UEFA Women's Championship

UEFA Women's Championship

Founded	1984
Region	Europe (UEFA)
Number of teams	52 (Qualifiers) 12 (Finals)
Current champions	Germany (7th title)
Most successful team(s)	Germany (7 titles)
UEFA Women's Euro 2013

The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro and unofficially the "European Cup", held every fourth year, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA Confederation. The competition is the women's equivalent of the UEFA European Championship.

The predecessor tournament to the UEFA Women's Championship began in the early 1980s, under the name UEFA European Competition for Representative Women's Teams. With increasing popularity of women's football, the competition was given European Championship status by UEFA around 1990. Only the 1991 and 1995 editions have been used as European qualifiers for a World Cup; starting in 1999, the group system used in men's qualifiers was also used for women's national teams.

Six UEFA Women's Championships have taken place, preceded by 3 editions of the earlier European Competition for Representative Women's Teams. The most recent holding of the competition was the 2009 Women's Euro, hosted by Finland between August 23 and September 10, 2009.

Expansion [edit]

The tournament was initially played as a four team event. The 1997 edition was the first that was played with eight teams. The third expansion happened in 2009 when 12 teams participated. From 2017 onwards 16 teams will compete for the championship.^[1]

Results [edit]

The following results are from the finals of the respective Championships (see [1]). aet denotes after extra time and gg denotes golden goal.

Winners of the European Competition for Representative Women's Teams (old event name) [edit]

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1984 Details	Final held over two legs		Sweden	1–0 0–1 Penalties: 4–3	England		Denmark	n/a(1)	Italy
1987 Details	Norway		Norway	2–1	Sweden		Italy	2–1	England
1989 Details	West Germany		West Germany	4–1	Norway		Sweden	2–1 a.e.t.	Italy

Winners of the UEFA European Women's Championship [edit]

Year	Host	Final				Third Place Match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up		3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1991 Details	Denmark	Germany	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Norway		Denmark	2–1	Italy
1993 Details	Italy	Norway	1–0	Italy		Denmark	3–1	Germany
Year	Host	Final				Losing semi-finalists
		Winner	Score	Runner-up
1995 Details	Germany	Germany	3–2	Sweden		England,  Norway
1997 Details	Norway & Sweden	Germany	2–0	Italy		Sweden,  Spain
2001 Details	Germany	Germany	1–0 (gg)	Sweden		Norway,  Denmark
2005 Details	England	Germany	3–1	Norway		Finland,  Sweden
2009 Details	Finland	Germany	6–2	England		Norway,  Netherlands
2013 Details	Sweden

Last Four Classifications [edit]

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third-place	Semi-finalists	Fourth-place
Germany	7 (1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)	-	-	-	1 (1993)
Norway	2 (1987, 1993)	3 (1989, 1991, 2005)	-	3 (1995, 2001, 2009)	-
Sweden	1 (1984)	3 (1987, 1995, 2001)	1 (1989)	2 (1997, 2005)	-
Italy	-	2 (1993, 1997)	1 (1987)	1 (1984)	2 (1989, 1991)
England	-	2 (1984, 2009)	-	1 (1995)	1 (1987)
Denmark	-	-	2 (1991, 1993)	2 (1984, 2001)	-
Spain	-	-	-	1 (1997)	-
Finland	-	-	-	1 (2005)	-
Netherlands	-	-	-	1 (2009)	-

Player records and statistics [edit]

Goalscorers [edit]

Top scorers by tournament [edit]

Year	Player	Maximum matches	Goals
1984	Pia Sundhage	4	4
1987	Trude Strendal	2	3
1989	Sissel Grude Ursula Lohn	2	2
1991	Heidi Mohr	2	4
1993	Susan Mackensie	2	2
1995	Lena Videkull	3	3
1997	Carolina Morace Marianne Pettersen Angélique Rouhas	5	4
2001	Claudia Müller Sandra Smisek	5	3
2005	Inka Grings	5	4
2009	Inka Grings	6	6

Team summary [edit]

Debut of teams [edit]

Participation by year of debut (no edition has included all teams that qualified for past tournaments, despite the possibility existing for the second tournament and each time the tournament expanded since)

Year	Debutants	Total
1984	Denmark  England  Italy  Sweden	4
1987	Norway	1
1989	Germany	1
1991	none	0
1993	none	0
1995	none	0
1997	France  Russia  Spain	3
2001	none	0
2005	Finland	1
2009	Iceland  Netherlands  Ukraine	3
2013	none	0

Comprehensive team results by tournament [edit]

Legend

• 1st – Champions
• 2nd – Runners-up
• 3rd – Third place (not determined after 1993)
• 4th – Fourth place (not determined after 1993)
• SF – Semi-finals (since 1995)
• QF – Quarter-finals (since 2009)
• GS – Group stage
• Q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
•  •  — Did not qualify
•  ×  — Did not enter
•    — Hosts

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

Team	1984 (4)	1987 (4)	1989 (4)	1991 (4)	1993 (4)	1995 (4)	1997 (8)	2001 (8)	2005 (8)	2009 (12)	2013 (12)	Years
Denmark	3rd	•	•	3rd	3rd	•	GS	SF	GS	GS	Q	8
England	2nd	4th	•	•	•	SF	•	GS	GS	2nd	Q	7
Finland	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	SF	QF	Q	3
France	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	QF	Q	5
Germany	•	•	1st	1st	4th	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	Q	9
Iceland	•	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	GS	Q	2
Italy	4th	3rd	4th	4th	2nd	•	2nd	GS	GS	QF	Q	10
Netherlands	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	SF	Q	2
Norway	•	1st	2nd	2nd	1st	SF	GS	SF	2nd	SF	Q	10
Russia	×	×	×	×	•	•	GS	GS	•	GS	Q	4
Spain	×	•	•	•	•	•	SF	•	•	•	Q	2
Sweden	1st	2nd	3rd	•	•	2nd	SF	2nd	SF	QF	Q	9
Ukraine	Part of  Soviet Union				×	•	•	•	•	GS	•	1

Results of host nations [edit] Year Host nation Finish 1987  Norway Champions 1989  West Germany Champions 1991  Denmark Third Place 1993  Italy Runners-up 1995  Germany Champions 1997  Norway Quarterfinal  Sweden Semifinal 2001  Germany Champions 2005  England Group Stage 2009  Finland Quarterfinal 2013  Sweden

Results of defending champions [edit] Year Defending champions Finish 1987  Sweden Second Place 1989  Norway Second Place 1991  Germany Champions 1993  Germany Fourth Place 1995  Norway Semifinalist 1997  Germany Champions 2001  Germany Champions 2005  Germany Champions 2009  Germany Champions 2013  Germany

Tournament statistics [edit]

Top ten attendances [edit]

Attendance	Year	Round	Match	Venue
29,092	2005	Group stage	England – Finland	City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester
25,694	2005	Group stage	England – Sweden	Ewood Park, Blackburn
22,000	1989	Final	West Germany – Norway	Stadion an der Bremer Brücke, Osnabrück
21,105	2005	Final	Germany – Norway	Ewood Park, Blackburn
18,000	2001	Group stage	Germany – Sweden	Donaustadion, Ulm
16,334	2009	Group stage	Finland – Denmark	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
16,148	2009	Group stage	Netherlands – Finland	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
15,877	2009	Final	England – Germany	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
15,138	2009	Group stage	Finland – Ukraine	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
14,695	2005	Group stage	England – Denmark	Ewood Park, Blackpool

See also [edit]

• UEFA Women's Champions League
• UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
• UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• UEFA Women's Championship
• BBC Sport - "How Women's Euros have evolved"

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