Colombia national beach soccer team

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Colombia

Nickname(s)	Los Cafeteros (The Coffee Growers) La Tricolor (The Tricolors)
Association	Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF)
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Santiago Alzate
FIFA code	COL
BSWW ranking	13 1 (8 April 2024)[1]
First colours Second colours
First international
Colombia 5–2 Ecuador  (Montevideo, Uruguay; 7 December 2009)
Biggest win
Colombia 9–4 Ecuador  (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3 August 2011)
Biggest defeat
Brazil 15–0 Colombia  (Montevideo, Uruguay; 10 December 2009)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2023)
Best result	Group stage

The Colombia national beach soccer team represents Colombia in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF), the governing body for football in Colombia.

Colombia entered the international beach soccer scene in 2009 at the first edition of the South American Beach Games.^[2] The team subsequently debuted in the largest beach soccer event in South America, the World Cup qualifiers, in 2011,^[3] finishing in 4th place – their best finish in any major competition to date. Since then, Colombia have remained an active team, becoming regulars at the major CONMEBOL events of the World Cup qualifiers, Copa América and Liga Sudamericana, their best finish was 3rd place at the Copa América de Beach Soccer in 2023. The team will make their debut at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in 2023.

As of March 2018^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  COL Alejandro Quintero 4  COL Edwin Rojas 5 DF  COL Escalante Lopez 6 DF  COL Jose Gomez 7 FW  COL Jose Arzuza Fonseca 8  COL Edward Bonilla

No. Pos. Nation Player 9  COL Oscar Hurtado 10  COL Kevin Zuluaga 11  COL Kevin Henao 12 GK  COL Levid Sanchez 13  COL Carlos Mejia 20  COL Miguel Parra

Coach: Santiago Alzate

• CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup best: 4th place
  • 2011
• Copa América de Beach Soccer best: 3rd place
  • 2023
• South American Beach Games best: 4th place
  • 2009

Year	Result	Pld	W	W+P	L	GF	GA	GD
1995 to 2009	Did not enter
2011 to 2021	Did not qualify
2024	Group stage	3	0	0	3	6	12	–6
2025	To be determined
Total	1/23	3	0	0	3	6	12	–6

Year	Result	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD
2016	Eighth place	5	2	0	0	3	16	20	–4
2018	Ninth place	5	0	0	1	4	18	25	–7
2022	Eighth place	5	0	0	2	3	12	23	–11
2023	Third place	6	4	0	0	2	21	16	+5
Total	4/4	21	6	0	3	12	67	84	–17

Year	Result	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD
2005†	Did not enter
2006
2007†
2008
2009
2011	Fourth place	5	1	0	1	3	16	20	–4
2013	Seventh place	6	3	0	0	3	19	24	–5
2015	Eighth place	6	0	1	0	5	17	30	–13
2017	Sixth place	6	2	0	0	4	30	32	–2
2019	Sixth place	4	2	0	0	3	29	31	−2
2021	Fourth place	6	3	0	0	2	17	18	–1
Total	6/11	33	11	1	1	20	128	155	–27

† – Note: 2005 and 2007 were held in a joint championship with CONCACAF

Year	Result	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD
2009	Fourth place	5	1	0	0	4	12	30	–18
2011	Fifth place	3	1	0	0	2	10	10	0
2014	Fifth place	5	2	0	0	3	12	18	–6
2019	Third place	5	3	0	0	2	26	24	+2
2023	Qualified as hosts
Total	5/5	18	7	0	0	11	60	82	–22

Central American and Caribbean Beach Games record
Year	Round	Pos	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD
2022	Fifth place	5th	4	1	0	3	14	14	0
Total	0 titles	1/1	4	1	0	3	14	14	0

• Colombia national futsal team

• Colombia Profile, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
• Colombia, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)
• List of results – '09 Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, '11 Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, '12 Archived 2018-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, '13 Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, '14 Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, '15 Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, '16 Archived 2018-07-05 at the Wayback Machine, '17 Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, '18 Archived 2018-02-11 at the Wayback Machine

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