The inaugural 2013 Euro Winners Cup was a beach soccer tournament that took place on two pitches at the UMPI Smart Beach Arena stadium, located at the Riviera delle Palme resort in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, from 15 – 19 May 2013. The tournament brought together club champions of many domestic beach soccer leagues across Europe, almost in the same vein as the UEFA Champions League.
Participating teams Twenty teams confirmed their participation in the inaugural tournament:
Baku FC FC BATE Borisov Sandown Sociedad SC Montredon Bonneveine AO Kefallinia Goldwin Pluss "Falfala" Kfar Qassem ASD Terracina BS Sambenedettese BS Viareggio BS Kreiss Lexmax Beach Soccer Egmond Grembach Łódź CF Os Belenenses Lokomotiv Moscow Gimnàstic de Tarragona Grasshopper Club Zurich Beşiktaş JK Griffin Kyiv
Format and draw The first Beach Soccer Winner Cup was held in the sands of San Benedetto del Tronto, Rive delle Palme located in Ascoli, Italy from 15–19 May 2013. This Cup is involving all the champions in the different official National Leagues all across the Old Continent, 18 different countries will be represented in this tournament.
In the first stage, the eighteen champions of the officially sanctioned Beach Soccer National Championships, plus the host and the Italian runner-up got distributed into five groups with teams having to compete for the head of the group.
Only the sides topping the group will be granted a ticket to the quarterfinals stage, accompanied by the three best second-ranked teams.
GROUP A GROUP B GROUP C Group D Group E Sambenedettese BS Lexmax Goldwin Pluss Griffin ASD Terracina BS "Falfala" Kfar Qassem CF Os Belenenses AO Kefallinia Viareggio BS Grembach Łódź Lokomotiv Moscow SC Montredon Bonneveine Bate Borisov Grasshopper Club Zurich Kreiss Gimnàstic de Tarragona Besiktas JK Beach Soccer Egmond Sandown Sociedad Baku FC
Stadium The stadium that was used is called the UMPI Smart Beach Arena. The new state-of-the-art facility is intended to maximize the technology and the environmental consciousness directives to create a stadium that offers 360-degree amusement possibilities both for citizens and tourists.
Online Due to the facility not having satellite capabilities, the tournament was not streamed online by BSWW.
Rosters The complete rosters for all participating teams can be found on the BSWW web site.
Group stage The draw to divide the teams into five groups of four was conducted on 19 April 2013.
All kickoff times are of local time in San Benedetto del Tronto, (UTC+1).
Group A
Team Lokomotiv Moscow3300187+119 Sambenedettese BS31021614+33 Gimnàstic de Tarragona30121117–62 "Falfala" Kfar Qassem30121017–72 Clinched quarterfinal berth
Group B
Team Beşiktaş JK3300209+119 CF Os Belenenses32011815+36 SC Montredon Bonneveine31021321–83 Lexmax30031420–60 Clinched quarterfinal berth
Group C
Team FC BATE Borisov3201157+86 Goldwin Pluss32011510+56 AO Kefallinia3201910–16 Beach Soccer Egmond3003618–120 Clinched quarterfinal berthClinched wild card berth
Group D
Team Grasshoppers Club Zurich32102618+88 Griffin Kyiv32012417+76 Viareggio BS31021714+33 Sandown Sociedad30031331–180 Clinched quarterfinal berthClinched wild card berth
Group E
Team Grembach Łódź3300126+69 ASD Terracina BS3201149+56 Baku FC301279–22 Kreiss3003817–90 Clinched quarterfinal berthClinched wild card berth
Knockout stage A draw will be held after the group stage matches were completed to determine the quarterfinal pairings.
Quarterfinals
Fifth-place Semifinals
Championship Semifinals
Seventh-place final
Fifth-place final
Third-place final
Championship final
Winners
Awards Best Player (MVP) Egor Shaykov ( Lokomotiv Moscow) Top Scorer Dejan Stankovic ( Grasshoppers Club Zurich) 13 goals Best Goalkeeper Vitali Sydorenko ( Griffin Kyiv)
Final standings RankTeam 1 Lokomotiv Moscow 2 Griffin 3 Besiktas JK 4 Grasshopper Club Zurich 5 ASD Terracina BS 6 Grembach Łódź 7 Bate Borisov 8 Goldwin Pluss
See also Beach soccer Beach Soccer Worldwide
References
External links Beach Soccer Worldwide