The 2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Futbol Playa) will be the fourth edition of the Copa América de Beach Soccer, the international beach soccer competition organised by CONMEBOL for the men's national teams of South America. It will be held in Rosario, Argentina between 11 and 19 March 2023. For the first time, the tournament will act as the South American qualification for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup following CONMEBOL's decision to determine its representatives in the World Cup via the Copa America instead of its specific qualifying tournament that ran until 2021. The top three teams will qualify for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup to be held in the United Arab Emirates. Paraguay are the defending champions. Teams Teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL will take part. Venue Argentina was named as host country of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 30 September 2022. Rosario was confirmed as host city by the Argentine Football Association on 14 February 2023, with the Estadio Arena, located within the Predio Ferial Parque Independencia, as the venue for all the matches. Draw The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place at 12:00 PYST (UTC–3) on 16 February 2023 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, under the following procedure: The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the tournament in 2022 (shown in brackets). Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to position one of the groups: to Group A: as the hosts, to Group B: as the last champions, The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two based on their seeding, in order from the highest seeds placed in Pot 1, down to the lowest seeds placed in Pot 4. From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B. The draw resulted in the following groups: Match officials On 23 February 2023, CONMEBOL announced a total of 20 referees appointed for the tournament. Mariano Romo Carlos Maidana Pablo Defelippi Jaimito Suárez Noe Parra Lucas Estevão Luciano Andrade Mayron Dos Reis Cristian Galaz Ricardo Zúñiga Jorge Iván Gómez Ferley Fuentes Jean Villamar Brando Amay Micke Palomino Alex Valdivieso Christian Altez Aecio Fernández Luis Coy Gerand Rivas Group stage The top