UEFA Women's Euro 2017

UEFA Women's Euro 2017
Europees kampioenschap voetbal vrouwen 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Netherlands
Dates	16 July – 6 August
Teams	16
Venue(s)	7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (1st title)
Runners-up	Denmark
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	68 (2.19 per match)
Attendance	247,041 (7,969 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jodie Taylor (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Lieke Martens
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Last updated December 29, 2023

The 2017 UEFA European Women's Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2017, was the 12th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe. The competition was expanded to 16 teams (from 12 teams in the previous edition).^[1]

Germany's 22-year reign as champions of Europe was ended after losing 1–2 to Denmark in the quarter-finals.^[3] It was only Germany's second loss in the tournament since 1993.^[4] Another former winner, Norway, lost to both finalists, the Netherlands and Denmark, and ended without goals or points.

The Netherlands won their first ever title since the men's UEFA Euro 1988 by beating fellow first time finalists Denmark 4–2 in the final.^[5]

Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Scotland and Switzerland made their debuts for the first time.

Host selection

Expressions of interest in hosting the tournament were received from seven associations.^[6]

On 4 December 2014 The Netherlands were chosen as hosts for the first time having never previously staged the tournament.^[7]

Qualification

A total of 47 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Andorra which entered for the first time at senior women's level), and with the hosts Netherlands qualifying automatically, the other 46 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament.^[2]^[8] The qualifying competition, which took place from April 2015 to October 2016, consisted of three rounds:^[9]

Preliminary round: The eight lowest-ranked teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the pre-selected hosts. The two group winners advanced to the qualifying group stage.
Qualifying group stage: The 40 teams (38 highest-ranked teams and two preliminary round qualifiers) were drawn into eight groups of five teams. Each group was played in home-and-away round-robin format. The eight group winners and the six best runners-up (not counting results against the fifth-placed team) qualified directly for the final tournament, while the two remaining runners-up advanced to the play-offs.
Play-offs: The two teams played home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last qualified team.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. Five teams made their Women's Euro debuts. The only team that qualified in 2013 but did not qualify in 2017 was Finland.

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA ranking at start of event
Netherlands	Hosts	4 December 2014	3rd	2013	Semi-finals (2009)	12
France	Group 3 winners	11 April 2016	6th	2013	Quarter-finals (2009, 2013)	3
Germany	Group 5 winners	12 April 2016	10th	2013	Champions (1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013)	2
Switzerland	Group 6 winners	4 June 2016	1st	—	Debut	17
England	Group 7 winners	7 June 2016	8th	2013	Runners-up (1984, 2009)	5
Norway	Group 8 winners	7 June 2016	11th	2013	Champions (1987, 1993)	11
Spain	Group 2 winners	7 June 2016	3rd	2013	Semi-finals (1997)	13
Sweden	Group 4 winners	15 September 2016	10th	2013	Champions (1984)	9
Iceland	Group 1 winners	16 September 2016	3rd	2013	Quarter-finals (2013)	19
Scotland	Group 1 runners-up^{[^]}	16 September 2016	1st	—	Debut	21
Belgium	Group 7 runners-up^{[^]}	16 September 2016	1st	—	Debut	22
Austria	Group 8 runners-up^{[^]}	20 September 2016	1st	—	Debut	24
Denmark	Group 4 runners-up^{[^]}	20 September 2016	9th	2013	Third place (1991, 1993)	15
Italy	Group 6 runners-up^{[^]}	20 September 2016	11th	2013	Runners-up (1993, 1997)	18
Russia	Group 5 runners-up^{[^]}	20 September 2016	5th	2013	Group Stage (1997, 2001, 2009, 2013)	25
Portugal	Play-offs winner	25 October 2016	1st	—	Debut	38

Notes

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The best six runners-up among all eight groups qualified for the final tournament.

Final draw

The final draw was held on 8 November 2016, 17:30 CET (UTC+1), at the Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam.^[10]^[11] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking following the end of the qualifying group stage (excluding the play-offs),^[12] with the hosts Netherlands assigned to position A1 in the draw. Each group contained one team from each of the four seeding pots.^[13]

Pot 1
Team	Coeff	Rank
Netherlands ^H	34,642	9
Germany ^TH	42,957	1
France	42,355	2
England	39,880	3

Pot 2
Team	Coeff	Rank
Norway	39,161	4
Sweden	38,036	5
Spain	37,655	6
Switzerland	36,629	7

Pot 3
Team	Coeff	Rank
Italy	34,775	8
Iceland	34,141	10
Scotland	33,632	11
Denmark	32,915	12

Pot 4
Team	Coeff	Rank
Austria	31,882	13
Belgium	31,213	14
Russia	30,367	15
Portugal	22,900	23

^H Hosts (assigned to position A1 in the draw)
^TH Title holders

Venues

Seven venues in seven different towns were used in the tournament.^[2]

Breda	Enschede	Utrecht
Rat Verlegh Stadion	De Grolsch Veste	Stadion Galgenwaard
Capacity: 19,000	Capacity: 30,205	Capacity: 23,750
4 group matches, 1 semi-final	1 semi-final, Final	4 group matches

Rotterdam	Breda Deventer Doetinchem Enschede Rotterdam Tilburg Utrecht class=notpageimage\| Locations of the championship venues teams	Deventer
Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel		De Adelaarshorst
Capacity: 10,600		Capacity: 10,500
4 group matches, 1 quarter-final		4 group matches, 1 quarter-final

Tilburg		Doetinchem
Koning Willem II Stadion		De Vijverberg
Capacity: 14,500		Capacity: 12,500
4 group matches, 1 quarter-final		4 group matches, 1 quarter-final

Match officials

A total of 11 referees, 21 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.^[14]

Referees

Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)
Stéphanie Frappart (France)
Riem Hussein (Germany)
Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany)
Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)
Carina Vitulano (Italy)
Monika Mularczyk (Poland)
Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
Pernilla Larsson (Sweden)
Esther Staubli (Switzerland)
Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

Assistant referees

Sanja Rođak-Karšić (Croatia)
Angela Kyriakou (Cyprus)
Lucie Ratajová (Czech Republic)
Sian Massey (England)
Manuela Nicolosi (France)
Christina Biehl (Germany)
Katrin Rafalski (Germany)
Chrysoula Kourompylia (Greece)
Judit Kulcsár (Hungary)
Lucia Abruzzese (Italy)
Nicolet Bakker (Netherlands)

Anna Dąbrowska (Poland)
Michelle O’Neill (Republic of Ireland)
Petruța Iugulescu (Romania)
Mihaela Tepusa (Romania)
Ekaterina Kurochkina (Russia)
Svetlana Bilić (Serbia)
Maria Sukenikova (Slovakia)
Belinda Brem (Switzerland)
Oleksandra Ardesheva (Ukraine)
Maryna Striletska (Ukraine)

Fourth officials

Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)
Lorraine Clark (Scotland)

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent her participation in the tournament before her team's first match, she can be replaced by another player. The squad list must be published no later than 10 days before the tournaments opening match.^[9]

Group stage

The schedule of the competition was announced on 23 September 2015.^[15] The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).^[16]

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 19.01 and 19.02):^[9]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the tied after applying all criteria above, met in the last round of the group, and rankings are relevant for qualification for the next stage;
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient for the final draw.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands (H)	3	3	0	4	1	+3	9	Knockout stage
2	Denmark	3	2	1	2	1	+1	6	Knockout stage
3	Belgium	3	1	2	3	3	0	3
4	Norway	3	0	3	0	4	−4	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

16 July 2017

18:00

Netherlands	1–0	Norway
Van de Sanden 66'	Report

Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht

Attendance: 21,732

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

16 July 2017