Tournament details | |
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Host country | Spain |
Dates | 3 May - 5 May 2007 |
Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Ukraine (1st title) |
Runners-up | France |
Third place | Portugal |
Fourth place | Switzerland |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 12 |
Goals scored | 89 (7.42 per match) |
The 2007 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the ninth Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's two major beach soccer championships at the time, held in May 2007, in Tarragona, Spain. Ukraine won the championship for the first time, with France finishing second. Portugal beat 2005 champions Switzerland in the third place play off to finish third and fourth respectively.
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. This was the last tournament until 2009 to use this format.
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.