2025 Euro Winners Cup
The 2025 Euro Winners Cup was the thirteenth edition of the Euro Winners Cup, an annual continental beach soccer tournament for men's top-division European clubs. The championship is widely viewed as beach soccer's rudimentary version of the better known UEFA Champions League in its parent sport, association football.
Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide, the tournament was held in Nazaré, Portugal, from 8 to 15 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.
Braga were the defending champions but did not enter this year due to the club's activities being put on indefinite hiatus in October 2024. The title was won by Italian club Catania, who claimed their first title.
Teams
Qualification
Qualification for the competition is similar to the UEFA Champions League, whereby clubs qualify via their country’s national beach soccer league.The exact number of clubs which qualify from each association depends on the perceived "strength" of their country’s league. BSWW determine the strength of each league by analysing the performance of all clubs in the EWC on a country-by-country basis over the previous five editions; a points-based ranking is produced from the data. From the most recent edition of their respective leagues, the best performing nations in the ranking are permitted to enter multiple top placing clubs, whilst the worst performing are allowed to enter just one club. This is similar in concept to that of the UEFA coefficient ranking.
Eligible clubs may choose not to, or are unable to participate. Thus, in reality, some countries fill their quota with clubs placed lower down in their league, don’t claim all their slots, sometimes fill none of their slots at all, and sometimes unclaimed slots are transferred to other associations at the discretion of BSWW.
Entrants
36 clubs from 24 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.
Group stage
All group winners, along with the best runners-up, progress to the round of 16.The worst four runners-up progress to a play-off round to decide the final two round of 16 berths.
All third-placed and fourth-placed teams are consigned to a set of consolation matches to determine final placements.