The 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the 13th 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 was the 23rd 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; the World Cup took place annually until 2009 when it then became a event.
It took place in Victoria, capital of Seychelles, on Mahé island, between 1 and 11 May 2025. This was the first time that Seychelles hosted a FIFA tournament, and the first edition of the World Cup to be played in Africa.
Brazil were the defending champions and successfully retained their title, defeating Belarus 4âÂÂ3 in the final to claim their seventh FIFA title, and sixteenth overall.
The original bidding schedule to determine the hosts was as follows:
On 8 December 2021, FIFA revealed that five associations had affirmed their bidding intentions:
On 14 February 2022, FIFA announced that three of the five associations had submitted bids through to the final stage of the process, with Colombia and Thailand withdrawing.
Confirmation of the awarding of hosting rights was due to be announced at the FIFA Council meeting in Doha, Qatar on 31 March 2022. However, no announcement was made; it was then due to be awarded at its meeting in Auckland, New Zealand on 22 October 2022, but it was announced at the meeting that the decision had been deferred again until a subsequent Council meeting. On 16 December 2022, the United Arab Emirates was awarded the hosting rights for the 2023 tournament, and the Seychelles for the 2025 tournament.
A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Seychelles who qualified automatically as the host country, 15 other teams qualified from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 4 October 2023. Overall, 72 nations entered qualification.
The process of qualification for the World Cup finals began in October 2024 and ended in March 2025.
Of the qualifiers, four made their debut: Chile, Guatemala, Mauritania and hosts Seychelles. This is Mauritania's and Seychelles' first ever FIFA tournament.
Paraguay and El Salvador were the returnees, both coming back after missing out on a berth in 2024.
United Arab Emirates failed to qualify for the first time since 2015. For the first instance since 2017, the United States also failed to advance to the finals. After appearing in 2024, Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico failed to qualify.
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 (1995âÂÂ2004).