The 2001 UEFA Women's Championship was the eighth UEFA Women's Championship, a competition for the women's national football teams and member associations of

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between 23 June and 7 July 2001. It was won by

for the fifth time overall and third in a row with a 1–0 win in the final against

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Qualification

16 competing teams formed 4 groups; the winners of each group qualified for the Championship, while the teams finishing second and third had to play a playoff in order to qualify.

Qualified teams

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year

² As

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Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see UEFA Women's Euro 2001 squads

Results

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final

Goalscorers

;3 goals * Claudia Müller * Sandra Smisek ;2 goals * Gitte Krogh * Marinette Pichon * Maren Meinert * Bettina Wiegmann *

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 ...

* Dagny Mellgren *

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 ...

;1 goal * Julie Hauge Andersson * Christina Bonde *

Julie Rydahl Bukh Julie Rydahl Bukh (born 9 January 1982) is a Danish former football midfielder who most recently played for Brøndby IF and the Denmark national team. As well as teams in her native Denmark, Rydahl Bukh played for clubs in Sweden, Australia ...

* Merete Pedersen * Angela Banks * Stéphanie Mugneret-Béghé * Gaëlle Blouin * Françoise Jézéquel * Renate Lingor *

Birgit Prinz Birgit Prinz (born 25 October 1977) is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the Frauen ...

* Petra Wimbersky * Rita Guarino * Monica Knudsen * Alexandra Svetlitskaya * Kristin Bengtsson * Sofia Eriksson * Linda Fagerström * Tina Nordlund * Jane Törnqvist ;Own goal * Emmanuelle Sykora (playing against Norway)

References

External links

UEFA Women's Euro 2001
at UEFA.com

at

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