2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup

2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	28 May – 3 June 2018
Teams	20 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	3 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	WFC Zvezda (1st title)
Runners-up	Portsmouth Ladies
Third place	AIS Playas de San Javier
Fourth place	Amnéville
Tournament statistics
Matches played	62
Goals scored	417 (6.73 per match)
	← 2017 2019 →

The 2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the third edition of the Women's Euro Winners Cup (WEWC), an annual continental beach soccer tournament for women's top-division European clubs. The championship is the sport's version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in association football.^[1]

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazaré, Portugal from 28 May till 3 June 2018, in tandem with the larger men's edition.^[2]

The event began with a round robin group stage. At its conclusion, the best teams progressed to the knockout stage, a series of single elimination games to determine the winners, starting with the Round of 16 and ending with the final. Consolation matches were also played to determine other final rankings.

Havana Shots Aargau of Switzerland were the defending champions,^[3] 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,^[4] Pompey's second runners-up finish in a row.

Teams[edit]

Portsmouth Ladies

Nõmme Kalju

Grande Motte Pyramide

Amnéville

Beachkick Ladies Berlin

Lokrians

Terracina

HTC Zwolle

DTS Ede

Lady Grembach EE Łódź

KU AZS UAM Poznan

Sporting

Vetlanda United

WFC Zvezda

Higicontrol Melilla

Roses Platja

Madrid

AIS Playas de San Javier

Femenino Cáceres

Havana Shots Aargau

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Location of teams in the 2018 Euro Winners Cup main round.
Groups key:

A;

B;

C;

D;

E.

20 teams entered the tournament – all of whom entered straight into the group stage.^[2]^[5]

12 different nations were represented.

Qualification[edit]

As per BSWW regulations, qualification for the 2018 WEWC is achieved as follows:^[6]

The reigning champions qualify automatically (Havana Shots Aargau of Switzerland).
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[edit]

Key: H: Hosts \ TH: Title holders

Group stage
Sporting CP (H)	AIS Playas de San Javier	DTS Ede	WFC Zvezda
Havana Shots Aargau (TH)	Femenino Cáceres	Amnéville	Beachkick Ladies Berlin
Higicontrol Melilla	Lady Grembach EE Łódź	Grande Motte Pyramide	Nõmme Kalju
Roses Platja	KU AZS UAM Poznan	Lokrians	Portsmouth Ladies
Madrid	HTC Zwolle	Terracina Ladies	Vetlanda United

Venues[edit]

Praia de Nazaré (Nazaré Beach) is the host location of the competition for the second year running.	Nazaré Location of Nazaré in Portugal.

Three venues were used in one host city: Nazaré, Leiria District, Portugal.^[7]

Matches took place at Praia de Nazaré (Nazaré Beach) on one of three pitches:

The Main pitch, otherwise known as the Estádio do Viveiro (Viveiro Stadium), with a capacity of 1,600.^[8]

Host of 12 matches; all main bracket ties from the quarter-finals onwards and all host club (Sporting CP) matches.

Pitch 2, a purpose made pitch, located adjacent to the main stadium.

Host of 24 matches; all Round of 16 ties and all losers brackets ties from the quarter-finals onwards.

Pitch 3, a purpose made pitch, located adjacent to pitch 2.

Host of 26 matches; only used during the group stage.

Squads[edit]

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.^[6] This was later increased to four, however a maximum of three of these players are permitted to play in a match.^[9]

Draw[edit]

The draw for the group stage took place on May 9 at 12:00 local time in Nazaré, Portugal at the Biblioteca Municipal de Nazaré (Nazaré Public Library),^[10] 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.^[11]

The BSWW organising committee decided to split the 20 teams into five groups of four, conducting the draw as follows:^[12]

Draw procedure
The clubs were seeded. From every country represented, each club that finished highest in its country's national league were grouped together and ordered based upon the final ranking of the club that represented their national association in the previous edition of the championship. The exception to this was Sporting CP who, as the host club, were automatically given the number 1 seed and assigned to position A1. The top four clubs in this order received the next top seeds and were automatically assigned to the groups, with the 2nd seed placed in position B1 through to the 5th seed allocated to E1. Out of the remaining 15 clubs, again, from each country still represented, each club that finished highest in its country's national league were grouped together and ordered based upon the 2017 final ranking once more. These clubs in this order received the next top seeds available. For the countries still represented by one or more clubs, this process repeated until every club was seeded. The 15 teams were split into three pots, with the highest seeds placed into Pot 1 down to the lowest seeds placed in Pot 3 (along with one unseeded club, Nõmme Kalju, as there was no representative club of their association in the last edition to calculate a seed from). Each pot consisted of five teams. One team from each pot was drawn into each of the groups, A through E, chronologically. The teams from Pot 1 were assigned to position 2, those from Pot 2, assigned to position 3 and those from Pot 3, position 4. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Auto-assigned clubs	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Pots
Sporting CP (assigned to A1) Havana Shots Aargau (assigned to B1) Portsmouth Ladies (assigned to C1) AIS Playas de San Javier (assigned to D1) WFC Zvezda (assigned to E1)	Roses Platja Beachkick Ladies Berlin Terracina Ladies Lady Grembach EE Łódź HTC Zwolle	Vetlanda United Amnéville Femenino Cáceres Lokrians KU AZS UAM Poznan	DTS Ede Grande Motte Pyramide Higicontrol Melilla Madrid Nõmme Kalju (unseeded)

Group stage[edit]

The group stage fixtures were announced on 16 May.^[13]

All times are local, WEST (UTC+1).

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Higicontrol Melilla	3	3	0	17	8	+9	9	Knockout stage
2	Lady Grembach EE Łódź	3	2	1	13	10	+3	6
3	Sporting CP	3	1	2	9	12	–3	3
4	Vetlanda United	3	0	3	4	13	–9	0

28 May 2018	Lady Grembach EE Łódź	5–1	Vetlanda United	Pitch 3
14:00	Kurek 5' Suskiewicz 20' Kushiyama 26', 27', 28'	Report(ru)	17' Gustafsson

28 May 2018	Higicontrol Melilla	6–3	Sporting CP	Main pitch
17:45	Lorena 3', 22' Perez 4' Gomez 15', 29' Marreiros 18' (o.g.)	Report(ru)	7', 10' M. Rosa 35' Meza	Referee: Benoit Wolff (France)

29 May 2018	Lady Grembach EE Łódź	4–6	Higicontrol Melilla	Pitch 3
14:00	Adri 19', 31', 33' Stodulska 31'	Report(ru)	8' Aixata 14', 30', 35', 36' Gomez 31' Soto

29 May 2018	Sporting CP	3–2	Vetlanda United	Main pitch
17:45	M. Rosa 7', 28' Cruz 19'	Report(ru)	12' Falk 32' Saari	Referee: Raffaele Delvecchio (San Marino)

30 May 2018	Vetlanda United	1–5	Higicontrol Melilla	Pitch 3
14:00	Ivarsson 34'	Report(ru)	2' Lorena 6', 24' Gomez 8' Nerea 15' Perez

30 May 2018	Sporting CP	3–4	Lady Grembach EE Łódź	Main pitch
17:45	Marie 23' Flores 20', 33'	Report(ru)	11' Kurek 14', 24' Kushiyama 22' Stodulska	Referee: Malte Gerhardt (Germany)

Group B[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Beachkick Ladies Berlin	3	2	1	9	7	+2	6	Knockout stage
2	Lokrians	3	2	1	13	13	0	6
3	Havana Shots Aargau	3	1	2	8	11	–3	3
4	Madrid	3	1	2	9	8	+1	3

28 May 2018	Beachkick Ladies Berlin	4–2	Lokrians	Pitch 3
12:45	Schultze 11' Meyer 13' Borger 20' Gabriel 30'	Report(ru)	25', 34' Linza

28 May 2018	Madrid	1–2	Havana Shots Aargau	Pitch 3
19:00	L. Del Rio 10'	Report(ru)	18' Hantz 18' Birrfelder

29 May 2018	Beachkick Ladies Berlin	1–4	Madrid	Pitch 3
12:45	Gabriel 12'	Report(ru)	12', 27' Mellado 33' L. Del Rio 36' Marina

29 May 2018	Havana Shots Aargau	5–6	Lokrians	Pitch 3
19:00	Genovesi 1', 5', 33' Pluss 7' Carmen 34'	Report(ru)	D’amico 7' Marino 13', 17', 26', 29', 31'

30 May 2018	Lokrians	5–4	Madrid	Pitch 3
12:45	D’amico 3', 19' Boutimah 6', 26' Linza 10'	Report(ru)	3' Garrido 7' Mellado 8' Carol 11' L. Del Rio

30 May 2018	Havana Shots Aargau	1–4	Beachkick Ladies Berlin	Pitch 3
19:00	Genovesi 15'	Report(ru)	30' Gabriel 30' Meyer 31' Joswiak 32' Borger

Group C[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portsmouth Ladies	3	3	0	34	5	+29	9	Knockout stage
2	HTC Zwolle	3	2	1	10	10	0	6
3	Femenino Cáceres	3	1	2	6	15	–9	3
4	Nõmme Kalju	3	0	3	4	24	–20	0

28 May 2018	HTC Zwolle	3–1	Femenino Cáceres	Pitch 3
11:30	Tip 17' Van Velsen 35' Ten Brinke 36'	Report(ru)	23' Chaves

28 May 2018	Nõmme Kalju	1–16	Portsmouth Ladies	Pitch 3
17:45	Praun 22'	Report(ru)	10' Short 14', 19', 29', 31' Clark 15', 16', 26', 34' James 17', 26' Scott 22', 32', 36' Hillier 23' Sievwright 32' Widdowson

29 May 2018	HTC Zwolle	4–2	Nõmme Kalju	Pitch 3
11:30	De Laat 1', 23' Van Velsen 3' Tip 27'	Report(ru)	3', 34' Andre

29 May 2018	Portsmouth Ladies	11–1	Femenino Cáceres	Pitch 3
17:45	Hillier 5', 15' Kempson 8', 10', 24' Clark 12', 13', 22' Widdowson 22', 26', 30'	Report(ru)	18' Solano

30 May 2018	Femenino Cáceres	4–1	Nõmme Kalju	Pitch 3
11:30	Pajuelo 2' Hernández 8' Alegre 21' Solano 30'	Report(ru)	10' Andre

30 May 2018	Portsmouth Ladies	7–3	HTC Zwolle	Pitch 3
17:45	Hillier 2', 3', 20' James 8', 14' Clark 19', 33'	Report(ru)	2', 33' Ten Brinke 13' Boerrigter

Group D[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AIS Playas de San Javier	3	2	1	11	7	+4	6	Knockout stage
2	Amnéville	3	2	1	9	8	+1	6
3	Terracina Ladies	3	2	1	11	9	+2	6
4	DTS Ede	3	0	3	6	13	–7	0

28 May 2018	Terracina Ladies	2–4	Amnéville	Pitch 3
10:15	Bastos 8', 30'	Report(ru)	13' Corplet 17' Dautun 20', 32' Gomes

28 May 2018	DTS Ede	2–4	AIS Playas de San Javier	Pitch 3
16:30	Zech 13' Blankespoor 28'	Report(ru)	1' Carol Glz 9' Villar 28' Miron 33' Marta

29 May 2018	Terracina Ladies	5–2	DTS Ede	Pitch 3
10:15	Dou 9', 30' Bastos 24', 27' Paggiarino 34'	Report(ru)	24' De Bondt 32' Blankespoor

29 May 2018	AIS Playas de San Javier	4–1	Amnéville	Pitch 3
16:30	Karen 8' Carmen M. 22', 24' Marta 31'	Report(ru)	34' Gomes

30 May 2018	Amnéville	4–2	DTS Ede	Pitch 3
10:15	Gomes 8', 22' Simon 24' Corplet 25'	Report(ru)	12' Zech 24' Van Dijk

30 May 2018	AIS Playas de San Javier	3–4	Terracina Ladies	Pitch 3
16:30	Patricia 29' Karen 29' Carol Glz 36'	Report(ru)	14' Altobelli 26', 36' Colodetti 27' Maiorca

Group E[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	WFC Zvezda	3	1	1	1	0	15	9	+6	6	Knockout stage
2	Roses Platja	3	2	0	0	1	12	7	+5	6
3	KU AZS UAM Poznan	3	1	0	0	2	6	11	–5	3
4	Grande Motte Pyramide	3	0	0	0	3	7	13	–6	0

28 May 2018	Grande Motte Pyramide	4–6 (a.e.t.)	WFC Zvezda	Pitch 3
15:15	Bouquet 3' Mula 11' Sica 18' Courtial 26'	Report(ru)	15', 38' Osinovskaia 18' Kanaeva 19' Zaitseva 29' Cherniakova 37' Akylbaeva

28 May 2018	Roses Platja	4–2	KU AZS UAM Poznan	Pitch 2
19:00	Geral 16' Ferrer 28', 32' Morera 32'	Report(ru)	10' Falborska 36' Lichtenstein

29 May 2018	WFC Zvezda	6–2	KU AZS UAM Poznan	Pitch 3
09:00	Khutornaia 1' Gorshkova 9', 16' Bazhanova 26' Stakhovskaia 29' Cherniakova 30'	Report(ru)	16' Puk 25' Zajac

29 May 2018	Roses Platja	5–2	Grande Motte Pyramide	Pitch 3
15:15	Zaira 9' Morera 16', 36' Geral 24' Ferrer 36'	Report(ru)	9' Courtial 17' Mula

30 May 2018	KU AZS UAM Poznan	2–1	Grande Motte Pyramide	Pitch 3
09:00	Falborska 12' Zajac 24'	Report(ru)	35' Descot

30 May 2018	WFC Zvezda	3–3 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p)	Roses Platja	Pitch 3
15:15	Cherniakova 8' Gorshkova 10' Zaitseva 23'	Report(ru)	13', 33' Pascu 21' Lidia
	Penalties
	Kanaeva Osinovskaia Cherniakova		Pascu Morera

Knockout stage[edit]

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 matches. Consolation matches 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.^[14]

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.^[14]

Main bracket

Round of 16		Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final



Amnéville	7

KU AZS UAM Poznan	5
		Amnéville	3

		Femenino Cáceres	1
Higicontrol Melilla	3 (1)

Femenino Cáceres (p)	3 (3)
				Amnéville	4

				Portsmouth Ladies	5
Lady Grembach EE Łódź (a.e.t.)	4

Madrid	3
		Lady Grembach EE Łódź	4 (4)

		Portsmouth Ladies (p)	4 (5)
Portsmouth Ladies	4

Terracina Ladies	2
						Portsmouth Ladies	0

						WFC Zvezda	2
WFC Zvezda	6

HTC Zwolle	2
		WFC Zvezda	5

		Havana Shots Aargau	2
Beachkick Ladies Berlin	0

Havana Shots Aargau	2
				WFC Zvezda	4

				AIS Playas de San Javier	2	Third place
Roses Platja	5

Sporting CP	2
		Roses Platja	1			Amnéville	1

		AIS Playas de San Javier	3			AIS Playas de San Javier	3
AIS Playas de San Javier	10

Lokrians	1

Losers brackets

Round of 16 losers bracket


13th place play-off		13th–16th place semi-finals		9th-16th place quarter-finals		9th-12th place semi-finals		9th place play-off



				KU AZS UAM Poznan	0

				Higicontrol Melilla	5

		KU AZS UAM Poznan	1			Higicontrol Melilla	3

		Madrid	7			Terracina Ladies	1

				Madrid	5 (0)

				Terracina Ladies (p)	5 (2)

Madrid	4							Higicontrol Melilla	1

Beachkick Ladies Berlin	5							Sporting CP	4

				HTC Zwolle	2

				Beachkick Ladies Berlin	1

15th place play-off		Beachkick Ladies Berlin	7			HTC Zwolle	2	11th place play-off

		Lokrians	3			Sporting CP	3

KU AZS UAM Poznan	4			Sporting CP	6			Terracina Ladies	0

Lokrians	5			Lokrians	2			HTC Zwolle	1

Quarter-finals losers bracket

5th–8th place semi-finals		5th place play-off

Femenino Cáceres	2

Lady Grembach EE Łódź	5
		Lady Grembach EE Łódź	6

		Roses Platja	2
Havana Shots Aargau	2

Roses Platja	3	7th place play-off


		Femenino Cáceres	3

		Havana Shots Aargau	1

Round of 16[edit]

31 May 2018

11:30

Amnéville	7–5	KU AZS UAM Poznan
Gomes 5', 7', 11', 19', 30' Simon 13', 15'	Report(ru)	14' Zajac 21', 32' Falborska 28' (o.g.) Burtin 30' Jankowska

Pitch 2

Referee: Attila Balint (Romania)

31 May 2018

12:45

Higicontrol Melilla	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Femenino Cáceres
Asensio 17' Soto 22' Gomez 25'	Report(ru)	13' Alegre 22' Hernandez 24' Pajuelo
Penalties
Soto Asensio	1–3	Alegre Pajuelo Molano

Pitch 2

Referee: Sadagat Valiyeva (Azerbaijan)

31 May 2018

14:00

AIS Playas de San Javier	10–1	Lokrians
Miron 4', 15' Carol Glz 11', 27' Jessi 16' Marta 20' Sara Tui 22' Heba 28' Patricia 29' Villar 33'	Report(ru)	4' Marino

Pitch 2

Referee: Richard de Bruijn (Netherlands)

31 May 2018

15:15

Lady Grembach EE Łódź	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Madrid
Kushiyama 14', 32' Borowiec 27' Stodulska 37'	Report(ru)	9', 34' Del Rio 27' Mellado

Pitch 2

Referee: Alfredo Pavone (Italy)

31 May 2018

16:30

WFC Zvezda	6–2	HTC Zwolle
Gorshkova 3', 10', 28' Ivashkina 19' Zaitseva 20' Cherniakova 31'	Report(ru)	27' Van Velsen 31' Boerrigter

Pitch 2

Referee: Csaba Baghy (Hungary)

31 May 2018

16:30

Roses Platja	5–2	Sporting CP
Ferrer 2', 28' Chamorro 8' Morera 27', 27'	Report(ru)	2' Marreiros 29' Cruz

Main pitch

Referee: Moussa Bounaanaa (France)

31 May 2018

17:45

Portsmouth Ladies	4–2	Terracina Ladies
James 5' Widdowson 20' Hillier 23' Clark 35'	Report(ru)	8' Colodetti 13' Maiorca

Pitch 2

Referee: Malte Gerhardt (Germany)

31 May 2018

19:00

Beachkick Ladies Berlin	0–2	Havana Shots Aargau
	Report(ru)	20' Genovesi 26' Hantz

Pitch 2

Referee: Yeliz Topaloglu (Turkey)

Quarter-finals[edit]

9th–16th place[edit]

1 June 2018