The 2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the third edition of the

Women's Euro Winners Cup 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 ...

(WEWC), an annual continental

beach soccer Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand. Whilst football has been played informally on beaches, the introduction of ''beach soccer'' was an a ...

tournament for women's top-division European clubs. The championship is the sport's version of the

UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The ...

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

. Organised by

Beach Soccer Worldwide Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) is the organisation responsible for the founding and growth of association football's derivative sport of beach soccer. The founding partners of BSWW codified the rules of beach soccer in 1992, with BSWW as it is kno ...

(BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazaré,

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

from 28 May till 3 June 2018, in tandem with the larger men's edition. The event began with a

round robin Round-robin may refer to: Computing * Round-robin DNS, a technique for dealing with redundant Internet Protocol service hosts * Round-robin networks, communications networks made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology * Round-robin schedu ...

group stage. At its conclusion, the best teams progressed to the knockout stage, a series of

single elimination A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

games to determine the winners, starting with the Round of 16 and ending with the final.

Consolation match A third place match, game for third place, bronze medal game or consolation game is a single match that is included in many sporting knockout tournaments to decide which competitor or team will be credited with finishing third and fourth. The tea ...

es were also played to determine other final rankings. Havana Shots Aargau of Switzerland were the defending champions, but were knocked out in the quarter-finals by WFC Zvezda of Russia, ultimately finishing in 8th place. WFC Zvezda went on to win their first title, beating Portsmouth Ladies of the England in the final, Pompey's second runners-up finish in a row.

Teams

20 teams entered the tournament – all of whom enter straight into the group stage. 12 different nations are represented.

Qualification

As per BSWW regulations, qualification for the 2018 WEWC is achieved as follows: *The reigning champions qualify automatically (Havana Shots Aargau of

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

). *The winners of all European national women's beach soccer leagues/championships are entitled to automatic qualification. (Note that no league champion from Switzerland qualified as this was Havana Shots Aargau who had already qualified as current WEWC champions) *In countries where women's clubs exist but a national women's league or championship does not yet exist, one club can be nominated to represent that country. *If a national association wishes to enter more than one club, 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.

Entrants

Key: H: Hosts \ TH: Title holders

Venues

Three venues were used in one host city: Nazaré,

Leiria District The District of Leiria ( pt, Distrito de Leiria ) is a district located in Centro region of Portugal, divided between the traditional provinces of Beira Litoral and Estremadura. It borders on the north with district of Coimbra, on the east with ...

. *Matches took place at Praia de Nazaré (Nazaré Beach) on one of three pitches: ::*Host of 12 matches; all main bracket ties from the quarter-finals onwards and all host club (Sporting CP) matches. ::*Host of 24 matches; all Round of 16 ties and all losers brackets ties from the quarter-finals onwards. ::*Host of 26 matches; only used during the group stage.

Squads

Each club must submit a squad of a maximum of 12 players that includes a minimum of two goalkeepers. Players are to be assigned shirt numbers between 1 and 22 (the number 1 must be reserved for a goalkeeper). Three delegates must accompany the players, including at least one medical personnel. A maximum of three foreign players are allowed to be part of the squad. This was later increased to four, however a maximum of three of these players are permitted to play in a match.

Draw

The draw for the group stage took place on May 9 at 12:00 local time in

Nazaré, Portugal Nazaré () is a Portugal, Portuguese town and municipality located in the Oeste Subregion, Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura Province (1936-1976), Estremadura, and in the Leiria District. The municipality has a population of 1 ...

at the Biblioteca Municipal de Nazaré (Nazaré Public Library), conducted by the Mayor of Nazaré, Walter Chicharro, PFP Director Pedro Dias, BSWW Deputy Vice-President, Gabino Renales and BSWW Head of Competitions, Josep Ponset. The BSWW organising committee decided to split the 20 teams into five groups of four, conducting the draw as follows:

Group stage

The group stage fixtures were announced on 16 May. All times are local,

WEST West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, German ...

(

UTC+1 UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in: *Central European Time *West Africa Time *Western European Summer Time ** B ...

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Knockout stage

The top three clubs from each group, plus the best fourth placed team advance to the Round of 16. In the knockout stage, the clubs compete in

single-elimination A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

matches.

Consolation matches Consolation, consolement, and solace are terms referring to psychological comfort given to someone who has suffered severe, upsetting loss, such as the death of a loved one. It is typically provided by expressing shared regret for that loss and ...

are also played to determine the final rankings involving the clubs knocked out of each round of the knockout stage. *Round of 16 draw: :The Round of 16 draw was conducted on 30 May following the conclusion of the day's matches. The 16 clubs were placed into two pots of eight. The five group winners and the three best runners-up (Lady Grembach EE Łódź, Amnéville & Roses Platja) were placed in Pot 1. The remaining two runners-up, the five third-placed teams and the best fourth-placed club were assigned to Pot 2. :For each Round of 16 tie, a club from Pot 1 was drawn to play against a club from Pot 2. However, clubs who finished 1st and 2nd in the same group could not be drawn against each other. As each tie was drawn, they were allocated chronologically from top to bottom in the bracket below. The draw was conducted by the Mayor of Nazaré, Walter Chicharro and Dario Ramacciotti of Viareggio.

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

9th–16th place

1st–8th place

Semi-finals

13th–16th place

9th–12th place

5th–8th place

1st–4th place

Finals

15th place match

13th place match

11th place match

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

3rd place match

Championship final

Awards

The following individual awards were presented after the final.

Top goalscorers

''Players who scored at least 5 goals'' ;14 goals * Melissa Gomes ( Amnéville) ;12 goals * Molly Clark ( Portsmouth Ladies) * Natalia de Francisco Gomez ( Higicontrol Melilla) ;11 goals * Gemma Hillier ( Portsmouth Ladies) ;10 goals * Federica Marino ( Lokrians) ;9 goals * Adri ( Lady Grembach EE Łódź) ;8 goals * Katie James ( Portsmouth Ladies) * Alba Mellado ( Madrid) * Carla Morera ( Roses Platja) ;7 goals * Saki Kushiyama ( Lady Grembach EE Łódź) * Jade Widdowson ( Portsmouth Ladies) * Carolina González ( AIS Playas de San Javier) ;6 goals * Mariana Rosa ( Sporting CP) * Noele Bastos ( Terracina Ladies) * Laura Del Río ( Madrid) * Anastasiia Gorshkova ( WFC Zvezda) * Andrea Miron ( AIS Playas de San Javier) * Anna Cherniakova ( WFC Zvezda) ;5 goals * Sandra Genovesi ( Havana Shots Aargau) * Sarah Kempson ( Portsmouth Ladies) * Louisa Meza ( Sporting CP) * Lorena Asensio ( Higicontrol Melilla) * Maria Soto ( Higicontrol Melilla) * Marta Stodulska ( Lady Grembach EE Łódź) * Silvia Ferrer ( Roses Platja) * Selene Alegre ( Femenino Cáceres) * Celine van Velsen ( HTC Zwolle) Source
/small>

Final standings

References

External links

Women's Euro Winners Cup 2018
, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
Euro Winners Cup Women 2018
at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian) {{2017–18 European club competitions Women's Euro Winners Cup

Euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

2018 in beach soccer Sport in Nazaré, Portugal