The 1997 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as Women's Euro 1997 was a football tournament held in 1997 in

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and Sweden. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to

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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.

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won the competition for the second time in a row and 4th overall (counting with West Germany's victory in the former European Competition for Representative Women's Teams).

Format

1997 saw a change in the tournament format as an eight-team final stage was introduced.https://www.zeit.de/sport/fussball/2009-09/frauen-europameisterschaft-nationalmannschaft/seite-2 Eight teams participated, qualifying from a total of 33 entrants. Those eight teams were divided in two groups of four. The winner and 2nd placed of the group would advance to the semi-finals and the winners would play the final.

Group A

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Group B

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Qualification

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see UEFA Women's Euro 1997 squads

Results

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semifinals

Final

Awards

Goalscorers

;4 goals * Carolina Morace * Marianne Pettersen * Angélique Roujas ;3 goals * Ángeles Parejo ;2 goals * Birgit Prinz ;1 goal *

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* Merete Pedersen *

Maren Meinert Maren Meinert (born 5 August 1973) is a German football coach and former player who played as a midfielder and striker. She was most recently the head coach of Germany women's national under-20 football team. As a player, Meinert played for Ge ...

* Monika Meyer * Sandra Minnert * Bettina Wiegmann * Antonella Carta * Silvia Fiorini * Patrizia Panico *

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* Malin Andersson * Kristin Jonsson *

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 Feb ...

* Anna Pohjanen * Victoria Sandell Svensson * Irina Grigorieva * Larisa Savina ;Own goal * Cécile Locatelli (playing against Sweden)

References

External links

Women's Euro 1997 Results – UEFA Official PageSVT's open archive
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Format

Group A

Group B

Qualification

Squads

Results

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semifinals

Final

Awards

Goalscorers

See also

References

External links