The 2005 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2005, was a football tournament for
women
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held from 5 June to 19 June 2005 in
Lancashire
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,
England
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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 equivalen ...
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, 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.
Teams and structure
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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Hana Spackova
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; England
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Amy Rayner
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Gyöngyi Gaál
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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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Irina Mirt
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Alexandra Ihringova
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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. 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
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Cathrine Paaske-Sørensen
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Renate Lingor
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Club career
Lingor began her career in 1981 with SV Blankenloch at the age of six, in 1983 she joined the youth t ...
Johanna Rasmussen
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Heidi Kackur
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Kackur married Henrik Wilson in June 2005 and in Octo ...
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Minna Mustonen
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Steffi Jones
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Sandra Minnert
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Honours
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* Bundesliga: Winner 1994–95, 1997–98
*DFB-Pokal: Winner 1991–92, 1994 ...
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Anja Mittag
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Elisa Camporese
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Sara Di Filippo
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* Anna Sjöström
;Own goal
* Sanna Valkonen (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 equivalen ...
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UEFA
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Women
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