Beach Soccer Worldwide
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Beach Soccer Worldwide is the organisation responsible for the founding and growth of the association football derivative sport of beach soccer
Beach soccer
Beach soccer, also known as beach football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand. The game emphasises skill, agility and shooting at goal....

. The founding partners of beach soccer codified the rules of beach soccer in 1992, and the company is recognised as playing a major role in helping to spread the sport around the world.

BSWW organises tournaments around the world, but mainly in Europe, in the sport. They also founded the Beach Soccer World Championships, as well as a tour of individual events, such as the 2010 Beach Soccer Worldwide Tour
2010 Beach Soccer Worldwide Tour
-BSWW Tour Sunderland - Sunderland, England – July 30–August 1 :-Current standings:-Schedule & Results:---------External links:*...

. BSWW created a partnership with FIFA
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

, FIFA Beach Soccer S.L., in 2005 to jointly manage the tournament as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is a bi-annual international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament has taken place every year since its establishment in 1995, when it was originally supervised...

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BSWW rankings

The Beach Soccer Worldwide Beach Soccer Rankings were set up to calculate national beach soccer teams success and create a rankings table to display this. Brazil
Brazil national beach soccer team
The Brazil national beach soccer team represents Brazil in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the CBF, the governing body for football in Brazil...

 have dominated the rankings with their major success in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is a bi-annual international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament has taken place every year since its establishment in 1995, when it was originally supervised...

. A smaller BSWW European rankings table also exists.

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