Women's Euro Winners Cup

Founding

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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

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

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.

Successful clubs

More information Team, Winners ...

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)

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Successful nations

More information Nation, Winners ...

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

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Awards

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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	Carol Glez ( 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)
2022	Mélissa Gomes ( Marseille BT)	9	Cristina González ( Bonaire Terrassa)	Laia García ( San Javier)
2023	Edna Imade ( Cáceres)	11	Adriele Rocha ( Higicontrol Melilla)	Laura Gallego ( Higicontrol Melilla)
2024	Cristina González ( Málaga)	13	Andrea Mirón ( Higicontrol Melilla)	Adriana Banaszkiewicz ( Red Devils)
2025	Hannah Adler ( Zeeland)	10	Carol Glez ( Higicontrol Melilla)	Anastasiia Terekh ( Higicontrol Melilla)

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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		${\displaystyle n}$	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

More information YearsCountry, Total ...

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	—

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