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The 2027 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will be the 14th edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the premier international beach soccer championship contested by men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. Overall, this will be the 24th edition of a world cup in beach soccer since the establishment of the Beach Soccer World Championships which ran from 1995 to 2004 but was not governed by FIFA. This will be the seventh tournament to take place biennially; the World Cup took place annually until 2013, which was held in Dubai.

Host selection
The original bidding schedule to determine the hosts was as follows:


 * 10 October 2025 – FIFA opens the bidding process.
 * 2 November 2025 – Deadline for national associations to declare interest of hosting to FIFA.
 * 6 November 2025 – FIFA circulates documents detailing the application campaign and conditions of participation to the bidding associations to analyse.
 * 30 November 2025 – Deadline for associations to reaffirm their bidding intentions by agreeing to the terms of the documents.
 * 3 February 2026 – Deadline for nations to prepare and submit their complete bidding packages to be evaluated by FIFA.
 * 4 April 2026 – Hosts announced by FIFA.


 * 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan (Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan): Baku
 * 🇫🇯 Fiji (Fiji Football Association): Suva
 * 🇲🇪 Montenegro (Football Association of Montenegro): Kotor
 * 🇪🇸 Spain (Royal Spanish Football Federation): Barcelona, Girona
 *  Tahiti (Tahitian Football Federation): Papeete

Qualification
A total of 24 teams will qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Tahiti who qualifies automatically as the host country, 23 other teams will qualify from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 18 March 2027.

The process of qualification to the World Cup finals will begin in 2026 and end in 2027.

Note: The appearance statistics below refer only to the FIFA era of world cups in beach soccer (since 2005); see this article for the inclusion of World Championships era stats (1995–2004).

Draw
The twenty-four teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts automatically seeded to pot one and placed into the first position of group A, while the remaining teams were seeded into their respective pots based on their results in the last five FIFA U-20 World Cups (more recent tournaments weighted more heavily), with bonus points awarded to confederation champions.

The draw will start with the host to A1, the teams from pot one will be drawn first, the teams from pots two, three and four need to skip groups to avoid geographical clash and there will be no two teams to play from the same confederation, then the draw will conclude with teams from pot four.

Group stage
In the group stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (one period of three minutes) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner. Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat. The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.

The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows: 1. points obtained in all group matches;
 * Tiebreakers

2. goal difference in all group matches;

3. number of goals scored in all group matches; If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows: 1. points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;

2. goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;

3. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;

4. fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):

5. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee. All times are local, GST (UTC+4).

Ranking of third-placed teams
The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.

In the next stage the four third-placed teams will be matched with the winners of groups A, B, C, and D according to the tournament regulations.