2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup

2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
City	Nazaré
Dates	6–8 July
Teams	6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Russia (1st title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	Switzerland
Fourth place	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	9
Goals scored	60 (6.67 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Anastasia Gorshkova (5 goals)
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The 2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the third edition of the Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, an annual European beach soccer championship for women's national teams, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). The event was revealed on 28 March 2018.^[1]

Six nations took part in a three-day competition, hosted in the same location as the 2017 edition, Nazaré, Portugal, between 6 and 8 July, alongside stage 2 of the men's 2018 Euro Beach Soccer League.^[2]

England were the defending champions, but failed to progress pass the group stage, ultimately finishing in fourth place. The championship was claimed by Russia, who won the title at their first attempt.^[3]

All six teams from the previous edition returned, except for Greece, who were replaced by Russia.

•  Czech Republic
•  England
•  Netherlands
•  Russia¹
•  Spain
•   Switzerland

Superscript key:

1. Teams making their debut

Praia de Nazaré (Nazaré Beach) is the host location of the competition for the second year running.

Nazaré Location of Nazaré in Portugal.

All matches took place at the Estádio do Viveiro on Praia de Nazaré (Nazaré Beach).

The stadium had recently been undergoing redevelopment, increasing its capacity from 1,600 to 2,200.^[4] However, one part of the stadium was still awaiting upgrades,^[5] meaning the new capacity figure was yet to be fully reached.

The draw took place on June 12, 2018, at BSWW's headquarters in Barcelona. The six teams were split into two groups of three.^[2]

Two teams were seeded and automatically allocated to the groups: England, as reigning champions, were allocated to position A1 and Switzerland, as runners up in the last edition, were allocated to B1. The unseeded nations were then drawn to accompany them in the two groups, with placement of the nations alternating back and forth between Groups A and B as each team was drawn out in turn.^[6]

Seeded nations	Unseeded nations
England (assigned to A1)   Switzerland (assigned to B1)	Czech Republic  Netherlands  Russia  Spain

The teams compete in a round robin format. The winners of the groups proceed to contest the final. The respective group runners-up and third placed nations play each other in consolation matches to decide third through sixth place in the final standings.

Matches are listed as local time in Nazaré, WEST (UTC+1)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	2	2	0	0	0	12	0	+12	6	Advance to the Final
2	England	2	1	0	0	1	5	6	–1	3	Third place play-off
3	Czech Republic	2	0	0	0	2	2	13	–11	0	Fifth place play-off

6 July 2018

12:45

England	5–2	Czech Republic
James 15' Clark 16' Kempson 25' (pen.), 36' Bazan 32'	Report(ru)	11' Matejkova 25' Jungova

Referee: Dario Minder (Switzerland)

7 July 2018

10:15

Spain	8–0	Czech Republic
Mellado 12', 19', 24' Miron 13', 18', 24' Gomez 23', 35' (pen.)	Report(ru)

Referee: Francisco Henriques Costa (Portugal)

7 July 2018

19:00

England	0–4	Spain
	Report(ru)	9' Pascual 29' Morera 30' Asensio 35' Miron

Referee: Christian Zimmermann (Switzerland)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	2	2	0	0	0	14	8	+6	6	Advance to the Final
2	Switzerland	2	1	0	0	1	9	10	–1	3	Third place play-off
3	Netherlands	2	0	0	0	2	4	9	–5	0	Fifth place play-off

6 July 2018

11:30

Switzerland	6–8	Russia
Heer 6' Schenk 11' Meyer 13', 27' Samorodova 15' (o.g.) Birrfelder 16'	Report(ru)	4', 26' Gorshkova 11' (pen.), 25' Fedorova 12', 16', 35' Zaitseva 28' Cherniakova

Referee: Torsten Guenther (Germany)

7 July 2018

09:00

Netherlands	2–6	Russia
De Bondt 11' Verschoor 18'	Report(ru)	1' Samorodova 8' Zaitseva 15' Ivashkina 25', 27' (pen.), 32' Gorshkova

Referee: Luca Romani (Italy)

7 July 2018

17:45

Switzerland	3–2	Netherlands
Morger 9', 28' Birrfelder 22'	Report(ru)	6' De Hoek 20' (o.g.) Morger

Referee: Sergio Gomes Soares (Portugal)

8 July 2018

10:15

Netherlands	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Czech Republic
Moudou 8'	Report(ru)	26' Pilouskova 39' (pen.) Culova

Referee: Ivan Kirilov (Bulgaria)

8 July 2018

11:30

Switzerland	6–3	England
Heer 3' Grüter 8', 20' Morger 19' Schenk 26' Kehrli 30'	Report(ru)	7' Hillier 19', 28' Cheshire

Referee: Gary Christien (Belgium)

8 July 2018

17:45

Russia	2–0	Spain
Cherniakova 29' Fedorova 34'	Report(ru)

Referee: Sergio Gomes Soares (Portugal)

After the final, the following awards were presented.^[7]

2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup Champions
Russia First Title

Top scorer
Anastasia Gorshkova
5 goals
Best player
Marina Fedorova
Best goalkeeper
María José Pons

5 goals

• Anastasia Gorshkova

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

Source

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	B	Russia	3	3	0	0	0	16	8	+8	9	Champions
2	A	Spain	3	2	0	0	1	12	2	+10	6	Runners-up
3	B	Switzerland	3	2	0	0	1	15	13	+2	6	Third place
4	A	England	3	1	0	0	2	8	12	−4	3	Fourth place
5	A	Czech Republic	3	0	1	0	2	4	14	−10	2	Fifth place
6	B	Netherlands	3	0	0	0	3	5	11	−6	0	Sixth place

• Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup Nazaré 2018, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
• European Cup Women's Teams 2018, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)