2016 Women's Euro Winners Cup Host country Italy Dates 24 May – 29 May 2016 Teams 12 (from 1 confederation) Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city) Champions Grasshoppers (1st title) Runners-up BeachKick Ladies BerlinThird place WFC ZvezdaFourth place CatanzaroMatches played 34 Goals scored 321 (9.44 per match) Top scorer(s) Marina Fedorova (18 goals)Best player(s) Rebecca GabrielBest goalkeeper Susanne Shutz
International football competition
The 2016 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the first edition of Women's Euro Winners Cup , an annual continental beach soccer tournament for top European women's clubs. Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW),[1] the championship is the sport's version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in association football .[2]
Held in Catania , Italy from 24 to 29 May 2016 in tandem with the men's edition ,[1] the event started 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. Consolation matches were also played to determine other final rankings.
The tournament was won by Swiss team Grasshoppers who beat Germany's BeachKick Ladies Berlin in the final to win their first European title.[3]
Participating teams [ edit ] 12 teams entered the inaugural tournament from nine countries – the top-level domestic beach soccer league/championship champions plus, for some countries, other top non-champions clubs from the nation indicated.
Group stage Catania HTC Zwolle Grasshoppers UKS Sparta Daleszyce Catanzaro DTS' 35 WFC Zvezda Beachkick Ladies Berlin Terracina Ladies Portsmouth Nomme Kalju Sogesport Club Esportiu
The draw to split the 12 teams into three groups of four took place in the morning of 4 May in the host city of Cantaia, Italy alongside the men's competition draw.[4]
As the club representing the host city Catania, DomusBet Catania BS were assigned to Group A. The other teams were then drawn to one of the three groups. Clubs from the same country could not be drawn into the same group.[4]
Group stage [ edit ] Matches took place at the DombusBet Arena .[5]
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2 ).
Group A [ edit ] Team Qualification 1 Sogesport Club Esportiu 3 2 0 0 1 21 10 +11 6 Knockout stage 2 DTS' 35 3 2 0 0 1 17 10 +7 6 3 Catania 3 2 0 0 1 14 14 0 6 4 UKS Sparta Daleszyce 3 0 0 0 3 7 25 –18 0 9th–12th place play-offs
DTS' 35 v UKS Sparta Daleszyce Sogesport Club Esportiu v Catania DTS' 35 v Sogesport Club Esportiu Catania v UKS Sparta Daleszyce UKS Sparta Daleszyce v Sogesport Club Esportiu Catania v DTS' 35
Group B [ edit ] Team Qualification 1 Grasshoppers 3 3 0 0 0 17 9 +8 9 Knockout stage 2 Portsmouth 3 2 0 0 1 12 10 +2 6 3 Terracina Ladies 3 1 0 0 2 14 14 0 3 9th–12th place play-offs 4 HTC Zwolle 3 0 0 0 3 10 20 –10 0
Portsmouth v Terracina Ladies HTC Zwolle v Grasshoppers Portsmouth v HTC Zwolle Grasshoppers v Terracina Ladies Grasshoppers v Portsmouth Terracina Ladies v HTC Zwolle
Group C [ edit ] Team Qualification 1 WFC Zvezda 3 2 0 1 0 21 8 +13 7 Knockout stage 2 Beachkick Ladies Berlin 3 2 0 0 1 19 10 +9 6 3 Catanzaro 3 1 0 0 2 20 11 +9 3 4 Nomme Kalju 3 0 0 0 3 2 33 –31 0 9th–12th place play-offs
Beachkick Ladies Berlin v Nomme Kalju Catanzaro v WFC Zvezda Beachkick Ladies Berlin v Catanzaro WFC Zvezda v Nomme Kalju Nomme Kalju v Catanzaro WFC Zvezda v Beachkick Ladies Berlin
Ranking of third placed teams [ edit ] Team Qualification 1 A Catania 3 2 0 0 1 14 14 0 6 Knockout stage 2 C Catanzaro 3 1 0 0 2 20 11 +9 3 3 B Terracina Ladies 3 1 0 0 2 14 14 0 3
9th–12th place play-offs [ edit ] The teams finishing in fourth place and the worst third placed team were knocked out of title-winning contention, receding to play in consolation matches to determine 9th through 12th place in the final standings.
9th–12th place semi-finals Ninth place play-off B4 HTC Zwolle 5 A4 UKS Sparta Daleszyce 4 B4 HTC Zwolle 7 B3 Terracina Ladies 4 B3 Terracina Ladies 4 C4 Nomme Kalju 1 Eleventh place play-off A4 UKS Sparta Daleszyce 1 C4 Nomme Kalju 0
9th–12th place semi-finals [ edit ] Eleventh place play-off [ edit ] Ninth place play-off [ edit ] Knockout stage [ edit ] The group winners, runners-up and two best third placed teams progressed to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title.
5th place play-off 5th–8th place semi-finals Quarter finals Semi-finals Final B2 Portsmouth 3 C2 Beachkick L. Berlin 4 B2 Portsmouth 3 C2 Beachkick L. Berlin 8 A1 S. Club Esportiu 1 C3 Catanzaro 5 A1 Sogesport Club Esportiu 3 C3 Catanzaro 5 B2 Portsmouth 6 C2 Beachkick L. Berlin 4 A3 Catania 4 B1 Grasshoppers 5 C1 WFC Zvezda 15 A2 DTS' 35 2 7th place play-off A2 DTS' 35 5 C1 WFC Zvezda 3 3rd place play-off A3 Catania 7 B1 Grasshoppers 4 A1 S. Club Esportiu (a.e.t. ) 5 B1 Grasshoppers 9 C3 Catanzaro 3 A2 DTS' 35 4 A3 Catania 8 C1 WFC Zvezda 5
Quarter-finals [ edit ] The losers receded to play in consolation matches to determine 5th through 8th place in the final standings.
The winners proceeded to continue to compete for the title.
Semi-finals [ edit ] 5th–8th place [ edit ] 1st–4th place [ edit ] Seventh place play-off [ edit ] Fifth place play-off [ edit ] Third place play-off [ edit ] Top scorer Marina Fedorova ( WFC Zvezda) 18 goals Best player Rebecca Gabriel ( BeachKick Ladies Berlin) Best goalkeeper Susanne Shutz ( Grasshoppers)
Final standings [ edit ] Rank Team Result 1 Grasshoppers Champions (1st title) 2 BeachKick Ladies Berlin Runners-up 3 WFC Zvezda Third place 4 Catanzaro 5 Portsmouth 6 Catania 7 Sogesport Club Esportiu 8 DTS' 35 9 HTC Zwolle 10 Terracina Ladies 11 UKS Sparta Daleszyce 12 Nomme Kalju
See also [ edit ] External links [ edit ] References [ edit ]