Canada women's national soccer team

Canada

Association	Canadian Soccer Association
Sub-confederation	NAFU (North America)
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean)
Head coach	John Herdman[1]
Captain	Christine Sinclair
Most caps	Christine Sinclair (219)
Top scorer	Christine Sinclair (153)
FIFA ranking	8 1 (27 March 2015)
Highest FIFA ranking	6 (March 2011)
Lowest FIFA ranking	13 (December 2005)
First colours Second colours
First international
United States 2–0 Canada  (Blaine, United States; July 7, 1986)
Biggest win
Canada 21–0 Puerto Rico  (Etobicoke, Ontario, 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 World Cup Qualifiers
Appearances	6 (First in 1991)
Best result	Winners (1998, 2010)
Honours Summer Olympics Bronze 2012 London Team Pan American Games Gold 2011 Guadalajara Team Silver 2003 Santo Domingo Team Bronze 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team

The Canada women's national soccer team represents Canada in international women's soccer and is directed by the Canadian Soccer Association. Canada will host the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

The team reached international prominence at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing in the third place match to the United States. Canada qualified for its first Olympic women's soccer tournament in 2008, making it to the quarterfinals. Canada are two-time CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup champions, and Olympic bronze medallists from London 2012 where they defeated France 1–0 in Coventry, England. Canadian women's soccer fans are also closely linked to the U-20 team (U-19 prior to 2006), partly due 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.

Record

World Cup

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

Olympic Games

Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1996	Did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
2000	Did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
2004	Did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
2008	Eighth place	4	1	1	2	5	6
2012	Third place	6	3	1	2	12	8
Total	2/5	10	4	2	4	17	14

CONCACAF Championship

Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1991	Runners-up	5	4	0	1	23	5
1994	Runners-up	4	3	0	1	18	6
1998	Champions	5	5	0	0	42	0
2002	Runners-up	5	4	0	1	25	3
2006	Runners-up	2	1	0	1	5	2
2010	Champions	5	5	0	0	17	0
2014	Did not participate

Pan-American Games

• 1999 – Fourth place
• 2003 – Silver medal
• 2007 – Bronze medal
• 2011 – Gold medal

Cyprus Cup

• 2008 Cyprus Cup Champions
• 2009 Cyprus Cup Runners-up
• 2010 Cyprus Cup Champions
• 2011 Cyprus Cup Champions
• 2012 Cyprus Cup Runners-up
• 2013 Cyprus Cup Runners-up
• 2014 Cyprus Cup Fifth place
• 2015 Cyprus Cup Runners-up

Recent schedule and results

2015 Cyprus Cup March 4, 2015	Scotland	0–2	Canada	Nicosia, Cyprus
17:30 EET		Report	Fleming  3' Sinclair  54'	Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 100

2015 Cyprus Cup March 6, 2015	Canada	1–0	South Korea	Larnaka, Cyprus
14:30 EET	Sinclair  46'	Report		Stadium: GSZ Stadium Attendance: 30

2015 Cyprus Cup March 9, 2015	Italy	0–1	Canada	Nicosia, Cyprus
14:30 EET		Report	Chapman  51'	Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 30

2015 Cyprus Cup March 11, 2015	Canada	0–1	England	Larnaca, Cyprus
18:30 EET		Report	Sanderson  67'	Stadium: GSZ Stadium Attendance: 100

Friendly April 9, 2015	France	1–0	Canada	Bondoufle, France
18:30 CET	Le Sommer  34'	Report		Stadium: Stade Robert Bobin Attendance: 11,441

Friendly May 29, 2015	Canada	v	England	Hamilton, Ontario
19:00 EST				Stadium: Tim Hortons Field

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup June 6, 2015	Canada	v	China PR	Edmonton, Alberta
18:30 MST				Stadium: Commonwealth Stadium

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup June 11, 2015	Canada	v	New Zealand	Edmonton, Alberta
18:30 MST				Stadium: Commonwealth Stadium

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup June 15, 2015	Canada	v	Netherlands	Montreal, Quebec
18:30 EST				Stadium: Olympic Stadium

Players

Current squad

Coach John Herdman announced his 23-player squad on April 27, 2015.^[2]

Caps and goals through April 9, 2015 after match against France.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club 1GK Stephanie Labbé (1986-10-10) October 10, 1986 20 0 Unattached 1GK Karina LeBlanc (1980-03-30) March 30, 1980 110 0 Chicago Red Stars 1GK Erin McLeod (1983-02-26) February 26, 1983 104 0 Houston Dash 2DF Kadeisha Buchanan (1995-11-05) November 5, 1995 34 2 West Virginia University 2DF Allysha Chapman (1989-01-25) January 25, 1989 11 1 Houston Dash 2DF Robyn Gayle (1985-10-31) October 31, 1985 81 2 Unattached 2DF Carmelina Moscato (1984-05-02) May 2, 1984 91 2 Unattached 2DF Marie-Ève Nault (1982-02-16) February 16, 1982 67 0 Unattached 2DF Lauren Sesselmann (1983-08-14) August 14, 1983 41 0 Houston Dash 2DF Rhian Wilkinson (1982-05-12) May 12, 1982 163 7 Portland Thorns FC 2DF Emily Zurrer (1987-07-12) July 12, 1987 82 3 Unattached 3MF Jessie Fleming (1998-03-11) March 11, 1998 15 1 London NorWest SC 3MF Selenia Iacchelli (1986-06-05) June 5, 1986 4 0 Unattached 3MF Kaylyn Kyle (1988-10-06) October 6, 1988 95 6 Portland Thorns FC 3MF Ashley Lawrence (1995-06-11) June 11, 1995 17 0 West Virginia University 3MF Diana Matheson (1984-04-06) April 6, 1984 166 15 Washington Spirit 3MF Desiree Scott (1987-07-31) July 31, 1987 89 0 Notts County 3MF Sophie Schmidt (1988-06-28) June 28, 1988 131 15 Unattached 4FW Josée Bélanger (1986-05-14) May 14, 1986 29 5 Unattached 4FW Jonelle Filigno (1990-09-24) September 24, 1990 68 11 Sky Blue FC 4FW Adriana Leon (1992-10-02) October 2, 1992 33 5 Chicago Red Stars 4FW Christine Sinclair (1983-06-12) June 12, 1983 222 153 Portland Thorns FC 4FW Melissa Tancredi (1981-12-27) December 27, 1981 99 22 Chicago Red Stars

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up within the previous 12 months.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up DF Sura Yekka (1997-01-04) January 4, 1997 13 0 Brams United v.  China PR, January 15, 2015 DF Rebecca Quinn (1995-08-11) August 11, 1995 9 0 Duke University v.  England, March 11, 2015 DF Rachel Quon (1991-05-21) May 21, 1991 4 0 Chicago Red Stars v.  China PR, January 15, 2015 MF Brittany Baxter (1985-09-25) September 25, 1985 132 5 Seattle Sounders v.  China PR, January 15, 2015 FW Janine Beckie (1994-08-20) August 20, 1994 5 1 Texas Tech University v.  England, March 11, 2015 FW Nkem Ezurike (1992-03-19) March 19, 1992 5 0 Boston Breakers v.  United States, May 8, 2014 FW Christina Julien (1988-05-06) May 6, 1988 54 10 FF USV Jena v.  Italy, March 9, 2015

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Career	Caps	Goals
1	Christine Sinclair	2000–	221	153
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–	99	22
7	Christine Latham	2000–2006	49	15
	Diana Matheson	2003–	166	15
Sophie Schmidt	2005–	130	15
10	Randee Hermus	2000–2009	113	12

Former coaches

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

All-time record against other nations

As of Mar 11, 2015

Team	W	D	L	Pts
Mexico	18	2	1	56
Netherlands	10	1	0	31
China PR	8	5	15	29
Costa Rica	9	0	0	27
Italy	7	1	3	22
Scotland	7	0	1	21
New Zealand	6	3	1	21
Brazil	4	7	4	19
Australia	5	4	7	19
Jamaica	6	0	0	18
Trinidad and Tobago	6	0	0	18
South Korea	6	0	1	18
France	4	3	3	15
Sweden	4	3	11	15
United States	3	6	46	15
Russia	4	1	1	13
Argentina	4	0	0	12
England	4	0	6	12
Japan	3	3	6	12
Switzerland	3	1	0	10
Finland	3	1	1	10
Haiti	3	0	0	9
Guatemala	2	0	0	6
Hungary	2	0	0	6
Colombia	2	0	0	6
South Africa	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
Ivory Coast	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
Guyana	1	0	0	3
North Korea	1	0	0	3
Cuba	1	0	0	3
Great Britain	1	0	0	3
Republic of Ireland	1	0	0	3
Portugal	1	0	1	3
Norway	0	3	8	3
Nigeria	0	1	1	1
Chile	0	0	1	0
Germany	0	0	12	0

See also

• Canada women's national under-17 soccer team
• National Women's Soccer League
• Soccer in Canada

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canada women's national football team.

• Official website
• FIFA profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by 1994 United States	CONCACAF Champions 1998 (First title)	Succeeded by 2002 United States
Preceded by 2006 United States	CONCACAF Champions 2010 (Second title)	Succeeded by Incumbent

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