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Women's Euro Winners Cup

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Women's Euro Winners Cup
Logo introduced in 2022.
Organising bodyBSWW
Founded2015; 9 years ago (2015)[1]
RegionEurope (UEFA)
Number of teams~20
Related competitionsEuro Winners Cup
Current championsSpain Higicontrol Melilla (2nd title)
Most successful club(s)Spain Higicontrol Melilla (2 titles)
WebsiteBeach Soccer Worldwide
2024 Women's Euro Winners Cup

The Women's Euro Winners Cup (WEWC) is an annual continental beach soccer club competition contested between top-division European women's teams; the clubs that are their country's national league/cup champions (and, for some nations, one or more runners-up) from countries all across Europe take part. Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the championship is viewed as beach soccer's rudimentary version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in its parent sport, association football.[1][2][3]

Offering the strongest level of club competition in Europe, it is the most prestigious women's club beach soccer championship in Europe; the winners become continental champions.[4][5] The first edition took place in 2016, following the founding of the men's edition three years prior.[1] It takes place within the framework of the larger men's version of the tournament, happening during the same dates and location over the course of about a week.

Higicontrol Melilla of Spain are the most successful club with two titles and are also the current champions.

Organisation

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As of 2022

Founding

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WEWC former logo timeline
2016–2021.
2016–2021.

Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) publicly announced the creation of the championship in December 2015, coming off the back of the multiple successful stagings of the men's edition since 2013. They cited the many women's national leagues/cups in Europe and their "strongest commitment" to begin ramping up the development of women's beach soccer as the reasons for its creation.[1]

Qualification

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From each European nation, the champions of their highest level of women's beach soccer competition (be it a national league or knockout cup) qualify for the event.[6]

In countries where women's clubs exist but a national women's league/cup does not yet take place, clubs can contact BSWW to register themselves as that country's representative.[6]

If a national association wishes to enter additional clubs who are not an incumbent league champion, they can request for permission to do so from the organisers BSWW who will grant or reject the clubs a berth at the tournament depending on the total number of teams already registered.[6]

In 2020 and 2021, qualification was completely abandoned due to health concerns and travel constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic meaning many clubs could not compete. The competition was opened up to simply any club in Europe that was able and willing to participate; the competition format was also altered accordingly for these editions.[7][8][9]

Format

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The tournament starts with the group stage. The clubs are split into groups (typically of four) and compete in a round robin format. At the end of the group stage, the top 16 clubs advance to the knockout stage. The teams then compete in single-elimination matches; the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and ending with the final. Consolation matches are also played to determine the final rankings involving the clubs knocked out of these rounds.

Results

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Year Location № of clubs Final Third place play-off
Winners Result Runners-up Third place Result Fourth place
2016 Italy Catania, Italy 12 Grasshoppers Switzerland 5–4 Germany BeachKick Berlin Zvezda Russia 5–3 Italy Catanzaro
2017 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal 19 Havana Shots Aargau Switzerland 4–3 (a.e.t.) England Portsmouth Higicontrol Melilla Spain 4–3 Russia Zvezda
2018 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal 20 Zvezda Russia 2–0 England Portsmouth San Javier Spain 3–1 France Amnéville
2019 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal 20 San Javier Spain 3–3 (a.e.t.)[A] Spain Madrid CFF Reims France 9–3 Italy Lokrians
2020 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal 5 Mriya 2006 Ukraine [round-robin] Spain Cáceres  Zvezda Russia [round-robin] France Marseille BT
2021 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal[10] 17 Madrid CFF Spain 6–3 Russia Zvezda Bonaire Terrassa Spain 5–5 (a.e.t.)[B] France Marseille BT
2022 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal[11] 17 Bonaire Terrassa Spain 5–3 Spain San Javier Marseille BT France 3–2 Spain Higicontrol Melilla
2023 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal[12] 20 Higicontrol Melilla Spain 3–1 Poland FC10 Ladies Bonaire Terrassa Spain 6–1 Spain San Javier
2024 Portugal Nazaré, Portugal[13] 24 Higicontrol Melilla Spain 4–3 Poland Red Devils Chojnice Huelva Spain 4–3 (a.e.t.) Spain Pozoalbense
A. ^ San Javier won the penalty shootout 2–0.
B. ^ Bonaire Terrassa won the penalty shootout 6–5.
Round robin. ^ Indicates this edition was played as a round-robin tournament. There was no final or third place match.

Performance

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Successful clubs

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Team Winners Runners-up Third place
Spain Higicontrol Melilla 2 (2023, 2024) 1 (2017)
Russia Zvezda 1 (2018) 1 (2021) 2 (2016, 2020)
Spain San Javier 1 (2019) 1 (2022) 1 (2018)
Spain Madrid CFF 1 (2021) 1 (2019)
Spain Bonaire Terrassa 1 (2022) 2 (2021, 2023)
Ukraine Mriya 2006 1 (2020)
Switzerland Havana Shots Aargau 1 (2017)
Switzerland Grasshoppers 1 (2016)
England Portsmouth 2 (2017, 2018)
Poland Red Devils Chojnice 1 (2024)
Poland FC10 Ladies 1 (2023)
Spain Cáceres 1 (2020)
Germany BeachKick Berlin 1 (2016)
Spain Huelva 1 (2024)
France Marseille BT 1 (2022)
France Reims 1 (2019)

Successful nations

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Nation Winners Runners-up Third place
 Spain 5 3 5
 Switzerland 2 0 0
 Russia 1 1 2
 Ukraine 1 0 0
 England 0 2 0
 Poland 0 2 0
 Germany 0 1 0
 France 0 0 2

Awards

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Year Top goalscorer(s) Gls Best player Best goalkeeper Ref.
2016 Russia Marina Fedorova (Russia Zvezda) 18 Germany Rebecca Gabriel (Germany BeachKick Berlin) Switzerland Susanne Shutz (Switzerland Grasshoppers) [1]
2017 Russia Glafira Bazhanova (Russia Neva) 13 England Sarah Kempson (England Portsmouth) Switzerland Deborah Kehrli (Switzerland Havana Shots Aargau) [2]
2018 Portugal Mélissa Gomes (France Amnéville) 14 England Molly Clark (England Portsmouth) Russia Viktoriia Silina (Russia Zvezda) [3]
2019 Portugal Mélissa Gomes (France Reims) 14 Spain Carolina González (Spain San Javier) United States Phallon Tullis-Joyce (France Reims) [4]
2020 Belgium Anaëlle Wiard (Belgium Newteam Brussels) 6 Spain María Herrero (Spain Cáceres) Russia Anna Akylbaeva ( Zvezda) [5]
2021 Spain Alba Mellado (Spain Madrid) 14 Russia Anna Cherniakova (Russia Zvezda) Russia Anna Akylbaeva (Russia Zvezda) [6]
2022 Portugal Mélissa Gomes (France Marseille BT) 9 Spain Cristina Gonzalez (Spain Bonaire Terrassa) Spain Laia García ( San Javier) [7]
2023 Nigeria Edna Imade (Spain Cáceres) 11 Brazil Adriele Rocha (Spain Higicontrol Melilla) Spain Laura Gallego ( Higicontrol Melilla) [8]
2024 Spain Cristina Gonzalez (Spain Málaga) 13 Spain Andrea Mirón (Spain Higicontrol Melilla) Poland Adriana Banaszkiewicz ( Red Devils) [9]

Appearances & performance timeline

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The following is an appearance and performance timeline of the countries who have been represented by clubs at the Women's Euro Winners Cup. It shows which countries were represented at each edition and by how many clubs. The colour of the cells indicates the furthest any of that country's clubs progressed in the competition in that edition, corresponding to the key below.

20 members of UEFA have been represented by at least one club in at least one edition to date.

Key
    Champions Group stage
Runners-up No. of clubs entered
Third place × Did not enter a club
Fourth Place •• Banned from entering
Quarter-finals[a] Host country
Round of 16[b]
a. Not used in 2020–21.
b. Not used in 2016–17, 20–22.
Timeline
Years
Country
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Total
Belgium Belgium × × × × 1 2 1 1 × 5
England England 1 1 1 × × × × × 1 4
Estonia Estonia 1 × 1 1 × × × × × 3
Finland Finland × × × × × × 1 × × 1
France France × 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 15
Georgia (country) Georgia × × × × × × × × 1 1
Germany Germany 1 1 1 × × × 1 1 × 5
Gibraltar Gibraltar × × × × × × 1 × × 1
Greece Greece × 1 × × × × × × × 1
Hungary Hungary × 1 × × × × × × × 1
Italy Italy 3 2 2 3 × 1 × × 2 13
Latvia Latvia × × × × × × × × 1 1
Netherlands Netherlands 2 2 2 2 × × 1 1 1 11
Poland Poland 1 1 2 2 × 1 1 1 1 10
Portugal Portugal × 1 1 1 × 2 3 5 7 20
Russia Russia 1 2 1 1 1 1 •• •• •• 7
Spain Spain 1 3 5 6 1 7 5 7 6 41
Sweden Sweden × 1 1 1 × × × × × 3
Switzerland Switzerland 1 1 1 1 × × 1 2 1 8
Ukraine Ukraine × × × × 1 2 × × × 3
Total teams 12 19 20 20 5 17 17 20 24 154
Total countries 9 13 12 10 5 8 10 8 10

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Euro Winners Cup 2016 to feature Women's competition". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Beachsoccerteam VIOD klaar voor Champions League avontuur" (in Dutch). nieuwedockumercourant.nl. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Euro Winners Cup (Champions League) Havana Shots Aargau Damen" (in German). funders.ch. 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  4. ^ "The biggest Euro Winners Cup ever!". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 18 February 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Women's Euro Winners Cup 2017". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  6. ^ a b c "Euro Winners Cup 2017 to feature preliminary round". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  7. ^ The 2020 beach soccer season to begin in August. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  8. ^ Teams announced for 2020 Euro Winners Cup. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 5 September 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  9. ^ 2021 Calendar Launch. Beach Soccer Worldwide (video). 13 April 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  10. ^ Euro Winners Cup 2021 teams confirmed. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Euro Winners Cup to return to Nazaré in 2022". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  12. ^ "The Euro Winners will return to Nazaré in 2023". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  13. ^ "The Euro Winners will return to Nazaré in 2024". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 21 December 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
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