2000 Algarve Cup

The 2000 Algarve Cup was the seventh edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's association football tournament. It took place between 12 and 18 March 2000 in Portugal with United States winning the event defeating Norway, 1-0, in the final-game. China ended up third defeating Sweden, 1-0, in the third prize game.[1]

2000 Algarve Cup
Tournament details
Host countryPortugal
Dates1218 March 2000
Teams8 (from 3 confederations)
Final positions
Champions United States (1st title)
Runners-up Norway
Third place China PR
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored50 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s) Dagny Mellgren
(4 goals)

Format

The eight participating teams are Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United States.

The eight teams were split into two groups that played a round-robin group stage. On completion of this, the fourth placed teams from each group would playoff to determine seventh and eighth place, the third placed teams from each group would play each other to decide fifth and sixth place, the second placed teams in each group would play to determine third and fourth place and the winners of the groups would compete for first and second place.

Points awarded in the group stage are three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a loss.

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 United States 93300101+9
 Sweden 6320162+4
 Denmark 33102330
 Portugal 0300311413

Sweden 10 Denmark
Elin Flyborg SvFF Report (in Swedish)

United States 21 Denmark
 67' Lorrie Fair
 86' Shannon McMillan
Report  10' Gitte Krogh

Sweden 51 Portugal
Kristin Bengtsson
Tina Nordlund
Sundh
Report
SvFF Report (in Swedish)
 31' Paula Reis

United States 10 Sweden
 65' Mia Hamm Report
SvFF Report (in Swedish)

Denmark 20 Portugal
Merete Pedersen
Gitte Krogh
Report

Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Norway 9330071+6
 China PR 6320184+4
 Canada 33102374
 Finland 03003286
China PR 40 Canada
 12' 52' Sun Wen
 19' Jin Yan
 35' Zhang Ouying
Report

Norway 20 Finland
 38' Marianne Pettersen
 57' Dagny Mellgren
Report

China PR 41 Finland
Jin Yan
Zhang Ouying
Zhao Lihong
Liu Ying
Christina Forssell


China PR 03 Norway
Report  7' 28' 63' Dagny Mellgren

Finland 12 Canada
 24' Satu Kinnas Report  32' Isabelle Harvey
 89' Amy Walsh

Seventh place

Finland 30 Portugal
Heidi Kackur
Christina Forssell
Laura Kalmari
Report

Fifth place

Canada 32 Denmark
 4'  57' Christine Sinclair
 29' Breanna Boyd
Report  10' Merete Pedersen
 58' Lene Jensen

Third place

China PR 10 Sweden
Sun Wen SvFF Report (in Swedish)

Final

United States 10 Norway
 9' (penalty) Brandi Chastain Report

Final standings

Rank Team
 United States
 Norway
 China PR
4 Sweden
5 Canada
6 Denmark
7 Finland
8 Portugal

Goal scorers

Goals
Player
4
Dagny Mellgren
3
Christine Sinclair
Sun Wen
Cindy Parlow
2
Jin Yan
Zhang Ouying
Gitte Krogh
Merete Pedersen
Christina Forssell
Marianne Pettersen
Tina Nordlund
Kristin Bengtsson
Shannon MacMillan
1
20 athletes
0 own goal
 2000 Algarve Cup 

United States
First title

References

  1. Jack Thompson (19 March 2000). "Chastain's Goal Powers US to Tournament Title". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
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