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

Cyprus Women's Cup The Cyprus Women's Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football. It has been held annually in Cyprus since 2008. Although the competition takes place in Cyprus, the hosts have yet to take part in th ...

, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

. Six national teams, including five senior teams and one youth team, were invited: Canada women's national soccer team, Canada, Netherlands women's national football team, Netherlands, Japan women's national football team, Japan, Russia women's national football team, Russia, Scotland women's national football team, Scotland, and the United States women's national under-20 soccer team, United States U-20 team (the United States women's national soccer team, United States senior team competed in the concurrent 2008 Algarve Cup). 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 round-robin tournament 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 exhibition game, exhibition match 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

;5 goals * Christine Sinclair ;2 goals * Yūki Ōgimi, Yuki Nagasato * Rumi Utsugi * Karin Stevens * Elena Morozova * Olesya Truntaeva * Michelle Enyeart * Kelley O'Hara * Brittney Steinbruch ;1 goal * Julie Armstrong * Jonelle Filigno * Kara Lang * Michi Goto * Shinobu Ohno * Mizuho Sakaguchi * Eriko Sato (footballer), Eriko Sato * Nangila van Eyck * Natalia Barbashina * Natalia Shlyapina, Natalia Mokshanova * Alla Rogova * Suzanne Grant * Pauline Hamill * Kim Little * Joanne Love * Hollie Thomson

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cyprus Cup Cyprus Women's Cup, 2008 2008 in women's association football 2007–08 in Cypriot football