Top 20 rankings as of 2 June 2025[1]
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		Brazil	5456.75
2	1	Portugal	3878
2		Russia	******
3	1	Italy	3537.25
4	2	Belarus	3267
5	1	Spain	2735.5
6	1	Iran	2572.25
7	3	Senegal	2343.25
8		Japan	2333.75
9		Paraguay	1898.75
10	3	United Arab Emirates	1827.25
11	2	Tahiti	1612
12		El Salvador	1600.5
13	3	Oman	1499.5
14	3	Switzerland	1403.5
15		Colombia	1250
16	2	United States	1250
17		Morocco	1163.5
18		Argentina	1032.5
19	1	Ukraine	885.25
20	1	Saudi Arabia	878.5
*Change from 9 April 2025
Complete rankings at beachsoccer.com

TheBSWW World Ranking is aranking system for men's national teams inbeach soccer, calculated by the sport's developmental body,Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).^[2] The rankings are currently led byBrazil^[3] who have held the number one spot since March 2023.^[4]

The teams (bothmember nations ofFIFA – the sport's governing body – and non-members) are ranked using a "points-per-event system", whereby the ranking of the team in the final standings of each event they participate in awards that team a certain number of points; the teams that accumulate the most points are ranked highest.^[2]

The rankings were introduced in February 2014 and were originally updated monthly;^[5] since the outbreak of theCOVID-19 pandemic, new issues have been released at irregular intervals. To date, only three teams (Russia,Portugal andBrazil) have held the top position, of which Brazil have spent the longest ranked first.

The ranking system is based upon that which is used to produce theFIFA World Rankings^[2] in its parent sport,association football, and since its establishment has been used for such purposes as seeding teams at theFIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.^[6]

Since the 2000s,BSWW had been producing a European ranking; it was used to seed the teams in regional events. At each competition the teams played in, they earned points depending on their final position (an approach also adapted for use in the world ranking).^[7]

BSWW believed creating a world ranking would help teams,national associations and fans in understanding the "reality of beach soccer".^[5]

The ranking was first presented at the 2nd FIFA Beach Soccer Workshop inDubai from 22 to 23 November 2013 to representatives of over 100 national associations who debated the composition of its materialisation.^[5][8]

In building the initial version of the ranking, BSWW took into account "many aspects and factors" used to create theFIFA World Rankings.^[9] Points earned from events over the previous five years (2009–13) were observed to include the outcomes of the three previousWorld Cups, therefore providing "an extensive results record and a solid criteria" for its basis; the results of over 1400 matches from ~100 events were integrated into the ranking. The weight of a team's points was reduced by 20% going back year on year.^[9]

The finalised version was subsequently released on 6 February 2014;^[5] for succeeding updates, the current calculation method immediately superseded the method use to create the initial ranking.^[a][9]

Correct as of November 2022^[a][2]

The teams are ranked using a "points-per-event system"; in each event they participate, the teams will earn ranking points (providing the event is sanctioned byBSWW and/orFIFA) – the number of points they earn is determined by their placement in the final standings of that event. The higher in the standings the team finishes, the more points they will earn. Runners-up receive 25% less points than the champions; for most subsequent places, they receive 20% less points than the position above.

BSWW have divided the different types of competitions on the calendar into eight tiers of prestige for the purposes of the world ranking. Higher tier events that are deemed to be the most prestigious reward teams with more points than lower tier events.

The following table shows exactly how many points a team will earn per their final position at each type of event:

Only the total points earned from the above events over thelast four years (counting back from the current month) go towards the team's ranking; points older than four years expire and do not count.

The four years in question are assessed as individual twelve month periods; the total points earned during each period are weighted differently to put an emphasis on the value of points earned more recently. 100% of a team's total points gained during the last twelve months count towards their ranking. However, from the three preceding twelve month periods, only a portion of their points earned during each count towards their ranking; the portion that counts gets smaller the further back in time the period in question is which are 75%, 50% and 25% of their original points totals respectively.

This is illustrated/summarised in the table below:

Timeline of
BSWW World Ranking leaders

Three teams have been ranked world number 1, namelyRussia,Portugal andBrazil. The rank leaders have roughly coincided with the team that is reigning World Cup champions during that time.

When the rankings debuted in February 2014, Russia were the inaugural leaders, having amassing over 5000 points^[5] thanks to winning the 2011 and 2013 World Cup andEuro Beach Soccer League (EBSL) titles. Portugal won the nextWorld Cup in July 2015 and theEBSL in the August; Russia finished third in both. Despite Portugal's successes, they were not enough to knock Russia off the top spot until June 2016.^[10] Portugal relinquished their world crown to Brazil in May 2017 who immediately took the number 1 ranking^[11] and subsequently overtook Russia as the team longest ranked the world's best in October 2019. Portugal regained the World Cup titlein December 2019, cutting Brazil's lead to a mere 240 points, but nevertheless the South American's clung on to the number 1 spot in the immediate aftermath of the tournament.^[12] Their near three-year stay at the top of the ranking finally ended with the release of the March 2020 listings, with world champions Portugal replacing them at the peak by a slender 21 points,^[13] becoming the first team to spend a second spell as number 1.^[14] Russia then began their second spell as ranking leaders after a five year gap, in August 2021, immediately after claiming the2021 World Cup.^[15] By January 2022, they had spent enough time at the summit during this spell to regain the record of team longest ranked the world's best cumulatively. However, theRussian invasion of Ukraine then occurred in February; as a result, Russia were suspended from participating in BSWW competitions in accordance with sanctions imposed byFIFA andUEFA in response to the conflict.^[16][17] Subsequently, they were powerless in surrendering the top spot back to Portugal by November.^[18] However, Portugal's third spell as world number 1 would ultimately by the shortest of any incumbent to date, as within just a few months, a series of titles, primarily the2023 Copa América, saw Brazil earn enough points to return to the pinnacle after three years,^[4] later leapfrogging Russia to have amassed the most time at number 1 once again by January 2024.

Two teams have peaked at number 2 without yet going on to reach the top spot which areIran andSpain. BothSwitzerland andParaguay have peaked at number 3, the highest of anylandlocked countries.^{[citation needed]}

Summary of world number 1 teams

Nº	Team	Start date	End date	Months	Total
1	Russia	January 2014	May 2016	29	29
2	Portugal	June 2016	April 2017	11	11
3	Brazil	May 2017	February 2020	34	34
	Portugal(2)	March 2020	July 2021	17	28
	Russia(2)	August 2021	October 2022	15	44
	Portugal(3)	November 2022	February 2023	4	32
	Brazil(2)	March 2023	present	32	66

The season-end number 1 is the team which garnered the most points during the calendar year in question.

Season	Team	Ref.
2013	Russia	[1]
2014	Portugal	[2]
2015	Portugal	[3]
2016	Portugal	[4]
2017	Brazil	[5]
2018	Spain	[6]
2019	Portugal	[7]
2020	n/a

Movers of the Month was (2015–2021) a commendation bestowed by BSWW with the release of each new update to the rankings to give recognition to the team that during that month (providing that they had played) had moved up the rankings the most or the team which had gained the most points. It began with the September 2015 update whenPower Horse [de] became official sponsors of the rankings,^[19] started to be awarded infrequently and at irregular intervals following the outbreak of theCOVID-19 pandemic, and has stopped being awarded entirely since the end of 2021.

Towards the tail end of its existence, in 2020, BSWW began awarding the commendation to teams part of the club rankings and women's national teams as well; the following tables list the men's national teams winners ofMovers of the Month:

Year Month Movers of the Month Change Ref. 2015 September  Egypt 11 [8] October  Trinidad and Tobago 2 [9] November  Egypt 11 [10] December  Ivory Coast 3 [11] 2016 January  Brazil 0 [12] February  Japan 2 [13] March  Portugal 0 [14] April  United Arab Emirates 2 [15] May  England 6 [16] June  Portugal 1 [17] July  Brazil 1 [18] August  Ukraine 4 [19] September  Poland 22 [20] October  Japan 3 [21] November  Iran 1 [22] December  Senegal 8 [23] 2017 January   Switzerland 1 [24] February  Panama 38 [25] March  United Arab Emirates 9 [26] April  Tahiti 1 [27] May  Brazil 2 [28] June  France 1 [29] July  Belarus 1 [30] August  Iran 1 [31] September  Russia 1 [32] October  Mexico 0 [33]

Year Month Movers of the Month Change Ref. 2017 November  Brazil 0 [34] December  Spain 3 [35] 2018 January  Iran 0 [36] February  Senegal 1 [37] March  Brazil 0 [38] April  Mexico 2 [39] May  France 3 [40] June  Portugal 0 [41] July  Morocco 5 [42] August  United States 8 [43] September  Italy 1 [44] October  Brazil 0 [45] November  Iran 1 [46] December  Senegal 4 [47] 2019 January  Spain 0 [48] February  Iraq 11 [49] March  Japan 2 [50] April  Portugal 0 [51] May  Mexico 8 [52] June  Tahiti 3 [53] July  Russia 1 [54] August  Portugal 1 [55] September  Ukraine 3 [56] October  Brazil 0 [57] November  Japan 3 [58] December  Portugal 2 [59]

Year Month Movers of the Month Change Ref. 2020 January Not awarded to men's national teams February March  Portugal 1 [60] April → Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 → July August  Russia 3 [61] September  Portugal 0 [62] October Not awarded to men's national teams November  Senegal 3 [63]

BSWW formally published a series of new rankings to accompany the primary men's national team world rankings in December 2018, all of which were concerned purely with European sides.^[20] In November 2019, these rankings were upgraded from being only European based, to fully global rankings (save for the association ranking).^[21] Unlike the men's world ranking, they are not updated monthly.^[20]

Each ranking category, and the basis of each (at the release of the current issue), is listed below.

• Women's national teams: Ranked based on recent performances in theWomen's Euro Beach Soccer Cup,World Beach Games and qualifiers.
• Men's clubs: Ranked based on recent performances in theEuro Winners Cup,Copa Libertadores,Mundialito de Clubes and World Winners Cup.
• Women's clubs: Ranked based on recent performances in theWomen's Euro Winners Cup and World Winners Cup.
• Men's national associations (Europe only): Ranked based on recent performances of the clubs representing them in the Euro Winners Cup, therefore determining which European leagues have the best quality of clubs (inspired by theUEFA country coefficient ranking).^[22]

The club rankings are used to seed teams in European competitions. Similar to the UEFA coefficient's relationship with theUEFA Champions League, the association ranking is used to determine the number of clubs that qualify from each country's domestic league to the next edition of the Euro Winners Cup; better quality associations receive more berths.^[22]

The following tables show the top ten in each ranking's current issue:

Women's national teams October 2025 issue Rank Chg Team Points 1  Spain 1675 2  Portugal 997 3  Ukraine 850 × ×  Russia[b] × 4 1  Poland 787 5 1  England 629 6  Czech Republic 558 7  Italy 544 8  United States 451 9  Brazil 420 10   Switzerland 334 Full rankings (21 teams) *change since August 2025

Men's clubs October 2025 issue Rank Chg Club Points 1 Kfar Qassem 4406 2 1 Barra de Santiago 2296 3 2 Napoli BS 2291 4 2 Real Münster 2147 5 3 Rosh Haayin 2084 6 1 Marseille 2073 7 1 Napoli Patron 1800 8 1 Pafos 1639 9 5 Braga 1635 10 Lenergy Pisa 1565 Full rankings (418 clubs) *change since July 2025

Women's clubs October 2025 issue Rank Chg Club Points 1 Higicontrol 4674 2 São Pedro 3930 3 2 BSZ Ladies 2720 4 1 Marseille BT 2293 5 1 Cali 2243 6 1 Red Devils Ladies 1727 7 1 Barra de Santiago 1700 8 10 BS-UES 1440 9 Mriya 2006-Servit 1397 10 2 Cagliari 1309 Full rankings (174 clubs) *change since July 2025

Men's national associations 2022 issue Rank Chg Association Points 1 Portugal 6902 × × Russia × 2 Spain 2719 3 Ukraine 1857 4 4 Germany 1835 5 Poland 1145 6 1 Turkey 804 7 1 Italy 762 8 2 Belgium 677 9 3 France 657 10 1 Greece 547 Full rankings (28 associations) *change since2020

Notes

Citations

• Overall World Ranking, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
• World Ranking, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)

• Beach Soccer Worldwide
• Sports world rankings
• 2014 introductions

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• CS1 Czech-language sources (cs)
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