The 2026 CSV South America Beach Volleyball Championship will take place in João Pessoa, Brazil from 3 to 6 September.
10 out of the 16 participating men’s teams have received support from the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment Programme. Volleyball Empowerment-supported pairs from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Venezuela will line up in João Pessoa where at stake will be the continental title and a slot to the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028.
Each of the five Empowerment-supported National Federations will be represented by two pairs making up a total of 10 empowered pairs that will be in action on the sands of Praia de Cabo Branco around the iconic Busto de Tamandaré landmark.
Leading the star-studded Empowerment cast will be top seeds Evandro Gonçalves Oliveira Junior & Arthur Diego Mariano Lanci of Brazil. Placed fourth on the FIVB World rankings, Evandro & Arthur Lanci are in Pool A alongside Peru’s Miguel Joswal Molina Moreno & Adrian Valentino Carreño Olivera, Uruguay’s Lucas Mocellini & Nicolás Llambías Carvalho and Empowerment-backed Jorge Riveros & Giuliano Massare Canillas of Paraguay.
FIVB has invested a total of USD 63,000 in Paraguay’s men’s beach volleyball programme with Brazilian coach Adriano Garrido and Paulo Madeiros Costas taking charge of their senior and junior teams. On the other hand, Brazil’s men’s beach volleyball teams are led by the trio of Caio Bruno Lopes da Silva, Marco Antonio Moura Char and Wallace Luis Ferreira Ramos as part of a USD 21,000 Coach Support project. FIVB had invested USD 156,000 in Uruguay’s men’s national team under the Volleyball Empowerment Programme.
The second Brazilian pair of Andre Loyola Stein & Renato Andrew Lima de Carvalho will start as the third seeds. They arrive in João Pessoa on the back of a silver medal performance at the Beach Pro Tour Elite event in Montreal in August. Andre & Renato are drawn in Pool C alongside Uruguay’s Sebastian Rubio & Roberto Luciano Fernandez Rivero, Colombia’s Yeferson De La Hoz Rodriguez & Juan Carlos Noriega Rojas and the empowered Chilean pair of Martin Etcheberry & Fernando Quintero.
FIVB has invested a total of USD 126,000 in the Coach Support projects in Chile with Brazilian Ramon Ferreira Gomes dos Santos and Chilean Felipe Gomez Badilla taking charge of the senior and junior men’s national teams.
The Grimalt cousins, Marco & Esteban, will carry Chile’s medal hopes in João Pessoa. They are in Pool D together with two Volleyball Empowerment teams Julian Zaid Vargas & Enyenser Alfonso Delgado Bravo of Venezuela and Colombia’s Marco Hidalgo Clavero & Martin Gaviria Romero as well as Argentina’s Juan Bautista Amieva Tarditti & Maciel Bueno Torres.
Puerto Rican expert Juan Cartagena is in charge of Colombia’s senior and junior men’s teams as part of Coach Support projects totaling USD 63,000. Cuban coach Eugenio Ortiz Tellez manages Venezuela’s junior and senior men’s beach volleyball teams in a Coach Support project worth USD 5,250.
Pool B is headlined by second seeds, the Capogrosso brothers, Nicolas and Tomas, of Argentina. The world number 10 team will come up against Peru’s Giacomo Falcone & Konrad Linder as well as the empowered pairs Matias Gabriel Yegros Gomez & Gonzalo Melgarejo from Paraguay and Santiago Leandro Camejo Guerra & Moises David Yepez Ramirez of Venezuela. FIVB had invested USD 42,000 in Argentina’s men’s national team under the Volleyball Empowerment Programme.
The 16 participating men’s teams will be split into four single round-robin pools of four. The top team qualifies directly to the quarterfinals, while the second and third teams progress to Round of 12. The knockout stage continues in a direct elimination format, further including the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the two medal matches.
