UEFA Women's Euro 2005

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 Dankova
Hana Spackova
England
Alexandra Ihringova
Amy Rainer
Wendy Toms
Hungary
Gyongyi Gaal
North Ireland
Andi Regan
Poland
Katarzyna Nadolska
Romania
Floarea Cristina Ionescu
Irina Mirt
Slovakia
Miroslava Migalova
Spain
Yolanda Parga Rodriguez
Switzerland
Elke Luthi
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-Sorensen
Laura Osterberg 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
Stephanie Mugneret-Beghe
Hoda Lattaf
Stephanie Jones
Sandra Minnert
Anja Mittag
Elisa Camporese
Sara Di Filippo
Heidi Christensen
Anna Sjostrom
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
2005 in England
Lancashire
Football in England
UEFA
June 2005 events