UEFA Women's Euro 2017

The **2017 UEFA European Women's Championship**, often called **UEFA Women's Euro 2017**, was the 12th time this big football tournament happened for European women's national teams. It's held every four years by UEFA, which is the organization that manages European football. This time, they allowed 16 teams to compete, which was more than the 12 teams in the last tournament. Back on 4th December 2014, the UEFA Executive Committee chose the Netherlands to be the host country for the tournament.

Germany had been the champions of Europe for 22 years, but their reign ended because they lost 1-2 to Denmark in the quarter-finals. This was only the second time Germany lost in this tournament since 1993. Norway, who had won before, also didn't do well. They lost to both the teams that made it to the final, the Netherlands and Denmark, and didn't score any goals or earn any points. The Netherlands won their first-ever title by defeating Denmark 4-2 in the final match.

## Venues

Seven places in seven different towns were used for the competition.
|Breda|Enschede|Utrecht|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Rat Verlegh Stadion|De Grolsch Veste|Stadion Galgenwaard|
|Capacity: **19,000**|Capacity: **30,205**|Capacity: **23,750**|
|<small>4 group matches, 1 semi-final</small>|<small>1 semi-final, Final</small>|<small>4 group matches</small>|
|Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel|De Adelaarshorst||
|Capacity: **10,600**|Capacity: **10,500**||
|<small>4 group matches, 1 quarter-final</small>|<small>4 group matches, 1 quarter-final</small>||
|Koning Willem II Stadion|De Vijverberg||
|Capacity: **14,500**|Capacity: **12,500**||
|<small>4 group matches, 1 quarter-final</small>|<small>4 group matches, 1 quarter-final</small>||

### Qualified teams

The next 16 teams got into the last competition. Five teams played in the Women's Euro for the first time. The single team that got in back in 2013 but didn't make it in 2017 was Finland.
|Team|Method of qualification|Date of qualification|Finals appearance|Last appearance|Previous best performance|FIFA ranking<nowiki/>at start of event|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||||2013|(2009)|12|
|||||2013|(2009, 2013)|3|
|||||2013|(1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013)|2|
|||||—||17|
|||||2013|(1984, 2009)|5|
|||||2013|(1987, 1993)|11|
|||||2013|(1997)|13|
|||||2013|(1984)|9|
|||||2013|(2013)|19|
|||||—||21|
|||||—||22|
|||||—||24|
|||||2013|(1991, 1993)|15|
|||||2013|(1993, 1997)|18|
|||||2013|(1997, 2001, 2009, 2013)|25|
|||||—||38|

- Notes

### Group A

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### Group B

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### Group C

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### Group D

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### Quarter-finals

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### Semi-finals

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### Goalscorers

- 5 goals

- Jodie Taylor

- 4 goals

- Vivianne Miedema

- 3 goals

- Lieke Martens
- Sherida Spitse

- 2 goals

- Nina Burger
- Nadia Nadim
- Toni Duggan
- Babett Peter
- Ilaria Mauro
- Daniela Sabatino
- Carolina Mendes
- Stina Blackstenius
- Lotta Schelin

- 1 goal

- Stefanie Enzinger
- Lisa Makas
- Sarah Zadrazil
- Janice Cayman
- Elke Van Gorp
- Tessa Wullaert
- Pernille Harder
- Theresa Nielsen
- Sanne Troelsgaard
- Katrine Veje
- Fran Kirby
- Jordan Nobbs
- Nikita Parris
- Ellen White
- Camille Abily
- Amandine Henry
- Eugénie Le Sommer
- Josephine Henning
- Isabel Kerschowski
- Dzsenifer Marozsán
- Fanndís Friðriksdóttir
- Cristiana Girelli
- Daniëlle van de Donk
- Shanice van de Sanden
- Ana Leite
- Elena Danilova
- Elena Morozova
- Erin Cuthbert
- Caroline Weir
- Vicky Losada
- Amanda Sampedro
- Ramona Bachmann
- Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
- Lara Dickenmann

- Own goal

- Millie Bright (playing against Netherlands)

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Women's Euro 2017
- **other titles**: Europees kampioenschap voetbal vrouwen 2017
- **country**: Netherlands
- **dates**: 16 July – 6 August
- **num teams**: 16
- **venues**: 7
- **cities**: 7
- **count**: 1
- **matches**: 31
- **goals**: 68
- **top scorer**: Jodie Taylor
- **player**: Lieke Martens
- **prevseason**: UEFA Women's Euro 2013, 2013
- **nextseason**: UEFA Women's Euro 2022, 2022