Size: | 150px |
Country: | Portugal |
Dates: | 5 - 12 March 2008 |
Num Teams: | 12 |
Confederations: | 3 |
Venues: | 9 |
Cities: | 9 |
Count: | 6 |
Matches: | 24 |
Goals: | 68 |
Top Scorer: | Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir (6 goals) |
Player: | Cathrine Paaske Sørensen |
Prevseason: | 2007 |
Nextseason: | 2009 |
The 2008 Algarve Cup was the fifteenth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place between 5 and 12 March 2008 with the reigning champions the United States winning the event for a record sixth time, after defeating Denmark, 2–1, in the final game[1] in a repeat of the previous year's final.
The twelve invited teams were split into three groups that played a round-robin tournament. The entrants were almost identical to the previous year, but Italy moved up into Group B from their previous ranking in 2007, replacing France who did not feature this time. Poland appeared in the competition for the first time.
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:
All times local (WET/UTC+0)
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 | 3 | 0 | +3 | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | ||||||||||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -6 |
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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 | 10 | 0 | +10 | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | ||||||||||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | -8 |
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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 | 9 | 1 | +8 | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | ||||||||||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -5 |
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All times local (WET/UTC+0)
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