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1998 Euro Beach Soccer Cup

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Host country
  
Italy

Champions
  
Portugal (1st title)

Venue(s)
  
1 (in 1 host city)

Runners-up
  
Spain

Dates
  
1 September - 6 September 1998

Teams
  
7 (from 1 confederation)

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.

Participating nations

  •  France
  •  Germany
  •  Italy
  •  Portugal
  •  Spain
  •   Switzerland
  •  Yugoslavia
  • References

    1998 Euro Beach Soccer Cup Wikipedia