Canada women's national soccer team

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Canada
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Association Canadian Soccer Association
Head coach England John Herdman
Top scorer Christine Sinclair (131)
FIFA ranking 7
Highest FIFA ranking 6 (March 2011)
Lowest FIFA ranking 13 (December 2005)
Home colours
Away colours
First international
 United States 2 – 0 Canada 
(Blaine, United States; July 7, 1986)
Biggest win
 Canada 21 – 0 Puerto Rico 
(Etobicoke, Canada; August 28, 1998)
Biggest defeat
 United States 9 – 1 Canada 
(Dallas, United States; May 19, 1995)
 United States 9 – 1 Canada 
(Sydney, Australia; June 2, 2000)
 Norway 9 – 1 Canada 
(Honefoss, Norway; June 19, 2001)
World Cup
Appearances 4 (First in 1995)
Best result 4th place, 2003
CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifiers
Appearances 6 (First in 1991)
Best result Winners, 1998, 2010

The Canada women's national soccer team is overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association. The team reached its all-time high of 6th in the March 2011 rankings. The team reached international prominence finishing in 4th place at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003, losing to their archrival American team in the bronze medal match. The women's game is quite popular in Canada due to the success the team has had internationally.[citation needed] The Under-20 women's team (U-19 prior to 2006) is also very popular, due partly to Canada hosting the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in 2002 and winning silver in front of 47,784 fans at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta.

In the first two women's world youth championships, both with an age limit of 19 as opposed to today's 20, the Golden Boot winner was a Canadian: Christine Sinclair in 2002 and Brittany Timko in 2004. Sinclair also won the 2002 Golden Ball as tournament MVP.

In 2008, Canada qualified for its first ever Olympic women's football tournament, and finished second in their group with a 1–1–1 record. This was good enough to qualify them for the knockout stage, where they lost to the number one team in the world, the United States in the quarterfinals.

In 2010, Canada defeated Mexico for the second time in six days to win the CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifier on Monday 8 November in Cancún, Mexico. Canadian captain Christine Sinclair’s sixth goal of the tournament in the 54th minute was enough to lead Canada to a 1:0 victory. The win capped an impressive tournament for the Canadian squad who finished undefeated with a 5–0–0 record; tallying 17 goals while conceding zero in the process and booking their place at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011. Canada, whose only previous CONCACAF women’s title came in 1998, when the US did not participate, were left to celebrate arguably the greatest achievement of their history. At the Official Draw for the 16-team FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011, Canada was drawn into the proverbial group of death - three of the world's six confederation champions (Germany, Canada and Nigeria) were all drawn into Group A along with a fourth team (France) that had not lost a game all season long. Canada was still more than confident it could advance beyond the group phase, but then lost three consecutive matches to be eliminated from Germany 2011.

In March 2011, Canada was approved as the host of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup after Zimbabwe withdrew their bid leaving Canada as the sole bidder.[1]

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[edit] Recent Matches

  • Canada Canada 6 – 0 Haiti Haiti Haiti

at Vancouver, Canada, January 19, 2012

  • Canada Canada 2 – 0 Cuba Cuba Cuba

at Vancouver, Canada, January 21, 2012

at Larnaca, Cyprus, February 28, 2012

[edit] World Cup record

Year Result Rank Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
China 1991 Did not qualify
Sweden 1995 Group stage 12/12 3 0 1 2 5 13
United States 1999 Group stage 12/16 3 0 1 2 3 12
United States 2003 Fourth place 4/16 6 3 0 3 10 10
China 2007 Group stage 9/16 3 1 1 1 7 4
Germany 2011 Group stage 16/16 3 0 0 3 1 7
Canada 2015 Qualified as Hosts /24
Total 6/7 18 4 3 11 26 47

[edit] Olympic record

Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
United States 1996 Did not qualify - - - - - -
Australia 2000 Did not qualify - - - - - -
Greece 2004 Did not qualify - - - - - -
China 2008 Eighth Place 4 1 1 2 5 6
United Kingdom 2012 Qualified 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2/5 4 1 1 2 5 6

[edit] CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifiers record

Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
Haiti 1991 Runner-up 5 4 0 1 23 5
Canada 1994 Runner-up 4 3 0 1 18 6
Canada 1998 Champions 5 5 0 0 42 0
United StatesCanada 2002 Runner-up 5 4 0 1 25 3
United States 2006 Runner-up 2 1 0 1 5 2
Mexico 2010 Champions 5 5 0 0 17 0

[edit] Pan Am Games record

  • 1999 – 4th Place
  • 2003 – Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • 2007 – Med 3.png Bronze Medal
  • 2011 - Med 1.png Gold Medal

[edit] Current team

This is the squad that was selected for the PanAm Games.[2]

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club
1 GK Karina LeBlanc March 30, 1980 (1980-03-30) (age 31) 90 0 United States Sky Blue FC
2 DF Shannon Woeller January 31, 1990 (1990-01-31) (age 22) 4 0 United States Rutgers University
3 DF Melanie Booth August 24, 1983 (1983-08-24) (age 28) 51 1 Canada Vancouver Whitecaps
4 DF Carmelina Moscato May 2, 1984 (1984-05-02) (age 27) 52 2 Sweden Piteå IF
5 DF Robyn Gayle October 31, 1985 (1985-10-31) (age 26) 47 0 Canada Vancouver Whitecaps
6 MF Kaylyn Kyle October 6, 1988 (1988-10-06) (age 23) 37 2 Canada Vancouver Whitecaps
7 DF Rhian Wilkinson May 12, 1982 (1982-05-12) (age 29) 105 7 Norway Lillestrøm SK
8 MF Alysha Mottershead United States Syracuse University
9 DF Candace Chapman April 2, 1983 (1983-04-02) (age 28) 91 6 United States Sky Blue FC
10 FW Christina Julien May 6, 1988 (1988-05-06) (age 23) 32 7 Canada Ottawa Fury Women
11 MF Desiree Scott July 31, 1987 (1987-07-31) (age 24) 26 0 Canada Vancouver Whitecaps
12 FW Christine Sinclair Captain June 12, 1983 (1983-06-12) (age 28) 169 129 United States Western New York Flash
13 MF Sophie Schmidt June 28, 1988 (1988-06-28) (age 23) 68 3 United States magicJack
14 FW Melissa Tancredi December 27, 1981 (1981-12-27) (age 30) 61 13 Sweden Dalsjöfors GOiF
15 MF Kelly Parker March 8, 1981 (1981-03-08) (age 30) 17 1 Unattached
16 DF Lauren Sesselmann August 14, 1983 (1983-08-14) (age 28) 2 0 United States Atlanta Beat
17 FW Brittany Timko September 5, 1985 (1985-09-05) (age 26) 103 4 Unattached
18 GK Erin McLeod February 26, 1983 (1983-02-26) (age 29) 62 0 Sweden Dalsjöfors GOiF
19 DF Chelsea Stewart April 28, 1990 (1990-04-28) (age 21) Canada Vancouver Whitecaps
20 FW Chelsea Buckland January 20, 1990 (1990-01-20) (age 22) 3 0 United States Oregon State


[edit] Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Canadian squad within the last year.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club
GK Rachelle Beanlands November 5, 1993 (1993-11-05) (age 18) 0 0 Canada Ottawa Fury Women
GK Stephanie Labbé October 10, 1986 (1986-10-10) (age 25) 8 0 Sweden Piteå IF
DF Vanessa Legault-Cordisco November 5, 1992 (1992-11-05) (age 19) 1 0 United States Marquette University
DF Marie-Eve Nault February 16, 1982 (1982-02-16) (age 30) 43 0 Canada Ottawa Fury Women
DF Emily Zurrer July 12, 1987 (1987-07-12) (age 24) 45 2 Sweden Dalsjöfors GoIF
MF Diana Matheson April 6, 1984 (1984-04-06) (age 27) 127 10 Unattached
MF Diamond Simpson April 28, 1993 (1993-04-28) (age 18) 3 0 Canada Dixi Dragons
FW Jonelle Filigno September 24, 1990 (1990-09-24) (age 21) 39 8 United States Rutgers University
FW Jodi-Ann Robinson April 17, 1989 (1989-04-17) (age 22) 50 7 Canada Vancouver Whitecaps
Name DOB Club Caps (goals) Debut Most recent callup
DF Lexi Marton April 28, 1990 (1990-04-28) (age 21) United States Penn State Nittany Lions 8 (0) v Japan
7 March 2008		 v USA
23 September 2011
MF Amy Vermeulen November 23, 1983 (1983-11-23) (age 28) Canada Vancouver Whitecaps 12 (1) v France
25 August 2006		 v England
12 March 2009
FW Josée Bélanger May 14, 1986 (1986-05-14) (age 25) Canada Quebec City Amiral SC 11 (5) v Japan
30 July 2004		 v Brazil
19 December 2010
FW Brooke McCalla September 7, 1987 (1987-09-07) (age 24) Canada Master’s Futbol Academy 7 (0) v China
30 July 2004		 v Brazil
15 December 2010

[edit] Top goalscorers

# Name Career Caps Goals
1 Christine Sinclair 2000– 174 131
2 Charmaine Hooper 1986–2004 129 71
3 Silvana Burtini 1987–2003 77 38
4 Kara Lang 2002–2010 92 34
5 Andrea Neil 1991–2007 132 24
6 Melissa Tancredi 2004– 72 17
7 Christine Latham 2000–2006 49 15
8 Randee Hermus 2000–2009 113 12
9 Shannon Rosenow 1996–1999 27 11
10 Diana Matheson 2003– 130 10

Bold notes player is still active.

[edit] All-time record against other nations

As of Mar 5, 2012

Team W D L Pts
 Mexico 17 1 1 52
 Netherlands 9 1 0 28
 Costa Rica 9 0 0 27
 Australia 5 4 7 19
 Jamaica 6 0 0 18
 Trinidad and Tobago 6 0 0 18
 New Zealand 5 3 1 18
 Brazil 4 6 3 18
 China PR 4 5 15 17
 Italy 5 1 3 16
 United States 3 5 42 14
 Russia 4 1 1 13
 Argentina 4 0 0 12
 Scotland 4 0 1 12
 England 4 0 2 12
 Japan 3 3 3 12
 France 3 1 3 10
 Sweden 3 1 11 10
 South Korea 3 0 0 9
 Haiti 3 0 0 9
 Switzerland 2 1 0 7
 Guatemala 2 0 0 6
 Hungary 2 0 0 6
 Morocco 2 0 1 6
 Chinese Taipei 2 0 1 6
 Denmark 2 0 2 6
 Ghana 1 1 0 4
 Finland 1 1 1 4
 Côte d'Ivoire 1 0 0 3
 Uruguay 1 0 0 3
 Ecuador 1 0 0 3
 Greece 1 0 0 3
 Hong Kong 1 0 0 3
 Martinique 1 0 0 3
 Panama 1 0 0 3
 Puerto Rico 1 0 0 3
 Wales 1 0 0 3
 Singapore 1 0 0 3
 Poland 1 0 0 3
 South Africa 1 0 0 3
 Guyana 1 0 0 3
 North Korea 1 0 0 3
 Colombia 1 0 0 3
 Cuba 1 0 0 3
 Portugal 1 0 1 3
 Norway 0 2 8 2
 Nigeria 0 1 0 1
 Germany 0 0 12 0

[edit] See also

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[edit] Former coaches

  • Italy Carolina Morace, 2009–2011 (including one FIFA Women's World Cup)
  • Norway Even Pellerud, 2000–2008 (including two FIFA Women's World Cups)
  • Canada Ian Bridge, two matches in 2007 (with Even Pellerud at one FIFA Women's World Cup)
  • Canada Neil Turnbull, 1986–1991 and 1996–1999 (including one FIFA Women's World Cup)
  • Canada Sylvie Béliveau, 1993–1995 (including one FIFA Women's World Cup)

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2011/03/03/sp-womens-world-cup.html
  2. ^ Canada roster against Costa Rica, http://www.canadasoccer.com/tourney/FIFA_WWC/game_profile.asp?gameId=1964&tab=roster , June 16, 2011

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