2023 Women's Euro Winners Cup

2023 Women's Euro Winners Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	12–18 June
Teams	20 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Higicontrol Melilla (1st title)
Runners-up	FC10 Ladies
Third place	Bonaire Terrassa
Fourth place	San Javier
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	302 (6.29 per match)
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The 2023 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the eighth 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 viewed as beach soccer's rudimentary version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in its parent sport, association football. ^[1]

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazaré, Portugal, in tandem with the larger men's edition, from 12 to 18 June. ^[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 quarter-finals and ending with the final. Consolation matches were also played to determine other final rankings.

Bonaire Terrassa of Spain were the defending champions, but failed to defend their title, falling at the semi-finals and finishing in third place. It was won by Higicontrol Melilla of Spain, who won their first title. ^[3]

Teams

20 clubs from eight different nations entered the event. ^[4]

In accordance with sanctions imposed by FIFA and UEFA in 2022 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, clubs from Russia remain banned from entering this year. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Key: H: Hosts \ TH: Title holders

Group stage
Spain (7)	Bonaire Terrassa (TH)		France (2)	Marseille BT
	Cáceres			Marseille Minots
	FAL		Switzerland (2)	Havanna Shots Aargau
	Higicontrol Melilla			Rappiranhas
	Malaga		Belgium (1)	Newteam Brussels
	Pozoalbense		Germany (1)	Lieberampool
	San Javier		Netherlands (1)	Zeeland
Portugal (5)	ACD O Sotão (H)		Poland (1)	FC10 Ladies
	Nazaré 2022
	Pastéis
	SandGames Figueira
	Estoril

Draw

The draw to split the 20 clubs into five groups of four took place on 18 May. ^{[4] [9] [10]}

Group stage

The designation of "home" and "away" teams displayed in the results matrices is for administrative purposes only.

Matches take place from 12 to 14 June.

All group winners, runners-up and third-placed teams, along with the best fourth-placed team, progressed to the knockout stage.

Key

• ^† – Walkover
• * – Extra-time result
• ^♦ – Match decided by penalty shootout

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ACD	RAP	FAL	MMS
1	ACD O Sótão (H)	3	3	0	0	0	9	4	+5	9	Knockout stage		—	3–2	—	3–0†
2	Rappiranhas	3	2	0	0	1	10	4	+6	6			—	—	5–1	0–3†
3	FAL	3	1	0	0	2	6	8	−2	3			2–3	—	—	—
4	Marseille Minots	3	0	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0	Withdrew		—	—	0–3†	—

Source: BSWW
(H) Host

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BON	MAL	PAS	HSA
1	Bonaire Terrassa	3	2	1	0	0	16	9	+7	8	Knockout stage		—	—	4–3*	7–4
2	Malaga	3	2	0	0	1	10	8	+2	6			2–5	—	—	—
3	Pastéis	3	1	0	0	2	7	9	−2	3			—	1–3	—	2–3
4	Havanna Shots Aargau	3	0	0	0	3	8	15	−7	0			—	2–5	—	—

Source: BSWW

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CAC	SJA	LIE	NAZ
1	Cáceres	3	3	0	0	0	20	6	+14	9	Knockout stage		—	4–1	—	—
2	San Javier	3	2	0	0	1	10	7	+3	6			—	—	4–1	5–2
3	Lieberampool	3	1	0	0	2	8	14	−6	3			2–7	—	—	—
4	Nazaré 2022	3	0	0	0	3	8	19	−11	0			3–9	—	5–3	—

Source: BSWW

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		HIG	MAR	NEW	SGF
1	Higicontrol Melilla	3	3	0	0	0	12	0	+12	9	Knockout stage		—	3–0	—	—
2	Marseille BT	3	2	0	0	1	10	10	0	6			—	—	4–2	6–5
3	Newteam Brussels	3	1	0	0	2	4	10	−6	3			0–5	—	—	1–2
4	SandGames Figueira	3	0	0	0	3	6	12	−6	0			0–4	—	—	—

Source: BSWW

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FCL	POZ	ZEE	EST
1	FC10 Ladies	3	3	0	0	0	20	4	+16	9	Knockout stage		—	—	10–3	9–1
2	Pozoalbense	3	2	0	0	1	10	4	+6	6			0–1	—	—	—
3	Zeeland	3	1	0	0	2	11	19	−8	3			—	2–5	—	4–6
4	Estoril	3	0	0	0	3	6	20	−14	0			—	1–5	—	—

Source: BSWW

Knockout stage

	17th place match
	15 June; Report
	Havana Shots Aargau	3 (3)
	Nazaré 2022 (p)	3 (4)

The draw for the round of 16, and allocation of ties to the bracket, took place after the conclusion of all group stage matches on 14 June. ^[11]

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semi-finals

Final

15 June; Report

Higicontrol Melilla

3

16 June; Report

Malaga

1

Higicontrol Melilla

4

15 June; Report

Rappiranhas

1

Rappiranhas (p)

3 (3)

17 June; Report

Marseille BT

3 (2)

Higicontrol Melilla

2

15 June; Report

San Javier

0

San Javier

3

16 June; Report

FAL

1

San Javier

5

15 June; Report

Zeeland

2

ACD O Sótão

1

18 June; Report

Zeeland

2

Higicontrol Melilla

3

15 June; Report

FC10 Ladies

1

Bonaire Terrassa

8

16 June; Report

Lieberampool

1

Bonaire Terrassa

7

3rd place match

15 June; Report

Cáceres

1

18 June; Report

Cáceres

4

17 June; Report

San Javier

6

Pastéis

1

Bonaire Terrassa

1

Bonaire Terrassa

1

15 June; Report

FC10 Ladies

2

FC10 Ladies

7

16 June; Report

SandGames Figueira

1

FC10 Ladies

3

5th–8th semi-finals

5th place match

15 June; Report

Pozoalbense

1

17 June; Report

Pozoalbense

1

Rappiranhas

9

Newteam Brussels

0

18 June; Report

Zeeland

1

Rappiranhas

0

17 June; Report

Cáceres

3

Cáceres (p)

5 (4)

Pozoalbense

5 (3)

7th place match

18 June; Report

Zeeland

4

Pozoalbense

7

Awards

The following individual awards were presented after the final. ^[3]

Top scorer(s)
Edna Imade ( Cáceres)
11 goals
Best player
Adriele Rocha ( Higicontrol Melilla)
Best goalkeeper
Laura Gallego ( Higicontrol Melilla)

Top goalscorers

Players with at least three goals are listed.

11 goals

• Edna Imade ( Cáceres)

9 goals

• Alba Mellado ( Malaga)
• Anaëlle Wiard ( San Javier)
• Cristina Gonzalez ( Bonaire Terrassa)

7 goals

• Adriele Rocha ( Higicontrol Melilla)
• Maria Del Rocio ( Bonaire Terrassa)
• Maria Corbacho ( Cáceres)

6 goals

• Saki Kushiyama ( Marseille BT)
• Wiktoria Kaczmarek ( FC10 Ladies)
• Adriana Manau ( Bonaire Terrassa)
• Olesia Malinovska ( Zeeland)
• Nikki Haimes ( Pozoalbense)

5 goals

• Emma Jensen ( Lieberampool)
• Paulina Bednarska ( FC10 Ladies)
• Kornelia Okoniewska ( FC10 Ladies)
• Kamila Komisarczyk ( FC10 Ladies)
• María Herrero ( Cáceres)

4 goals

• Taiane Da Costa ( Marseille BT)
• Joana Pires ( Nazaré 2022)
• Andrea Mirón ( Higicontrol Melilla)
• Katarzyna Gozdek ( FC10 Ladies)
• Myroslava Vypasniak ( FC10 Ladies)
• Laura Chamizo ( Terrassa Bonaire)
• Sina Cavelti ( Rappiranhas)
• Marina López ( Cáceres)
• María Romero ( Pozoalbense)

3 goals

• Mariana Prazeres ( Estoril)
• Joana Rosa ( Pastéis)
• Joana Flores ( ACD O Sótão)
• Jessica Costa ( SandGames Figueira)
• Klaudia Grodzicka ( FC10 Ladies)
• Marie Bougard ( San Javier)
• Gemma-Louise Hillier ( Terrassa Bonaire)
• Pascale Küffer ( Rappiranhas)
• Carmen Acedo ( Cáceres)
• Sylvana Tieleman ( Zeeland)
• Bethany Haynes ( Zeeland)
• Sharona Tieleman ( Zeeland)
• Cristina Dominguez ( Pozoalbense)
• Marin Fujisawa ( Pozoalbense)

Source: BSWW

Final standings

Rank	Team	Result
1	Higicontrol Melilla	Champions (1st title)
2	FC10 Ladies	Runners-up
3	Bonaire Terrassa	Third place
4	San Javier	Placement determined by play-offs
5	Cáceres
6	Rappiranhas
7	Pozoalbense
8	Zeeland
9–16	ACD O Sótão	Eliminated in the Round of 16
	FAL
	Lieberampool
	Malaga
	Marseille BT
	Newteam Brussels
	Pastéis
	SandGames Figueira
17	Nazaré 2022	Placement determined by play-off
18	Havana Shots Aargau
19	Estoril	Eliminated in the group stage
20	Marseille Minots	Withdrew

References

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2. "The Euro Winners will return to Nazaré in 2023". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
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External links

• Women's Euro Winners Cup 2023, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
• Women's Euro Winners Cup 2023, at ZeroZero.pt (in Portuguese)