Women's Euro Winners Cup

Template:Infobox football tournament 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.

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. The first edition took place in 2016, following the founding of the men's edition three years prior. 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

As of 2022

Founding

Template:Multiple image 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.

Qualification

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

Year	Location	№ of clubs		Final				Third place play-off
				Winners	Result	Runners-up		Third place	Result	Fourth place
2016	Template:Flagicon Catania, Italy	12		Grasshoppers Template:Flagicon	5–4	Template:Flagicon BeachKick Berlin		Zvezda Template:Flagicon	5–3	Template:Flagicon Catanzaro
2017	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	19		Havana Shots Aargau Template:Flagicon	Template:Nowrap	Template:Flagicon Portsmouth		Higicontrol Melilla Template:Flagicon	4–3	Template:Flagicon Zvezda
2018	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	20		Zvezda Template:Flagicon	2–0	Template:Flagicon Portsmouth		San Javier Template:Flagicon	3–1	Template:Flagicon Amnéville
2019	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	20		San Javier Template:Flagicon	Template:Nowrap	Template:Flagicon Madrid CFF		Reims Template:Flagicon	9–3	Template:Flagicon Lokrians
2020	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	5		Mriya 2006 Template:Flagicon	[round-robin]	Template:Flagicon CáceresTemplate:Ref		Zvezda Template:Flagicon	[round-robin]	Template:Flagicon Marseille BT
2021	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	17		Madrid CFF Template:Flagicon	6–3	Template:Flagicon Zvezda		Bonaire Terrassa Template:Flagicon	Template:Nowrap	Template:Flagicon Marseille BT
2022	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	17		Bonaire Terrassa Template:Flagicon	5–3	Template:Flagicon San Javier		Marseille BT Template:Flagicon	3–2	Template:Flagicon Higicontrol Melilla
2023	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	20		Higicontrol Melilla Template:Flagicon	3–1	Template:Flagicon FC10 Ladies		Bonaire Terrassa Template:Flagicon	6–1	Template:Flagicon San Javier
2024	Template:Flagicon Nazaré, Portugal	24		Higicontrol Melilla Template:Flagicon	4–3	Template:Flagicon Red Devils Chojnice		Huelva Template:Flagicon	Template:Nowrap	Template:Flagicon Pozoalbense

A. Template:Note label San Javier won the penalty shootout 2–0.

B. Template:Note label Bonaire Terrassa won the penalty shootout 6–5.

Round robin. Template:Note 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
Template:Flagicon Higicontrol Melilla	2 (2023, 2024)	–	1 (2017)
Template:Flagicon Zvezda	1 (2018)	1 (2021)	2 (2016, 2020)
Template:Flagicon San Javier	1 (2019)	1 (2022)	1 (2018)
Template:Flagicon Madrid CFF	1 (2021)	1 (2019)	–
Template:Flagicon Bonaire Terrassa	1 (2022)	–	2 (2021, 2023)
Template:Flagicon Mriya 2006	1 (2020)	–	–
Template:Flagicon Havana Shots Aargau	1 (2017)	–	–
Template:Flagicon Grasshoppers	1 (2016)	–	–
Template:Flagicon Portsmouth	–	2 (2017, 2018)	–
Template:Flagicon Red Devils Chojnice	–	1 (2024)	–
Template:Flagicon FC10 Ladies	–	1 (2023)	–
Template:Flagicon Cáceres	–	1 (2020)	–
Template:Flagicon BeachKick Berlin	–	1 (2016)	–
Template:Flagicon Huelva	–	–	1 (2024)
Template:Flagicon Marseille BT	–	–	1 (2022)
Template:Flagicon Reims	–	–	1 (2019)

Successful nations

Nation	Winners	Runners-up	Third place
Template:ESP	5	3	5
Template:SUI	2	0	0
Template:RUS	1	1	2
Template:UKR	1	0	0
Template:ENG	0	2	0
Template:POL	0	2	0
Template:GER	0	1	0
Template:FRA	0	0	2

Awards

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

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.

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		$n$	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

Template:Diagonal split header	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	Total
Template:Flagicon Belgium	×	×	×	×	1	2	1	1	×	5
Template:Flagicon England	1	1	1	×	×	×	×	×	1	4
Template:Flagicon Estonia	1	×	1	1	×	×	×	×	×	3
Template:Flagicon Finland	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	×	×	1
Template:Flagicon France	×	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	3	15
Template:Flagicon Georgia	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	1
Template:Flagicon Germany	1	1	1	×	×	×	1	1	×	5
Template:Flagicon Gibraltar	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	×	×	1
Template:Flagicon Greece	×	1	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1
Template:Flagicon Hungary	×	1	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1
Template:Flagicon Italy	3	2	2	3	×	1	×	×	2	13
Template:Flagicon Latvia	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	1
Template:Flagicon Netherlands	2	2	2	2	×	×	1	1	1	11
Template:Flagicon Poland	1	1	2	2	×	1	1	1	1	10
Template:Flagicon Portugal	×	1	1	1	×	2	3	5	7	20
Template:Flagicon Russia	1	2	1	1	1	1	••	••	••	7
Template:Flagicon Spain	1	3	5	6	1	7	5	7	6	41
Template:Flagicon Sweden	×	1	1	1	×	×	×	×	×	3
Template:Flagicon Switzerland	1	1	1	1	×	×	1	2	1	8
Template:Flagicon 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

• Euro Winners Cup (men's edition)

External links

• Beach Soccer Worldwide, official website
• Euro Winners Cup, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)