Women's Euro Winners Cup

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

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 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 Stade de 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[7] 17 Madrid Spain 6–3 Russia Zvezda Bonaire Terrassa Spain 5–5 (a.e.t.)[B] France 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
Russia Zvezda 1 (2018) 1 (2021) 2 (2016, 2020)
Spain Madrid 1 (2021) 1 (2019)
Spain San Javier 1 (2019) 1 (2018)
Ukraine Mriya 2006 1 (2020)
Switzerland Havana Shots Aargau 1 (2017)
Switzerland Grasshoppers 1 (2016)
England Portsmouth 2 (2017, 2018)
Spain Cáceres 1 (2020)
Germany BeachKick Berlin 1 (2016)
Spain Bonaire Terrassa 1 (2021)
France Stade de Reims 1 (2019)
Spain 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 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]

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
   Champions Round of 16[b]
Runners-up Group stage
Third place 3 No. 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 Belgium × × × × 1 2 3
England England 1 1 1 × × × 3
Estonia Estonia 1 × 1 1 × × 3
France France × 2 2 2 1 1 8
Germany Germany 1 1 1 × × × 3
Greece Greece × 1 × × × × 1
Hungary Hungary × 1 × × × × 1
Italy Italy 3 2 2 3 × 1 11
Netherlands Netherlands 2 2 2 2 × × 8
Poland Poland 1 1 2 2 × 1 7
Portugal Portugal × 1 1 1 × 2 5
Russia Russia 1 2 1 1 1 1 7
Spain Spain 1 3 5 6 1 7 23
Sweden Sweden × 1 1 1 × × 3
Switzerland Switzerland 1 1 1 1 × × 4
Ukraine Ukraine × × × × 1 2 3
Total teams 12 19 20 20 5 17 93
Total countries 9 13 12 10 5 8

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "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. ^ Euro Winners Cup 2021 teams confirmed. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 July 2021.

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