Women's Euro Winners Cup

Logo introduced in 2022.
Organiser(s)	BSWW
Founded	2015; 10 years ago (2015)[1]
Region	Europe (UEFA)
Teams	~20
Related competitions	Euro Winners Cup
Current champions	Higicontrol Melilla (3rd title)
Most championships	Higicontrol Melilla (3 titles)
Website	Beach Soccer Worldwide
2025 Women's Euro Winners Cup

TheWomen's Euro Winners Cup (WEWC) is an annual continentalbeach 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 byBeach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the championship is viewed as beach soccer's rudimentary version of theUEFA Women's Champions League in its parent sport,association football.^[1][2][3]

Offering the strongest level of club competition inEurope, 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 themen'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 three titles and are also the current champions.

As of 2022

WEWC former logo timeline

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 themen'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]

From each European nation, the champions of their highest level of women's beach soccer competition (be it a nationalleague orknockout 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 andtravel constraints caused by theCOVID-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]

The tournament starts with the group stage. The clubs are split into groups (typically of four) and compete in around robin format. At the end of the group stage, the top 16 clubs advance to the knockout stage. The teams then compete insingle-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.

Year	Location	№ of clubs		Final				Third place play-off
				Winners	Result	Runners-up		Third place	Result	Fourth 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 CFF		Reims	9–3	Lokrians
2020	Nazaré,Portugal	5		Mriya 2006	[round-robin]	Cáceres		Zvezda	[round-robin]	Marseille BT
2021	Nazaré,Portugal[10]	17		Madrid CFF	6–3	Zvezda		Bonaire Terrassa	5–5 (a.e.t.)[B]	Marseille BT
2022	Nazaré,Portugal[11]	17		Bonaire Terrassa	5–3	San Javier		Marseille BT	3–2	Higicontrol Melilla
2023	Nazaré,Portugal[12]	20		Higicontrol Melilla	3–1	FC10 Ladies		Bonaire Terrassa	6–1	San Javier
2024	Nazaré,Portugal[13]	24		Higicontrol Melilla	4–3	Red Devils Chojnice		Huelva	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Pozoalbense
2025	Nazaré,Portugal	23		Higicontrol Melilla	5–0	Atlético Torroxeño		Zeeland	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Isle of Wight

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third place
Higicontrol Melilla	3 (2023, 2024, 2025)	–	1 (2017)
Zvezda	1 (2018)	1 (2021)	2 (2016, 2020)
San Javier	1 (2019)	1 (2022)	1 (2018)
Madrid CFF	1 (2021)	1 (2019)	–
Bonaire Terrassa	1 (2022)	–	2 (2021, 2023)
Mriya 2006	1 (2020)	–	–
Havana Shots Aargau	1 (2017)	–	–
Grasshoppers	1 (2016)	–	–
Portsmouth	–	2 (2017, 2018)	–
Atlético Torroxeño	–	1 (2025)	–
Red Devils Chojnice	–	1 (2024)	–
FC10 Ladies	–	1 (2023)	–
Cáceres	–	1 (2020)	–
BeachKick Berlin	–	1 (2016)	–
Zeeland	–	–	1 (2025)
Huelva	–	–	1 (2024)
Marseille BT	–	–	1 (2022)
Reims	–	–	1 (2019)

Nation	Winners	Runners-up	Third place
Spain	6	4	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
Netherlands	0	0	1

Year	Top goalscorer(s)	Gls	Best player	Best goalkeeper	Ref.
2016	Marina Fedorova( Zvezda)	18	Rebecca Gabriel( BeachKick Berlin)	Susanne Shutz( Grasshoppers)	[1]
2017	Glafira Bazhanova( Neva)	13	Sarah Kempson( Portsmouth)	Deborah Kehrli( Havana Shots Aargau)	[2]
2018	Mélissa Gomes( Amnéville)	14	Molly Clark( Portsmouth)	Viktoriia Silina( Zvezda)	[3]
2019	Mélissa Gomes( Reims)	14	Carol Glez( San Javier)	Phallon Tullis-Joyce( Reims)	[4]
2020	Anaëlle Wiard( Newteam Brussels)	6	María Herrero( Cáceres)	Anna Akylbaeva( Zvezda)	[5]
2021	Alba Mellado( Madrid)	14	Anna Cherniakova( Zvezda)	Anna Akylbaeva( Zvezda)	[6]
2022	Mélissa Gomes( Marseille BT)	9	Cristina González( Bonaire Terrassa)	Laia García( San Javier)	[7]
2023	Edna Imade( Cáceres)	11	Adriele Rocha( Higicontrol Melilla)	Laura Gallego( Higicontrol Melilla)	[8]
2024	Cristina González( Málaga)	13	Andrea Mirón( Higicontrol Melilla)	Adriana Banaszkiewicz( Red Devils)	[9]
2025	Hannah Adler( Zeeland)	10	Carol Glez( Higicontrol Melilla)	Anastasiia Terekh( Higicontrol Melilla)	[10]

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.

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

Key

	Champions			Group stage
	Runners-up		${\displaystyle n}$	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]		—

Timeline

Years Country	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Total
Belgium	×	×	×	×	1	2	1	1	×	1	6
England	1	1	1	×	×	×	×	×	1	1	5
Estonia	1	×	1	1	×	×	×	×	×	×	3
Finland	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	×	×	×	1
France	×	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	3	2	17
Georgia	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	1	2
Germany	1	1	1	×	×	×	1	1	×	×	5
Gibraltar	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	×	×	×	1
Greece	×	1	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	2
Hungary	×	1	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1
Italy	3	2	2	3	×	1	×	×	2	1	14
Latvia	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1	×	1
Netherlands	2	2	2	2	×	×	1	1	1	1	12
Poland	1	1	2	2	×	1	1	1	1	1	11
Portugal	×	1	1	1	×	2	3	5	7	5	25
Russia	1	2	1	1	1	1	••	••	••	••	7
Spain	1	3	5	6	1	7	5	7	6	7	48
Sweden	×	1	1	1	×	×	×	×	×	×	3
Switzerland	1	1	1	1	×	×	1	2	1	2	10
Ukraine	×	×	×	×	1	2	×	×	×	×	3
Total teams	12	19	20	20	5	17	17	20	24	23	177
Total countries	9	13	12	10	5	8	10	8	10	11	—

• Euro Winners Cup (men's edition)

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

• Women's Euro Winners Cup
• International beach soccer competitions
• Women's association football competitions in Europe
• 2016 establishments in Europe
• Recurring sporting events established in 2016
• Multi-national sports leagues
• Women's international beach soccer

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