The 2016 Cyprus Women's Cup was the ninth edition of the Cyprus Women's Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in

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. After being initially canceled due to schedule conflicts with both

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and AFC qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 SheBelieves Cup leaving many of the prior year's participants, including reigning champions

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, unable to attend, the tournament was rescheduled with the

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as tournament organizers and a scaled-down field of eight national teams.

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defeated

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in a final between two first-time participants in the Cyprus Cup.

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 eight teams were split into two groups of four teams. Each group played a round-robin tournament with each team playing one match against each other team in its group. The classification day then had four matches: a first place match between the group winners, a third place match between the runners-up, a fifth place match between the third-placed teams, and a seventh place match between the bottom teams.

Tie-breaking criteria

For the group stage of this tournament, where two or more teams in a group tied on an equal number of points, the finishing positions will be determined by the following tie-breaking criteria in the following order: # number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question # goal difference in all the group matches # number of goals scored in all the group matches # drawing of lots

Venues

Teams

For the first time in Cyprus Cup history, all participants were from

. Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Wales all made their first appearance in the tournament. Also for the first time, Finland was named "host nation" as the Football Association of Finland organized the tournament. Prior co-organisers the

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were instead hosting the 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament,

instead competed in the 2016 SheBelieves Cup, and

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were controversially kept away by their performance director Brian McClair, who preferred to play a single friendly against

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in Falkirk.

Squads

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Third place match

Final

Final standings

Goalscorers

;3 goals * Nina Burger * Lucie Voňková ;2 goals * Simona Necidová ;1 goal *

Nicole Billa Nicole Billa (born 5 March 1996) is an Austrian footballer who plays as a striker for 1. FC Köln. She won the Women's Footballer of the Year award in Germany in 2021. International career Billa was part of the 23-women squad who represented ...

* Katharina Schiechtl * Sarah Zadrazil * Jenny Danielsson *

Adelina Engman Adelina Viktoria Engman (born 11 October 1994) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A Femminile club Como and the Finland national team. Club career Engman made her debut for Åland United in NIG 2009. I ...

* Maija Saari * Henrietta Csiszár * Viktória Szabó * Fanny Vágó * Bernadett Zágor * Barbara Bonansea * Marta Carissimi * Melania Gabbiadini * Cristiana Girelli * Alia Guagni * Daniela Sabatino * Silvana Chojnowski * Ewelina Kamczyk *

Ewa Pajor Ewa Barbara Pajor (; born 3 December 1996) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga F club Barcelona and captains the Poland national team. Between 2015 and 2024, she played for VfL Wolfsburg. She is a five-time winn ...

* Martyna Wiankowska * Ruesha Littlejohn *

Katie McCabe Katie Alison McCabe (born 21 September 1995) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for English Women's Super League club Arsenal and captains the Republic of Ireland women's national team. Mainly a left back, she can also operate as ...

* Louise Quinn * Chloe Chivers * Charlie Estcourt * Kayleigh Green * Helen Ward

References

External links

Official websiteResults at Women's Soccer United
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