1998 Euro Beach Soccer Cup

Euro Beach Soccer Cup 1998 Italy 1–6 September 1998 7 1 1 1 POR 1 ESP ITA GER 11 103 1999 The 1998 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the first Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's two major beach soccer championships at the time, held in September 1998, in Siracusa, Italy. Portugal won the championship, with Spain finishing second. Hosts Italy beat Germany in the third place play off to finish third and fourth respectively. Seven nations participated in the tournament who were split into two groups of three and four, playing each other once in the groups. The second placed teams in each group played in a third place play off and the winners of each group played in a final match to decide the winner of the tournament.http://roonba.com/1998.htm Archived copy 2011-06-01 2025-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20250413023605/http://roonba.com/1998.htm dead Participating nations FRA GER ITA POR ESP SUI FR Yugoslavia Group stage Group A TeamPldWW+LGFGAGDPts POR3300248+169 GER3102131303 FRA31021220-83 SUI31021221-83 Qualified for finalQualified for third place play off 1 September 1998 GER 7 – 5 SUI Siracusa, Italy 1 September 1998 POR 11 – 3 FRA Siracusa, Italy 2 September 1998 FRA 4 – 3 GER Siracusa, Italy 2 September 1998 POR 9 – 2 SUI Siracusa, Italy 4 September 1998 POR 4 – 3 GER Siracusa, Italy 4 September 1998 SUI 6 – 5 FRA Siracusa, Italy Group B TeamPldWW+LGFGAGDPts ESP220084+46 ITA210197+23 FRY2002410-60 Qualified for finalQualified for third place play off 1 September 1998 ITA 3 – 4 ESP Siracusa, Italy 2 September 1998 ESP 4 – 1 FRY Siracusa, Italy 4 September 1998 ITA 6 – 3 FRY Siracusa, Italy Knockout stage Third place play off 6 September 1998 ITA 11 – 4 GER Siracusa, Italy Final 6 September 1998 POR 2 – 2 (1-0 p) ESP Siracusa, Italy Winners beachsoccer 1998 Euro Beach Soccer CupWinners: Portugal First Final standings RankTeam 1 POR 2 ESP 3 ITA 4 GER 5 FRA 6 SUI 7 FRY References Category:Euro Beach Soccer Cup Category:1998 in beach soccer