ANALYSIS + HIGHLIGHTS: CanWNT win 2025 Pinatar Cup after defeating Chinese Taipei 🏆

Canada clinched the 2025 Pinatar Cup on Tuesday, beating Chinese Taipei 7-0 to finish top of the table and pick up their first piece of silverware under new head coach Casey Stoney.

Casey Stoney rotated her squad again from the past two games, giving Lysianne Proulx her third appearance for the national team after starting Sabrina D’Angelo and Kailen Sheridan in the previous two matches. Jayde Riviere and Megan Reid started again in the backline, joined by Shelina Zadorsky alongside Reid at centre-back and Ashley Lawrence at left back. Emma Regan and Jessie Fleming started together in midfield in between Marie-Yasmine Alidou and Olivia Smith, while Jordyn Huitema and Nichelle Prince got the nod up top.

Here are your match highlights:

Canada needed a win by any score to secure the Pinatar Cup trophy, and Alidou got them off to a great start in the fourth minute. Rushing in from the left side, she toe-poked a shot on target and the goalkeeper wasn’t able to make the save, giving Canada an early lead.

After Prince was taken down by the goalkeeper in the box on a breakaway opportunity, the referee pointed to the penalty spot and Alidou stepped up to take it. She took a short run up and buried a powerful shot into the bottom-left corner of the net, making it 2-0.

Jordyn Huitema made it three for Canada on a set piece as the onslaught continued in the 26th minute. After a corner kick into the box from Smith the ball fell to Huitema, who volleyed it past the goalkeeper. Alidou completed her hat trick in the 33rd minute, taking a touch to control the ball before using the outside of her other foot to float it back across goal to make it 4-0, putting the game well out of reach if it wasn’t already.

Alidou’s hat trick was the first by a Canadian player since Adriana Leon put three past Paraguay exactly one year ago at the Concacaf W Gold Cup.

Megan Reid added a fifth for Canada with one of the final touches of the first half, scooping the ball over the netminder from close range after another set piece. It was Reid’s first international goal in just her third appearance for Canada since being recruited to join the program from her native United States.

Canada won another penalty early in the second half after Jayde Riviere was brought down in the Chinese Taipei penalty area. Jordyn Huitema stepped up and fired a low shot on target, with the goalkeeper guessing the right way but unable to keep it out of the back of the net as Canada added a sixth.

Les Rouges maintained their dominance and continued to send wave after wave of attacks toward their opponents, but as they began to tire some of the flow they had in the first half began to wither. Stoney used Canada’s big lead as an opportunity to bring several young players off the bench again, including Ella Ottey’s second cap and Nyah Rose’s first. Samantha Chang got into the game as well as she looks to establish herself as a national team regular after several years since her debut.

After replacing Huitema around the hour mark, Clarissa Larisey scored Canada’s seventh goal, running onto a well-weighted pass over the backline and expertly heading the ball off the ground and past the goalkeeper.

The final 15 minutes came and went as Canada secured their first Pinatar Cup with a dominant victory. It was a strong way to kick off a year with no competitive games for Casey Stoney’s side, but plenty of opportunities like the past week for growth, new ideas, and the integration of new players.

Box Score

Lineups

Chinese Taipei: Wang; Wu (Pan 73′), Chen, Teng, Huang (Li 82′); Liu (Chen 82′), Matsunaga, S. Su, Hsu (Tseng 88′), Lin (Li 73′); Y. Su

Canada: Proulx; Riviere, Zadorsky, Reid (Ottey 46′), Lawrence; Smith (Rose 72′), Regan (Chang 60′), Fleming, Alidou (Wickenheiser 46′); Huitema (Larisey 65′), Prince (Leon 71′)

Goals

4′ — Marie-Yasmine Alidou (Canada)
14′ — Marie-Yasmine Alidou (Canada) — penalty
26′ — Jordyn Huitema (Canada)
33′ — Marie-Yasmine Alidou (Canada)
45+1′ — Megan Reid (Canada)
48′ — Jordyn Huitema (Canada) — penalty
75′ — Clarissa Larisey (Canada)

Discipline

45′ — Yellow: Su Yu-hsuan (Chinese Taipei)