Aphrodite Women Cup
Founded2015
RegionCyprus
Number of teams6
Current champions Cyprus (1st title)
2019 Aphrodite Women Cup

The Aphrodite Women Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football. It has been held annually in Cyprus since 2015. As the competition takes place in Cyprus, the hosts have won the competition for the first time in 2019.

It is played at the same time as the Algarve Cup, the Cyprus Women's Cup, the SheBelieves Cup and the Turkish Women's Cup.

Format

The Aphrodite Women Cup uses the following two-phase format:

The first phase is a group stage in which the twelve invited teams are divided into three groups of four teams. Similar to the Algarve Cup, the teams in Group A and Group B consist of higher-ranked teams and are the only teams actually in contention for the championship; Group C consists of lower-ranked teams. Each group plays a round-robin of six games, with each team playing one match against each of the other teams in the same group.

The second phase is a single "finals day" in which six games involving all twelve teams are played to determine the tournament's final standings, with the match-ups as follows:

  • 1st place match: Winners of Groups A and B.
  • 3rd place match: Runners up of Groups A and B.
  • 5th place match: Third placed of Groups A and B.

Results

Year Final Third place match
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
2015[1]
Greece		 2–0
Cyprus
Malta		 2–0
Latvia
2016[2]
Israel		 Round Robin
Cyprus
Malta		 Round Robin
Estonia
2017[3]
Latvia		 0–0 (5–4 p)
Estonia
Lithuania		 1–1 (3–1 p)
Malta
2018 Not Held
2019
Cyprus		 Round Robin
Malta
Estonia		 Round Robin
Lithuania

Previous Tournaments

2015

Notes: Azerbaijan replaced Qatar, who withdrew.[4]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Greece 3 3 0 0 25 1 +24 9 Final
2  Latvia 3 2 0 1 9 4 +5 6 Third place play-off
3  United Arab Emirates 3 1 0 2 3 9 −6 3 Fifth place play-off
4  Lebanon 3 0 0 3 0 23 −23 0 Seventh place play-off
Greece 14–0 Lebanon
Latvia 2–0 United Arab Emirates
Greece 7–0 United Arab Emirates
Lebanon 0–6 Latvia
United Arab Emirates 3–0 Lebanon
Latvia 1–4 Greece

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Cyprus (H) 3 3 0 0 4 1 +3 9 Final
2  Malta 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4 Third place play-off
3  Azerbaijan 3 1 0 2 5 3 +2 3 Fifth place play-off
4  Bahrain 3 0 1 2 1 6 −5 1 Seventh place play-off
Bahrain 0–1 Cyprus
Malta 2–1 Azerbaijan
Bahrain 0–4 Azerbaijan
Cyprus 2–1 Malta
Azerbaijan 0–1 Cyprus
Malta 1–1 Bahrain

Placements

Sources[5][6]

Cyprus 0–2 Greece
Malta 2–0 Latvia
Azerbaijan 5–1 United Arab Emirates
Bahrain 3–1 Lebanon

2016

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Israel 4 3 1 0 6 1 +5 10 Winners
2  Cyprus 4 3 0 1 5 2 +3 9
3  Malta 4 1 1 2 5 5 0 4
4  Estonia 4 1 0 3 3 5 −2 3
5  Lithuania 4 1 0 3 4 10 −6 3
Lithuania 1–3 Cyprus
Malta 1–1 Israel
Malta 2–3 Lithuania
Cyprus 1–0 Estonia
Israel 2–0 Lithuania
Estonia 0–2 Malta
Israel 2–0 Estonia
Malta 0–1 Cyprus
Estonia 3–0 Lithuania
Cyprus 0–1 Israel

2017

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Latvia 2 2 0 0 3 1 +2 6 Final
2  Malta 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 Third place play-off
3  Cyprus 2 0 0 2 2 4 −2 0 Fifth place play-off
Malta 0–1 Latvia
Cyprus 1–2 Latvia
Cyprus 1–2 Malta

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Estonia 2 1 1 0 3 0 +3 4 Final
2  Lithuania 2 1 1 0 2 0 +2 4 Third place play-off
3  Bahrain 2 0 0 2 0 5 −5 0 Fifth place play-off
Estonia 3–0 Bahrain
Lithuania 2–0 Bahrain
Estonia 0–0 Lithuania

Placements

Source[7]

Latvia 0–0 (5–4 p) Estonia
Lithuania 1–1 (3–1 p) Malta
Cyprus 7–1 Bahrain

References

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