First Croatian beach soccer league

The First Croatian beach soccer league (Croatian: Prva hrvatska liga nogometa na pijesku), also known as Prva HLNP is the top division in the Croatian Beach Soccer league. The league was inaugurated in 2021 under the supervision of the Croatian Football Federation and Beach Soccer Worldwide.

First Croatian beach soccer league

Founded	2021
Country	Croatia
Confederation	UEFA
Number of clubs	6
International cup	Euro Winners Cup
Current champions	Fusio (1st title) (2021–22)
Most championships	Fusio (1 title)
Website	Nogomet na pijesku

Background

The Executive board of the HNS, on the proposal of the Commission for Futsal and Beach Soccer and the competition commission pursuant to Article 43 and Article 44, paragraph 6 of the Statute, on 16 August 2021 passed a decision that the registered clubs in the beach soccer competition for competition year 2021–22, play a pilot project of the first Croatian championship in beach soccer called "First Croatian beach soccer league" (First HLNP). Six clubs have been registered and matches are played as series of three tournaments, with a single point system through six rounds in the period of August and September.

On August 12, 2021, it was announced that participating tams are KNP Beasal Gorovo (Opatija), KNP Pula (Pula), KNP Fusio (Zagreb), KNP Pješčana oluja (Zagreb), KNP Umag (Umag) and KNP Varadero (Zagreb).

The first two tournaments were played at Stella Maris sport center in Umag on 14 and 21 August, while last tournament was played on Sand arena (Croatian: Pješčana arena) in Velika Gorica on 4 September.

Champions

Season	Champion	Runner-up
2021	Fusio	Pula

2021 season

Group stage

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 1 Fusio 5 4 0 1 37 17 +20 12 Championship match 2 Pula 5 4 0 1 25 18 +7 12 3 Pješčana oluja 5 3 0 2 18 26 −8 9 Third place match 4 Umag 5 2 0 3 25 20 +5 6 5 Beasal Gorovo 5 2 0 3 34 37 −3 6 Fifth place match 6 Varadero 5 0 0 5 10 31 −21 0 Source: HNS (in Croatian)

Home \ Away BEA FUS POL PUL UMG VAR Beasal Gorovo — — 7–9 — — 12–3 Fusio 11–3 — 10–2 3–4 — — Pješčana oluja — — — 3–0 1–9 3–0 Pula 9–5 — — — 6–3 — Umag 5–7 5–6 — — — — Varadero — 3–7 — 4–6 0–3 — Source: HNS (in Croatian) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Classification matches

Championship match Fusio 3:0 (w/o) Pula Third place match Pješčana oluja 9:5 Umag Fifth place match Beasal Gorovo 10:6 Varadero Source: HNS (in Croatian)

Final ranking Fusio Pula Pješčana oluja 4 Umag 5 Beasal Gorovo 6 Varadero Source: HNS, SportNews.hr Archived 19 June 2023 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)

See also

• Euro Beach Soccer League