2000 Algarve Cup

The 2000 Algarve Cup was the seventh edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's association football tournament. It took place between 12 and 18 March 2000 in Portugal with United States winning the event defeating Norway, 1-0, in the final-game. China ended up third defeating Sweden, 1-0, in the third prize game.^[1]

2000 Algarve Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	12–18 March 2000
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	United States (1st title)
Runners-up	Norway
Third place	China
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	50 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dagny Mellgren (4 goals)
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Format

The eight participating teams are Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United States.

The eight teams were split into two groups that played a round-robin group stage. On completion of this, the fourth placed teams from each group would playoff to determine seventh and eighth place, the third placed teams from each group would play each other to decide fifth and sixth place, the second placed teams in each group would play to determine third and fourth place and the winners of the groups would compete for first and second place.

Points awarded in the group stage are three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a loss.

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
United States	9	3	3	0	0	10	1	+9
Sweden	6	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4
Denmark	3	3	1	0	2	3	3	0
Portugal	0	3	0	0	3	1	14	−13

March 12, 2000

United States	7–0	Portugal
5' 11' 63' Cindy Parlow 6' Shannon McMillan 22' Joy Fawcett 67' Tisha Venturini 88' Julie Foudy	Report Report

Albufeira

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March 12, 2000

Sweden	1–0	Denmark
Elin Flyborg	SvFF Report (in Swedish)

Silves

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March 14, 2000

United States	2–1	Denmark
67' Lorrie Fair 86' Shannon McMillan	Report	10' Gitte Krogh

Faro

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March 14, 2000

Sweden	5–1	Portugal
Kristin Bengtsson Tina Nordlund Sundh	Report SvFF Report (in Swedish)	31' Paula Reis

Faro

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March 16, 2000

United States	1–0	Sweden
65' Mia Hamm	Report SvFF Report (in Swedish)

Lagos

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March 16, 2000

Denmark	2–0	Portugal
Merete Pedersen Gitte Krogh	Report

Lagos

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Norway	9	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6
China	6	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4
Canada	3	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4
Finland	0	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6

March 12, 2000

China	4–0	Canada
12' 52' Sun Wen 19' Jin Yan 35' Zhang Ouying	Report

Lagoa

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March 12, 2000

Norway	2–0	Finland
38' Marianne Pettersen 57' Dagny Mellgren	Report

Lagoa

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March 14, 2000

China	4–1	Finland
Jin Yan Zhang Ouying Zhao Lihong Liu Ying		Christina Forssell

Albufeira

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March 14, 2000

Norway	2–1	Canada
14' Marianne Pettersen 45' Linda Ørmen	Report	8' Christine Sinclair

Albufeira

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March 16, 2000

China	0–3	Norway
	Report	7' 28' 63' Dagny Mellgren

Portimão

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March 16, 2000

Finland	1–2	Canada
24' Satu Kinnas	Report	32' Isabelle Harvey 89' Amy Walsh

Portimão

Seventh place

March 18, 2000

Finland	3–0	Portugal
Heidi Kackur Christina Forssell Laura Kalmari	Report

Montechoro

Fifth place

March 18, 2000

Canada	3–2	Denmark
4' 57' Christine Sinclair 29' Breanna Boyd	Report	10' Merete Pedersen 58' Lene Jensen

Lagoa

Third place

March 18, 2000

China	1–0	Sweden
Sun Wen	SvFF Report (in Swedish)

Quarteira

Final

March 18, 2000

United States	1–0	Norway
9' (penalty) Brandi Chastain	Report

Loulé

Final standings

Rank	Team
	United States
	Norway
	China
4	Sweden
5	Canada
6	Denmark
7	Finland
8	Portugal

Goal scorers

Goals	Player
4	Dagny Mellgren
3	Christine Sinclair
	Sun Wen
	Cindy Parlow
2	Jin Yan
	Zhang Ouying
	Gitte Krogh
	Merete Pedersen
	Christina Forssell
	Marianne Pettersen
	Tina Nordlund
	Kristin Bengtsson
	Shannon MacMillan
1	20 athletes
0 own goal

2000 Algarve Cup
United States First title