UEFA Women's Euro 2001

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 UEFA. It took place in Germany between 23 June and 7 July 2001. It was won by Germany for the fifth time overall and third in a row with a 1–0 win in the final against Sweden, after a golden goal.

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

Country	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
	Group 1 winner	Template:Dts	1 (1997)
	Group 2 winner	Template:Dts	6 (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997)
(hosts)	Group 3 winner	Template:Dts	5 (1989,2 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997)
	Group 4 winner	Template:Dts	1 (1997)
	Play-off winner	Template:Dts	5 (1984, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997)
	Play-off winner	Template:Dts	4 (1984, 1991, 1993, 1997)
	Play-off winner	Template:Dts	6 (1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997)
	Play-off winner	Template:Dts	3 (1984, 1987, 1995)

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

² As West Germany

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

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9
	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6	1
	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	4
	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3

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Goalscorers

3 goals

• Template:Flagicon Claudia Müller
• Template:Flagicon Sandra Smisek

2 goals

• Template:Flagicon Gitte Krogh
• Template:Flagicon Marinette Pichon
• Template:Flagicon Maren Meinert
• Template:Flagicon Bettina Wiegmann
• Template:Flagicon Patrizia Panico
• Template:Flagicon Dagny Mellgren
• Template:Flagicon Hanna Ljungberg

1 goal

• Template:Flagicon Julie Hauge Andersson
• Template:Flagicon Christina Bonde
• Template:Flagicon Julie Rydahl Bukh
• Template:Flagicon Merete Pedersen
• Template:Flagicon Angela Banks
• Template:Flagicon Stéphanie Mugneret-Béghé
• Template:Flagicon Gaëlle Blouin
• Template:Flagicon Françoise Jézéquel
• Template:Flagicon Renate Lingor
• Template:Flagicon Birgit Prinz
• Template:Flagicon Petra Wimbersky
• Template:Flagicon Rita Guarino
• Template:Flagicon Monica Knudsen
• Template:Flagicon Alexandra Svetlitskaya
• Template:Flagicon Kristin Bengtsson
• Template:Flagicon Sofia Eriksson
• Template:Flagicon Linda Fagerström
• Template:Flagicon Tina Nordlund
• Template:Flagicon Jane Törnqvist

Own goal

• Template:Flagicon Emmanuelle Sykora (playing against Norway)

External links

• UEFA Women's Euro 2001 at UEFA.com
• UEFA Women's Euro 2001 at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation