This article lists the squads for the
2013 Algarve Cup
The 2013 Algarve Cup was the twentieth edition of the Algarve Cup, an annual invitational women's football tournament hosted by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF).
Teams
The following teams were taking part. There were no debutantes, as al ...
, held in
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
. The 12 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.
Players marked (
c) were named as captain for their national squad.
Age, caps and goals as of 6 March 2013.
Group A
Germany
Coach:
Silvia Neid
Silvia Edith Maria Neid (born 2 May 1964) is a retired professional German football player and manager. She is one of the most successful players in German women's football, having won seven national championships and six DFB-Pokal trophies. Betw ...
Denmark
Coach:
Kenneth Heiner-Møller
Kenneth Heiner-Møller (born Kenneth Heiner Christiansen; 17 January 1971) is a Danish football manager and former player. He is the former manager of the Canadian women's national team. In 1994–1995 he played for Ferencvárosi TC in Hungary, ...
Japan
Coach:
Norio Sasaki
is a Japanese football coach and former player who is currently the general manager of Omiya Ardija Ventus. He is best known for leading the Japan women's national team to their first and only FIFA Women's World Cup win in 2011 over the Uni ...
Norway
Coach:
Even Pellerud
Even Jostein Pellerud (born 15 July 1953) is a Norwegian football coach and former player.
Career
Pellerud played for several clubs, including Vålerenga from 1974 to 1979 and Kongsvinger from 1983 to 1986. He was head coach for the Norway women ...
Group B
China
Coach:
Li Xiaopeng
Iceland
Coach:
Sigurður Ragnar Eyjólfsson
Sigurður "Siggi" Ragnar Eyjólfsson (born 1 December 1973) is an Icelandic football manager and former player. He was a professional forward in England and Belgium. From 2007 until 2013 he served as the head coach of Iceland women's national ...
Sweden
Coach:
Pia Sundhage
Pia Mariane Sundhage (, born 13 February 1960) is a Swedish football manager and former professional player. She is the head coach of the Brazil women's national team. As a player, Sundhage played most of her career as a forward and retired as ...
United States
Coach:
Tom Sermanni
Thomas Dorby Sermanni (born 1 July 1954) is a Scottish association football, football coach and former professional player, who mostly works in women's football. He has previously managed the Australia women's national soccer team, Australia wom ...
Group C
Portugal
Coach:
António Violante
Mexico
Coach:
Leonardo Cuéllar
Leonardo Cuéllar Rivera (born 14 January 1954) is a Mexican football manager and former player who last acted as the manager of América in the Liga MX Femenil. He was the head coach of the Mexico women's national football team from 1998 to 2 ...
Wales
Coach:
Jarmo Matikainen
Hungary
Coach:
Attila Vágó
References
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squad
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