Nordic Cup
The Nordic Cup is an annual tournament for women's national football teams . As UEFA does not organize a competition for the age groups concerned (U-16 / U-17 or U-20 / U-21 / U-23), the Nordic Cup tournaments are considered unofficial Junior World Championships.
U-16 / U-17 tournament
Story / mode
From 1988 to 1997 the Nordic Cup was the unofficial women's European championship of the U-16 national teams and from 2008 onwards. From 1998 to 2007 the U-17 national teams played this unofficial European championship title.
In 1988 the first tournament with four (Scandinavian) teams took place in Denmark, in which everyone had to play against each other once. Norway won ahead of Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
1989 added a selection of the Netherlands and one from the State of Hesse the number of participants from the previous year; Norway won (again) ahead of Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Hesse, Finland.
In 1990 and from 1997 the tournament was held in two groups of four teams each, with the first-placed team playing the final. The teams placed next in the respective groups determined the winners for places three, five and seven. A selection team from Germany won the tournament in 1998, 2001, 2005, 2008
From 1991 to 1996 the tournament was held with six teams (simple point round; as in 1989). The respective winners were the national teams from Sweden, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands.
Tournaments held so far
Ranking list U-16 / U-17 tournament
| rank | nation | winner | Second |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
 Sweden
|
7th | 9 |
| 2. |
 Germany
|
7th | 4th |
| 3. |
 Norway
|
6th | 3 |
| 4th |
 Denmark
|
5 | 5 |
| 5. |
 France
|
2 | 4th |
| 6th |
 Netherlands
|
2 | 1 |
| 7th |
 Finland
|
1 | 1 |
| 8th. |
 United States
|
1 | 0 |
The following eight nations have been taking part since 2001:
Faroe Islands , Italy and Russia have also participated in previous competitions .
U-20 / U-21 / U-23 tournament
Story / mode
From 1990 to 1997 the tournament for the Nordic Cup took place for women’s national teams in the U-20 age group. Sweden won the tournament four times alone (1990, 1991, 1993, 1994); Denmark (1992), Germany (1995), Norway (1996) and the USA (1997) were each the other winners.
From 1998 to 2006 the tournament was reserved for the U-21 female age group. The US national team won the Nordic Cup seven times in a row from 1999 to 2005; the first winner was the Norwegian selection team, the last winner was the German selection team.
Since 2007, the U-23 age group has been playing the Nordic Cup. In 2007 the tournament was held in two groups of three teams, and in 2008 in two groups of four teams. In 2009 the teams from Sweden, Germany, Norway and Finland determined the winner in a simple round of points.
The German selection team lost three times in a row to the respective winners USA (2007 and 2008) and Sweden (2009).
Tournaments held so far
| year | Host | winner | Result | finalist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 |
 Sweden
|
Sweden
|
no endgame |
 Norway
|
| 1991 |
 Netherlands
|
Sweden
|
3: 1 |
 Denmark
|
| 1992 |
Norway
|
Denmark
|
3: 2 |
Norway
|
| 1993 |
Denmark
|
Sweden
|
3: 1 |
Norway
|
| 1994 |
 Germany
|
Sweden
|
5: 1 |
Germany
|
| 1995 |
 Finland
|
Germany
|
4: 1 a.d. |
Finland
|
| 1996 |
Sweden
|
Norway
|
1-0 |
Denmark
|
| 1997 |
Denmark
|
 United States
|
1: 0 n.GG |
Norway
|
| 1998 |
Netherlands
|
Norway
|
2: 1 |
United States
|
| 1999 |
 Iceland
|
United States
|
2: 1 n.GG |
Norway
|
| 2000 |
Germany
|
United States
|
1-0 |
Germany
|
| 2001 |
Norway
|
United States
|
6: 1 |
Sweden
|
| 2002 |
Finland
|
United States
|
3: 1 |
Germany
|
| 2003 |
Denmark
|
United States
|
2: 1 |
Sweden
|
| 2004 |
Iceland
|
United States
|
3-0 |
Sweden
|
| 2005 |
Sweden
|
United States
|
4: 1 |
Norway
|
| 2006 |
Norway
|
Germany
|
2-0 |
United States
|
| 2007 |
Finland
|
United States
|
4-0 |
Germany
|
| 2008 |
Sweden
|
United States
|
3-0 |
Germany
|
| 2009 |
Norway
|
Sweden
|
no endgame |
Germany
|
Ranking list U-23 tournament
| rank | nation | winner | Second |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
United States
|
10 | 2 |
| 2. |
Sweden
|
5 | 3 |
| 3. |
Norway
|
2 | 6th |
|
Germany
|
2 | 6th | |
| 5. |
Denmark
|
1 | 2 |
| 6th |
Finland
|
0 | 1 |
The following six nations have been taking part since 2007:
Australia , Denmark , France , Greece , Canada and Switzerland took part in earlier competitions, and in 2008 Scotland and Switzerland too .