The Cyprus Cup 2015 was the 8th edition of the women's football tournament for national teams , which has been held annually since 2008, and took place from March 4 to 11, 2014, as before, at various venues in the Republic of Cyprus . The tournament was organized by the English, Finnish, Dutch and Scottish associations. With England, Canada and Australia three teams from the top 10 of the FIFA world rankings participated. Defending champions France and the other teams in the top 10 - with the exception of North Korea - took part in the Algarve Cup , which was taking place in parallel . For six of the twelve participants, the tournament also served as preparation for the 2015 World Cup .
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 number of points, then the direct comparison and only then the goal difference was decisive for the placement. Then proceed as follows:
Game for 11th place: The second-best fourth-placed team in groups A and B against the fourth in group C.
Match for 9th place: The third-placed team in group C against the best fourth-placed team in groups A or B.
Game for 7th place: The third-placed teams in groups A and B
Match for 5th place: The second best team in second place in groups A and B against the second in group C.
Match for 3rd place: The best team in second place in groups A and B against the winner in group C.
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 .
Since FIFA classified the games as “ friendly ”, each team was allowed to make six substitutions per game. Yellow cards received during the tournament had no accumulating effect. After a yellow-red or red card , a player was automatically banned from the next game.
The player who scored the most goals was named top scorer. If there were several players with the same number of goals, the better player was who had a shorter playing time. If there were several players, the younger player received the award.
The group allocation was announced on January 19, 2015.
Canada reached the final for the seventh time. Only in 2014 did Canada not make it to the final.
England and Canada faced each other for the third time in the final, which was the most common and only final pairing that existed more than once. Both played against each other three times in the group stage. With the victory, England drew level with Canada in terms of the number of titles, so that now both are record winners with 3 titles each. England won all finals against Canada, Canada always won against other teams.
The matches between England and Canada and the Netherlands against Scotland are the most common pairings in the Cyprus Cup: 6 each
↑ First, New Zealand was registered as a participant on the Cyprus Cup website, but the New Zealanders played on March 3rd and 5th in Spain against World Cup newcomer Spain Archivlink ( Memento of the original from February 5th, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on February 6th, New Zealand was no longer a participant on the Cyprus Cup website. On February 10th, South Africa was named as a participant.@1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nzfootball.co.nz
England
Cyprus
Kim Little (5 goals)
Australia
Belgium
Finland
Italy
Canada
Mexico
Netherlands
South Africa
South Korea
Czech Republic
0: 1 Lianne Sanderson (67.)
Adriana Leon, Allysha Chapman, Janine Beckie
