Cyprus Cup

Cyprus Cup
Association	FA , SFA , KNVB (until 2015), SPL (2016), FAČR (since 2017)
First edition	2008
Teams	6, 8 or 12
Game mode	Round tournament (2 or 3 groups of 3 or 4 teams) / placement games or league system (2020)
Title holder	Croatia (1)
Record winner	Canada , England (3 wins each)
Record player	Christine Sinclair (30)
Record scorer	Christine Sinclair (17)

Achna Larnaka Nicosia Paralimni Sotira Famagusta

Venues

The Cyprus Cup is a competition for women's national football teams that has been held in the Republic of Cyprus since 2008 and was organized by the national football associations of England (FA), Scotland (SFA) and the Netherlands (KNVB) until 2015 . The Finnish association SPL was in charge of the 2016 competition , while the Czech association FAČR has held this function since the tenth competition in 2017 . The invitation tournament takes place in March parallel to the Algarve Cup , in which stronger teams usually take part. Even though the tournament takes place in the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Cyprus team has not yet participated. Record winners with three titles each are Canada and England , who did not participate for the first time in 2016. The most successful goalscorer is Christine Sinclair with 17 goals ahead of Manon Melis with 12 goals. So far , the venues for the Games have been Achna , Larnaka , Nicosia , Paralimni and Sotira . Record player Christine Sinclair has taken part in all games of the Canadian team at the Cyprus Cup so far, except for the game on March 6, 2013 against Switzerland, for which she was suspended. No team took part in all of the events. Italy is the record participant with ten participations, but has never won the tournament.

Already from 1990 to 1993 there was a tournament in the city of Agia Napa that was held as an alternative to the Nordic Cup . In the statistics of the Danish Association , this tournament - like the tournament held in Tróia ( Portugal ) in 1991 - is listed as the "Open Nordic Cup", while the DFB , which took part in 1993, lists it as the "Cyprus Cup". In the statistics of the Norwegian and Swedish associations, however, these games are not particularly classified. In 1990 and 1991 the four Nordic federations took part, in 1992 and 1993 Finland was absent. 1993 next took Germany nor France and the United States in part. The record winner of these three tournaments is Sweden with two wins.

mode

Six teams took part in the first edition in 2008, including the US U-20 team, which initially played in two groups of three in "everyone against everyone" mode. The leaders of the table then played against each other for the title, the second placed for 3rd place and the third placed for 5th place. In addition, there were three games in the first year in which each team played against a team from the other group. However, these games did not count towards the tournament ranking.

In 2009 the field of participants was increased to 8 and played in two groups of four. Here, too, the teams that were tied then competed against each other in games for places.

In 2011 the field of participants was enlarged to 12 and the game was played in three groups of four. The winner of the 3rd group played against the third in the 1st group for 5th place and the second in the 3rd group against the third in the 2nd group for 7th place.

In 2014, in the games for 3rd to 6th place, the equally ranked teams in groups A and B no longer played against each other, but the better team in second place in group A or B against the first and the worse second-placed team in group A or B against the Second in Group C. Thus, the winner of Group C was able to become third in the tournament for the first time, which the team from South Korea also managed and Mexico repeated in 2015. In the years before 2014, the winner of Group C could at best come in seventh.

In 2016, the tournament - like the Algarve Cup, which again took place in parallel - only took place with eight teams, as the qualifying tournaments for the 2016 Olympic Games in Asia and to determine the last European starter took place at the same time . The eight teams initially played in two groups. The equally ranked teams then played for places.

The tournaments at a glance

First participations

In the eleven tournaments held so far, there were a total of 27 participants. The following overview shows which country participated in which event for the first time (number of participations in brackets, as of 2019):

Year (number of participants)	First time participant
2008 (6)	Japan (1)	Canada (8)	Netherlands (8)	Russia (3)
	Scotland (9)	USA (U-20) (1)
2009 (8)	England (7)	France (4)	South Africa (7)	New Zealand (7)
2010 (8)	Italy (10)	Switzerland (7)
2011 (12)	Mexico (3)	South Korea (6)	Northern Ireland (3)
2012 (12)	Finland (7)
2013 (12)	Ireland (4)
2014 (12)	Australia (2)
2015 (12)	Belgium (4)	Czech Republic (5)
2016 (8)	Austria (4)	Poland (1)	Hungary (4)	Wales (3)
2017 (12)	North Korea (3)
2018 (12)	Slovakia (2)	Spain (1)
2019 (12)	Nigeria (1)	Thailand (1)
2020 (6)	Croatia (0)

Winners and placements

year	final			Game for third place
	winner	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
2008 details	Canada	3: 2	USA (U-20)	Japan	2: 1	Netherlands
2009 details	England	3: 1	Canada	France	1: 1 n.V., 6: 5 i. E.	New Zealand
2010 details	Canada	1-0	New Zealand	Netherlands	4-0	Switzerland
2011 details	Canada	2: 1	Netherlands	France	3-0	Scotland
2012 details	France	2-0	Canada	Italy	3: 1	England
2013 details	England	1-0	Canada	New Zealand	2: 1	Switzerland
2014 details	France	2-0	England	South Korea	1: 1, 3: 1 i. E.	Scotland
2015 details	England	1-0	Canada	Mexico	3: 2	Italy
2016 details	Austria	2: 1	Poland	Italy	3: 1	Czech Republic
2017 details	Switzerland	1-0	South Korea	North Korea	2-0	Ireland
2018 details	Spain	2-0	Italy	North Korea	2: 1	Switzerland
2019 details	North Korea	3: 3 n.V., 7: 6 i. E.	Italy	Belgium	0: 0, 3: 2 i. E.	Austria
2020 details	Croatia	(League system)	Finland	Mexico	(League system)	Czech Republic

Leaderboards

by country rank country title Year (s) 2. 3. 4th 1  Canada 3 2008 , 2010 , 2011 4th / / 2  England 3 2009 , 2013 , 2015 1 / 1 3  France 2 2012 , 2014 / 2 / 4th  North Korea 1 2019 / 2 / 5  Switzerland 1 2017 / / 3 6th  Austria 1 2016 / / 1 7th  Croatia 1 2020 / / /  Spain 1 2018 / / / 9  Italy 2 2 1 10  Netherlands 1 1 1  New Zealand 1 1 1 12  South Korea 1 1 / 13  Finland 1 / /  Poland 1 / /  USA (U-20) 1 / / 16  Mexico / 2 / 17th  Belgium / 1 /  Japan / 1 / 19th  Scotland / / 2  Czech Republic / / 2 21st  Ireland / / 1

after confederations rank confederacy title 2. 3. 4th 1 UEFA 9 6th 6th 12 2 CONCACAF 3 5 2 / 3 AFC 1 1 4th / 4th OFC / 1 1 1 5 CAF / / / / CONMEBOL * / / / / * So far no participant from South America.

Participant overview

team	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	6th	-	-	-	-	-
Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12.	-	7th	5.	3.	-
England	-	1.	5.	5.	4th	1.	2.	1.	-	-	-	-	-
Finland	-	-	-	-	6th	7th	12.	9.	8th.	-	11.	9.	2.
France	-	3.	-	3.	1.	-	1.	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	8th.	6th	-	7th	4th	-	-	-
Italy	-	-	6th	9.	3.	9.	8th.	4th	3.	11.	2.	2.	-
Japan	3.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Canada	1.	2.	1.	1.	2.	2.	5.	2.	-	-	-	-	-
Croatia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.
Mexico	-	-	-	7th	-	-	-	3.	-	-	-	5.	3.
New Zealand	-	4th	2.	8th.	8th.	3.	11.	-	-	9.	-	-	-
Netherlands	4th	5.	3.	2.	7th	6th	9.	8th.	-	-	-	-	-
Nigeria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	-
Northern Ireland	-	-	-	12.	12.	12.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
North Korea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.	3.	1.	-
Austria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.	8th.	7th	4th	-
Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.	-	-	-	-
Russia	5.	8th.	-	10.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Scotland	6th	7th	7th	4th	9.	5.	4th	7th	-	5.	-	-	-
Switzerland	-	-	4th	11.	11.	4th	10.	-	-	1.	4th	-	-
Slovakia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10.	12.	5.
Spain	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.	-	-
South Africa	-	6th	8th.	-	10.	11.	-	10.	-	-	6th	10.	-
South Korea	-	-	-	6th	5.	10.	3.	11.	-	2.	-	-	-
Thailand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th.	Z
Czech Republic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th	4th	12.	9.	6th	4th
Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.	10.	12.	11.	-
USA U20	2.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wales	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th	6th	8th.	-	-
Attendees	6th	8th	8th	12	12	12	12	12	8th	12	12	12	5

Note: Z = withdrawn before the start of the tournament

Top scorer queens

year	Player (s)	Gates
2008	Christine Sinclair	5
2009	Manon Melis Christine Sinclair	4th
2010	Manon Melis	4th
2011	Marie-Laure Delie	6th
2012	Linda Sällström	5
2013	Ellen White Sanna Talonen	3
2014	Lisa Evans	4th
2015	Kim Little	5
2016	Nina Burger	3
2017	Rosie White	3
2018	Emmi Alanen Cristiana Girelli Tereza Kožárová	3
2019	Kim Yun-mi	5
2020	Kaisa Collin Ria Öling Izabela Lojna Patricia Hmírová	2

Web links

• Official website of the Cyprus Cup
• Cyprus Cup on rsssf.com (English)
• Cyprus Cup on the-sports.org (English)
• "Cyprus Tournament (Women)" in Agia Napa 1990–1993 on rsssf.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Including 1 game against the U20 team of the USA, which is not counted in the statistics of the Canadian association.
2. ↑ Thereof 2 goals against the U20 team of the USA, which are not counted in the statistics of the Canadian association. In the RSSSF statistics of the Cyprus Cup , she is also credited with a goal against Finland on March 5, 2014, which the Canadian Association counts as an own goal by a Finnish woman ( Canada vs Finland - March 5, 2014 ).
3. ↑ Canada vs Switzerland - March 6, 2013
4. ↑ cbc.ca: "FIFA suspends Canada's Christine Sinclair 4 games"
5. ↑ DBU: international match statistics
6. ↑ DFB.de: All games of the women's national team in 1993 ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Best placement by an African team: 6th place through South Africa in 2009 and 2018