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The 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will be the 11th 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. Previous editions before 2005 were not governed by FIFA and were held under the title Beach Soccer World Championships. Overall this will be the 21st edition of the championship since its establishment in 1995. This will be the sixth tournament to take place biennially; the World Cup took place annually until 2009.

First intimated in November 2017 at the FIFA Beach Soccer Workshop when it was announced that the World Cup would continue to be held every two years for the period 2018–2024, the bidding process was opened by FIFA in May 2019 and concluded with the announcement of Russia as the hosts in October 2019. The tournament is scheduled to take place in Moscow in July 2021.

Portugal are the defending champions.

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


 * 9 May 2019 – FIFA opens the bidding process.
 * 5 June 2019 – Deadline for national associations to declare interest of hosting to FIFA.
 * 7 June 2019 – FIFA circulates documents detailing the application campaign and conditions of participation to the bidding associations to analyse.
 * 1 July 2019 – Deadline for associations to reaffirm their bidding intentions by agreeing to the terms of the documents.
 * 30 August 2019 – Deadline for nations to prepare and submit their complete bidding packages to be evaluated by FIFA.
 * 24 October 2019 – Hosts announced by FIFA.

On 11 September 2019, FIFA revealed that three associations had submitted bids through to the final stage of the process:
 * 🇨🇱 Chile ( Easter Island; Football Federation of Chile)
 * 🇸🇻 El Salvador (Salvadoran Football Federation)
 * 🇷🇺 Russia (Russian Football Union)

Confirmation of the awarding of hosting rights to Russia was announced at the FIFA Council meeting in Shanghai, China on 24 October 2019. It was reported Russia was picked based on having the largest budget, presenting the least risks and successfully hosting the recent 2018 FIFA World Cup in association football.

Qualification
A total of 16 teams will qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Russia who qualify automatically as hosts, 15 other teams will qualify from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation has yet to be announced.

The process of qualification to the World Cup finals will begin in 2020 and end in 2021.


 * CAF: The African qualifiers will take place in Jinja, Uganda between 23–29 November 2020.
 * UEFA: The European qualifiers will take place in Jesolo, Italy between 11–20 September 2020.
 * AFK: The Asian qualifiers will take place in Sapporo, Japan between 21–28 October 2020.
 * OFK: The Oceanian qualifiers will take place in Okland, New Zeland between 23–27 October 2020.

Note: All appearance statistics below include only the FIFA era (since 2005); see: National team appearances in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup for inclusion of the pre-FIFA era (1995–2004) stats.

Venue
One purpose-built venue will be used in the city of Moscow, and is expected to be on the grounds of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex in Khamovniki District – this location is subject to change.