# 4 Nations Cup

The 4 Nations Cup is an annual women's ice hockey tournament, held between four major national teams in the sport; currently, these are Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland. Until 2000, when Sweden joined, the tournament was the 3 Nations Cup. In general, it is held in or around November each year.

## History

The 3 Nations Cup was first held in 1996. Sweden joined the tourney in 2000, but the USA did not attend the 2001 event due to the September 11 attacks; the 4 Nations roster has been constant since 2002.
The format of the tournament is a single round-robin, with each team playing one game against each of the others. The top two teams advance to the gold-medal game. The last two teams play for bronze. When it was the 3 Nations Cup, the third place team was simply awarded bronze. Team Canada has won 14 gold medals since the 4 Nations Cup creation in 1996 and Team USA has won 9 gold medals.

### Medal table

| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Medals |
| Canada | 14 | 9 | 0 | 23 |
| United States | 9 | 12 | 1 | 22 |
| Finland | 0 | 2 | 14 | 16 |
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Total | 23 | 23 | 23 | 69 |

### Tournaments
#### Key

* (#) Number of tournaments (or 2nd, 3rd, or 4th places) won at the time.
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Fourth | Host city (cities) | Host country (countries) |
| 1996 | Canada (1) | United States (1) | Finland (1) | — | Ottawa, Cornwall, Kingston, and Smiths Falls, Ontario Canton, New York | Canada United States |
| 1997 | United States (1) | Canada (1) | Finland (2) | — | Lake Placid, Saratoga Springs, New York and Burlington, Vermont Ottawa and Belleville, Ontario | United States Canada |
| 1998 | Canada (2) | United States (2) | Finland (3) | — | Kuortane | Finland |
| 1999 | Canada (3) | United States (3) | Finland (4) | — | Montreal and Sherbrooke | Canada |
| 2000 | Canada (4) | United States (4) | Finland (5) | Sweden (1) | Provo, Utah | United States |
| 2001 | Canada (5) | Finland (1) | Sweden (1) | — | Hämeenlinna, Mikkeli, Tampere, and Vierumäki | Finland |
| 2002 | Canada (6) | United States (5) | Finland (6) | Sweden (2) | Kitchener and Mississauga | Canada |
| 2003 | United States (2) | Canada (2) | Finland (7) | Sweden (3) | Skövde | Sweden |
| 2004 | Canada (7) | United States (6) | Sweden (2) | Finland (1) | Lake Placid, New York and Burlington, Vermont | United States |
| 2005 | Canada (8) | United States (7) | Finland (8) | Sweden (4) | Hämeenlinna, Salo, and Tampere | Finland |
| 2006 | Canada (9) | United States (8) | Sweden (3) | Finland (2) | Kitchener | Canada |
| 2007 | Canada (10) | United States (9) | Finland (9) | Sweden (5) | Leksand | Sweden |
| 2008 | United States (3) | Canada (3) | Sweden (4) | Finland (3) | Lake Placid | United States |
| 2009 | Canada (11) | United States (10) | Sweden (5) | Finland (4) | Kerava, Helsinki, Mikkeli, Tikkurila, and Vierumäki | Finland |
| 2010 | Canada (12) | United States (11) | Finland (10) | Sweden (6) | Clarenville and St. John's | Canada |
| 2011 | United States (4) | Canada (4) | Sweden (6) | Finland (5) | Nyköping | Sweden |
| 2012 | United States (5) | Canada (5) | Sweden (7) | Finland (6) | Kerava and Tikkurila | Finland |
| 2013 | Canada (13) | Finland (2) | United States (1) | Sweden (7) | Lake Placid | United States |
| 2014 | Canada (14) | United States (12) | Sweden (8) | Finland (7) | Kamloops | Canada |
| 2015 | United States (6) | Canada (6) | Finland (11) | Sweden (8) | Sundsvall Municipality | Sweden |
| 2016 | United States (7) | Canada (7) | Finland (12) | Sweden (9) | Järvenpää, Kerava, and Vierumäki | Finland |
| 2017 | United States (8) | Canada (8) | Finland (13) | Sweden (10) | Tampa | United States |
| 2018 | United States (9) | Canada (9) | Finland (14) | Sweden (11) | Saskatoon | Canada |
| 2019 | Cancelled Due to Contract Disputes between Swedish Ice Hockey Association and Swedish Women's Team | Cancelled Due to Contract Disputes between Swedish Ice Hockey Association and Swedish Women's Team | Cancelled Due to Contract Disputes between Swedish Ice Hockey Association and Swedish Women's Team | Cancelled Due to Contract Disputes between Swedish Ice Hockey Association and Swedish Women's Team | Luleå | Sweden |
| 2020 | Not scheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Not scheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Not scheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Not scheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic | | Finland/ Sweden |

## Year by Year
### 2006

The Tournament takes place in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada from 7 to 11 November 2006.
    First Round
* Sweden 8–3 Finland
* Canada 3–0 USA
* USA 5–2 Finland
* Canada 7–0 Sweden
* USA 7–0 Sweden
* Canada 8-1 Finland

#### Standing

* Canada, 8 points
* United States, 4 points
* Sweden, 4 points
* Finland, 0points
    Game for 3rd place
* Sweden 3–2 Finland
    Game for the First place
* Canada 5–2 USA

### 2007

The tournament takes place November 7 to 11 on the ice rink of Ejendals Arena in Sweden.
| Wednesday November 7, 2007 Canada 4 – 1 Finland Sweden 0 – 4 USA | Thursday November 8, 2007 Canada 6 – 3 United States Sweden 0 – 3 Finland | Saturday November 10, 2007 Finland 1 – 2 United States Sweden 3 – 5 Canada |

#### Standing

* Canada, 6 points.
* United States, 4 points
* Finland, 2 points
* Sweden, 0 point
Sunday November 11, 2007

#### Game for the 3rd place

    Finland 1 – 0 Sweden

#### Game for the first place

    United States 0 – 2 Canada

### 2008

The tournament took place in November at Lake Placid USA.

#### First Round

Tuesday November 4, 2008
* Canada 6–0 Finland
* United States 5–2 Sweden
Wednesday November 5, 2008
* Sweden 2–3 Finland
Thursday November 6, 2008
* United States 2–4 Canada
Friday November 7, 2008
* Canada 1–2 Sweden (after overtime period)
* USA 4–1 Finland

#### Standing

* Canada, 5 points
* United States, 4 points
* Finland, 2 points
* Sweden, 2 points
Saturday November 9, 2008

#### Game for 3rd place

* Sweden 1–0 Finland

#### Game for first place

* USA 3–2 Canada after overtime period
    Game was tied 2-2 after regulation and extra time. Erica McKenzie scored the game-winning goal for the United States team in the shootout.

### 2009

November 3, 4, 6 and 7 at Vierumäki in Finland.

#### First Round

* Tuesday November 3, 2009
    Finland 0 - 4 United States
    Sweden 0 - 4 Canada
* Wednesday November 4, 2009
    Finland 2 - 4 Canada
    United States 3 - 2 Sweden
* Friday November 6, 2009
    Finland 1 - 2 Sweden (extra-time)
    Canada 2 - 3 United States

#### Standing

* United States, 6 points
* Canada, 4 points
* Sweden, 2 points
* Finland, 0 point
* Saturday November 7, 2009

#### Game for 3rd place

    Finland 1 - 2 Sweden (Extra-time)

#### Game for the First place

* Canada 5–2 United Stades.

### 2010

The tournament takes place from November 9 to the 13th in Clarenville, Newfoundland and St. John's, Newfoundland (Canada).

#### First Round

Tuesday November 9, 2010
* Finland 3–0 Sweden
* USA 3–2 Canada (in Shootout).
Wednesday November 10, 2010
* Canada 8–1 Sweden
* USA 4–0 Finland.
Friday November 12, 2010
* Canada 15–0 Finland
* USA 4–0 Sweden. Goaltender Jessie Vetter makes 20 stops to earn the shutout.

#### Standing

    1-USA, 6 points
    2-Canada, 4 points
    3-Finland, 2 points
    4-Sweden, 0 points
    Saturday November 13th 2010

#### Game for 3rd place

* Finland 2–1 Sweden

#### Game for the First place

* Canada 3–2 USA.
Rebecca Johnston's goal in extra time period.

### 2011

The tournament took place from November 9–14, 2011 to Nyköping in Sweden. The competition sets four powers of the Women's ice hockey, Canada, the United States Finland and Sweden. All the matches are played Stora Hallen arena.

#### First round

* Wednesday November 9, 2011
    Canada 5 - 0 Finland
    Sweden 0 - 8 United States
* Thursday November 10, 2011
    Canada 3 -1 United States
    Sweden 1 - 2 Finland
* Saturday November 12, 2011
    Sweden 1 - 3 Canada
    Finland 0 - 10 United States

#### Standing

* Canada, 6 points
* United States, 4 points
* Finland, 2 points
* Sweden, 0
* Sunday November 13, 2011

#### Game for 3rd place

    Sweden 2 - 1 Finland

#### Game for the First place

    United States 4 - 3 Canada.
After being tied 3–3 at the end of regulation and overtime, a shootout determined the winner. The United States' Goaltender Jessie Vetter gave the Americans the victory by stopping Canada's Hayley Wickenheiser.