Country: | Portugal |
Dates: | 7 - 14 March 2007 |
Num Teams: | 12 |
Confederations: | 3 |
Count: | 5 |
Matches: | 24 |
Goals: | 61 |
Top Scorer: | Carli Lloyd (4 goals) |
Player: | Carli Lloyd |
Goalkeeper: | Caroline Jonsson |
Prevseason: | 2006 |
Nextseason: | 2008 |
The 2007 Algarve Cup was the fourteenth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place between 7 and 12 March 2007 with the previous year's runners-up, the United States, winning the event for a record fifth time, breaking Norway's previous record of four championships, by defeating Denmark, 2-0, in the final game. Sweden ended up third defeating France, 3-1, in the bronze medal game.[1]
The twelve invited teams were split into three groups that played a round-robin tournament. All of the teams from Groups A and B returned from 2006, but Italy and Iceland were invited back for the third time to play in Group C replacing Mexico and Wales.
Groups A and B, containing the strongest ranked teams, were the only ones in contention to win the title. The group winners from A and B contested the final, with the runners-up playing for third place and those that finished third in these two groups playing for fifth place.
The teams in Group C were playing for places 7-12, with the winner of Group C playing the team that finished fourth in Group A or B with the better record for seventh place and the Group C runner-up playing the team which came last in Group A or B with the worse record for ninth place. The third and fourth-placed teams in Group C played for eleventh place.
Points awarded in the group stage follow the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. In the case of two teams being tied on the same number of points in a group, their head-to-head result determined the higher placed.
The twelve invited teams were:
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width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Goals for" | GF | width=20 abbr="Goals against" | GA | width=20 abbr="Goal difference" | GD |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -1 | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 |
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width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Goals for" | GF | width=20 abbr="Goals against" | GA | width=20 abbr="Goal difference" | GD |
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9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | ||||||||||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -4 |
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width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Goals for" | GF | width=20 abbr="Goals against" | GA | width=20 abbr="Goal difference" | GD |
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9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | ||||||||||
4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | ||||||||||
2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | ||||||||||
1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 |
All times local (WET/UTC+0)