2017 Mundialito de Clubes

The 2017 Mundialito de Clubes was the fifth edition of the Mundialito de Clubes (Club World Cup in English), a biennial international club beach soccer competition contested between top men's clubs from across the world (existing clubs and teams specially assembled for the event). The tournament is loosely similar to the FIFA Club World Cup in association football. However, participating teams are not regional champions, entering via invitation.

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) and other local entities in Brazil, the competition took place in Vargem Grande Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil between December 14 and 17, featuring eight clubs.

Barcelona were the incumbent champions but did not enter a team this year. The tournament was won by Lokomotiv Moscow who became the first team to win two Mundialito de Clubes titles, beating Iranian club Pars Jonoubi 5–4 in the final.

Teams
Eight invited clubs entered the competition, representing six different nations and three continents. Africa, North America and Oceania are unrepresented.

Venue
One venue was used in the city of Vargem Grande Paulista, São Paulo.
 * An arena with a capacity of 2,000 at Rua Serra da Mantiqueira (Rua da Feira) hosted the matches.

Draw
The draw to split the eight teams into two groups of four was conducted by BSWW and took place in the afternoon of November 30.

Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups:


 * to Group A: as the São Paulo based host club, 🇧🇷 Corinthians
 * to Group B: the other seeded club, 🇧🇷 Flamengo

The remaining six teams were split into three pots of two, shown in the below table.

The clubs were paired into pots based on similar geographical proximity. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.

Group stage
All times are local, BRST (UTC–2).

Awards
Source

Top goalscorers
Players with 3 or more goals
 * 7 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Igor Rangel (🇧🇷 Botafogo)


 * 6 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Benjamin Jr. (🇧🇷 Flamengo)
 * 🇷🇺 Artur Paporotnyi (🇧🇷 Corinthians)


 * 5 goals


 * 🇮🇷 Farid Boulokbashi (🇮🇷 Pars Jonoubi)
 * 🇧🇷 Nelito (🇷🇺 Lokomotiv Moscow)
 * 🇷🇺 Boris Nikonorov (🇷🇺 Lokomotiv Moscow)


 * 4 goals


 * 🇪🇸 Pablo Perez (🇪🇸 Levante)
 * 🇦🇷 Angelo Agustini (🇦🇷 Rosario Central)
 * 🇮🇷 Mostafa Kiani (🇮🇷 Pars Jonoubi)
 * Dejan Stankovic (🇷🇺 Lokomotiv Moscow)


 * 3 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Thanger Nascimento (🇧🇷 Flamengo)
 * 🇧🇷 Anderson Wesley (🇧🇷 Flamengo)
 * Duarte Vivo ( Sporting CP)
 * 🇮🇷 Mohammad Masoumizadeh (🇮🇷 Pars Jonoubi)
 * 🇮🇷 Moslem Mesigar (🇮🇷 Pars Jonoubi)
 * 🇮🇷 Ali Mirshekari (🇮🇷 Pars Jonoubi)
 * 🇯🇵 Ozu Moreira (🇷🇺 Lokomotiv Moscow)
 * 🇧🇷 Deiwerson Pureza Oureza (🇧🇷 Flamengo)
 * Jordan Santos ( Sporting CP)

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