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	Germany (7 titles)
UEFA Women's Euro 2009

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.

Results

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)

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1984 Details	Final held over two legs	Sweden	1–0 0–1 Penalties: 4–3	England
1987 Details	Norway	Norway	2–1	Sweden
1989 Details	West Germany	West Germany	4–1	Norway

Winners of the UEFA European Women's Championship

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1991 Details	Denmark	Germany	3–1 (aet)	Norway
1993 Details	Italy	Norway	1–0	Italy
1995 Details	Germany	Germany	3–2	Sweden
1997 Details	Norway & Sweden	Germany	2–0	Italy
2001 Details	Germany	Germany	1–0 (gg)	Sweden
2005 Details	England	Germany	3–1	Norway
2009 Details	Finland	Germany	6–2	England

Last Four Classifications

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)	-

Appearances

Team	Appearances	Latest
Italy	10	2009
Norway	9	2009
Sweden	9	2009
Denmark	8	2009
Germany	8	2009
England	7	2009
Russia	5	2009
France	4	2009
Finland	2	2009
Iceland	2	2009
Netherlands	2	2009
Ukraine	1	2009
Spain	1	1997

Top scorers by tournament

Year	Player	Goals
1991	Heidi Mohr	4
1993	Susan Mackensie	2
1995	Lena Videkull	3
1997	Carolina Morace Marianne Pettersen Angélique Rouhas	4
2001	Claudia Müller Sandra Smisek	3
2005	Inka Grings	4
2009	Inka Grings	6

See also

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

External links

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

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