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

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. 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).

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made their debuts for the first time.

Format

1997 saw a change in the tournament format as an eight-team final stage was introduced. 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

Goalscorers

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Carolina Morace Carolina Morace (; born 5 February 1964) is an Italian politician and former footballer, who played as a striker. She was most recently the head coach of Lazio Women. She played for the Italian national team and for various clubs in women's ...

* Marianne Pettersen * Angélique Roujas ;3 goals * Ángeles Parejo ;2 goals * Birgit Prinz ;1 goal * Lene Terp * Merete Pedersen * Isabel Parejo * Maren Meinert * Monika Meyer * Sandra Minnert * Bettina Wiegmann *

Antonella Carta Antonella Carta (born 1 March 1967) is an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder for the Italy women's national football team. She was part of the team at the UEFA Women's Euro 1997 and 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup The 1999 FIFA Wo ...

* Silvia Fiorini *

Patrizia Panico Patrizia Panico (; born 8 February 1975) is an Italian former footballer who is formerly the manager of Fiorentina in the Italian women's Serie A. A prolific goalscorer, Panico is a longstanding member of the Italy women's national team; she wo ...

* Heidi Støre * Malin Andersson * Kristin Jonsson *

Hanna Ljungberg Hanna Carolina Ljungberg (born 8 January 1979) is a Swedish former association football Forward (association football), forward. She spent the majority of her club career at Umeå IK and was a Sweden women's national football team, Swedish intern ...

* 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

Goalscorers

See also

References

External links