The Cyprus Cup 2018 was the 11th edition of the women's football tournament for national teams , which has been held annually since 2008, and took place from February 28 to March 7, 2018, as before, at various venues in the Republic of Cyprus . As in the previous year, the tournament was organized by the Czech Association alone. As in the last two years, the two record winners with England and Canada did not take part. England competed in the SheBelieves Cup in 2016 and 2017 , Canada in the Algarve Cup 2018 . The top participant in the FIFA world rankings before the start of the tournament was North Korea in 11th place (as of December 2017), which was subsequently invited as a participant instead of the aforementioned team from Trinidad and Tobago . For the first time Slovakia and Spain took part, which won the Algarve Cup last year and the Cyprus Cup this time. By participating for the ninth time, Italy, which has been participating continuously since 2010, caught up with the record-breaking Scotland, who did not participate this time. Again, the host nation's team did not take part.
Twelve national teams took part in the tournament, initially playing in three groups. North Korea, the top team in the FIFA world rankings and the three worst teams, played in Group C, while the remaining eight teams played in Groups A and B. The teams in Group C could thus occupy third place overall. For the placement after the group games, if two teams were tied, the direct comparison was decisive, in the case of three or more teams tied on points or if two teams tied on points had drawn against each other, first the goal difference and then the number of goals and if this resulted in no decision would have been drawn . Placement games then took place.
Since FIFA classifies the games as " friendly games" , each team was allowed to make six substitutions per game.
March 5, 2018, 6:00 p.m. in Paralimni (Tassos Markou)
Hungary
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Slovakia
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Placement games
The locations of the placement games were only determined after the pairings were established. If the placement games end in a draw after regular playing time, there is an immediate penalty shoot-out in the games for 3rd to 11th place, in the final there is first overtime and only then - if necessary - a penalty shootout.
Italy, together with Scotland record participants, and Spain, which participated for the first time, reached the final for the first time.
The Swiss Ana Maria Crnogorčević first scored her 50th international goal in the second group game and played her 100th international match three days later in the last group game . This was also achieved by the record Austrian national player Nina Burger in the game for 7th place.
Spain became the first team to win the Algarve Cup and Cyprus Cup for two consecutive years .
Spain (1st title)
Cyprus
Emmi Alanen , Cristiana Girelli , Tereza Kožárová (3 each)
Belgium
Austria
Switzerland
Slovakia
South Africa
North Korea
Hungary
Wales
0-1 Amanda Sampedro (49th) 
Manuela Giugliano