2005 UEFA Women's Championship

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The 2005 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as WOMEN'S EURO 2005 (trademark of UEFA), was a football tournament for women held from June 5 to June 19 2005 in and around Manchester, England. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to UEFA, the European governing body, who have qualified for the competition. The competition aims to determine which national women's team is the best in Europe.

Germany won the competition for the fourth consecutive tournament, and the fifth overall. Their championship win was the last for coach Tina Theune-Meyer, who months earlier had announced her retirement effective at the end of the tournament. In her nine years in charge of Germany, they won three European titles, two bronze medals in the Olympics, and the 2003 World Cup.

Contents

1 Teams and structure

1.1 Group A
1.2 Group B

2 Qualification

3 Results

3.1 Group A
3.2 Group B
3.3 Semifinals
3.4 Final
3.5 Legend

4 Leading scorers

5 Leading scorer teams

6 See also

7 External links

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Teams and structure

Eight national teams participated—seven which qualified from earlier stages, plus England, which received an automatic berth as the host nation. They were split into two groups of 4: Group A and Group B. Each team in a group played each other once, with the top two teams in each group progressing to the semi-finals. The winner faced the runner-up of the other group in a play-off, with the winner of each semi-final advancing to the final to determine the champion.

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Group A

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Group B

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Qualification

A qualifying round ran from March 22 to October 3 2004 ^{[1] (http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/woco/FixturesResults/index.html)}. The teams which were entered played in a group stage, with the winners advancing to the final, and the runners-up being given the chance of qualification through a play-off. England, as the host nation, qualified automatically for the tournament.

The following teams were eliminated at this stage ^{[2] (http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/woco/Teams/index.html)}:

Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine

Three teams were also eliminated in play-offs for the tournament:

Czech Republic, Iceland, Russia

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Results

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Group A

Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	3	1	2	0	2	1	5
Finland	3	1	1	1	4	4	4
Denmark	3	1	1	1	4	4	4
England	3	1	0	2	4	5	3

5 June

Sweden 1-1 Denmark (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

Hanna Ljungberg 21' (S), Johanna Rasmussen 29' (D)

England 3-2 Finland (City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester)

Sanna Valkonen og 18' (E), Amanda Barr 40' (E), Anna-Kaisa Rantanen 52' (F), Laura Kalmari 88' (F), Karen Carney 90' + 1' (E)

8 June

Denmark 2-1 England (Ewood Park, Blackburn)

Fara Williams 52' pen (E), Merete Pedersen 80' (D), Cathrine Paaske S�rensen 88' (D)

Sweden 0-0 Finland (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

11 June

England 0-1 Sweden (Ewood Park, Blackburn)

Anna Sj�str�m 3' (S)

Finland 2-1 Denmark (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

Laura Kalmari 6' (F), Heidi Kackur 16' (F), Cathrine Paaske S�rensen 45' (D)

Notes

Finland and Denmark finished level on points and goal difference. Finland advanced to the semifinals due to their head-to-head win.

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Group B

Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Germany	3	3	0	0	8	0	9
Norway	3	1	1	1	6	5	4
France	3	1	1	1	4	5	4
Italy	3	0	0	3	4	12	0

6 June

Germany 1-0 Norway (Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington)

Conny Pohlers 61' (D)

France 3-1 Italy (Deepdale, Preston)

Hoda Lataff 12' (F), Marinette Pichon 20', 30' (F), Sara Di Filippo 83' (I)

9 June

Italy 0-4 Germany (Deepdale, Preston)

Birgit Prinz 11' (G), Conny Pohlers 18' (G), Steffi Jones 55' (G), Anja Mittag 74' (G)

France 1-1 Norway (Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington)

St�phanie Mugneret-B�gh� 20' (F), Isabell Herlovsen 66' (N)

12 June

Germany 3-0 France (Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington)

Inka Grings 72' (G), Renate Lingor 77' pen (G), Sandra Minnert 83' (G)

Norway 5-3 Italy (Deepdale, Preston)

Lise Klaveness 7', 57' (N), Melania Gabbiadini 8', 53' (I), Marit Fiane Christiansen 29' (N), Solveig Gulbrandsen 35' (N), Dagny Mellgren 44' (N), Elisa Camporese 69' (I)

Notes