The 2017 Tournament of Nations was the inaugural
Tournament of Nations
The Tournament of Nations was a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's soccer in non-World Cup and non-Olympic years hosted by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) in several American cities. The inaugural tournament ...
, an international women's
football
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tournament, consisting of a series of
friendly games. It was held in the
United States
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, from July 27 to August 3, 2017, and featured four teams.
Format
The tournament featured the national teams of
Australia
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,
Brazil
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,
Japan
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, and the hosts, the
United States
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, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing every other once. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.
Current FIFA Ranking is important, as it is one of the tie-breaking criteria.
Venues
Three cities along the west coast served as the venues for the tournament.
Squads
Matches
All times are local PDT (
UTC−7).
Goalscorers
26 goals were scored in 6 matches, for an average of goals per matches.
;4 goals
*
Sam Kerr
Samantha May Kerr (born 10 September 1993) is an Australian professional football player who plays as a forward for Chelsea in the FA Women's Super League and the Australia women's national team (the ''Matildas''), which she has captained si ...
;2 goals
*
Lisa De Vanna
Lisa Marie De Vanna (born 14 November 1984) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Perth Glory. She has previously played for Adelaide Sensation, Western Waves, Doncaster Rovers Belles, AIK, Perth Glory, Washingt ...
*
Caitlin Foord
Caitlin Jade Foord (born 11 November 1994) is an Australian professional Association football, soccer player who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for FA Women's Super League club Arsenal W.F.C., Arsenal and the Australian women ...
*
Andressa
*
Camila
*
Yuka Momiki
is an American-born Japanese Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Linköpings FC and the Japan women's national football team.
Club career
Momiki joined Nippon TV Beleza from youth team in ...
*
Megan Rapinoe
Megan Anna Rapinoe (; born July 5, 1985) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a winger and captains OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), as well as the United States national team. Winner of the Ballon d ...
;1 goal
*
Tameka Butt
Tameka Yallop ( Butt; born 16 June 1991) is an Australian professional soccer midfielder who plays for Brann in the Norwegian Toppserien. She previously played for the Boston Breakers in the WPSL Elite, German Frauen-Bundesliga club 1. FFC F ...
*
Emily van Egmond
Emily Louise van Egmond (born 12 July 1993) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for San Diego Wave FC and the Australia women's national team. She previously played for German side 1. FFC Frankfurt and VfL Wo ...
*
Katrina Gorry
Katrina-Lee Gorry (born 13 August 1992) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Brisbane Roar in the A-League and for the Australia national team. She was the 2014 Asia's Footballer of the Year.
Club career
G ...
*
Bruna Benites
Bruna Beatriz Benites Soares (born 16 October 1985), commonly known as Bruna Benites or simply Bruna, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defender for Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1 club SC Internacional and the Br ...
*
Mina Tanaka
is a Japanese footballer who plays as a forward for Bayer Leverkusen (on loan from INAC Kobe Leonessa) and the Japan national team.
Club career
Tanaka was born in Thailand on April 28, 1994. On May 3, 2011, she made her debut for Nippon TV Be ...
*
Julie Ertz
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*
Sam Mewis
Samantha June Mewis (born October 9, 1992) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Kansas City Current of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), as well as the United States national team. She played college ...
*
Alex Morgan
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*
Christen Press
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*
Mallory Pugh
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Television coverage
The ESPN family of networks carried all tournament games. Games were shown on
ESPN
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,
ESPN2
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ESPN2 was initially fo ...
, and
ESPN3
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.
References
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