Women's Euro Winners Cup

The Women's Euro Winners Cup 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/championship champions (and, for some nations, one or more runners-up) from countries all across Europe take part.

Women's Euro Winners Cup
Founded2015[1]
RegionEurope
Number of teams~20
Related competitionsEuro Winners Cup
Current champions Madrid (1st title)
Most successful club(s) Grasshoppers
Havana Shots Aargau
Zvezda
San Javier
Mriya 2006
Madrid
(1 title each)
WebsiteBeach Soccer Worldwide
2021 Women's Euro Winners Cup

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the championship is viewed as the sport's version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in association football.[1][2][3] Offering the strongest level of club competition on the old continent, it is the most prestigious women's club beach soccer championship in Europe, the winners becoming continental champions.[4][5]

Citing the many national women's leagues in Europe and one of their "strongest commitments" to develop women's beach soccer going into the year of the tournament's establishment, BSWW created the championship in 2016, following the founding of the men's edition in 2013.[1]

The tournament 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.

Of the six editions to date, each has been won by a different club; Spain and Switzerland have produced the most winning sides (two each).

Organisation

As of 2017

Qualification

The champions of each of Europe's national women's beach soccer leagues (or championships) qualify to play in the event.[6]

In countries where women's clubs exist but a national women's league or championship does not yet exist in that nation, clubs can contact BSWW to register themselves as that country's representative.[6]

If a national association wishes to enter additional clubs, 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]

Format

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 eight clubs (group winners and best runners-up) advance to the knockout stage. The teams then compete in single-elimination matches; the 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

Year Location № of clubs Final Third place play-off
Winners Result Runners-up 3rd place Result 4th place
2016 Catania, Italy 12 Grasshoppers 5–4 BeachKick Berlin Zvezda 5–3 Catanzaro
2017 Nazaré, Portugal 19 Havana Shots Aargau 4–3 (a.e.t.) Portsmouth Higicontrol Melilla 4–3 Zvezda
2018 Nazaré, Portugal 20 Zvezda 2–0 Portsmouth San Javier 3–1 Amnéville
2019 Nazaré, Portugal 20 San Javier 3–3 (a.e.t.)[A] Madrid Stade de Reims 9–3 Lokrians
2020 Nazaré, Portugal 5 Mriya 2006 [round-robin] Cáceres  Zvezda [round-robin] Marseille BT
2021 Nazaré, Portugal[7] 17 Madrid 6–3 Zvezda Bonaire Terrassa 5–5 (a.e.t.)[B] Marseille BT
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

Successful clubs

Team Winners Runners-up Third place
Zvezda 1 (2018) 1 (2021) 2 (2016, 2020)
Madrid 1 (2021) 1 (2019)
San Javier 1 (2019) 1 (2018)
Mriya 2006 1 (2020)
Havana Shots Aargau 1 (2017)
Grasshoppers 1 (2016)
Portsmouth 2 (2017, 2018)
Cáceres 1 (2020)
BeachKick Berlin 1 (2016)
Bonaire Terrassa 1 (2021)
Stade de Reims 1 (2019)
Higicontrol Melilla 1 (2017)

Successful nations

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

Awards

Year Top goalscorer(s) Gls Best player Best goalkeeper Ref.
2016 Marina Fedorova ( Zvezda) 18 Rebecca Gabriel ( BeachKick Berlin) Susanne Shutz ( Grasshoppers)
2017 Glafira Bazhanova ( Neva) 13 Sarah Kempson ( Portsmouth) Deborah Kehrli ( Havana Shots Aargau)
2018 Mélissa Gomes ( Amnéville) 14 Molly Clark ( Portsmouth) Viktoriia Silina ( Zvezda)
2019 Mélissa Gomes ( Reims) 14 Carolina González ( San Javier) Phallon Tullis-Joyce ( Reims)
2020 Anaëlle Wiard ( Newteam Brussels) 6 María Herrero ( Cáceres) Anna Akylbaeva ( Zvezda)
2021 Alba Mellado ( Madrid) 14 Anna Cherniakova ( Zvezda) Anna Akylbaeva ( Zvezda)

Appearances & performance timeline

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.

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

Key
  ChampionsRound of 16[b]
Runners-upGroup stage
Third place3No. of clubs entered
Fourth Place×Did not enter a club
Quarter-finals[a]Host country
a. Not used in 2020–21.
b. Not used in 2016–17, 20–21.
Timeline
Years
Country
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
Belgium××××123
England111×××3
Estonia1×11××3
France×222118
Germany111×××3
Greece×1××××1
Hungary×1××××1
Italy3223×111
Netherlands2222××8
Poland1122×17
Portugal×111×25
Russia1211117
Spain13561723
Sweden×111××3
Switzerland1111××4
Ukraine××××123
Total teams1219202051793
Total countries913121058

See also

References

  1. "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. "Euro Winners Cup 2017 to feature preliminary round". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  7. Euro Winners Cup 2021 teams confirmed. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 July 2021.
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