Algarve Cup 2013

Algarve Cup 2013
Number of nations	12
winner	USA (9th title)
venue	Portugal ( Algarve )
Opening game	March 6, 2013
Endgame	13th March 2013
Games	24
Gates	57  (⌀: 2.38 per game)
Top scorer	Kosovars Asllani Alex Morgan (3 each)
Best player	Megan Rapinoe
yellow cards	36  (⌀: 1.5 per game)
Yellow-red cards	1  (⌀: 0.04 per game)
Red cards	1  (⌀: 0.04 per game)

The Algarve Cup 2013 was the 20th edition of the women 's football tournament for national teams , which has been held annually since 1994 and has been the most important women's football tournament for national teams after the women's Olympic tournament , the World Cup and the European Championship, and took place from March 6th to 13th, 2013 as usual at various venues in the Algarve , the southernmost region of Portugal .

The venues were the Estádio Municipal in Albufeira , the Estádio Municipal de Bela Vista in Parchal , the Estádio Municipal in Lagos , the Estádio Municipal in Vila Real de Santo António , the Parque Desportivo da Nora in Ferreiras , the Estádio Municipal in Quarteira and the Estádio Algarve in Faro .

mode

Twelve national teams took part in the tournament. The eight teams with the highest ratings formed groups A and B, the four weaker teams formed group C. First, the teams in their group played each against each other for the placement. First the best score, then the direct comparison and only then the goal difference is decisive for the placement. Then proceed as follows:

• Game for 11th place: The third and fourth placed teams in Group C.
• Game for 9th place: The second-placed team in group C against the worse fourth-placed team in groups A or B.
• Game for 7th place: Winner of group C against the better fourth-placed team in groups A or B.
• Match for 5th place: The third-placed teams in groups A and B.
• Match for 3rd place: The teams placed second in groups A and B.
• Final game: The winners of groups A and B play for the tournament victory.

If it was a draw after the regular playing time of the placement games, there was no extra time , but a penalty shoot-out immediately afterwards .

As FIFA classified the games as "friendly", each team was allowed to make six substitutions per game.

The tournament

All times are in Central European Time (CET) , which corresponds to local time (UTC ± 0) , or Coordinated Universal Time , plus one hour.

Group stage

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	004: 100	+3	07th
2.	Norway	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th
3.	Japan	3	1	0	2	003: 400	−1	03
4th	Denmark	3	0	2	1	000: 200	−2	02

March 6th, 2:10 pm in Parchal
Japan	-	Norway	0: 2 (0: 2)
March 6, 6:00 p.m. in Albufeira
Denmark	-	Germany	0-0
March 8, 1:15 p.m. in Parchal
Germany	-	Japan	2: 1 (1: 1)
March 8, 5:00 p.m. in Parchal
Norway	-	Denmark	0-0
March 11, 1:20 p.m. in Lagos
Germany	-	Norway	2: 0 (0: 0)
March 11, 1:20 pm in Faro
Denmark	-	Japan	0: 2 (0: 2)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	United States	3	2	1	0	009: 100	+8	07th
2.	Sweden	3	1	2	0	008: 300	+5	05
3.	China	3	1	1	1	002: 600	−4	04th
4th	Iceland	3	0	0	3	001:100	−9	00

March 6, 3:00 p.m. in Albufeira
United States	-	Iceland	3: 0 (0: 0)
March 6, 5:00 p.m. in Parchal
Sweden	-	China	1: 1 (0: 1)
March 8, 3:00 p.m. in Albufeira
China	-	United States	0: 5 (0: 2)
March 8, 7:00 p.m. in Albufeira
Iceland	-	Sweden	1: 6 (0: 4)
March 11, 4:00 p.m. in Lagos
Sweden	-	United States	1: 1 (1: 0)
March 11th, 16:00 in Ferreiras
China	-	Iceland	1: 0 (0: 0)

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Mexico	3	2	0	1	004: 100	+3	06th
2.	Hungary	3	1	1	1	003: 200	+1	04th
3.	Wales	3	1	1	1	002: 300	−1	04th
4th	Portugal	3	1	0	2	002: 500	−3	03

March 6, 4:00 p.m. in Ferreiras
Hungary	-	Mexico	0: 1 (0: 1)
March 6th, 4:30 pm in Vila Real de Santo António
Portugal	-	Wales	2: 0 (1: 0)
March 8, 4:00 p.m. in Vila Real de Santo António
Portugal	-	Hungary	0: 2 (0: 1)
March 8, 7:00 p.m. in Vila Real de Santo António
Mexico	-	Wales	0: 1 (0: 1)
March 11, 4:30 p.m. in Quarteira
Hungary	-	Wales	1: 1 (0: 1)
March 11, 4:30 p.m. in Faro
Portugal	-	Mexico	0: 3 (0: 2)

Placement games

Game for 11th place

March 13th, 3:30 pm at E. Municipal da Bela Vista in Parchal
Wales	-	Portugal	1: 1 (0: 0) 1: 3 i. E.

Play for 9th place

March 13, 12:00 at the E. Municipal da Bela Vista in Parchal
Hungary	-	Iceland	1: 4 (0: 1)

Game for 7th place

March 13, 3:30 p.m. at the Estádio Municipal in Lagos
Mexico	-	Denmark	0: 3 (0: 1)

Play for 5th place

March 13th, 1:10 pm at the Estádio Algarve in Faro
Japan	-	China	1: 0 (0: 0)

3rd place match

March 13, 12:00 at the Estádio Municipal in Lagos
Norway	-	Sweden	2: 2 (1: 1) 5: 4 i. E.

final

Germany ( European Champion )		USA ( Olympic Champion )
	March 13, 2013 in Loulé ( Estádio Algarve ) Result: 0: 2 (0: 2) Spectators: 1000 Referee: Carol Chenard ( Canada )   Match report Match report2
	Almuth Schult • Leonie Maier , Luisa Wensing , Josephine Henning , Babett Peter (46th Jennifer Cramer ) • Viola Odebrecht (46th Nadine Keßler , 60th Linda Bresonik ), Lena Goeßling • Anja Mittag (46th Alexandra Popp ), Dzsenifer Marozsán ( 80th Lena Lotzen ), Verena Faißt (75th Svenja Huth ) • Célia Okoyino da Mbabi Trainer: Silvia Neid	Nicole Barnhart • Ali Krieger (58th Crystal Dunn ), Rachel Buehler , Whitney Engen , Kelley O'Hara • Shannon Boxx • Christen Press (75th Abby Wambach ), Yael Averbuch (65th Becky Sauerbrunn ), Tobin Heath (82nd Kristie Mewis ) • Sydney Leroux , Alex Morgan Trainer: Tom Sermanni ( Scotland )
		Alex Morgan (13th) Alex Morgan (34th)
		Sydney Leroux

Goal scorers

rank Player Gates 1  Kosovars Asllani 3  Alex Morgan 3 3  Renae Cuéllar 2  Edite Fernandes 2  Jessica Fishlock 2  Ada Hegerberg 2  Yūki Ōgimi 2  Sara Thunebro 2  Fanny Vágó 2 10  Caroline Graham Hansen 1  Kristine Hegland 1  Dzsenifer Marozsán 1  Verena Faisst 1  Celia Okoyino da Mbabi 1  Nadine Keßler 1

rank Player Gates 10  Mina Tanaka 1  Nahomi Kawasumi 1  Shannon Boxx 1  Rachel Buehler 1  Whitney Engen 1  Alexandra Krieger 1  Sydney Leroux 1  Christians Press 1  Megan Rapinoe 1  Abby Wambach 1  Nayeli Rangel 1  Dinora Garza 1  Ren Guixin 1  Zeng Jing 1  Elín Metta Jensen 1

rank Player Gates 10  Hólmfríður Magnúsdóttir 1  Katrín Ómarsdóttir 1  Squeegee Hönnudóttir 1  Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir 1  Lisa Dahlkvist 1  Lotta Schelin 1  Marie Hammarström 1  Susanne Moberg 1  Antonia Göransson 1  Helen Ward 1  Henrietta Csiszár 1  Szilvia Szeitl 1  Julie Rydahl Bukh 1  Pernille Harder 1  Sine Hovesen 1  Laura Luís 1

Awards

• Best player: Megan Rapinoe (USA)
• Fairest team: Japan

particularities

• Rachel Buehler ( USA ), Anita Pádár ( Hungary ), Caroline Seger and Sara Thunebro (both Swedes ) made their 100th international match on matchday one .
• Katrine Pedersen , who made her 100th international match in the 2005 Algarve Cup, was the second European to make her 200th international match on matchday three.
• Germany and the USA met each other for the fourth time in the final, this is the most common final pairing so far. The US won for the third time.
• As in previous years, the Cyprus Cup , which was won by England , took place at the same time as the Algarve Cup . In addition, a tournament with six teams from Eastern Europe took place in Istria for the first time , which was won by Russia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the DFB (see match report) and USFF ( memento from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Leroux received the yellow card, weltfussball.de names Alex Morgan
2. ↑ hns-cff.hr: ŽENSKI NOGOMETNI KUP 2013

Web links

• Tournament page on fussballzz.de
• Website of the organizer ( Memento from March 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Summary of the tournament on fifa.com