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2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup

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Host country
  
Italy

Venue(s)
  
1 (in 1 host city)

Runners-up
  
Portugal

Dates
  
4 June - 6 June 2010

Champions
  
Russia (1st title)

Teams
  
8 (from 1 confederation)

The 2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the twelfth Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's three major beach soccer championships of the 2010 beach soccer season, held in June 2010, in Rome, Italy, for the second year in a row. Russia won the championship for the first time, with six time champions Portugal finishing second. Italy beat last year's champions Spain in the third place play off, ending their run of two consecutive titles, to finish third and fourth respectively.

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Eight teams participated in the tournament who played in a straightforward knockout tournament, starting with the quarter finals, with extra matches deciding the nations who finished in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth place.

Participating nations

  •  France
  •  Hungary
  •  Italy
  •  Poland
  •  Portugal
  •  Spain
  •   Switzerland
  •  Russia
  • Fifth to eighth place deciding matches

    The following matches took place between the losing nations in the quarter finals to determine the final standings of the nations finishing in fifth to eighth place. The semi finals took place on the same day of the semi finals of the main tournament and the play offs took place on the day of the final.

    References

    2010 Euro Beach Soccer Cup Wikipedia