European Women's Football Championship 2001

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European Women's Football Championship 2001
UEFA Women's Championship
UEFA Womens 2001.jpg
Number of nations (of 33 applicants)
European champion GermanyGermany Germany (5th title)
venue GermanyGermany Germany
Opening game June 23, 2001
Endgame July 7, 2001
Games 15th
Gates 39  (⌀: 2.6 per game)
spectator 92,703  (⌀: 6,180 per game)
Top scorer GermanyGermany Claudia Müller Sandra Smisek (3 goals each)
GermanyGermany 
Yellow card yellow cards 26  (⌀: 1.73 per game)
Yellow-red card Yellow-red cards 0
Red card Red cards (⌀: 0.13 per game)

The UEFA Women's Championship 2001 ( Engl. : UEFA Women's Championship ) was the eighth playout of the European continental championship in women's football and was held from June 23 to July 7 after 1989 for the second time in Germany instead.

For the last time, the final tournament was only awarded by UEFA after the qualifying matches. After the DFB was awarded the contract for the tournament, numerous member associations, clubs and municipalities applied as venues. Here the regional associations of Württemberg and Thuringia were awarded the contract.

Defending champions and hosts Germany used their home advantage, won the final against Sweden 1-0 and became European champions for the fifth time after 1989 , 1991 , 1995 and 1997 and for the third time in a row. Claudia Müller scored the decisive goal with a golden goal in extra time.

qualification

The following eight teams qualified for the final round:

4 group winners GermanyGermany Germany FranceFrance France NorwayNorway Norway RussiaRussia Russia
4 winners of the relegation games DenmarkDenmark Denmark EnglandEngland England ItalyItaly Italy SwedenSweden Sweden

Venues

The 15 games were played in three cities in Württemberg and two cities in Thuringia .

Erfurt
Venues 2001 in Germany
Jena
Steigerwald Stadium Ernst Abbe sports field
Capacity: 19,500 Capacity: 15,600
Aerial view of the Steigerwaldstadion Erfurt.jpg Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld-Haupttribüne.jpg
Reutlingen Ulm Bask
Stadium at the cross sign Danube Stadium Forest stadium
Capacity: 9,400 Capacity: 21,000 Capacity: 11,200
StadionanderKreuzeichen.JPG Danube Stadium Ulm.jpg WaldstadionAalen.jpg
  • In Erfurt they played in the Steigerwald Stadium. The home ground of Rot-Weiß Erfurt was the second largest of the five stadiums with 19,439 seats. Three preliminary round matches, including the host's first two appearances, were played in Erfurt.
  • The second venue in Thuringia was the Ernst Abbe sports field in Jena , home of FC Carl Zeiss Jena . In the stadium with a capacity of 15,610, three preliminary group A games were played.
  • The smallest stadium was the stadium at the Kreuzeiche in Reutlingen . The 9,420-seat stadium saw two Group B games. The stadium is the home of SSV Reutlingen 05 .
  • Most of the games were played in the Donaustadion in Ulm . Two preliminary round matches, both semi-finals and the final were played in the stadium, which has a capacity of 21,000 spectators. The Danube Stadium is the home of SSV Ulm 1846 .
  • The Waldstadion in Aalen is the home of VfR Aalen . The stadium had a capacity of 11,211 and was the venue for two Group B games.

mode

In the final round, the eight participants formed two preliminary round groups with four teams each, of which the first two qualified for the semi-finals. In the group stage, each team played against every other team in its group according to the championship mode, with three points being awarded for a win and one point for a draw. If several teams were tied in the group matches, the higher number of points from the direct comparisons was the first to decide. If this was also the same, the larger goal difference decided in a direct comparison, then the larger number of goals scored, the larger goal difference from all encounters and the higher number of goals scored from all encounters.

From the semi-finals onwards, the tournament continued in the knockout system , with the winner of a game qualifying for the next round. If a game ended in a draw after the end of normal playing time, it was extended by 15 minutes twice, using the golden goal rule. If no decision was made after extra time, the winner of the match was determined on penalties .

Preliminary round

The draw took place on March 8, 2001 in the town hall of Ulm . Host Germany and Olympic champion Norway were set as group heads before the draw. The Norwegians had the best coefficient, which was determined from the qualifying games and the performance at the last World Cup . One group winner of the qualification and two relegation winners were drawn to each of the two group heads.

Group A

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. GermanyGermany Germany  3  3  0  0 011: 100 +10 09
 2. SwedenSweden Sweden  3  2  0  1 006: 300  +3 06th
 3. RussiaRussia Russia  3  0  1  2 001: 700  −6 01
 4th EnglandEngland England  3  0  1  2 001: 800  −7 01
June 23, 2001 in Erfurt
Germany - Sweden 3: 1 (1: 1)
June 24, 2001 in Jena
Russia - England 1: 1 (0: 1)
June 27, 2001 in Erfurt
Germany - Russia 5: 0 (1: 0)
June 27, 2001 in Jena
Sweden - England 4: 0 (2: 0)
June 30, 2001 in Jena
England - Germany 0: 3 (0: 0)
June 30, 2001 in Erfurt
Sweden - Russia 1: 0 (0: 0)

Group B

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. DenmarkDenmark Denmark  3  2  0  1 006: 500  +1 06th
 2. NorwayNorway Norway  3  1  1  1 004: 200  +2 04th
 3. ItalyItaly Italy  3  1  1  1 003: 400  −1 04th
 4th FranceFrance France  3  1  0  2 005: 700  −2 03
June 25, 2001 in Aalen
Italy - Denmark 2: 1 (1: 0)
June 25, 2001 in Ulm
Norway - France 3: 0 (3: 0)
June 28, 2001, 6 p.m. in Reutlingen
France - Denmark 3: 4 (2: 2)
June 28, 2001, 8 p.m. in Reutlingen
Norway - Italy 1: 1 (1: 1)
July 1, 2001 in Aalen
Denmark - Norway 1: 0 (0: 0)
July 1, 2001 in Ulm
France - Italy 2: 0 (1: 0)

Final round

Semifinals

July 4, 2001, 3 p.m. in Ulm
GermanyGermany Germany - NorwayNorway Norway 1: 0 (0: 0)
July 4, 2001, 5:30 p.m. in Ulm
DenmarkDenmark Denmark - SwedenSweden Sweden 0: 1 (0: 1)

final

July 7, 2001, 3 p.m. in Ulm
GermanyGermany Germany - SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 0 n.GG

The German team secured their fifth title with a goal from Claudia Müller . The hit came in the 98th minute. According to the UEFA golden goal rule in force at the time , the game ended with this goal. The final took place in front of 18,000 spectators in the sold-out Donaustadion in Ulm and was chaired by referee Nicole Petignat from Switzerland .

Varia

reporting

In Germany, the matches of the German team were alternately broadcast live by ARD and ZDF . A few more games were shown by Eurosport . Internationally, the semi-finals and the final were broadcast live in the participating countries. The final in Germany saw up to five million television viewers at its peak, which resulted in a market share of around 38 percent. In the preliminary round games, the market share was between 20 and 25 percent.

spectator

A total of 92,703 spectators saw the 15 games of the European Championship. This was around three times as many spectators as at the 1997 European Championship in Norway and Sweden . An average of 6,180 spectators passed the stadium gates. The performances of the German national team saw a total of 59,337 spectators. The highest number of spectators was reached with 18,000 at the final between Germany and Sweden. But only 820 spectators saw the preliminary round game between Sweden and Russia.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.dfb.de/frauen-nationalmannschaft/spiele-termine/spielplan/?spieledb_path=%2Fmatches%2F1844085

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