd 1
Corinthians QF QF 1st GS 3rd 5
Flamengo 3rd 2nd 2nd GS 4th 3rd 6th 7
Fluminense 4th 1
Grasshopper 8th 1
Levante UD GS 5th 6th 5th 4
Lokomotiv Moscow 4th 1st 1st 7th 3rd 5
Milano GS QF GS 3
Pars Jonoubi 2nd 1
Peñarol GS 1
Rosario Central 7th 1
Santos FC GS QF 2
São Paulo FC GS 1
Seattle Sounders QF GS 2
Spartak Moscow 4th 2nd 2
Sporting CP 2nd 4th GS 8th 5th 5
Tokyo Verdy 4th 1
Vasco da Gama 1st 3rd 3rd 2nd 4

By country

Nation Winners Runners-up Third Fourth
Russia 3 (2012, 2017,2021) 1 (2020) 1 (2020) 2 (2011, 2019)
Brazil 2 (2011, 2013) 3 (2012, 2013, 2015) 6 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021) 3 (2013, 2015, 2017)
Portugal 2 (2019, 2020) 2 (2011, 2021) 1 (2012)
Spain 1 (2015)
Iran 1 (2017)
Italy 1 (2019)
United Emirates 1 (2015)
Japan 1 (2020)
Belarus 1 (2021)

By confederation

Confederation Winners Runners-up Third Fourth
UEFA 6 (2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021) 4 (2011, 2019, 2020, 2021) 1 (2020) 4 (2011, 2012, 2019, 2021)
CONMEBOL 2 (2011, 2013) 3 (2012, 2013, 2015) 6 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021) 3 (2013, 2015, 2017)
AFC 1 (2017) 1 (2015) 1 (2020)

Awards

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

See also

References

  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.