The 2005 UEFA Women's Championship, also called WOMEN'S EURO 2005 (trademark of UEFA), was a football tournament for women held from 5 June to 19 June 2005 in Lancashire, England. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries that are part of UEFA, the European governing body, who have qualified for the competition. The competition tries to determine which national women's team is the best in Europe.

Germany won the competition for the fourth consecutive tournament.  It was the sixth time overall (including one win in the predecessor tournament, the European Competition for Representative Women's Teams) that they won. Their championship win was the last for coach Tina Theune-Meyer, who months earlier had announced that she would retire 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.

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 moving into 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.

Group A

Group B

Qualification
See main article: 2005 UEFA Women's Championship qualification
A qualifying round ran from 22 March to 3 October 2004 . 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 :

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

More information on the qualification format at UEFA.com

Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2005 UEFA Women's Championship squads

Match officials

 Croatia
Blazenka Logarusic

 Czech Republic
Dagmar Danková
Hana Spackova

 England
Alexandra Ihringova
Amy Rainer
Wendy Toms

 Hungary
Gyöngyi Gaal

 North Ireland
Andi Regan

 Poland
Katarzyna Nadolska

 Romania
Floarea Cristina Ionescu
Irina Mirt

 Slovakia
Miroslava Migalova

 Spain
Yolanda Parga Rodriguez

 Switzerland
Elke Lüthi
Nicole Petignat

 United States of America
Kari Seitz

Results

First Round
Top two placed teams advanced to the semifinals

Group A

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

Group B

Knockout stage

Semifinals

Final

Legend
OG - own goal
aet - after extra time
pen - penalty

Awards

Goalscorers

4 goals
 Inka Grings
3 goals
 Conny Pohlers
 Birgit Prinz
 Solveig Gulbrandsen
 Hanna Ljungberg
2 goals
  Cathrine Paaske-Sørensen
  Laura Österberg Kalmari
  Marinette Pichon
  Renate Lingor
  Melania Gabbiadini
  Isabell Herlovsen
  Lise Klaveness
  Dagny Mellgren
1 goal
  Merete Pedersen
  Johanna Rasmussen
  Amanda Barr
  Karen Carney
  Fara Williams
  Heidi Kackur
  Minna Mustonen
  Anna-Kaisa Rantanen
  Stéphanie Mugneret-Béghé
  Hoda Lattaf
  Stephanie Jones
  Sandra Minnert
  Anja Mittag
  Elisa Camporese
  Sara Di Filippo
  Heidi Christensen
  Anna Sjöström

own goal
  Sanna Valkonen (playing against England)

Top scored teams
15 goals

10 goals

5 goals

4 goals

Related pages
UEFA
UEFA Women's Championship

Other websites
UEFA Women's Championship official webpages
BBC Sport coverage of Women's football
BBC Sport: " How Women's Euros have evolved"

2005 in association football
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