Estádio Algarve

The Algarve Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football. Held annually in the Algarve region of Portugal since 1994, it is one of the most prestigious^{[citation needed]} women's football events, alongside the Women's World Cup and Women's Olympic Football. There is also an Algarve Cup competition for male under-17 football players that is held every February.

Currently, 12 teams are invited, with the top eight competing for the championship. The teams are divided into three groups of four — A, B and C. Group C was added in 2002 to provide second-tier teams with high-level match experience every year. The current holder is Germany.

The teams first play round-robin within their pool. Then the placement round proceeds as follows:

• 11th place: Bottom teams in Group C play one game.
• 9th place: The Group C runner-up plays one game against the lower-ranked of the fourth-place teams from Groups A and B.
• 7th place: The Group C winner plays one game against the higher-ranked of the fourth-place teams from Groups A and B.
• 5th place: The third-place teams from Groups A and B play one game.
• 3rd place: The second-place teams from Groups A and B play one game.
• 1st place: The first-place teams from Groups A and B play one game.

The most successful teams have been the USA with eight titles and Norway with four. Norway's titles all came in the early years of the tournament, while the USA has won all its titles since 2000, including seven in nine years since 2003. Sweden has won three times, China two times and Germany has won twice. The USA, Norway and Germany are the only nations to have won both the FIFA World Cup and the Algarve Cup.

The Algarve Cup, as an annual event featuring most of the world's top women's football teams, has no parallel in the men's game, given that there are fewer professional women's leagues and thus fewer scheduling conflicts.

Results[link]

Year		Final				Third Place Match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up		3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1994		Norway	1–0	United States		Sweden	1–0	Denmark
1995		Sweden	3–2 (aet)	Denmark		Norway	3–3 (aet) 4–2 (pso)	United States
1996		Norway	4–0	Sweden		China PR	2–1	Denmark
1997		Norway	1–0	China PR		Sweden	0–0 6–5 (pso)	Denmark
1998		Norway	4–1	Denmark		United States	3–1	Sweden
1999		China PR	2–1	United States		Norway	2–2 (aet) 4–1 (pso)	Denmark
2000		United States	1–0	Norway		China PR	1–0	Sweden
2001		Sweden	3–0	Denmark		China PR	5–1	Canada
2002		China PR	1–0	Norway		Sweden	2–1	Germany
2003		United States	2–0	China PR		Norway	1–0	France
2004		United States	4–1	Norway		France	3–3 4–3 (pso)	Italy
2005		United States	1–0	Germany		France	3–2	Sweden
2006		Germany	0–0 (aet) 4–3 (pso)	United States		Sweden	1–0	France
2007		United States	2–0	Denmark		Sweden	3–1	France
2008		United States	2–1	Denmark		Norway	2–0	Germany
2009		Sweden	1–1 4–3 (pso)	United States		Denmark	1–0	Germany
2010		United States	3–2	Germany		Sweden	2–0	China PR
2011		United States	4–2	Iceland		Japan	2–1	Sweden
2012		Germany	4–3	Japan		United States	4–0	Sweden

Rankings[link]

Team	Winner	Runner up	3rd place	4th
United States	8 (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)	4 (1994, 1999, 2006, 2009)	2 (1998, 2012)	1 (1995)
Norway	4 (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998)	3 (2000, 2002, 2004)	4 (1995, 1999, 2003, 2008)	-
Sweden	3 (1995, 2001, 2009)	1 (1996)	6 (1994, 1997, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2010)	5 (1998, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2012)
China PR	2 (1999, 2002)	2 (1997, 2003)	3 (1996, 2000, 2001)	1 (2010)
Germany	2 (2006, 2012)	2 (2005, 2010)	-	3 (2002, 2008, 2009)
Denmark	-	5 (1995, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2008)	1 (2009)	4 (1994, 1996, 1997, 1999)
Japan	-	1 (2012)	1 (2011)	-
Iceland	-	1 (2011)	-	-
France	-	-	2 (2004, 2005)	3 (2003, 2006, 2007)
Canada	-	-	-	1 (2001)
Italy	-	-	-	1 (2004)

Participating nations[link]

Team	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	5th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Austria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10th	11th	-	-
Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	5th	4th	8th	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Chile	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11th	-
China PR	-	-	3rd	2nd	5th	1st	3rd	3rd	1st	2nd	6th	7th	6th	10th	9th	5th	4th	7th	9th
Denmark	4th	2nd	4th	4th	2nd	4th	6th	2nd	6th	9th	7th	6th	9th	2nd	2nd	3rd	5th	6th	5th
England	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9th	-	-	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Faroe Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12th	-	-
Finland	6th	5th	8th	6th	8th	8th	7th	7th	7th	6th	9th	10th	7th	6th	8th	7th	8th	10th	-
France	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th	3rd	3rd	4th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th	-	-	2nd	1st	8th	4th	4th	2nd	-	1st
Greece	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th	11th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12th
Republic of Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11th	-	-	10th	11th	12th	-	-	-	11th
Iceland	-	-	6th	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9th	7th	6th	9th	2nd	6th
Italy	-	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th	-	-	7th	6th	-	-	-	-
Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3rd	2nd
Mexico	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9th	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
Netherlands	-	6th	-	5th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Northern Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12th	12th	WD	-	-	-	-	-	-
Norway	1st	3rd	1st	1st	1st	3rd	2nd	5th	2nd	3rd	2nd	5th	5th	5th	3rd	9th	6th	5th	7th
Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11th	11th	-	-	-
Portugal	5th	8th	7th	8th	7th	7th	8th	8th	11th	10th	8th	11th	11th	12th	10th	8th	10th	9th	10th
Romania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	12th	-
Russia	-	-	5th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Scotland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sweden	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	6th	4th	1st	3rd	5th	5th	4th	3rd	3rd	5th	1st	3rd	4th	4th
United States	2nd	4th	-	-	3rd	2nd	1st	6th	5th	1st	1st	1st	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	1st	1st	3rd
Wales	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12th	12th	10th	-	-	-	-	12th	-	8th	8th

External links[link]

• Algarve Cup on WomensSoccerUnited.com
• RSSSF.com history page, with links to full results

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Alex Morgan

Morgan with USA women's team in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Alexandra Patricia Morgan
Date of birth	(1989-07-02) July 2, 1989 (age 22)
Place of birth	Diamond Bar, California, United States
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Seattle Sounders Women
Number	13
Youth career
	Cypress Elite
	Diamond Bar High School
2007–2010	California Golden Bears
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2008–2009	West Coast FC	2	(2)
2010	California Storm	3	(5)
2010	Pali Blues	3	(1)
2011	Western New York Flash	13	(4)
2012–	Seattle Sounders Women	1	(0)
National team‡
2008	United States U20	10	(5)
2010–	United States	39	(24)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 June 2012. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 April 2012

Alexandra Patricia "Alex" Morgan (born July 2, 1989) is an American soccer player from Diamond Bar, California. She is a forward for Seattle Sounders Women and member of the US Women's National Team. Morgan was the youngest player on the USA's roster at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Early life and collegiate career[link]

Morgan was born in Diamond Bar, California, the daughter of Pamela S. (née Jeske) and Michael T. Morgan.^[1] She attended Diamond Bar High School. As a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, Morgan was the leading scorer for the Golden Bears with eight goals in 2007. Her last goal of her freshman season came against Stanford in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament, tying the game at 1–1 with less than two minutes left in regulation time and forcing the Cardinal into overtime and then to penalty kicks. However, Stanford prevailed, and went on to the third round of the tournament.^[2]

Morgan continued to lead the Golden Bears' scoring during her sophomore season with nine goals in 2008, despite being out for part of the season due to national team commitments.^[3] The Golden Bears bowed out of the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament while Morgan was playing at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

At the beginning of the 2009 NCAA season, Morgan was named a candidate for the Hermann Trophy Watch List,^[4] the first Golden Bear to be considered in this category since Laura Schott in 2001. She scored fourteen goals and eight assists during the Bears' 2009 season.^[5]

Morgan is third all-time in goals scored (45) for the Golden Bears.^[6]

Club career[link]

Western New York Flash[link]

On January 14, 2011, Morgan was drafted number one overall in the 2011 WPS Draft by the Western New York Flash.^[7] She was the first California Golden Bears women's soccer player to be drafted in the first round of Women's Professional Soccer.

International career[link]

Due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury that slowed her progress in 2007, Morgan was not called up to train with the United States under-20 women's national soccer team until April 2008.^[8] Her first appearance for the U-20s came at the 2008 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship in Puebla, Mexico, where she scored her first international goal against Cuba.^[9]

Morgan was named to the United States U-20 women's national team that competed in the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile, scoring a total of four goals in the tournament against France, Argentina and North Korea; her last goal scored against North Korea was subsequently voted the best goal of the tournament,^[10] and later FIFA's second-best goal of the year.^[11] Morgan's performance on the field earned her the Bronze Shoe as the tournament's third-highest scorer and the Silver Ball as the tournament's second-best player behind teammate Sydney Leroux.^[12]

She has been capped by the senior national team, first appearing as a substitute in a match versus Mexico in March 2010,^[13] and scored her first international goal after coming on as a substitute against China in October 2010. Her most important goal to date came a month later in a crucial road game against Italy, with a Women's World Cup berth on the line for the United States.^[14]

Morgan was on the national team that placed second in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was the youngest player on the U.S. roster. On July 13, 2011, she scored her first FIFA Women's World Cup goal in the 82nd minute of the semi-final matchup against France, giving the USA a 3–1 lead and ultimately, the victory. She scored the first goal (69') in the FIFA World Cup Final against Japan after coming on as a substitute at the half, as well as assisting on the Abby Wambach header (104') for a goal in extra time.

International goals[link]

#	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
01.	October 5, 2010	Chester, Pennsylvania, USA	China PR	1–1	1–1	Friendly
02.	October 30, 2010	Cancun, Mexico	Guatemala	7–0	9–0	2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
03.	November 1, 2010	Cancun, Mexico	Costa Rica	4–0	4–0	2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
04.	November 20, 2010	Padova, Italy	Italy	1–0	1–0	2011 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-off
05.	March 7, 2011	Quarteira, Portugal	Finland	3–0	4–0	2011 Algarve Cup
06.				4–0
07.	March 9, 2011	Faro, Portugal	Iceland	4–2	4–2	2011 Algarve Cup
08.	July 12, 2011	Moenchengladbach, Germany	France	3–1	3–1	2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
09.	July 17, 2011	Frankfurt, Germany	Japan	1–0	1–1, 2–2 a.e.t. (1–3 pens.)	2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
10.	September 22, 2011	Portland, Oregon, USA	Canada	3–0	3–0	Friendly
11.	January 22, 2012	Vancouver, Canada	Guatemala	12–0	13–0	2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
12.	January 27, 2012	Vancouver, Canada	Costa Rica	3–0	3–0	2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
13.	January 29, 2012	Vancouver, Canada	Canada	1–0	4–0	2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
14.				4–0
15.	February 11, 2012	Frisco, Texas USA	New Zealand	1–1	2–1	Friendly
16.				2–1
17.	February 29, 2012	Lagos, Portugal	Denmark	2–0	5–0	2012 Algarve Cup
18.				3–0
19.	March 7, 2012	Parchal, Portugal	Sweden	1–0	4–0	2012 Algarve Cup
20.				2–0
21.				4–0
22.	April 1, 2012	Sendai City, Japan	Japan	1–1	1–1	2012 Women's Kirin Challenge Cup
23.	May 27, 2012	Chester, Pennsylvania, USA	China PR	1–1	4–1	Friendly
24.				3–1

Honors[link]

Club[link]

Western New York Flash

• WPS Championship:
  • Winner: 2011

International[link]

• FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup:
  • Winner: 2008

• FIFA Women's World Cup:
  • Runner-up 2011

• Algarve Cup:
  • Winner: 2011

• Four Nations Tournament:
  • Winner: 2011

Individual[link]

• FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Silver Ball:
  • Winner: 2008
• NCAA All-American:
  • First-Team: 2010
• Pac-10 Conference:
  • First-team: 2008, 2009, 2010

Personal life[link]

She met her current boyfriend Servando Carrasco in her first year at University of California. ^[15] Alex appeared in the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue appearing in a section of athletes in body paint.^[16] She supports FC Barcelona.^[17]

See also[link]

Association football portal

• Women's sports
• Women's Sports Foundation

References[link]

External links[link]

• Alex Morgan Official Website
• Alex Morgan – FIFA competition record
• Western New York Flash player page

v t e United States squad – 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Champions (2nd Title) 1 Naeher 2 Fountain 3 Klingenberg 4 Harkin 5 Dallstream 6 Reed 7 Mautz 8 Edwards 9 DiMartino 10 Enyeart 11 Nairn 12 Wells 13 Morgan 14 Winters (c.) 15 Fowlkes 16 Washington 17 Marshall 18 Jones 19 Leroux 21 Parkhill Coach: DiCicco

v t e United States squad – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Runners-up 1 Solo 2 Mitts 3 Rampone (c.) 4 Sauerbrunn 5 O'Hara 6 LePeilbet 7 Boxx 8 Rodriguez 9 O'Reilly 10 Lloyd 11 Krieger 12 Cheney 13 Morgan 14 Cox 15 Rapinoe 16 Lindsey 17 Heath 18 Barnhart 19 Buehler 20 Wambach 21 Loyden Coach: Sundhage