The 2024 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the ninth 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.
Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazaré, Portugal, in tandem with the larger men's edition, from 10 to 16 June.
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.
Higicontrol Melilla of Spain were the defending champions and successfully retained the title, becoming the first club to win consecutive titles.
Teams 24 clubs from ten different nations enter the event.
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.
Key: H: Host club \ TH: Title holders Group stage (7) Estoril (3) Marseille BT Ilha Marseille Minots Nazaré 2022 Southern Cévennes O Sótão (H) (2) Cagliari O Sótão "B" Lady Terracina Pastéis (1) Isle of Wight SandGames Figueira (1) Dinamo Batumi (6)FAL Cádiz (1) Riga Higicontrol Melilla (TH) (1) Zeeland Huelva (1) Red Devils Chojnice Málaga (1) Rappiranhas MazarrónPozoalbense
Draw The draw to split the 24 clubs into six groups of four took place on 16 May.
Group stage All group winners and runners-up, along with the four best third-placed teams, progress to the knockout stage.
The two worst third-placed teams and all fourth placed teams recede to a set of consolation matches to determine final placements.
Key Group A 10 June Dinamo Batumi 3–9 Pozoalbense10 June Riga 1–5 O Sótão11 June Dinamo Batumi 4–6 Riga11 June O Sótão 2–3 Pozoalbense12 June Pozoalbense 0–0 (3–5 p.) Riga12 June O Sótão 9–2 Dinamo Batumi
Group B 10 June Estoril 3–1 O Sótão "B" 10 June Marseille Minots 0–6 Higicontrol Melilla 11 June Estoril 1–6 Marseille Minots 11 June Higicontrol Melilla 11–0 O Sótão "B" 12 June O Sótão "B" 2–7 Marseille Minots 12 June Higicontrol Melilla 9–1 Estoril
Group C 10 June SandGames Figueira 0–1 Mazarrón10 June Lady Terracina 3–3 (2–1 p.) Marseille BT11 June SandGames Figueira 5–5 (1–3 p.) Lady Terracina11 June Marseille BT 5–5 (3–4 p.) Mazarrón12 June Mazarrón 2–0 Lady Terracina12 June Marseille BT 8–2 SandGames Figueira
Group D 10 June Ilha 1–9 Huelva10 June Isle of Wight 2–4 Zeeland11 June Ilha 2–2 (1–3 p.) Isle of Wight11 June Zeeland 3–6 Huelva12 June Huelva 3–3 (4–2 p.) Isle of Wight12 June Zeeland 3–3 (4–1 p.) Ilha
Group E 10 June Pastéis 0–3 FAL Cádiz10 June Red Devils Chojnice 1–1 (3–1 p.) Cagliari11 June Pastéis 3–2 Red Devils Chojnice11 June Cagliari 3–4 (a.e.t.) FAL Cádiz12 June FAL Cádiz 1–5 Red Devils Chojnice12 June Cagliari 4–5 Pastéis
Group F 10 June Nazaré 2022 1–7 Málaga10 June Southern Cévennes 2–5 Rappiranhas11 June Nazaré 2022 2–0 Southern Cévennes11 June Rappiranhas 0–6 Málaga12 June Málaga 15–2 Southern Cévennes12 June Rappiranhas 4–1 Nazaré 2022
Placement matches Matches took place on 13 June.
Knockout stage Round of 16 onwards
Championship match details
Awards The following individual awards were presented after the final. Top scorer(s) Cristina Gonzalez ( Málaga)13 goals Best player Andrea Mirón ( Higicontrol Melilla)Best goalkeeper Adriana Banaszkiewicz ( Red Devils Chojnice)
Top goalscorers Players with at least four goals are listed.
13 goals Cristina Gonzalez ( Málaga) 12 goals Patri Miñano ( Mazarrón) 11 goals
Marin Fujisawa ( Huelva) Alba Mellado ( Málaga)
8 goals
Lorena Medeiros ( Marseille Minots) Louise Arseneault ( FAL Cádiz) Sil Neves ( Pastéis) Adriana Manau ( Málaga)
7 goals Natalia Cuadrado ( Higicontrol Melilla) 6 goals
Tatia Shainidze ( Dinamo Batumi) Agostina Tasinazzo ( Zeeland) Andrea Mirón ( Higicontrol Melilla) María Soto ( Huelva) María Pilar Sánchez ( Pozoalbense) Danielle Barboza ( Marseille BT) Anaëlle Wiard ( Marseille BT) Laura Mulero ( Mazarrón)
5 goals
Lydia Raja ( Zeeland) Jéssica Santos ( O Sótão) Nerea Miralles ( Higicontrol Melilla) Laura Gallego ( Higicontrol Melilla) Aleksandra Sudyk ( Red Devils Chojnice) Eva Castaño ( Huelva) Saki Kushiyama ( Marseille BT)
4 goals
Maria Vecchione ( Cagliari) Marissa Vasquez ( Isle of Wight) Alisha Buckingham ( Isle of Wight) Laurine Herbster ( Southern Cévennes) Marta Simões ( Ilha) Inês Bastos ( Ilha) Mariam Artmeladze ( Dinamo Batumi) Myroslava Vypasniak ( Riga) Petra Niceia ( O Sótão) Mariana Prazeres ( Estoril) Sara Tui ( Higicontrol Melilla) Carolina Gonzalez ( Higicontrol Melilla) Paqui Campoy ( Pozoalbense) Irene Mateos ( Pozoalbense) Maria Milene ( Pastéis) Kornelia Okoniewska ( Higicontrol Melilla)
Source: BSWW
Final standings RankTeamResult 1 Higicontrol Melilla Champions (2nd title) 2 Red Devils Chojnice Runners-up 3 Huelva Third place 4 Pozoalbense 5 Málaga Eliminated in the Quarter-finals 6 Mazarrón 7 Pastéis 8 Marseille BT 9 O Sótão Eliminated in the Round of 16 10 Marseille Minots 11 FAL Cádiz 12 Rappiranhas 13 Riga 14 Zeeland 15 Nazaré 2022 16 Estoril 17 Isle of Wight Eliminated in the Group Stage 18 Lady Terracina 19 Cagliari 20 SandGames Figueira 21 Ilha 22 Dinamo Batumi 23 Southern Cévennes 24 O Sótão "B"
See also Futsal Women's European Champions
References
External links Women's Euro Winners Cup 2024, at Beach Soccer Worldwide Women's Euro Winners Cup 2024, at ZeroZero.pt (in Portuguese)