2008 Cyprus Cup

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2008 Cyprus Cup
Tournament details
Host country  Cyprus
Dates 5–12 March 2008
Teams 6 (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 played 12
Goals scored 37 (3.08 per match)
Top scorer(s) Canada Christine Sinclair
(5 goals)
2009 →

The 2008 Cyprus Cup was the inaugural edition of the Cyprus 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.

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

5 March 2008
United States  2 - 1  Scotland
Enyeart Goal 27'
O'Hara Goal 32'		 Report Grant Goal 87'

7 March 2008
Scotland  0 - 1  Netherlands
Stevens Goal 49'

10 March 2008
Netherlands  0 - 2  United States
O'Hara Goal 32'
Enyeart Goal 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

5 March 2008
Canada  2 - 1  Russia
Armstrong Goal 8'
Lang Goal 50'		 Barbashina Goal 18'

7 March 2008
Japan  0 - 3  Canada
Sinclair Goal 22' (pen.), Goal 42', Goal 80'

10 March 2008
Russia  1 - 3  Japan
Truntaeva Goal 37' Sakaguchi Goal 28'
Ohno Goal 51'
Utsugi Goal 57'

Exhibition Matches

5 March 2008
Japan  3 - 1  Netherlands
Nagasato Goal 35' (pen.)
Sato Goal 69'
Goto Goal 70' (pen.)		 Stevens Goal 56'
Alpha Sports Center, Larnaca

7 March 2008
Russia  2 - 0  United States
Mokshanova Goal 46'
Rogova Goal 69'
Alpha Sports Center, Larnaca

10 March 2008
Scotland  2 - 0  Canada
Love Goal 67'
Hamill Goal 80'
Alpha Sports Center, Larnaca

Placement matches

Fifth place match

12 March 2008
Russia  3 - 2  Scotland
Morozova Goal 13', Goal 57'
Truntaeva Goal 85'		 Little Goal 21'
Thomson Goal 87'

Third place match

12 March 2008
Netherlands  1 - 2  Japan
van Eyck Goal 18' Nagasato Goal 23'
Utsugi Goal 90'

Final

12 March 2008
Canada  3 - 2  United States
Sinclair Goal 10', Goal 37'
Filigno Goal 22'		 Report Steinbruch Goal 75', Goal 86'

Champion

 2008 Cyprus Cup 

Canada
First title

Goalscorers

5 goals
2 goals
1 goal

References

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