2023 World Winners Cup

2023 World Winners Cup
2023 BSWW World Winners Cup[1]
Tournament details
CityAlghero, Italy
DatesSeptember 26, 2023 (2023-09-26)–
October 1, 2023 (2023-10-01)
Teams24
Final positions
Champions Napoli BS (1st title)
Runners-up Riga FC
Third place Pafos BSC
Fourth place Bahia de Mazarron
Tournament statistics
Matches played60
Goals scored584 (9.73 per match)
Top scorer(s) Alison
14 goals (Pafos FC)
Best player Lucão (Napoli BS)
Best goalkeeper Barbino (Napoli BS)
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The 2023 World Winners Cup was the third edition[2] of World's premier beach soccer club competition contested in Alghero from 26 September to 1st October 2023 and won by Napoli Beach Soccer in a 6–3 final against Riga FC.[3]

The Azzurri victory was the first world achievement for a Campania club and the first one for Italy in any BSWW worldwide event.

This was the second edition of the tournament held in Sardegna after the 2022 WWC organized in Cagliari. This was the second major event held in Alghero after 2023 EBSL Superfinal. The small city near Sassari hosted also the 2024 World Winners Cup and EBSL finals.

Group stage[4]

Originally, Minots de Marseille the 32 clubs would compete in the 2023 WWC (8 groups of 4 teams) but they were reduce to 24 so two groups were dropped: Kebbi BS was drawn in Group H but the French club played in the Napoli BS group.[5]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 ASD Napoli 3 3 0 0 25 7 +18 9 Round of 16
2 Copenhagen BSC 3 2 0 1 14 4 +10 6
3 Kebbi BS 3 1 0 2 21 12 +9 3
4 BS Vion 3 0 0 3 3 40 −37 0
Source: Beach Soccer Worldwide
  • 26 September 2023
    • Vion v Napoli 2–16
    • Kebbi v Copenhagen 2–4
  • 27 September 2023
    • Copenhagen v Vion 9–0
    • Napoli v Kebbi 7–4
  • 28 September 2023
    • Kebbi v Vion 15–1
    • Napoli v Copenhagen 2–1

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dalian BST 3 3 0 0 24 6 +18 9 Round of 16
2 Real Munster 3 2 0 1 23 15 +8 6
3 FC Genappe 3 1 0 2 8 15 −7 3
4 Naxos BS 3 0 0 3 6 25 −19 0
Source: Beach Soccer Worldwide

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Catania FC 3 3 0 0 28 8 +20 9 Round of 16
2 Falfala KQ 3 2 0 1 18 10 +8 6
3 Canada BSC 3 1 0 2 15 17 −2 3
4 CB Viseu 3 0 0 3 6 32 −26 0
Source: Beach Soccer Worldwide

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Recreativo de Huelva 3 3 0 0 14 5 +9 9 Round of 16
2 Napoli Patron BSC 3 1 0 2 8 6 +2 3
3 Riga FC 3 1 0 2 10 11 −1 3
4 Newteam Brussels 3 1 0 2 7 17 −10 3
Source: Beach Soccer Worldwide
  • 26 September 2023
    • Riga FC v Napoli Patron BSC 3–2
    • Newteam Brussels v Recreativo Huelta 1–8
  • 27 September 2023
    • Recreativo Huelta v Riga FC 3–2
    • Napoli Patron BSC v Newteam Brussels 4–0
  • 28 September 2023
    • Newteam Brussels v Riga FC 6–5
    • Recreativo Huelta v Napoli Patron BSC 3–2

Group E

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Bahia de Mazzaron 3 3 0 0 23 8 +15 9 Round of 16
2 BSC Vybir 3 2 0 1 13 10 +3 6
3 Marseille BT 3 1 0 2 16 16 0 3
4 Bologna BS 3 0 0 3 9 27 −18 0
Source: Beach Soccer Worldwide

Group F

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 BSC Artur Music 3 3 0 0 16 13 +3 9 Round of 16
2 Barra de Santiago 3 2 0 1 18 13 +5 6
3 Pafos BSC 3 1 0 2 18 19 −1 3
4 Cali BSC 3 0 0 3 11 18 −7 0
Source: Beach Soccer Worldwide

Knockout stage[6]

Round of 16

Bahia DM8-1 Kebbi BSC
Real Munstler5-4 Napoli Patrol BSC
Dalian4-5 Pafos BSC
Recreativo Huelta6-5 Falfala KQ
Copenhagen BSC5-6 Barra de Santiago
BSC Artur Music6-4 BSC Vybir
Napoli BS15-1 Marseille BT
Report
Catania FC4-4 (2-4) Riga FC
Report

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
30 September – Alghero, 8:30 am
 
 
 Pafos FC3
 
30 September – Alghero, 4:30 pm
 
 Recreativo Huelta1
 
 Pafos FC2
 
30 September – Alghero, 9:45 am
 
 Napoli Beach Soccer4
 
 Napoli BS 5
 
1st October – Alghero, 5:45 pm
 
 Barra de Santiago3
 
 Napoli Beach Soccer6
 
30 September – Alghero, 11:00 am
 
 Riga FC3
 
 Bahia DM 6
 
30 September – Alghero, 5:45 pm
 
 Real Munstler5
 
 Bahia de Mazarrón 4 (3)
 
30 September – Alghero, 12:15 am
 
 Riga FC4 (4) Third place play-off
 
 BSC Artur Music3
 
10 July – Alghero, 3:15 pm
 
 Riga FC5
 
 Pafos FC6
 
 
 Bahia de Mazarrón3
 

Quarter-finals

Pafos BSC3-1 Recreativo Huelta
Report
Napoli BS5-3 Barra de Santiago
Zurlo
Lucão 		Report Andersson Velasquez
Heber
Bahia DM6-5 Real Munstler
Report
BSC Artur Music3-5 Riga FC
Report

Semi-finals

Pafos BSC vs Napoli BS

Pafos BSC2-4 Napoli BS
Alison 9', 26' Report Alejandro 4'
Fabio Sciacca 8', 34'
Paterniti 8'
Main Stadium, Alghero, Italy
Referee: Sergio Filipe Gomes Soares
Pafos BSC
Napoli BS

Bahia de Mazarrón vs Riga FC

Bahia DM4-4 (a.e.t.) Riga FC
Rafihna 1'
Igor Ricardo 7', 16'
E. Bernardo 14'		 Report B. Bernardo 14'
Jaime Vera 27', 28'
Jose Oliver 30'
Penalties
3-4
Main Stadium, Alghero, Italy
Referee: Vitalij Gomolko
Bahia de Mazarrón
Riga FC

Third place play-off

Pafos BSC vs Bahia DM

Pafos BSC6-3 Bahia DM
Jordan 1', 4', 6', 7', 19'
Alison 18'		 Report Suli Batis 13'
CàNovas 14'
Jaime Vera 36'
Main Stadium, Alghero, Italy
Referee: Mehdi Sayoud
Pafos BSC
Bahia de Mazarrón

Final

Napoli BS vs Riga FC[7]

Napoli BS6-3 Riga FC
Zurlo 2'
Lucão 4', 28'
Sciacca 14'
Palmacci 17'
Sanfilippo 21'		 Report Bernardo 7'
Wesley Silva 10'
Vasiljev 29'
Main Stadium, Alghero, Italy
Attendance: ???
Referee: Lukasz Ostrowski (Poland)
Napoli BS
Riga FC

Winning team: Sebastiano Paterniti Barbino and Paolo Palmacci (GK), Antonio Bernardo De Farias Junior, Salvatore Sanfilippo (DEF), Ovidio Alla, Alejandro Sydney Sales, Francesco Fabio Sciacca, Lucas Azevedo (Lucão) and Emmanuele Zurlo (FOW)
Manager: Andrea Sannino, Aurelio Venditto (ass.)
Chairman/Player: Raffaele Moxedano

Consolation tournaments

5th-8th place Playoff[8][9]

 
5th/8th place Playoff5th/6th place final
 
      
 
30 September – Alghero, 4:30 pm
 
 
 Recreativo Huelta6 (5)
 
1st October – Alghero, 12:45 am
 
 Barra de Santiago6 (6)
 
 Barra de Santiago5
 
30 September – Alghero, 5:45 pm
 
 Real Munstler9
 
 Real Munstler 6
 
 
 Recreativo Huelta9
 
7th/8th place Final
 
 
10 July – Alghero, 11:30 am
 
 
 Recreativo Huelta2
 
 
 BSC Artur Music5

9th/16th place Tournament

No Classification match was held for the clubs eliminated in the Round of 16 with Catania FC (Italy) and Dalian (China) chosen as the 9th and 10th best clubs of the tournament

17th/24th place Finals

  • 17th/18th place final: Canada BSC vs FC Genappe 6–4
  • 19th/20th place final: Newteam Brussels vs Calibi BSC 5–9
  • 21th/22th place final: Bologna BSC vs Naxos BS 5–2
  • 23th/24th place final: CB Viseu vs BS Vion 4–5

Awards and Statistics[10]

Individual Awards

Top scorer

Alison (Pafos FC)
14 goals in 7 games

Best Player
Lucão (Napoli BS)
Best Goalkeeper
Sebastiano Paterniti Barbino
(Napoli BS)

Final Standings

Pos Team Result
1 Napoli BS 2023 WWC Champions (1st title)
2 Riga FC Runners-up
3 Pafos BSC Third place
4 Bahia de Mazarron
5 Real Munstler
6 Barra de Santiago
7 BSC Artur Music
8 Recreativo Huelva
9 Catania FC
10 Dalian BST

See also

References

  1. ^ "2023 World Winners Cup STATISTICS".
  2. ^ "World Winners Cup is officially presented". 30 April 2019.
  3. ^ "World Winners Cup 2023".
  4. ^ "2023 WWC Groups".
  5. ^ "The men's and women's World Winners Cup 2023 groups have been drawn".
  6. ^ "World Winners Cup 2023 Results".
  7. ^ "Napoli Beach Soccer in alto, dove più non si può".
  8. ^ "2023 WWC 5th place final".
  9. ^ "2023 WWC 7th place final".
  10. ^ "2023 World Winners Cup Awards".
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