2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
| 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualification (CONCACAF) | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country |
 Bahamas
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| City | Nassau |
| Dates | 20–26 February 2017 |
| Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Panama (1st title)
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| Runners-up |
 Mexico
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| Third place |
 El Salvador
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| Fourth place |
 Guadeloupe
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 48 |
| Goals scored | 381 (7.94 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
Ramón Maldonado Marlon Meza(12 goals each) |
| Best player |
Alfonso Maquensi |
| Best young player |
 Jamal Haynes |
| Best goalkeeper |
Diego Villaseñor |
| Fair play award |
 Canada
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The 2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship was a beach soccer tournament which took place in Nassau from 20 to 26 February 2017. This was the second time that the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship was held in the Bahamas. All matches were played at the Malcolm Beach Soccer Facility.
The tournament aimed to crown the best beach soccer nation on the continent and also served as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifier for teams from North, Central America and Caribbean which are members of CONCACAF, where the top two teams qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup also to be held in the Bahamas.
In a shock turn of events, the considerably inexperienced Panama thwarted all four of the nations who have dominated the tournament historically to surprisingly claim their first title. Panama's group stage victory all but condemned 2015 runners up Costa Rica to their earliest ever exit, their defeat of two-time winners, the United States, in the quarter-finals also ensured the Americans' most premature departure. They then defeated former World Cup semi-finalists El Salvador in the semi-finals and three time and defending champions Mexico in the final.
As the finalists, Panama and Mexico qualified for the World Cup, the former for the first time (and the first new North American World Cup debutants since 2009), the latter for the fifth time.
This was a groundbreaking CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship; it marked only the second time in the seven championships to date (other than in 2006) that the quartet of Costa Rica, El Salvador, the United States and Mexico did not all finish together in some combination in first through fourth place.
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