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1997 Algarve Cup

International women's football tournament

Field	Value
tourney_name
yearr
country	Portugal
num_teams	8
confederations	2
venues	9
champion_other
count	3
second_other
third_other
matches	16
goals	41
player	Norway Marianne Pettersen
prevseason	1996
nextseason	1998

The 1997 Algarve Cup was the fourth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's association football tournament. It took place between 10 and 16 March 1997 in Portugal with Norway winning the event for the third time in its history, defeating the PR China, 1-0 in the final-game. Sweden ended up third defeating Denmark, 6-5 following a penalty shootout, in the third prize-game.

Format

The Netherlands returned to the tournament, replacing Russia.

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

Points awarded in the group stage followed the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.

Group A

Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
9	3	3	0	14	1	+13
6	3	2	1	6	4	+2
3	3	1	2	3	7	−4
0	3	0	3	1	12	−11

Aarønes
Pettersen
Gulbrandsen

Frustøl
Pettersen
Lehn
Knudsen
Gulbrandsen
Riise

Lehn
Pettersen

Group B

Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
9	3	3	0	6	0	+6
6	3	2	1	8	2	+6
3	3	1	2	1	5	−4
0	3	0	3	0	8	−8

Bengtsson Jonsson Andersson

Swedberg Allberg

Zhao Lihong

Seventh Place

(4–3) (PSO)

Portugal finished bottom of their group for the fourth year in a row and lost the seventh place play-off on penalties to Iceland.

Fifth Place

Third Place

(6–5) (PSO)

1996 runners up Sweden finished in third place overall after winning a penalty shootout following a goalless game.

Final

Norway won the competition for the third time thanks to Hege Riise's 75th-minute penalty.

Awards

Best player
Norway Marianne Pettersen

References

(17 March 1996). "Sverige trea i Algarve Cup". Dagens nyheter.

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