2021 The Women's Cup

{{Infobox international football competition

| tourney_name = The Women's Cup

| year = 2021

| dates = {{start date|2021|08|18}}–
{{end date|2021|08|21}}

| image =

| size =

| caption =

| city = Louisville, Kentucky

| country = United States

| num_teams = 4

| confederations = 2

| venues = 1

| cities = 1

| champion_other = {{fbaicon|USA}} Racing Louisville FC

| count = 1

| second_other = {{fbaicon|GER}} Bayern Munich

| third_other = {{fbaicon|FRA}} Paris Saint-Germain

| fourth_other = {{fbaicon|USA}} Chicago Red Stars

| matches = 4

| goals = 11

| top_scorer = Marie-Antoinette Katoto (2)

| attendance =

| updated = August 10, 2022

| prevseason =

| nextseason = 2022

}}

The 2021 The Women's Cup was the inaugural edition of a friendly invitational tournament of women's association football matches. It took place in Lynn Family Stadium of Louisville, Kentucky, United States, from August 18 to 21, 2021.{{cite news |url=https://www.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/sports/soccer/louisville-city-fc/2021/08/22/womens-cup-2021-racing-louisville-fc-takes-bayern-munich/8230943002/ |title=The Women's Cup 2021: Racing Louisville FC takes on Bayern Munich |date=August 22, 2021 |access-date=August 10, 2022 |publisher=The Courier-Journal}}{{cite news |url=https://www.mlive.com/sports/2021/08/how-to-watch-the-womens-cup-final-racing-louisville-vs-bayern-munich-82121-channel-stream-time.html |title=How to Watch The Women’s Cup Final - Racing Louisville vs. Bayern Munich (8/21/21) {{!}} Channel, Stream, Time |date=August 21, 2021 |access-date=August 10, 2022 |publisher=MLive.com |first=Tyler |last=Kuehl |archive-date=August 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821191749/https://www.mlive.com/sports/2021/08/how-to-watch-the-womens-cup-final-racing-louisville-vs-bayern-munich-82121-channel-stream-time.html |url-status=live }}

Hosts Racing Louisville FC won the tournament, defeating Bayern Munich on penalties.{{cite news |url=https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2021/8/21/22635509/racing-louisville-vs-bayern-munich-lineups-live-stream-how-to-watch-womens-cup-updates-highlights |title=Racing Louisville vs. Bayern Munich: Racing Louisville wins on penalties! |date=August 22, 2021 |access-date=August 15, 2022 |publisher=Bavarian Football Works}} Paris Saint-Germain defeated Chicago Red Stars 1–0 in the third-place match.{{cite press release |url=https://en.psg.fr/teams/womens-team/content/paris-beat-chicago-and-get-third-place-match-report-friendly-2021-2022 |title=Paris beat Chicago and get third place |date=August 21, 2021 |access-date=August 10, 2022 |publisher=Paris Saint-Germain |archive-date=August 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811004549/https://en.psg.fr/teams/womens-team/content/paris-beat-chicago-and-get-third-place-match-report-friendly-2021-2022 |url-status=live }}

Teams

class="wikitable"
Nation ! Team
{{flagu\|United States}} \| Racing Louisville FC (hosts)
{{flagu\|France}} \| Paris Saint-Germain
{{flagu\|Germany}} \| Bayern Munich
{{flagu\|United States}} \| Chicago Red Stars

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Nation

! Team

| Racing Louisville FC (hosts)

| Paris Saint-Germain

| Bayern Munich

| Chicago Red Stars

Venue

Louisville, Kentucky ! rowspan="4" \| {{Location map+ \|United States \|width=350 \|float=right \|places= {{Location map~ \|United States \|lat=38.257489 \|long=-85.728203 \|label=Louisville, Kentucky \|position=right}} }}
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:none;"
Lynn Family Stadium
Capacity: 11,700
300px

Broadcasting

In 2021, The Women's Cup was streamed exclusively on Paramount+ in the United States.{{cite news |url=https://www.engadget.com/paramount-plus-the-womens-cup-streaming-152522543.html |title=Paramount+ adds The Women's Cup to its growing soccer lineup |date=June 8, 2021 |access-date=August 10, 2022 |publisher=Engadget |first=Jon |last=Fingas |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624152051/https://www.engadget.com/paramount-plus-the-womens-cup-streaming-152522543.html |url-status=live }}

Bracket

{{#invoke:RoundN|N4

|style=white-space:nowrap|widescore=yes|bold_winner=high|3rdplace=yes

|RD1=Semi-finals

|RD2=Final

|Consol=Third place play-off

|August 18 – Louisville|{{fbaicon|GER}} Bayern {{pso}}|2 (5)|{{fbaicon|FRA}} Paris Saint-Germain|2 (4)

|August 18 – Louisville|{{fbaicon|USA}} Racing Louisville FC {{pso}} |1 (5)|{{fbaicon|USA}} Chicago Red Stars|1 (4)

|August 21 – Louisville|{{fbaicon|USA}} Racing Louisville FC {{pso}} |2 (7)|{{fbaicon|GER}} Bayern |2 (6)

|August 21 – Louisville|{{fbaicon|USA}} Chicago Red Stars |0|{{fbaicon|FRA}} Paris Saint-Germain |1

}}

Matches

The initial match of the tournament, a semi-final match featuring the Chicago Red Stars and Racing Louisville FC, was also teams' scheduled regular season National Women's Soccer League match, and the regulation result was represented in the league standings.{{cite news |url=https://www.bgn.fm/previewing-the-womens-cup-tournament-18-21-august-louisville-ky/ |title=Previewing the Women’s Cup Tournament – 18–21 August, Louisville, KY |date=August 17, 2021 |access-date=August 10, 2022 |publisher=Beautiful Game Network |first=Bekki |last=Morgan |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817205808/https://www.bgn.fm/previewing-the-womens-cup-tournament-18-21-august-louisville-ky/ |url-status=live }} That match's result was a draw, so to resolve the result for The Women's Cup, the teams engaged in a post-match penalty shootout that was not counted as part of the NWSL match.{{cite news |url=https://equalizersoccer.com/2021/08/18/nwsl-the-womens-cup-results-chicago-louisville-draw-bayern-psg-pks/ |title=NWSL (and The Women’s Cup) Results: Chicago-Louisville split league points; Bayern tops PSG on PKs |date=August 18, 2021 |access-date=August 10, 2022 |publisher=The Equalizer |first=Rachael |last=Kriger |archive-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819035514/https://equalizersoccer.com/2021/08/18/nwsl-the-womens-cup-results-chicago-louisville-draw-bayern-psg-pks/ |url-status=live }}

= Semi-finals =

{{football box

|round = Semi-final

|date = {{start date|2021|8|18}}

|time = 17:00 EDT

|team1 = Paris Saint-Germain {{fbaicon|FRA}}

|score = 2–2

|penaltyscore = 4–5

|report = [https://equalizersoccer.com/2021/08/18/nwsl-the-womens-cup-results-chicago-louisville-draw-bayern-psg-pks/ Report]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjN0Pindks Highlights]

|team2 = {{fbaicon|GER}} Bayern Munich

|goals1 =

Katoto {{goal|19|Baltimore}}
Hamraoui {{goal|57|Baltimore}}

|goals2 =

Dallmann {{goal|43|Kumagai}}
Schüller {{goal|45+1}}

|penalties1 =

Bachmann {{penmiss}}
Diani {{pengoal}}
Karchaoui {{pengoal}}
Hurtré {{pengoal}}
Dudek {{pengoal}}
Khelifi {{penmiss}}

|penalties2 =

{{pengoal}} Vilhjálmsdóttir
{{pengoal}} Simon
{{pengoal}} Magull
{{penmiss}} Beerensteyn
{{pengoal}} Damnjanović
{{pengoal}} Glas

|stadium = Lynn Family Stadium

|location = Louisville, Kentucky

|attendance =

|referee = Danielle Chesky

}}

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{{football box

|round = Semi-final

|date = {{start date|2021|8|18}}

|time = 19:30 EDT

|team1 = Racing Louisville FC {{fbaicon|USA}}

|score = 1–1

|penaltyscore = 5–4

|report = [https://www.chicagoredstars.com/post/watt-scores-as-chicago-draws-1-1-with-louisville-in-nwsl-league-play Report]
[https://equalizersoccer.com/2021/08/18/nwsl-the-womens-cup-results-chicago-louisville-draw-bayern-psg-pks/ CHI Report]
[https://www.racingloufc.com/news/2021/08/18/racing-bayern-advance-to-the-womens-cup-final/ LOU Report]
[https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/8/21/22630991/red-stars-fighting-exhaustion-late-in-the-season Report]
[https://impetusfootball.org/2021/08/21/the-womens-cup-racing-louisville-mixing-with-the-big-guns/ Report]

|team2 = {{fbaicon|USA}} Chicago Red Stars

|goals1 =

Salmon {{goal|10}}, {{yel|57}}
Riehl {{yel|65}}
Nagasato {{yel|90}}

|goals2 =

Watt {{goal|57}}
Bench {{yel|82}}

|penalties1 =

Nagasato {{pengoal}}
Bonner {{penmiss}}
McCaskill {{pengoal}}
Miramontez {{pengoal}}
Milliet {{pengoal}}
McClure {{pengoal}}

|penalties2 =

{{penmiss}} Pugh
{{pengoal}} Davidson
{{pengoal}} Woldmoe
{{pengoal}} Stanton
{{pengoal}} Watt
{{penmiss}} Hill

|stadium = Lynn Family Stadium

|location = Louisville, Kentucky

|attendance = 7,310

|referee =

}}

= Third place play-off =

{{football box

|round = Third place play-off

|date = {{start date|2021|8|21}}

|time = 15:00 CDT

|team1 = Chicago Red Stars {{fbaicon|USA}}

|score = 0–1

|report = [https://en.psg.fr/teams/womens-team/content/paris-beat-chicago-and-get-third-place-match-report-friendly-2021-2022 Report]
[https://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/lund-stars-as-racing-tops-bayern-to-win-the-womens-cup/n-5736532 Report]

|team2 = {{fbaicon|FRA}} Paris Saint-Germain

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

Katoto {{goal|33}}

|stadium = Lynn Family Stadium

|location = Louisville, Kentucky

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

= Championship =

{{football box

|round = Championship match

|date = {{start date|2021|8|21}}

|time = 18:00 EDT

|team1 = Racing Louisville FC {{flagicon|USA}}

|score = 2–2

|penaltyscore = 7–6

|report = [https://www.racingloufc.com/news/2021/08/21/lund-stars-as-racing-tops-bayern-to-win-the-womens-cup/ Report]
[https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2021/8/21/22635509/racing-louisville-vs-bayern-munich-lineups-live-stream-how-to-watch-womens-cup-updates-highlights Report]

|team2 = {{flagicon|GER}} FC Bayern Munich

|goals1 =