Mundialito (women's football)
| Mundialito (women's football) | |
| Full name | Mundialito |
| Association | FIGC |
| First edition | 1984 |
| Teams | 4 or 6 |
| Game mode |
Round tournament placement games |
| Record winner |
 England & Italy (2 wins each)
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| Record player |
Paola Bonato , Carolina Morace , Eva Russo (16 each)
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| Record scorer |
Carolina Morace (9)
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The Mundialito ( Small World Cup ) was an international invitation tournament for women's national soccer teams . The tournament took place four times in northern Italy between 1984 and 1988. It was one of the most important tournaments in women's football at the time. The tournament was won twice by England and Italy, with Italy always reaching the final.
Venues
The mundialitos took place in four different cities.
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Jesolo (1984, 1985 and 1986) ( Stadio Armando Picchi ) Capacity: 4,000 |
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Caorle (1984 and 1985) ( Stadio Giovanni Chiggiato ) Capacity: 3,000 |
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| Arco di Trento (1988) | |||||||
| Riva del Garda (1988) |
First participations
There were a total of 12 participants in the four tournaments, with Italy being the only team to always participate. The following overview shows which country participated in which event for the first time (number of participations in brackets). The two best teams of the 1980s Norway ( 1987 European champions and winners of the FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament 1988 ) and Sweden ( 1984 European champions ) never took part.
| year | First time participant | ||||
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| 1984 |
 Belgium (1)
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 Federal Republic of Germany (2)
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England (3)
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Italy (4)
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| 1985 |
 Denmark (1)
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 USA (3)
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| 1986 |
 Brazil (1)
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 China (1)
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 Japan (1)
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 Mexico (1)
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| 1988 |
 France (1)
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Italy-B (1)
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mode
Four teams took part in the first two events, which initially played in one group against the other three teams. The teams in 1st and 2nd place then played in the final, the two teams in 3rd and 4th place for 3rd place. In the last two events, six teams took part, which initially played against each other in two groups of three. The first placed of the two groups played in the semifinals against the second placed, the semifinal winners in the final, the losers for 3rd place. The third placed of the groups were eliminated.
Results
| year | final | 3rd place match | ||||||
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| winner | Result | Second | third place | Result | fourth place | |||
| 1984 |
Italy
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3: 1 |
BR Germany
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England
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2: 1 |
Belgium
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| 1985 |
England
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3: 2 |
Italy
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Denmark
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1-0 |
United States
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| 1986 |
Italy
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1-0 |
United States
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China
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2: 1 |
Japan
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| 1988 |
England
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2: 1 a.d. |
Italy
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United States
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1-0 |
France
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Leaderboards
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* No participant from Africa and Oceania. |
Participant overview
| team | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1988 |
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Belgium
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4th | - | - | - |
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Brazil
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- | - | VR | - |
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China
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- | - | 3. | |
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Denmark
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- | 3. | - | - |
 Germany
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2. | - | - | VR |
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England
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3. | 1. | - | 1. |
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France
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- | - | - | 4th |
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Italy
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1. | 2. | 1. | 2. |
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Italy -B
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- | - | - | VR |
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Japan
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- | - | 4th | - |
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Mexico
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- | - | VR | - |
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United States
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- | 4th | 2. | 3. |
- ↑ After drawing lots if points and goals are tied with China
Goal scorers
| year | Player (s) | Gates |
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| 1984 |
Carolina Morace
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4th |
| 1985 |
Ida Golin
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5 |
| 1986 |
Ida Golin Elisabetta Vignotto
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5 |
| 1988 |
Anna Mega
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4th |
- ↑ Data according to match reports from the DFB, DBU, FIGC, FFF, the JFA country playlist and the 2015 WNT Media Guide .
particularities
- The Italian federation also counts the games in a tournament held in Japan in 1981 as mundialito, in which Denmark and England took part in addition to Italy and hosts Japan. The Danish federation conducts the 1981 games as "International turnering", while the 1985 Mundialito games as "Uofficielt VM"
- The Mundialito RSSSF statistics also list a 1982 event in which Italy and Denmark take part; the game between the two is run by the associations as a normal international match.
- The USA played their first internationals at the 1985 tournament, Brazil, the People's Republic of China and Mexico in 1986.
- For Japan it was the first game on another continent.
- Germany met England for the first time at Mundialito in 1984 and the USA for the first time in 1988.
- The three record players played the maximum number of 16 games.
- In 1988 the tournament took place immediately after the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitational Tournament . Of the participants there, only the USA also took part in the Mundialito, with the USA taking part in both tournaments with an almost identical team.
- The Algarve Cup , which was held for the first time in 1994, is often referred to as "Mundialito" due to the mostly high-class field of participants.
- Record goalscorer Carolina Morace is the only player to have scored at least one goal in each tournament.