UEFA Women's Euro 1997

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.

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).

France, Spain and Russia 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.

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
	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9
	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4
	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

Group B

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

Goalscorers

4 goals

• Template:Flagicon Carolina Morace
• Template:Flagicon Marianne Pettersen
• Template:Flagicon Angélique Roujas

3 goals

• Template:Flagicon Ángeles Parejo

2 goals

• Template:Flagicon Birgit Prinz

1 goal

• Template:Flagicon Lene Terp
• Template:Flagicon Merete Pedersen
• Template:Flagicon Isabel Parejo
• Template:Flagicon Maren Meinert
• Template:Flagicon Monika Meyer
• Template:Flagicon Sandra Minnert
• Template:Flagicon Bettina Wiegmann
• Template:Flagicon Antonella Carta
• Template:Flagicon Silvia Fiorini
• Template:Flagicon Patrizia Panico
• Template:Flagicon Heidi Støre
• Template:Flagicon Malin Andersson
• Template:Flagicon Kristin Jonsson
• Template:Flagicon Hanna Ljungberg
• Template:Flagicon Anna Pohjanen
• Template:Flagicon Victoria Sandell Svensson
• Template:Flagicon Irina Grigorieva
• Template:Flagicon Larisa Savina

Own goal

• Template:Flagicon Cécile Locatelli (playing against Sweden)

See also

• UEFA Women's Championship
• UEFA
• Women's association football

External links

• Women's Euro 1997 Results – UEFA Official Page
• Results at RSSSF
• Italy Women International Results at RSSSF
• SVT's open archive Template:In lang