Tahiti national beach soccer team

The Tahiti national beach soccer team represents Tahiti or French Polynesia in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the FTF and the FFF, the governing body for football in Tahiti. In contrast to the fortunes of the association football team, Tahiti's beach soccer has, since 2011, been one of the strongest teams in world beach soccer. The team made history at the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup by becoming the first Pacific nation to qualify for the knockout stages of an international FIFA tournament. At the 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Tahiti beat Italy in a penalty shootout to become the first Pacific nation to ever make it to a final in a FIFA tournament. They followed this up with another appearance in the 2017 final.

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2024

Players

Current squad

The following players and staff members were called up for the 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

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

Head coach: Teva Zaveroni

Competitive record

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

Intercontinental Cup

OFC Beach Soccer Nations Cup

Head-to-head record

As of 27 August 2023

Note: The following includes all friendly matches and competitive games except for a small handful of friendlies not played by the official rules of FIFA.

Since making their international debut in August 2006, Tahiti have played a total of 118 matches against 41 different national teams, 68 of which were won. Their most played fixture is against the Solomon Islands whom they have played nine times.

Honours

• OFC Beach Soccer Nations Cup

Winners: 2011, 2019, 2023

• FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

Runners-up: 2015, 2017

Fourth place: 2013

References

External links

• Tahiti at BSWW
• (in Russian) Tahiti at Beach Soccer Russia