UEFA Women's Euro 2013

UEFA Women's Euro 2013

UEFA Dam-EM 2013
Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Dates	10–28 July
Teams	12
Venue(s)	7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (8th title)
Runners-up	Norway
Tournament statistics
Matches played	25
Goals scored	56 (2.24 per match)
Attendance	216,888 (8,676 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lotta Schelin (5 goals)
Best player	Nadine Angerer[1]

The 2013 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as Women's Euro 2013, was the 11th European Championship for women's national football teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament, held in Sweden from 10 to 28 July 2013,^[2] became the most-watched in the history of the Women's Euros.^[3] It concluded with Germany, the defending champions, winning their sixth consecutive and eighth overall Women's Euro title after defeating Norway in the final.^[4]

Sweden were selected as hosts by UEFA's Executive Committee in 2010, meaning their team automatically qualified for the final tournament. The other eleven finalists were decided by a qualifying competition, featuring 44 teams, staged between March 2011 to October 2012. It was the last time the finals featured twelve teams, as from 2017 onwards they will be expanded to include sixteen teams.^[5]

Host selection

Sweden was awarded the hosting of the tournament on 4 October 2010 at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Minsk, Belarus.^[6] The only rival host bid came from the Netherlands.^[6] Several other European national associations, including Switzerland, Bulgaria and Poland, had shown interest in staging the tournament but did not submit final applications.^[7] Sweden has previously co-hosted the tournament in 1997.^[8]

Qualification

A total of 44 teams entered the qualification process to compete for the eleven available places in the final tournament, alongside host nation Sweden, who qualified automatically. Six teams were firstly eliminated during an eight-team preliminary round staged in Macedonia and Malta on 3–8 March 2011.^[9]

On 14 March 2011 38 teams – the 36 top-ranked nations (according to their UEFA coefficient) and the two teams advancing from the preliminary round – were then drawn into seven qualifying groups at a draw in Nyon, Switzerland.^[10] Matches in these qualifying groups began in September 2011 and concluded a year later.^[10] The seven group winners automatically qualified for the final tournament along with the best-ranked runners-up.^[11] The remaining six runners-up entered into two-legged play-offs held in October 2012 to determine the final line-up.^[12] The following twelve teams participated in the final tournament:

Country	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
Sweden	Hosts	000000002010-10-04-00004 October 2010	08 !8 (1984, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)
Italy	Group 1 winner	000000002012-06-16-000016 June 2012	09 !9 (1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)
Germany	Group 2 winner	000000002012-06-16-000016 June 2012	08 !8 (1989,2 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)
Norway	Group 3 winner	000000002012-09-19-000019 September 2012	09 !9 (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)
France	Group 4 winner	000000002012-09-15-000015 September 2012	04 !4 (1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)
Finland	Group 5 winner	000000002012-09-15-000015 September 2012	02 !2 (2005, 2009)
England	Group 6 winner	000000002012-09-19-000019 September 2012	06 !6 (1984, 1987, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2009)
Denmark	Group 7 winner	000000002012-09-19-000019 September 2012	07 !7 (1984, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009)
Netherlands	Best runner-up	000000002012-09-19-000019 September 2012	01 !1 (2009)
Spain	Play-off winner	000000002012-10-24-000024 October 2012	01 !1 (1997)
Russia	Play-off winner	000000002012-10-25-000025 October 2012	03 !3 (1997, 2001, 2009)
Iceland	Play-off winner	000000002012-10-25-000025 October 2012	01 !1 (2009)

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

² As West Germany

Venues

The tournament was staged at seven venues in seven different towns with each group being staged at two different venues. At some venues, the capacity was reduced during the championship.^[13]

Gothenburg	Solna	Norrköping
Gamla Ullevi	Friends Arena	Nya Parken
Capacity: 16,600	Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 10,500
3 group matches, 1 semi-final	Final	3 group matches, 1 semi-final
Linköping	Halmstad Växjö Gothenburg Solna Kalmar Norrköping Linköping	Kalmar
Linköping Arena		Guldfågeln Arena
Capacity: 7,300		Capacity: 10,900
3 group matches, 1 quarter-final		3 group matches, 1 quarter-final
Halmstad		Växjö
Örjans Vall		Myresjöhus Arena
Capacity: 7,500		Capacity: 10,000
3 group matches, 1 quarter-final		3 group matches, 1 quarter-final

Final draw

The final draw for the tournament group stage took place on 9 November 2012 at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg.^[14][15] The ceremony was conducted by the UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino, with the teams drawn out by tournament ambassadors Patrik Andersson and Steffi Jones.^[14]

As hosts, Sweden were automatically placed in the top-seeded pot, though they would have been in any case owing to their UEFA coefficient ranking.^[14][16] The eleven qualifiers were placed into the three final draw pots according to their UEFA coefficient ranking.^[14] It was decreed in advance the groups into which the three top-seeded teams would be placed.^[14]

Seedings

Top-seeded teams Team Coeff Rank  Sweden H (A1) 42,503 2  Germany TH (B1) 43,460 1  France (C1) 40,251 3

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank  England 38,903 4  Norway 37,193 5  Italy 37,057 6

Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank  Denmark 34,971 7  Iceland 34,524 8  Finland 34,436 9  Russia 33,697 10  Netherlands 33,661 11  Spain 32,999 12

Match officials

Twelve referee trios were announced by the UEFA on 19 June 2013.^[17] All officials were based in Jönköping.

Squads

The twelve national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players by 3 June 2013 at the latest.^[18] Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.

Results

The final match schedule for the tournament was confirmed on 6 December 2012.^[19] All twelve finalists began the tournament at the group stage, with those not eliminated then advancing to the knockout stage.

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up would qualify for the knockout stage, along with the best two third-placed teams; the remaining four teams would be eliminated.

Tie-breaking criteria

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied:^[20]

1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;^{[lower-alpha 1]}
4. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
5. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
6. If two teams tie (following the application of tiebreakers 1–5) after having met in their final fixture of the group stage, then their ranking will be determined by penalty shoot-out;^{[lower-alpha 2]}
7. Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system as at the final draw;

Key
	Team qualified for the knockout stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7
Italy	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
Denmark	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
Finland	3	0	2	1	1	6	−5	2

10 July 2013
Italy	0–0	Finland
Sweden	1–1	Denmark
13 July 2013
Italy	2–1	Denmark
Finland	0–5	Sweden
16 July 2013
Sweden	3–1	Italy
Denmark	1–1	Finland

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Norway	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Germany	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	4
Iceland	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
Netherlands	3	0	1	2	0	2	−2	1

11 July 2013
Norway	1–1	Iceland
Germany	0–0	Netherlands
14 July 2013
Norway	1–0	Netherlands
Iceland	0–3	Germany
17 July 2013
Germany	0–1	Norway
Netherlands	0–1	Iceland

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9
Spain	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Russia	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2
England	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1

12 July 2013
France	3–1	Russia
England	2–3	Spain
15 July 2013
England	1–1	Russia
Spain	0–1	France
18 July 2013
France	3–0	England
Russia	1–1	Spain

Ranking of third-placed teams

The best two third-placed teams advanced to the knockout stage, with teams being ranked using points as the only criterion.^[21] UEFA introduced this principle to avoid teams entering their final matches and "playing on" the previous results, and also to negate the factor of the potentially different strengths of the groups by eliminating goal difference from the calculation.^[21] As both Denmark and Russia finished with two points, in accordance with the regulations,^[21] UEFA conducted a drawing of lots on 18 July following the completion of the group matches to determine which of these two teams would advance: Denmark was selected and so advanced.^[22]

Group	Team	Pld	Pts	Drawing of lots
B	Iceland	3	4	–
A	Denmark	3	2	won
C	Russia	3	2	lost

Knockout stage

The eight advancing teams entered the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. In the knockout stage (including the final), if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time of two periods (15 minutes each) would be played. If the score is still level after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shootout.^[23]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	21 July – Halmstad
	Sweden	4
					24 July – Gothenburg
	Iceland	0
					Sweden	0
	21 July – Växjö
					Germany	1
	Italy	0
									28 July – Solna (details)
	Germany	1
									Germany	1
	22 July – Kalmar
									Norway	0
	Norway	3
					25 July – Norrköping
	Spain	1
					Norway (pen.)	1 (4)
	22 July – Linköping
					Denmark	1 (2)
	France	1 (2)
	Denmark (pen.)	1 (4)

All times are local (UTC+2)

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Lotta Schelin

3 goals

• Nilla Fischer

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• Raffaella Manieri (playing against Sweden)
• Irene Paredes (playing against Norway)

Awards

UEFA Squad of the Tournament^[1]

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Nadine Angerer Ingrid Hjelmseth Stina Lykke Petersen	Saskia Bartusiak Laure Boulleau Marit Fiane Christensen Nilla Fischer Annike Krahn Maren Mjelde Wendie Renard	Lena Goeßling Solveig Gulbrandsen Dzsenifer Marozsán Louisa Nécib Katrine Søndergaard Pedersen Caroline Seger Josefine Öqvist	Verónica Boquete Melania Gabbiadini Eugénie Le Sommer Célia Okoyino da Mbabi Lotta Schelin Gaëtane Thiney

Golden Boot^[24]

Golden Boot	Silver Boot	Bronze Boot
Lotta Schelin 5 goals 2 assists	Nilla Fischer 3 goals 0 assists	Louisa Nécib 2 goals 2 assists

Miscellany

Anthem

The official anthem of the tournament was "Winning Ground", composed by Stefan Örn and performed by Swedish pop star Eric Saade.^[25] The title of the song was also the slogan of the final tournament.^[26][25] The song was presented on 27 May 2013 at the Friends Arena in an event also featuring Tyresö players Lisa Dahlkvist of Sweden, Denmark's Line Røddik Hansen, Spain's Verónica Boquete and the Netherlands' Kirsten van de Ven.^[25]

Tickets

Tickets for the finals were released on 14 February 2013, available to buy via UEFA's online sales portal or from the Ticnet agency in Sweden.^[27] The pricing structure was the same for all venues: SEK 200 (approximately €23.50^{[lower-alpha 3]}) for Category 1 matches, SEK 150 (≈€17.60) for Category 2 and SEK 100 (≈€11.75) for Category 3. Youth tickets, for those aged up to 16, cost SEK 50 (≈€5.85) for all categories. A so-named Follow Your Team Ticket which gave entrance to all three group matches of a selected team was also sold.^[27]

The tournament soon surpassed the previous ticket sales record of 129,000 set in 2009,^[3] which prompted the organisers to open up the entire 50,000 seats of the Friends Arena for the final, in contrast to the original plan to place only 30,000 tickets on sale.^[28] The final set a new attendance record for a Women's Euros fixture (41,301) and helped bring the total number of tickets sold for the tournaments to 216,888.^[29] In addition to attending the matches, the tournament became the first Women's Euros event to feature fan zones where fans can gather together to view matches on big screens.^[30]

References and notes

External links

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