Following unquestioned success of the annual men's European Club Cup it was decided that women should have their own championship which came into being in 1996. The system adopted was that known from contemporary ECC's, that is a number of preliminary knockout groups followed by the knockout final with eight preliminary winners starting from quarterfinals. For many years the women's competition was held separately from men's event, only recently (starting from 2003) the tournaments were merged to be played at the same time and at the same place. Both are seven round Swiss, with the exception that women, unlike men, play on just four boards, with a team size limit of six ladies.

The number of participating nations swings around barely dozen teams or so, which is very few compared to men's event. This happens probably because there are no separate team championships for women in most European countries, especially Western European ones. Thus very few teams have enough female players at their disposal to compose a decent team. This is why Eastern European and ex-Soviet nations have been completely dominant until today. Teams from former Yugoslavia have won six times so far with Georgia picking three wins, while Ukraine and Romania took one win each. Surprisingly Russian team never did it although they won podium positions on many occasions.

The winner list 1996-2006:

Clubs: 3x Agrouniverzal Belgrade, 2x NTN Tbilisi, 1x Merani Tbilisi, 1x Goša Smederevska Palanka, 1x AEM-Luxten Timişoara, 1x Ludmila Rudenko School Kherson, 1x BAS Belgrade, 1x Internet CG Podgorica, 1x Mika Yerevan

Nations: 6x Yugoslavia, 3x Georgia, 1x Romania, 1x Ukraine, 1x Armenia