• Eight teams will compete for the regional title and two available slots in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Seychelles 2025
• Group Stage draw scheduled for November 26, 2024, at 11 am ET

Miami, FL (Friday, November 8, 2024) – Concacaf has announced that The Bahamas will host the 2025 Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship. The region’s qualifying competition for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Seychelles 2025 will take place from March 11 to 16, 2025, at the Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Facility in Nassau, Bahamas.

The competition will begin with an eight-team group stage—two groups of four teams each. After round-robin play, the two best teams in each group will progress to the Knockout Stage.

The Knockout Stage will include single-match direct elimination Semifinals on March 15, followed by a Third Place match and Final on Sunday, March 16, where the region’s Beach Soccer Champion will be crowned. The two finalists will also qualify for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

The eight national teams participating in the 2025 Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship are (alphabetically): Bahamas, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.

The official draw for the 2025 Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship is scheduled for November 26, 2024, at 11 am ET. Fans can follow the event on Concacaf’s YouTube channel.

For the draw, teams will be divided into four pots according to the Concacaf Beach Soccer Rankings as of February 26, 2024, as follows (highest-ranked teams in pot 1):

Pot 1: United States and Mexico
Pot 2: El Salvador and Panama
Pot 3: Bahamas and Costa Rica
Pot 4: Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago

The competition’s match schedule will be announced following the draw.

In the previous edition of the Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship, also played in The Bahamas, in 2023, the United States won its third Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship title (2006, 2013, 2023) after defeating Mexico 5-0 in the Final at the Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Facility. The two North American nations represented the region at the 2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in the UAE.