2008 Cyprus Women's Cup

The 2008 Cyprus Women's Cup was the inaugural edition of the Cyprus Women's Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Cyprus. Six national teams, including five senior teams and one youth team, were invited: Canada, Netherlands, Japan, Russia, Scotland, and the United States U-20 team[1] (the United States senior team competed in the concurrent 2008 Algarve Cup).[2] Canada defeated the United States U-20 team in the final.

2008 Cyprus Women's Cup
Tournament details
Host country Cyprus
Dates5–12 March 2008
Teams6 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Canada (1st title)
Runners-up United States (U20)
Third place Japan
Fourth place Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored37 (3.08 per match)
Top scorer(s) Christine Sinclair
(5 goals)

Format

The tournament consisted of a group stage held over three match days followed by a single day of classification matches to determine the final standings.

For the group stage, the six teams were split into two groups of three teams. Each group played a round-robin tournament with each team playing one match against each other team in its group. In addition, on each group stage match day, one team from each group did not have a round-robin group match; these two teams played an exhibition match that was not counted towards the group stage standings.[3]

The classification day then had three matches: a first place match between the group winners, a third place match between the runners-up, and a fifth place match between the bottom teams.

Group stage

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 United States 2 2 0 0 4 1 +3 6
 Netherlands 2 1 0 1 1 2 −1 3
 Scotland 2 0 0 2 1 3 −2 0
Source:
United States 2–1 Scotland
Enyeart  27'
O'Hara  32'		 Report Grant  87'
Scotland 0–1 Netherlands
Stevens  49'
Netherlands 0–2 United States
O'Hara  32'
Enyeart  90+1'

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Canada 2 2 0 0 5 1 +4 6
 Japan 2 1 0 1 3 4 −1 3
 Russia 2 0 0 2 2 5 −3 0
Source:
Canada 2–1 Russia
Armstrong  8'
Lang  50'		 Barbashina  18'
Japan 0–3 Canada
Sinclair  22' (pen.),  42',  80'
Russia 1–3 Japan
Truntaeva  37' Sakaguchi  28'
Ohno  51'
Utsugi  57'

Exhibition Matches
Japan 3–1 Netherlands
Nagasato  35' (pen.)
Sato  69'
Goto  70' (pen.)		 Stevens  56'
Alpha Sports Center, Larnaca
Russia 2–0 United States
Mokshanova  46'
Rogova  69'
Alpha Sports Center, Larnaca
Scotland 2–0 Canada
Love  67'
Hamill  80'
Alpha Sports Center, Larnaca

Placement matches

Fifth place match
Russia 3–2 Scotland
Morozova  13',  57'
Truntaeva  85'		 Little  21'
Thomson  87'

Third place match
Netherlands 1–2 Japan
van Eyck  18' Nagasato  23'
Utsugi  90'

Final
Canada 3–2 United States
Sinclair  10',  37'
Filigno  22'		 Report Steinbruch  75',  86'

Champion
 2008 Cyprus Cup 

Canada
First title

Goalscorers
5 goals
2 goals
1 goal

References
  1. "Cyprus Women's Cup". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  2. "U.S. WNT One Day Away From Algarve Cup Opener Against China". U.S. Soccer Federation. 4 March 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  3. "U.S. Under-20 Women Will Travel to Cyprus for Tournament Against Full Women's National Teams". U.S. Soccer Federation. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
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