Aphrodite Women Cup

Aphrodite Women Cup

Founded	2015
Region	Cyprus
Teams	6
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 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

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

Source: https://www.cfa.com.cy/Gr/news/21885

12 March 2015 (2015-03-12)

Greece	14–0	Lebanon

12 March 2015 (2015-03-12)

Latvia	2–0	United Arab Emirates

13 March 2015 (2015-03-13)

Greece	7–0	United Arab Emirates

13 March 2015 (2015-03-13)

Lebanon	0–6	Latvia

15 March 2015 (2015-03-15)

United Arab Emirates	3–0	Lebanon

15 March 2015 (2015-03-15)

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

Source: https://www.cfa.com.cy/Gr/news/21885
(H) Hosts

12 March 2015 (2015-03-12)

Bahrain	0–1	Cyprus

12 March 2015 (2015-03-12)

Malta	2–1	Azerbaijan

13 March 2015 (2015-03-13)

Bahrain	0–4	Azerbaijan

13 March 2015 (2015-03-13)

Cyprus	2–1	Malta

15 March 2015 (2015-03-15)

Azerbaijan	0–1	Cyprus

15 March 2015 (2015-03-15)

Malta	1–1	Bahrain

Placements

Sources ^{[5] [6]}

18 March 2015 (2015-03-18)

Cyprus	0–2	Greece

18 March 2015 (2015-03-18)

Malta	2–0	Latvia

18 March 2015 (2015-03-18)

Azerbaijan	5–1	United Arab Emirates

18 March 2015 (2015-03-18)

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

Source: https://www.cfa.com.cy/Gr/news/25806

10 March 2016 (2016-03-10)

Lithuania	1–3	Cyprus

10 March 2016 (2016-03-10)

Malta	1–1	Israel

11 March 2016 (2016-03-11)

Malta	2–3	Lithuania

11 March 2016 (2016-03-11)

Cyprus	1–0	Estonia

13 March 2016 (2016-03-13)

Israel	2–0	Lithuania

13 March 2016 (2016-03-13)

Estonia	0–2	Malta

15 March 2016 (2016-03-15)

Israel	2–0	Estonia

15 March 2016 (2016-03-15)

Malta	0–1	Cyprus

16 March 2016 (2016-03-16)

Estonia	3–0	Lithuania

16 March 2016 (2016-03-16)

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

Source: https://www.fastscore.com/world/aphrodite-cup_2017

11 March 2017 (2017-03-11)

Malta	0–1	Latvia

12 March 2017 (2017-03-12)

Cyprus	1–2	Latvia

13 March 2017 (2017-03-13)

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

Source: https://www.fastscore.com/world/aphrodite-cup_2017

11 March 2017 (2017-03-11)

Estonia	3–0	Bahrain

12 March 2017 (2017-03-12)

Lithuania	2–0	Bahrain

13 March 2017 (2017-03-13)

Estonia	0–0	Lithuania

Placements

Source ^[7]

13 March 2017 (2017-03-13)

Latvia	0–0 (5–4 p)	Estonia

13 March 2017 (2017-03-13)

Lithuania	1–1 (3–1 p)	Malta

13 March 2017 (2017-03-13)

Cyprus	7–1	Bahrain

References

1. Archived 2015 Results
2. Archived 2016 Results
3. Archived 2017 Results
4. 2015 Schedule
5. 2015 Aphrodite Women's Cup Final
6. 2015 Aphrodite Women's Cup Placements
7. Aphrodite Cup 2017