| Tourney Name: | 2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup |
| Size: | 175px |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Dates: | 28 May – 3 June 2018 |
| Num Teams: | 20 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 3 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champion Other: | WFC Zvezda |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second Other: | Portsmouth Ladies |
| Fourth Other: | Amnéville |
| Matches: | 62 |
| Goals: | 417 |
| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 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.
20 teams entered the tournament – all of whom entered straight into the group stage.[2] [5]
12 different nations were represented.
As per BSWW regulations, qualification for the 2018 WEWC is achieved as follows:
Key: H: Hosts \ TH: Title holders
| Group stage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting CP | AIS Playas de San Javier | DTS Ede | WFC Zvezda | |
| Havana Shots Aargau | 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 | |
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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.[7] This was later increased to four, however a maximum of three of these players are permitted to play in a match.[8]
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),[9] 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.[10]
The BSWW organising committee decided to split the 20 teams into five groups of four, conducting the draw as follows:[11]
| width=220 | Auto-assigned clubs | width=200 | Pot 1 | width=200 | Pot 2 | width=200 | Pot 3 | |
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The group stage fixtures were announced on 16 May.[12]
All times are local, WEST (UTC+1).
| Team | Qualification | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Higicontrol Melilla | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 9 | Knockout stage | |
| 2 | Lady Grembach EE Łódź | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 6 | ||
| 3 | Sporting CP | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 12 | –3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | Vetlanda United | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 13 | –9 | 0 |
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| Team | Qualification | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beachkick Ladies Berlin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Lokrians | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 6 | |
| 3 | Havana Shots Aargau | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 11 | –3 | 3 | |
| 4 | Madrid | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 3 |
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| Team | Qualification | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portsmouth Ladies | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 5 | +29 | 9 | Knockout stage | |
| 2 | HTC Zwolle | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 3 | Femenino Cáceres | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 15 | –9 | 3 | ||
| 4 | Nõmme Kalju | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 24 | –20 | 0 |
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| Team | Qualification | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AIS Playas de San Javier | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 6 | Knockout stage | |
| 2 | Amnéville | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 6 | ||
| 3 | Terracina Ladies | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 6 | ||
| 4 | DTS Ede | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | –7 | 0 |
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| Team | 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 |
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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.
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.[13]
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.[13]
The following individual awards were presented after the final.[14]
| width=320 colspan=3 | Top scorer | |
|---|---|---|
 Melissa Gomes (Amnéville) | ||
| 14 goals | ||
| Best player | ||
| Molly Clark (Portsmouth Ladies) | ||
| Best goalkeeper | ||
 Viktoriia Silina (WFC Zvezda) | ||
Players who scored at least 5 goals
Amnéville)
Natalia de Francisco Gomez ( Higicontrol Melilla)
Federica Marino ( Lokrians)
Adri (
Lady Grembach EE Łódź) Alba Mellado ( Madrid) Carla Morera ( Roses Platja)
Saki Kushiyama ( Lady Grembach EE Łódź) Carolina González ( AIS Playas de San Javier) Noele Bastos ( Terracina Ladies) Laura Del Río ( Madrid) Anastasiia Gorshkova ( WFC Zvezda) Andrea Miron ( AIS Playas de San Javier) Anna Cherniakova ( WFC Zvezda)
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)| width=40 | Rank | width=200 | Team | width=180 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WFC Zvezda | Champions (1st title) | |||
| 2 | Portsmouth Ladies | Runners-up | |||
| 3 | AIS Playas de San Javier | Third place | |||
| 4 | Amnéville | ||||
| 5 | Lady Grembach EE Łódź | ||||
| 6 | Roses Platja | ||||
| 7 | Femenino Cáceres | ||||
| 8 | Havana Shots Aargau | ||||
| 9 | Sporting CP | ||||
| 10 | Higicontrol Melilla | ||||
| 11 | HTC Zwolle | ||||
| 12 | Terracina Ladies | ||||
| 13 | Beachkick Ladies Berlin | ||||
| 14 | Madrid | ||||
| 15 | Lokrians | ||||
| 16 | KU AZS UAM Poznan |