The 2005 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2005, was a
football
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tournament for
women
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held from 5 June to 19 June 2005 in
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
,
England
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and
Cheshire
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,
England
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. The
UEFA Women's Championship
The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro, held every four years, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. The competition is the women's equivalent ...
is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to
UEFA
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, 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
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won the competition for the fourth consecutive tournament, and the sixth time overall (including one win in the predecessor tournament, the ''European Competition for Representative Women's Teams''). Their championship win was the last for coach
Tina Theune-Meyer
Christina Theune (formerly Theune-Meyer; born 4 November 1953) is a German graduate sports teacher, and the former national coach of the German women's national football team.
Biography
Theune was born into a sporting family. Her father was a ...
, 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
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Eight national teams participated – seven of which qualified from earlier stages, plus England, which received an automatic berth as the host nation. They were split into two groups of four: 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.
Group A
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Group B
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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. This was the first time in which the hosts qualified automatically for the final tournament.
The following teams were eliminated at this stage:
*Armenia, Austria,
Belarus
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Republic of Ireland
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, Romania, Scotland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine
Three teams were also eliminated in
play-offs
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Dagmar Damková
Dagmar Damková (born 29 December 1974) is a former Czech football referee, ex-chair of the FAČR referees committee, former member of the executive committee of the FAČR, ex-chair of the Steering Committee for Bohemia, ex-chair of the Czech W ...
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Hana Spackova
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* Haná, an ethnic region in Moravia, Czech Republic
* Traianoupoli, Greece, called Hana during the Ottoman period
* Hana, Norway, a borough in the city of Sandnes, Norway
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* Hana, Iran, a city ...
; England
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Amy Rayner
Amy Elizabeth Fearn (''née'' Rayner; born 20 November 1977) is an English football referee from Loughborough, Leicestershire, who in 2010 became the first woman to referee in The Football League. With a degree in economics and a full-time career ...
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Wendy Toms
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; Hungary
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Gyöngyi Gaál
Gyöngyi Krisztína Gaál (born 26 June 1975, in Ajka) is a Hungarian football referee.
Refereeing career
Gyöngyi Gaál refereed her first international match in 2002 between Romania and Croatia.
She officiated at the 2007 FIFA Women's World C ...
; Northern Ireland
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Andi Regan Andi or ANDI may refer to:
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* Andy (given name), including people and fictional characters with the name Andi
* Andi people, an ethnic group of Dagestan, Russia
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* Andi, Guizhou, a town in Jinsha County, Guiz ...
Irina Mirt
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; Slovakia
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Alexandra Ihringova
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Nicole Petignat
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; United States of America
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Kari Seitz
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Results
First round
Top two teams in each group advanced to the semi-finals
Group A
Note:
*Finland and Denmark finished level on points. Finland advanced to the semi-finals due to their head-to-head win.
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Semi-finals
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Final
Legacy
The tournament was viewed as a successful one by the
Football Association
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. The tournament is credited with popularising women's football in England.
Goalscorers
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Inka Grings
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Birgit Prinz
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Solveig Gulbrandsen
Solveig Ingersdatter Gulbrandsen (born 12 January 1981) is a Norwegian footballer currently playing for Kolbotn of the Toppserien. At club level she has previously represented Kolbotn, FC Gold Pride, Vålerenga Fotball Damer and Stabæk. With t ...
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Hanna Ljungberg
Hanna Carolina Ljungberg (born 8 January 1979) is a Swedish former football player, who played the position of forward. She played for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national football team. She debuted for Sweden, at age 17, on 6 Febr ...
;2 goals
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Cathrine Paaske-Sørensen
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Marinette Pichon
Marinette Pichon (born 26 November 1975) is a French former football player.
Biography
Pichon had a dysfunctional childhood with an alcoholic father.
Career
She started her career at Saint-Memmie Olympique, then signed on to the Women's ...
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Renate Lingor
Renate Lingor (born 11 October 1975) is a retired female German international footballer, who played as a midfielder or forward.
Club career
Lingor began her career in 1981 with SV Blankenloch at the age of six, in 1983 she joined the youth te ...
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Melania Gabbiadini
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Isabell Herlovsen
Isabell Lehn Herlovsen (born 23 June 1988) is a Norwegian former football player.
She last played for Våleranga and Kolbotn after moving home from China and the club Jiangsu Suning. She plays as a midfielder and a striker.
Herlovsen is the ...
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Lise Klaveness
Lise Klaveness (born 19 April 1981) is a Norwegian lawyer and former footballer who played 73 matches for Norway's national team between 2002 and 2011. She is currently the president of the Norwegian Football Federation.
Since assuming her le ...
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Dagny Mellgren
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;1 goal
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Merete Pedersen
Merete Pedersen (born 30 June 1973) is a Danish former football striker who played for Vejle BK and Odense BK in the Elitedivisionen, TSV Siegen in the German Bundesliga and Torres CF in Italy's Serie A, taking part in the UEFA Women's Cup ...
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Johanna Rasmussen
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Amanda Barr
Amanda Jayne Maslin-Barr (born 2 May 1982) is an English football striker She scored ten goals in 37 appearances for the England women's national football team after making her international debut in 2001. Barr spearheaded the England attack a ...
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Karen Carney
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Fara Williams
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Heidi Kackur
Heidi Kackur (born 31 October 1978) is a Finnish former football striker. She played for Naisten Liiga club FC United Pietarsaari and Malmö FF and Göteborg FC of Sweden's Damallsvenskan.
Kackur married Henrik Wilson in June 2005 and in Octo ...
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Minna Mustonen
Minna Mustonen (born 26 July 1977) is a Finnish footballer who played as a midfielder. Mustonen represented the Finnish women's national football team, 67 times and scored 7 goals. Mustonen was also part of the Finnish team at the 2005 Europea ...
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Anna-Kaisa Rantanen
Anna-Kaisa Rantanen (born 10 February 1978) is a Finnish former football midfielder, who most recently played for Klepp IL of the Norwegian Toppserien.
Career
Rantanen previously played for HJK Helsinki in the Naisten Liiga, Linköping FC, Dj ...
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Stéphanie Mugneret-Béghé
Stéphanie Mugneret-Béghé (born 22 March 1974) is a French former football midfielder who played for FCF Lyon and FCF Juvisy in the French First Division and the Boston Breakers in the WUSA. She was a member of the French national team for ...
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Hoda Lattaf
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Steffi Jones
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Sandra Minnert
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Honours
;FSV Frankfurt
*Bundesliga: Winner 1994–95, 1997–98
*DFB-Pokal: Winner 1991–92, 1994– ...
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Anja Mittag
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In July 2020, Mittag announced that she will end her playing career after the women's Saxony Cup ...
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Elisa Camporese
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Sara Di Filippo
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* Anna Sjöström
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Sanna Valkonen
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(playing against England)
See also
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UEFA Women's Championship
The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro, held every four years, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. The competition is the women's equivalent ...
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UEFA
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Women's football (soccer)
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Women
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2005
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2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...