Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.
International match
Women's beach soccer game at YBF 2010 in Yyteri Beach, Pori, Finland
A beach soccer game at the 2006 Chicago Beach Soccer Invitational
A beach soccer ball
Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) is the organisation responsible for the founding and growth of association football's derivative sport of beach soccer. The founding partners of BSWW codified the rules of beach soccer in 1992, with BSWW as it is known today having been officially founded in late 2000 as a singular institution to develop the sport and organise international beach soccer competitions across the globe, primarily between national teams. The company is recognised as playing the biggest role in helping to establish the rules of beach soccer, to spread and evolve the sport around the world as cited by FIFA who took on governing body status of the sport from BSWW in 2005. Having established the sport's key regulations, FIFA acknowledged BSWW's framework, making their rules the official laws of beach soccer and now controls them and any modifications.
A scene from a 2008 BSWW Tour event between Israel and Turkey
BSWW Vice-President and FIFA committee member Joan Cuscó
A scene from the 2015 CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship match between Brazil and Paraguay with the BSWW logo on hoarding visible in the background