1999 Algarve Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	China (1st title)
Runners-up	United States
Third place	Norway
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	40 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tiffeny Milbrett
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The 1999 Algarve Cup was the sixth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's association football tournament. It took place between 14 and 20 March 1999 in Portugal with China winning the event defeating the US, 2-1, in the final game. The Chinese triumph also became China's first victory against the USA since 1993.^[1]

Format

The host and the seven teams invited are Australia, 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	7	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5
Norway	6	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1
Sweden	2	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1
Finland	1	3	0	1	2	0	5	−5

March 14, 1999

United States	1–1	Sweden
Tiffeny Milbrett 15'	Report SvFF Report (in Swedish)	Linda Fagerström 76'

Silves

March 14, 1999

Norway	1–0	Finland
Marianne Pettersen

Silves

March 16, 1999

Norway	2–1	Sweden
Linda Medalen Anita Rapp	SvFF Report (in Swedish)	Malin Andersson

Quarteira

March 16, 1999

United States	4–0	Finland
Tiffeny Milbrett 15', 33' Cindy Parlow 28' Brandi Chastain 71'	Report

Quarteira

March 18, 1999

United States	2–1	Norway
Julie Foudy 12' Kristine Lilly 55'	Report	Ann Kristin Aarønes 11'

Albufeira

March 18, 1999

Sweden	0–0	Finland
	SvFF Report (in Swedish)

Albufeira

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
China	9	3	3	0	0	8	0	+8
Denmark	4	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3
Australia	2	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2
Portugal	1	3	0	1	2	0	9	−9

March 14, 1999

Denmark	1–1	Australia
Louise Hansen		Julie Murray

Faro

March 14, 1999

China	4–0	Portugal
2' 12' Sun Wen 20' Liu Ying 34' Pu Wei	Report

Faro

March 16, 1999

China	2–0	Denmark
Pu Wei (own goal)

Olhão

March 16, 1999

Portugal	0–0	Australia
	Report

Olhão

March 18, 1999

Denmark	5–0	Portugal
38' (own goal) 44' Merete Pedersen 45' Janne Rasmussen 66' Jeanne Axelsen 77' Mette Jokumsen	Report

Montechoro

March 18, 1999

Australia	0–2	China
		Sun Wen Liu Ying

Montechoro

Seventh place

March 20, 1999

Portugal	2–1	Finland
9' Carla Couto 36' Adilia Martins	Report	70' Julia Uusmalmi

Montechoro

Portugal finished bottom of their group for the sixth year in a row but won the seventh place playoff with a 2–1 win against Finland.

Fifth place

March 20, 1999

Australia	1–1 (7–6) (PSO)	Sweden
Murray	SvFF Report (in Swedish)	Gustafsson

Loulé

Third place

March 20, 1999

Norway	2–2 (4–1) (PSO)	Denmark
Selvmal 69' (own goal) 82' Bendiiksen	report (nor.) report (den.)	65' Rasmussen 90' Pedersen

Loulé

Final

March 20, 1999

China	2–1	United States
16' Pu Wei 65' Yan	Report	45' Tiffeny Milbrett

Loulé

Final standings

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

Goal scorers

Goals	Player
4	Tiffeny Milbrett
3	Jin Yan
2	Julie Murray
	Pu Wei
	Sun Wen
	Liu Ying
	Jeanee Axelsen
	Mette Jokumsen
	Cecilie Bendiksen
1	15 athletes
1 own goal

1999 Algarve Cup
China First title