Beach Soccer made an enormous jump forward. A really significant one, indeed, as the sport has been included in the programme for the inaugural European Olympic Games, to be held in Baku (Azerbaijan) between 12th and28th of June, 2015.

After the meeting of the The European Olympic Committees (EOC) held last April 30th, the Azeri Youth & Sports Minister Azad Rahimov restated that Beach Soccer will be one of the sports included in these European Olympic Games.

Together with hosts Azerbaijan, Russia, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ukraine and Hungary will take part in this historic first chapter, divided in two round-robin groups of four teams. The Beach Soccer competition will take place between 24th and 28th of June. 

19 sports were revealed for this maiden edition of the competition, taking off in Baku next 2015, and happening every four years thereafter. Together with Beach Soccer, the other competitions will be  archery, swimming, water polo, diving, athletics, badminton, ?three-on-three? basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, beach volleyball, gymnastics, judo, karate, shooting, table tennis , taekwondo, triathlon, wrestling and fencing. 7000 athletes will take part in the games.