UEFA Women's Championship
The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro, held every four years, 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.
Founded | 1982 |
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Region | Europe (UEFA) |
Number of teams | 16 (finals) 52 (qualifiers) |
Current champions | Netherlands (1st title) |
Most successful team(s) | Germany (8 titles) |
Website | Official website |
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 |
The closing ceremony prior to the 2009 final | |
Tournaments | |
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History
Women's football history has interesting turns and twists starting all the way in Europe.[1] 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 the 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 FIFA Women's World Cup; starting in 1999, the group system used in men's qualifiers was also used for women's national teams.
Eight UEFA Women's Championships have taken place, preceded by three editions of the earlier "European Competition for Representative Women's Teams". The most recent holding of the competition is the 2017 Women's Euro hosted by the Netherlands in July and August 2017.
Unofficial women's European tournaments for national teams were held in Italy in 1969[2] and 1979[3] (won by Italy and Denmark respectively), but there was no formal international tournament until 1982 when the first UEFA 1984 European Competition for Women's Football qualification was launched. The 1984 Finals was won by Sweden. Norway won in the 1987 Finals. Since then, the UEFA Women's Championship has been dominated by Germany, which has won eight out of ten events, interrupted only by Norway in 1993. Germany's 2013 win was their sixth in a row.
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 compete for the championship.[4]
Results
Edition | Year | Host | Final | Third place playoff or losing semi-finalists | Number of teams | |||||||
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Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | |||||||
1 | 1984 | Various | Sweden |
1–0 0–1 (4–3 p) |
England |
Denmark and Italy | 4 | |||||
2 | 1987 | Norway | Norway |
2–1 | Sweden |
Italy |
2–1 | England |
4 | |||
3 | 1989 | West Germany | West Germany |
4–1 | Norway |
Sweden |
2–1 (a.e.t.) | Italy |
4 | |||
4 | 1991 | Denmark | Germany |
3–1 (a.e.t.) | Norway |
Denmark |
2–1 (a.e.t.) | Italy |
4 | |||
5 | 1993 | Italy | Norway |
1–0 | Italy |
Denmark |
3–1 | Germany |
4 | |||
6 | 1995 | Various | Germany |
3–2 | Sweden |
England and Norway | 4 | |||||
7 | 1997 | Norway Sweden |
Germany |
2–0 | Italy |
Spain and Sweden | 8 | |||||
8 | 2001 | Germany | Germany |
1–0 (g.g.) | Sweden |
Denmark and Norway | 8 | |||||
9 | 2005 | England | Germany |
3–1 | Norway |
Finland and Sweden | 8 | |||||
10 | 2009 | Finland | Germany |
6–2 | England |
Netherlands and Norway | 12 | |||||
11 | 2013 | Sweden | Germany |
1–0 | Norway |
Denmark and Sweden | 12 | |||||
12 | 2017 | Netherlands | Netherlands |
4–2 | Denmark |
Austria and England | 16 | |||||
13 | 2022 | England | 16 |
- aet denotes after extra time
- gg denotes golden goal
- ps denotes after penalty shoot-out
Summary
Team | Winners | Runners-up |
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Germany1 | 8 (1989*, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001*, 2005, 2009, 2013) | – |
Norway | 2 (1987*, 1993) | 4 (1989, 1991, 2005, 2013) |
Sweden | 1 (1984) | 3 (1987, 1995, 2001) |
Netherlands | 1 (2017*) | – |
Italy | – | 2 (1993*, 1997) |
England | – | 2 (1984, 2009) |
Denmark | – | 1 (2017) |
- * = hosts
- 1 = includes results representing West Germany
Team summary
Participation details
Year | Debuting teams | Successor teams | ||
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Teams | No. | CT | ||
1984 | Denmark, England, Italy, Sweden | 4 | 4 | |
1987 | Norway | 1 | 5 | |
1989 | West Germany | 1 | 6 | |
1991 | 0 | 6 | Germany | |
1993 | 0 | 6 | ||
1995 | 0 | 6 | ||
1997 | France, Russia, Spain | 3 | 9 | |
2001 | 0 | 9 | ||
2005 | Finland | 1 | 10 | |
2009 | Iceland, Netherlands, Ukraine | 3 | 13 | |
2013 | 0 | 13 | ||
2017 | Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland | 5 | 18 |
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) |
2017 (16) |
2022 (16) |
Years |
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Austria | × | × | × | × | × | × | • | • | • | • | • | SF | 1 | |
Belgium | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | GS | Q | 1 |
Denmark | SF | • | • | 3rd | 3rd | • | GS | SF | GS | GS | SF | 2nd | Q | 10 |
England | 2nd | 4th | • | • | • | SF | • | GS | GS | 2nd | GS | SF | Q | 9 |
Finland | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | SF | QF | GS | • | 3 | |
France | • | • | • | • | • | • | GS | GS | GS | QF | QF | QF | Q | 7 |
Germany | • | • | 1st | 1st | 4th | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | QF | Q | 11 |
Iceland | • | × | × | × | • | • | • | • | • | GS | QF | GS | Q | 3 |
Italy | SF | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 2nd | • | 2nd | GS | GS | QF | QF | GS | 11 | |
Netherlands | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | SF | GS | 1st | Q | 4 |
Norway | • | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | SF | GS | SF | 2nd | SF | 2nd | GS | Q | 12 |
Portugal | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | GS | 1 | |
Russia | × | × | × | × | • | • | GS | GS | • | GS | GS | GS | 5 | |
Scotland | • | • | • | × | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | GS | • | 1 |
Spain | × | • | • | • | • | • | SF | • | • | • | QF | QF | 3 | |
Sweden | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | • | • | 2nd | SF | 2nd | SF | QF | SF | QF | Q | 11 |
Switzerland | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | GS | 1 | |
Ukraine | Part of Soviet Union | × | • | • | • | • | GS | • | • | 1 |
Results of host nations
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Results of defending champions
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Overall team records
Rank | Team | Part | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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1 | Germany | 10 | 43 | 34 | 6 | 3 | 109 | 26 | +83 | 108 |
2 | Sweden | 10 | 38 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 68 | 46 | +22 | 65 |
3 | Norway | 11 | 36 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 47 | 48 | -1 | 52 |
4 | Denmark | 9 | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 32 | 41 | -9 | 37 |
5 | England | 8 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 40 | 51 | -11 | 36 |
6 | Italy | 11 | 31 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 38 | 54 | -16 | 32 |
7 | France | 6 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 30 |
8 | Netherlands | 3 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 10 | +11 | 26 |
9 | Finland | 3 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 19 | -8 | 12 |
10 | Spain | 3 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 14 | -4 | 11 |
11 | Austria | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 10 |
12 | Russia | 5 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 31 | -21 | 6 |
13 | Switzerland | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
14 | Iceland | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 19 | -13 | 4 |
15 | Belgium | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
16 | Portugal | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 3 |
17 | Ukraine | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
18 | Scotland | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 3 |
Tournament statistics
Highest attendances
- 41,301 – Germany v Norway, Friends Arena, Solna (2013 final)
- 29,092 – England v Finland, City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester (2005 group stage)
- 28,182 – Netherlands v Denmark, De Grolsch Veste, Enschede (2017 final)
- 27,093 – Netherlands v England, De Grolsch Veste, Enschede (2017 semi-final)
- 25,694 – England v Sweden, Ewood Park, Blackburn (2005 group stage)
- 21,731 – Netherlands v Norway, Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht (2017 group stage)
- 21,105 – Germany v Norway, Ewood Park, Blackburn (2005 final)
- 21,000 – West Germany v Norway, Stadion an der Bremer Brücke, Osnabrück (1989 final)
- 18,000 – Germany v Sweden, Donaustadion, Ulm (2001 final)
- 16,608 – Sweden v Germany, Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg (2013 semi-final)
All-time top scorers
Rank | Name | Euro | Total | |||||||||||
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1984 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2009 | 2013 | 2017 | |||
1 | Inka Grings | 4 | 6 | 10 | ||||||||||
Birgit Prinz | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||
3 | Carolina Morace | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
Heidi Mohr | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||
Lotta Schelin | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||
6 | Hanna Ljungberg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||||||||
7 | Melania Gabbiadini | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
Solveig Gulbrandsen | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
Maren Meinert | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
Patrizia Panico | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
Pia Sundhage | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||
Jodie Taylor | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||
Lena Videkull | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||
Bettina Wiegmann | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Top scorers by tournament
Year | Player | Maximum matches |
Goals |
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1984 | Pia Sundhage | 4 | 4 |
1987 | Trude Stendal | 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 Roujas |
5 | 4 |
2001 | Claudia Müller Sandra Smisek |
5 | 3 |
2005 | Inka Grings | 5 | 4 |
2009 | Inka Grings | 6 | 6 |
2013 | Lotta Schelin | 6 | 5 |
2017 | Jodie Taylor | 6 | 5 |
UEFA.com Golden Player by tournament
Year | Player |
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1984 | Pia Sundhage |
1987 | Heidi Støre |
1989 | Doris Fitschen |
1991 | Silvia Neid |
1993 | Hege Riise |
1995 | Birgit Prinz |
1997 | Carolina Morace |
2001 | Hanna Ljungberg |
2005 | Anne Mäkinen |
2009 | Inka Grings |
2013 | Nadine Angerer1 |
2017 | Lieke Martens1 |
1Official player of the tournament (from 2013)
See also
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References
- "History of Soccer - Women in Soccer".
- "Coppa Europa per Nazioni (Women) 1969". Rsssf.com. 19 March 2001. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- "Inofficial European Women Championship 1979". Rsssf.com. 15 October 2000. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- "Women's EURO and U17s expanded". UEFA. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.