Cyprus Cup 2020

Cyprus Cup 2020
Number of nations	5 (initially 6 reported)
winner	Croatia (1st title)
venue	Cyprus
Opening game	March 2nd 2020
Endgame	no final, last games on March 11, 2020
Games	6th
Gates	19  (⌀: 3.17 per game)
Top scorer	Ria Öling , Kaisa Collin , Izabela Lojna , Patricia Hmírová (2 each)
yellow cards	11  (⌀: 1.83 per game)
Yellow-red cards	0
Red cards	0

The Cyprus Cup 2020 was the 13th edition of the women's football tournament for national teams , which has been held annually since 2008, and took place from March 2 to 11, 2020, as before, at various venues in the Republic of Cyprus . As since 2017, the tournament is being organized by the Czech Association. As in the last four years, the two record winners with England and Canada did not take part. As in previous years, England competed in the SheBelieves Cup . Canada took part in the Tournoi de France , which was held for the first time . The top participant in the FIFA world rankings before the start of the tournament was Mexico in 26th place (as of December 2019). For the first time took Croatia and was able to win the tournament. Again, the host nation's team did not take part.

The venues were the AEK-Arena and the GSZ-Stadion in Larnaka .

Attendees

country	Rank 1	annotation
Finland (7)	28
Croatia (0)	52	first participation
Mexico (3)	26th
Slovakia (2)	47
Thailand (1)	38	withdrawn
Czech Republic (5)	28

¹Position in the FIFA World Ranking as of December 2019

The tournament

Group stage

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Croatia	2	1	1	0	004: 300	+1	04th
2.	Finland	3	1	1	1	007: 600	+1	04th
3.	Mexico	3	0	3	0	003: 300	± 0	03
4th	Czech Republic	2	0	2	0	001: 100	± 0	02
5.	Slovakia	2	0	1	1	004: 600	−2	01

Since the teams only played two games due to the withdrawal from Thailand, the ranking was determined by dividing the points scored by the number of games.

March 5, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CET) in Larnaka (GSZ Stadium)
Croatia	-	Mexico	1: 1 (1: 1)
March 5, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. CET) in Larnaka (AEK-Arena)
Czech Republic	-	Finland	1: 1 (0: 0)
March 8, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CET) in Larnaka (AEK-Arena)
Finland	-	Croatia	2: 3 (2: 2)
March 8, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CET) in Larnaka (AEK-Arena)
Mexico	-	Slovakia	2: 2 (0: 2)
March 11, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CET) in Larnaka (AEK-Arena)
Mexico	-	Czech Republic	0-0
March 11, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. CET) in Larnaka (GSZ Stadium)
Slovakia	-	Finland	2: 4 (1: 2)

Goal scorers

rank	Player	Gates
1	Ria Oling	2
	Kaisa Collin	2
	Izabela Lojna	2
	Patricia Hmírová	2
5	Jutta Rantala	1
	Linda Sällström	1
	Anna Westerlund	1
	Iva Landeka	1
	Ivana Rudelić	1
	Jimena López Fuentes	1
	Jennifer Justine Muñoz Velázquez	1
	Yamile Azenek Franco Tirado	1
	Maria Mikolajová	1

In addition, two own goals by Anna Westerlund / Finland.

Web links

• Official website of the Cyprus Women's Cup

References and footnotes

1. ↑ On the recommendation of the Thai Minister of Health because of the corona virus epidemic, participation was canceled on February 24th.