International Women's Football Tournament

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International Women's Football Tournament
Founded2009
Region Brazil
Number of teams4
Current champions Brazil (8th title)
Most successful team(s) Brazil (8 titles)
Television broadcastersBand, BandSports
2021 International Women's Football Tournament of Manaus

The Torneio Internacional de Futebol Feminino (English: International Women's Football Tournament) is an annual global invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football. Held every December in Brazil since 2009, the first four editions took place in São Paulo and Brasília hosted the 2013 and 2014 competitions. The 2015 edition will be hosted by Natal. Initially, it was organized by the Municipal Prefecture of São Paulo and the Federação Paulista de Futebol (FPF). Three teams are invited to take part alongside Brazil. All matches in a particular tournament are staged at a single venue: Estádio do Pacaembu, in São Paulo, Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasília and Arena das Dunas in Natal.[1] In 2016, the tournament was moved to Manaus.

In September 2017, competition organizers announced that the 2017 tournament would be cancelled and the tournament would switch to a bi-yearly format beginning in 2018.[2] These plans fell through and no tournament was played in 2018.

In 2019, due to increased interest in Women's football surrounding the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, it was announced that the tournament would return for 2019 as the Torneio UBER Internacional de Futebol Feminino, to be played from August 29 to September 1.[3][4]

The tournament has been won on eight occasions by the hosts[5] and once each by Canada[6] and Chile.[7]

History[edit]

Format[edit]

Results[edit]

Year Host Final Third Place Match
Winner Score Runner-up Third Place Score Fourth Place
2009 Brazil
São Paulo

Brazil
5–2
Mexico

China
2–0
Chile
2010 Brazil
São Paulo

Canada
2–2 (b.r.)
Brazil

Netherlands
2–1
Mexico
2011 Brazil
São Paulo

Brazil
2–1
Denmark

Italy
3–2
Chile
2012 Brazil
São Paulo

Brazil
2–2 (b.r.)
Denmark

Mexico
2–0
Portugal
2013 Brazil
Brasília

Brazil
5–0
Chile

Canada
1–0
Scotland
2014 Brazil
Brasília

Brazil
0–0 (b.r.)
United States

China
0–0 (b.r.)
Argentina
2015 Brazil
Natal

Brazil
3–1
Canada

Mexico
2–1
Trinidad and Tobago
2016 Brazil
Manaus

Brazil
5–3
Italy

Russia
1–0
Costa Rica
2019 Brazil
São Paulo

Chile
0–0 (5–4 p.)
Brazil

Costa Rica
3–1
Argentina
2021 Brazil
Manaus

Brazil
Round-robin
Chile

Venezuela
Round-robin
India

Results by nation[edit]

Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place Total top four
 Brazil 8 (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021) 2 (2010, 2019) 10
 Chile 1 (2019) 2 (2013, 2021) 2 (2009, 2011) 5
 Canada 1 (2010) 1 (2015) 1 (2013) 3
 Denmark 2 (2011, 2012) 2
 Mexico 1 (2009) 2 (2012, 2015) 1 (2010) 4
 Italy 1 (2016) 1 (2011) 2
 United States 1 (2014) 1
 China 2 (2009, 2014) 2
 Costa Rica 1 (2019) 1 (2016) 2
 Netherlands 1 (2010) 1
 Russia 1 (2016) 1
 Venezuela 1 (2021) 1
 Argentina 2 (2014, 2019) 2
 India 1 (2021) 1
 Portugal 1 (2012) 1
 Scotland 1 (2013) 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 1 (2015) 1

Participating nations[edit]

Team 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2019 2021 Years
0
 Argentina 4th 4th 2
 Brazil 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1st 10
 Canada 1st 3rd 2nd 3
 Chile 4th 4th 2nd 1st 2nd 5
 China 3rd 3rd 2
 Costa Rica 4th 3rd 2
 Denmark 2nd 2nd 2
 India 4th 1
 Italy 3rd 2nd 2
 Mexico 2nd 4th 3rd 3rd 4
 Netherlands 3rd 1
 Portugal 4th 1
 Russia 3rd 1
 Scotland 4th 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 4th 1
 United States 2nd 1
 Venezuela 3rd 1
Total (17 teams) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

General statistics[edit]

As of 2 December 2021
Rank Team Part Pld W D L GF GA Dif Pts
1  Brazil 8 32 25 5 2 103 27 +76 80
2  Canada 3 12 6 3 3 20 8 +12 21
3  Mexico 4 16 5 0 11 21 37 −16 15
4  Italy 2 8 4 1 3 22 17 +5 13
5  Denmark 2 8 3 3 2 16 8 +8 12
6  China 2 8 3 2 3 13 9 +4 15
7  Chile 3 12 3 0 9 9 38 −29 9
8  Netherlands 1 4 2 0 2 7 10 −3 6
9  Russia 1 4 2 0 2 4 8 −4 6
10  United States 1 3 1 2 1 10 4 +6 5
11  Portugal 1 4 1 1 2 1 6 −5 4
12  Venezuela 1 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3
13  Argentina 2 6 0 1 5 1 25 −24 1
14  Scotland 1 4 0 0 4 4 10 −6 0
15  India 1 3 0 0 3 2 11 −9 0
16  Costa Rica 1 4 0 0 4 1 13 −12 0
17  Trinidad and Tobago 1 4 0 0 4 1 20 −19 0

Top scorers by year[edit]

Year Top scorer(s) Goals
2009 Brazil Marta 7
2010 Brazil Marta 6
2011 Brazil Érika 4
2012 Brazil Fabiana
Denmark Line Røddik Hansen
Denmark Johanna Rasmussen
Mexico Sofia Huerta[note 1]
2
2013 Brazil Debinha
Brazil Marta
3
2014 United States Carli Lloyd 5
2015 Brazil Marta 7
2016 Brazil Bia Zaneratto 5
2019 Costa Rica Priscila Chinchilla 2
2021 Brazil Kerolin 4

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "International Tournament of Natal 2015 fixtures". Women's Soccer United. 10 October 2015. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  2. ^ International women's soccer tournament will not be held in 2017 Archived 2019-08-20 at the Wayback Machine A Tarde, 6 September 2017
  3. ^ Máquina do Esporte (8 May 2019). "Com nome em torneio, Uber amplia atuação no futebol feminino". Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  4. ^ Jéssica de Paula Alves, para TORCEDORES.COM (8 May 2019). "Uber realiza torneio para patrocinar atuação no futebol feminino". Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  5. ^ Brazil defeats Mexico and wins the Sao Paulo International Tournament. Archived 2009-12-26 at the Wayback Machine People's Daily, 21 December 2009
  6. ^ Canadian women’s soccer team draws Brazil 2–2 to win Sao Paolo tournament Archived 2012-01-23 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, 19 December 2012
  7. ^ Torneio Uber Internacional de Futebol Feminino de Seleções Fixtures Archived 2019-08-14 at the Wayback Machine. WSU, 11 August 2019
  1. ^ She switched her international allegiance into United States in 2017.

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