BSWW WORLD RANKING (From Aug 2011 to Jul 2015) BEACH SOCCER WORLD RANKING POINTS DISTRIBUTION 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREAMBLE 1. ASSESSMENT PERIODS p. 3 2. WEIGHTING FACTOR – CONFEDERATION QUALIFIER 4 3. POINTS DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA 5 FIFA BEACH SOCCER WORLD CUP 5 FIFA BEACH SOCCER WORLD CUP – CONFEDERATION QUALIFIER 6 INTERCONTINENTAL BEACH SOCCER CUP 7 CONTINENTAL BEACH SOCCER LEAGUE 7 CONTINENTAL BEACH SOCCER CUPS & GAMES 8 BSWW TOUR: BSWW TOUR (CATEGORY 1) 8 BSWW TOUR (CATEGORY 2) 9 FRIENDLY MATCH 10 4. RATED EVENTS 11 5. OVERALL WORLD RANKING 18 6. RANKING 2015 21 7. CONTACT DETAILS 24 2 PREAMBLE For this Beach Soccer Season 2015, BSWW has established a World Ranking taking into account all the panorama of Beach Soccer events and competitions. The basis of the BSWW World Ranking takes into consideration many aspects and factors observed by the FIFA/Coca-Cola Men’s World Ranking. The weighting of the BSWW World Ranking follows a points-per-event system, where the position occupied in the standings of every event awards a determined amount of points to the given national team. There are 6 (six) types of categorized events, ordered from highest to lowest in points: 1. FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2. FBSWC – Confederation Qualifier 3. Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup (new category as of January 2015) 4. Continental Beach Soccer League 5. Continental Beach Soccer Cups & Games 6. BSWW Tours: BSWW Tour (Category 1) BSWW Tour (Category 2) 7. Friendly Matches (new points’ distribution as of January 2015) The following information explains and develops the criteria and point weight given to each of the mentioned categories. 1. ASSESSMENT PERIODS . AUG 2011 – JUL 2015: The BSWW World Ranking will consider last 4 years starting from Jul 2015 (Aug 2011-Jul 2015) in order to draw a more updated picture of the beach soccer standings, one that reflects a clearer reality of the sport. The period assessed meets a gradual decrease of the points weighting. Thus, the value of each year is 25% lower than the previous: □ August 2011 – July 2012; Year value: 25% □ August 2012 – July 2013; Year value: 50% □ August 2013 – July 2014; Year value: 75% □ August 2014 – July 2015; Year value: 100% The ranking will be updated and published monthly. 3 2. WEIGHTING FACTOR - CONFEDERATION QUALIFIERS The weighting factor for the Confederations Qualifier is determined on the basis of the last 3 (three) FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup final competitions. The following calculation steps, which are described in the table below, apply: a) Interconfederation1 Matches at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups Final Competition b) Win = 1 point // Win at AET or PSO = 0,5 c) Average per Game: WINS/TOTAL GAMES d) Average per Game during the last 3 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups Competitions: Av. 2009-13 = (Av.2009 + Av.2011 + Av.2013) / 3 e) The confederation weighting value ("Weight") is calculated in relation to the BEST confederation weighting value. Weight = √(√(Av.2009-13x / BEST Av.2009-13)) f) If WEIGHT ≤ 0,85, the weighting value assigned will be = 0,85 2009 2011 2013 09-13 av. 09-13 WEIGHT Game total 32 32 32 96 Interconfederational total 30 31 32 93 total games 20 22 16 58 UEFA win 11,50 14,00 9,50 35,00 0,60 0,99 av per 0,58 0,64 0,59 1,81 game total games 15 12 11 38 CONMEBOL win 10,00 5,00 8,50 23,50 0,62 1,00 av per 0,67 0,42 0,77 1,86 game total games 6 10 7 23 CONCACAF win 0,00 4,00 3,00 7,00 0,28 0,82 av per 0,00 0,40 0,43 0,83 game total games 10 9 11 30 AFC win 3,50 0,00 2,50 6,00 0,19 0,75 av per 0,35 0,00 0,23 0,58 game total games 6 8 6 20 CAF win 2,00 3,50 1,00 6,50 0,31 0,84 av per 0,33 0,44 0,17 0,94 game total games 3 3 9 15 OFC win 1,00 1,00 3,50 5,50 0,35 0,87 av / game 0,33 0,33 0,39 1,06 Matches between national teams from different Confederation 4 3. POINTS DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA 2015 . FIFA BEACH SOCCER WORLD CUP The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is presented as the most valuable competition. The first consideration about the points’ distribution is to stipulate the difference between those teams that qualified in each Round. As shown in the table below, the points’ distribution from the 1st to the 16th Place follows a straight degradation from 1750 points to 60 points and segmented per round: Group Phase, Quarter-finals and Semi-finals, where the Champion of the FBSWC gets 1750 points and the four lowest-ranked national teams get 60 points. EVENT # PTS 1 1750 2 1450 FIFA BEACH SOCCER WORLD CUP WORLD SOCCER BEACH FIFA 3 1200 4 1000 5 550 6 440 7 350 8 280 9 170 10 135 11 110 12 90 13 60 14 60 15 60 16 60 5 . FBSWC – CONFEDERATION QUALIFIER The weighting factor of each confederation is the result of the performance of the National Sides of the given confederation in the last three FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups. As shown below, the points distribution for each FBSWC – Confederation Qualifier varies depending on the weighting factor of the given Confederation (refer to Title 2. Weighting Factor) CONMEBOL (100%) UEFA (99%) OFC (87%) CONCACAF, AFC, CAF (85%) EVENT # PTS EVENT # PTS EVENT # PTS EVENT # PTS 1 550 1 544,5 1 478,5 1 467,5 2 280 2 277,2 2 243,6 2 238 3 230 3 227,7 3 200,1 3 195,5 FBSWC - CONFEDERATION QUALIFIER -CONFEDERATION FBSWC 4 180 QUALIFIER -CONFEDERATION FBSWC 4 178,2 QUALIFIER -CONFEDERATION FBSWC 4 156,6 QUALIFIER -CONFEDERATION FBSWC 4 153 5 160 5 158,4 5 139,2 5 136 6 140 6 138,6 6 121,8 6 119 7 120 7 118,8 7 104,4 7 102 8 100 8 99 8 87 8 85 9 60 9 59,4 9 52,2 9 51 10 60 10 59,4 10 52,2 10 51 11 60 11 59,4 11 52,2 11 51 12 60 12 59,4 12 52,2 12 51 13 60 13 59,4 13 52,2 13 51 14 60 14 59,4 14 52,2 14 51 15 60 15 59,4 15 52,2 15 51 16 60 16 59,4 16 52,2 16 51 17 30 17 29,7 17 26,1 17 25,5 18… 30… 18… 29,7… 18… 26,1… 18… 25,5… NOTE: Due to the fact that the host country doesn’t play the Confederation Qualifier for the World Cup, the amount of points awarded to the team is the result of the average points achieved in the last 3 (three) Confederation Qualifiers the team took part in. 6 . INTERCONTINENTAL BEACH SOCCER CUP (NEW POINTS’ DISTRIBUTION AS OF JANUARY 2015) The Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup is the competition where the best National Associations from each continent compete with each other. The Champion of the Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup gets 510 points. The point rate decreases as follows: . CONTINENTAL BEACH SOCCER LEAGUE The Continental Beach Soccer League is the competition that gathers all National Associations belonging to the same Confederation. The Champion of the Continental Beach Soccer League gets 400 points. The point rate decreases as follows: EVENT # PTS 1 400 2 280 3 230 CONTINENTAL BEACH SOCCER LEAGUE SOCCER BEACH CONTINENTAL 4 180 5 160 6 140 7 125 8 110 9 100 10 90 11 80 12 70 13 60 14 60 15 60 16 60 17 30 18… 30…. 7 . CONTINENTAL CUPS & GAMES This rate categorizes the events that involve the Association Members of a given Confederation (Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Asian Beach Soccer Cup, Juegos Sudamericanos de Playa, etc.) and the best ranked national teams of every Confederation (Intercontinental Cup) before January 2015. EVENT # PTS CONTINENTAL CUPs &GAMES CUPs CONTINENTAL 1 200 2 140 3 115 4 90 5 80 6 70 7 60 8 50 9 30 10… 30… . BSWW TOUR A) BSWW TOUR (CATEGORY 1) The BSWW Tour must meet the requirements below: a) All teams must be national teams endorsed by their FA and by BSWW; b) The number of national teams participating must be a minimum of 4; c) FIFA referees must be designated by BSWW; d) The minimum BSWW staff delegation is composed of: Competition Manager, TV Manager, Media Manager and Operations Manager; e) The organization of the event must have TV production; f) BSWW will provide international TV broadcasting; g) The stadium and sports facilities must meet the requirements of the BSWW Guidelines Manual. The points’ distribution for a BSWW-organized BSWW Tour is: EVENT # PTS BSWW 1 100 TOUR 2 80 3 60 4 40 8 B) BSWW TOUR (CATEGORY 2) The BSWW Tour endorsed by BSWW must meet the requirements below: a) All teams must be national teams endorsed by their FA and by BSWW; b) The number of national teams participating must be a minimum of 4; The Local Organization Committee must inform about the organization of the event 1 month before the start of the competition and must submit the following documentation no later than two weeks before the date of the first match: a) Dates of the match or matches; b) Venue location; c) Final list of the players and delegates of all national teams; d) BSWW Tour Regulations and all relevant documents related to competition aspects; e) At least one of the referees must be a FIFA referee; In terms of competition, the Local Organization Committee obligations are: a) International air transfer and accommodation (1FB) for a BSWW General Coordinator or BSWW Representative; b) International air transfer and accommodation (FB) for the FIFA International referees attending to the event; c) Accommodation (FB) for the local FIFA referees attending to the event; d) Referees must receive a fee of 100(EUR or USD2) per competition day + 80(EUR or USD) for other possible expenses; e) Local transport for: Teams, referees, and BSWW staff; The points’ distribution for this type of events will remain: EVENT # PTS TOUR (50) TOUR BSWW 1 50 2 30 3 10 4 5 1Full board: 3 meals per day – breakfast, lunch and dinner; 2Referee’s fee in European events are paid in EUR; for the rest of events, the referee’s fee is paid in USD; 9 .