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), the championship is the sport's version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in association football.
Held in Catania, Italy from 24 to 29 May 2016 in tandem with the men's edition, 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.
Participating teams 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
Draw 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.
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.
Group stage Matches took place at the DombusBet Arena.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Group A TeamQualification1 Sogesport Club Esportiu320012110+116Knockout stage2 DTS' 35320011710+763 Catania320011414064 UKS Sparta Daleszyce 30003725–1809th–12th place play-offs
Group B TeamQualification1 Grasshoppers33000179+89Knockout stage2 Portsmouth320011210+263 Terracina Ladies310021414039th–12th place play-offs4 HTC Zwolle 300031020–100
Group C TeamQualification1 WFC Zvezda32010218+137Knockout stage2 Beachkick Ladies Berlin320011910+963 Catanzaro310022011+934 Nomme Kalju30003233–3109th–12th place play-offs
Ranking of third placed teams TeamQualification1A Catania32001141406Knockout stage2C Catanzaro310022011+933B Terracina Ladies31002141403
9th–12th place play-offs 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
Eleventh place play-off
Ninth place play-off
Knockout stage The group winners, runners-up and two best third placed teams progressed to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title.
Quarter-finals 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 5th–8th place
1st–4th place
Finals Seventh place play-off
Fifth place play-off
Third place play-off
Final
Awards Top scorer Marina Fedorova ( WFC Zvezda) 18 goalsBest player Rebecca Gabriel ( BeachKick Ladies Berlin) Best goalkeeper Susanne Shutz ( Grasshoppers)
Final standings RankTeamResult 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 2016 Euro Winners Cup (men's edition)
External links Euro Winners Cup 2016, at Beach Soccer Worldwide (archived) Euro Winners Cup Women 2016, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)
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