The 2008 Cyprus Women's Cup was the inaugural edition of the

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, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in

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. Six national teams, including five senior teams and one youth team, were invited:

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, and the United States U-20 team (the United States senior team competed in the concurrent

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). Canada defeated the United States U-20 team in the final.

Format

The tournament consisted of a group stage held over three match days followed by a single day of classification matches to determine the final standings. For the group stage, the six teams were split into two groups of three teams. Each group played a

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with each team playing one match against each other team in its group. In addition, on each group stage match day, one team from each group did not have a round-robin group match; these two teams played an

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that was not counted towards the group stage standings. The classification day then had three matches: a first place match between the group winners, a third place match between the runners-up, and a fifth place match between the bottom teams.

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Exhibition Matches

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Placement matches

Fifth place match

Third place match

Final

Champion

Goalscorers

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* Brittney Steinbruch ;1 goal * Julie Armstrong *

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* Eriko Sato * Nangila van Eyck * Natalia Barbashina * Natalia Mokshanova * Alla Rogova *

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References

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