2000 Algarve Cup

2000 Algarve Cup
Tournament details
Host country Portugal
Dates 1218 March 2000
Teams 8 (from 3 confederations)
Final positions
Champions  United States
Runners-up  Norway
Third place  China PR
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Goals scored 50 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s) Norway Dagny Mellgren
(4 goals)

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.

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

March 12, 2000
United States  70  Portugal
 5' 11' 63' Cindy Parlow
 6' Shannon McMillan
 22' Joy Fawcett
 67' Tisha Venturini
 88' Julie Foudy
Report
Report

March 12, 2000
Sweden  10  Denmark
Elin Flyborg

March 14, 2000
United States  21  Denmark
 67' Lorrie Fair
 86' Shannon McMillan
Report  10' Gitte Krogh

March 14, 2000
Sweden  51  Portugal
Kristin Bengtsson
Tina Nordlund
Sundh
Report  31' Paula Reis

March 16, 2000
United States  10  Sweden
 65' Mia Hamm Report

March 16, 2000
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

March 12, 2000
China PR  40  Canada
 12' 52' Sun Wen
 19' Jin Yan
 35' Zhang Ouying
Report

March 12, 2000
Norway  20  Finland
 38' Marianne Pettersen
 57' Dagny Mellgren
Report

March 14, 2000
China PR  41  Finland
Jin Yan
Zhang Ouying
Zhao Lihong
Liu Ying
Christina Forssell

March 14, 2000
Norway  21  Canada
 14' Marianne Pettersen
 45' Linda Ørmen
Report  8' Christine Sinclair

March 16, 2000
China PR  03  Norway
Report  7' 28' 63' Dagny Mellgren

March 16, 2000
Finland  12  Canada
 24' Satu Kinnas Report  32' Isabelle Harvey
 89' Amy Walsh

Seventh place

March 18, 2000
Finland  30  Portugal
Heidi Kackur
Christina Forssell
Laura Kalmari
Report

Fifth place

March 18, 2000
Canada  32  Denmark
 4'  57' Christine Sinclair
 29' Breanna Boyd
Report  10' Merete Pedersen
 58' Lene Jensen

Third place

March 18, 2000
China PR  10  Sweden
Sun Wen

Final

March 18, 2000
United States  10  Norway
 9' (penalty) Brandi Chastain Report

Final standings

Rank Team
1st, gold medalist(s)  United States
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Norway
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  China PR
4  Sweden
5  Canada
6  Denmark
7  Finland
8  Portugal

Goal scorers

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

United States
First title

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