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UEFA Women's Euro 1997

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Tournament details
Host countries	Norway Sweden
Dates	29 June – 12 July
Teams	8
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (4th title)
Runners-up	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	35 (2.33 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Carolina Morace Marianne Pettersen Angélique Roujas (4 goals each)
Best player(s)	Carolina Morace
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The 1997 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as Women's Euro 1997 was a football tournament held in 1997 in Norway and Sweden. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to UEFA, 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.^[1]

Germany 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. 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

• 
   Sweden
  


• 
   Russia
  


• 
   France
  


• 
   Spain
  

Group B

• 
   Norway
  


• 
   Denmark
  


• 
   Germany
  


• 
   Italy
  

Qualification

Squads

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

Results

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9
Spain	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
France	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4
Russia	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
Germany	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
Norway	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	4
Denmark	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

Knockout stage

	Semifinals					Final
	B	Italy	2
	A	Spain	1
						B	Italy	0
						B	Germany	2
	A	Sweden	0
	B	Germany	1

Semifinals

Final

Awards

Women's Euro 1997 Champions
Germany Fourth title

Goalscorers

4 goals

3 goals

• 
  Ángeles Parejo
  

2 goals

• 
  Birgit Prinz
  

1 goal

Own goal

• 
  Corinne Diacre (playing against Sweden)

See also

• UEFA Women's Championship


• UEFA


• Women's association football

References

External links

• Women's Euro 1997 Results – UEFA Official Page


• Results at RSSSF


• Italy Women International Results at RSSSF


• 
  SVT's open archive (in Swedish)