European Women's Football Championship 2009 / Germany

This article covers the German women's national soccer team at the 2009 European Championships in Finland .

qualification

Germany was for the qualification are in Group 4 and met with Belgium , the Netherlands , the Switzerland and Wales . The German team won all eight games and only had to accept one goal. This means that Germany has been unbeaten in 16 European Championship qualifiers. The home game against Belgium was watched by 17,000 spectators, which meant a new attendance record for European Championship qualifiers.

While Germany qualified directly for the European Championship as group winners, the Netherlands also reached the European Championship finals with two wins against Spain .

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Germany Germany	8th	8th	0	0	34: 01	24
2	Netherlands Netherlands	8th	3	3	2	12:12	12
3	Switzerland Switzerland	8th	3	2	3	09:16	11
4th	Belgium Belgium	8th	3	1	4th	07:15	10
5	Wales Wales	8th	0	0	8th	01:19	0

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
04/12/2007	Wattenscheid	Netherlands Netherlands	5: 1 (2: 1)	0: 1 Torny (17th), 1: 1 Prinz (31st), 2: 1 Mittag (34th), 3: 1 Lingor (48th, penalty), 4: 1 Garefrekes (67th), 5: 1 Lingor (68.)
05/10/2007	Haverfordwest	Wales Wales	0: 6 (0: 3)	0: 1 Prince (8th), 0: 2 Prince (18th), 0: 3 Stegemann (44th), 0: 4 Garefrekes (81st), 0: 5 Müller (86th), 0: 6 Prince ( 87.)
05/22/2007	Koblenz	Switzerland Switzerland	7: 0 (4: 0)	1-0 Smisek (14th), 2-0 Behringer (16th), 3-0 Prinz (33rd), 4-0 Behringer (35th), 5-0 Garefrekes (52nd), 6-0 Garefrekes ( 64th), 7-0 Garefrekes (90th)
10/28/2007	Lübeck	Belgium Belgium	3: 0 (2: 0)	1-0 Garefrekes (8th), 2-0 Minnert (11th), 3-0 Prince (74th)
11/01/2007	Volendam	Netherlands Netherlands	0: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 Krahn (36th)
05/07/2008	Eupen	Belgium Belgium	0: 5 (0: 1)	0: 1 Pohlers (20th), 0: 2 Garefrekes (52nd), 0: 3 Pohlers (58th), 0: 4 Garefrekes (59th), 0: 5 Bresonik (78th)
05/29/2008	kassel	Wales Wales	4: 0 (3: 0)	1-0 Hingst (9th), 2-0 Pohlers (12th), 3-0 Krahn (30th), 4-0 Behringer (77th)
10/01/2008	Basel	Switzerland Switzerland	0: 3 (0: 2)	0: 1 Garefrekes (20th), 0: 2 Behringer (33.), 0: 3 Smisek (76.)

Results highlighted in green indicate wins.

preparation

In preparation for the tournament, the national coach Silvia Neid set up six courses. The first started on July 22nd, 2009 in Cologne . A total of 26 players, including 16 world champions from 2007 , were appointed to the provisional squad. At the end of July, the team played two test matches against the Netherlands and Japan before the national coach appointed the 22-man squad. Then the DFB-Elf completed another test match against Russia .

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
July 25, 2009	Sinsheim	Netherlands Netherlands	6: 0 (4: 0)	1-0 Geurts (9th own goal ), 2-0 Grings (16th), 3-0 Behringer (37th), 4-0 Prinz (39th), 5-0 Laudehr (57th), 6-0 there Mbabi (90.)
07/29/2009	Mannheim	Japan Japan	0-0
08/06/2009	Bochum	Russia Russia	3: 1 (0: 0)	1: 0 Garefrekes (52nd), 1: 1 Kuroschkina (53rd), 2: 1 Zibutowitsch (63rd, own goal), 3: 1 Müller (90th)

Results highlighted in green indicate wins.

Squad

The national coach Silvia Neid nominated the 22-man squad for the European Championship finals on July 30, 2009. The goalkeeper Alisa Vetterlein , the defender Navina Omilade , the midfielder Lena Goeßling and the striker Isabell Bachor , who were previously in the extended squad, were not considered for the European Championship. For Nadine Angerer , Ariane Hingst and Kerstin Stegemann , the 2009 European Championship was the fourth European Championship, and Angerer was the only one who had not played a European Championship before. Team captain Birgit Prinz has even played her fifth European Championship (including the 1995 European Championship, where no final tournament was held). Nine players took part in a European Championship for the first time. With Sonja Fuss and Kerstin Stegemann, two players from a second division were part of the squad. With the exception of Jennifer Zietz, all field players were used.

number	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Sp.	goal
goal
01	Nadine Angerer	1. FFC Frankfurt	11/10/1978	6th	0	0	0	0
12	Ursula Holl	FCR 2001 Duisburg	06/26/1982	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Lisa White	SG Essen-Schönebeck	October 29, 1987	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
03	Saskia Bartusiak	1. FFC Frankfurt	09/09/1982	4th	0	1	0	0
15th	Sonja Fuss	1. FC Cologne	05/11/1978	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Ariane Hingst	1. FFC Frankfurt	07/25/1979	4th	0	0	0	0
05	Annike Krahn	FCR 2001 Duisburg	07/01/1985	6th	1	0	0	0
04th	Babett Peter	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	05/12/1988	6th	0	0	0	0
22nd	Bianca Schmidt	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	01/23/1990	4th	0	0	0	0
02	Kerstin Stegemann	FSV Gütersloh 2009	29.09.1977	1	0	0	0	0
midfield
10	Linda Bresonik	FCR 2001 Duisburg	07/12/1983	5	2	1	0	0
18th	Kerstin Garefrekes	1. FFC Frankfurt	09/04/1979	5	0	0	0	0
14th	Kim Kulig	Hamburger SV	04/09/1990	5	1	1	0	0
06th	Simone Laudehr	FCR 2001 Duisburg	07/12/1986	5	2	0	0	0
20th	Jennifer Zietz	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	09/14/1983	0	0	0	0	0
attack
19th	Fatmire Bajramaj	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	04/01/1988	4th	3	0	0	0
07th	Melanie Behringer	Bayern Munich	11/18/1985	5	2	0	0	0
08th	Inca grings	FCR 2001 Duisburg	10/31/1978	6th	6th	0	0	0
11	Anja noon	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	May 16, 1985	2	1	0	0	0
16	Martina Muller	VfL Wolfsburg	04/18/1980	2	0	0	0	0
13	Celia Okoyino da Mbabi	SC 07 Bad Neuenahr	06/27/1988	4th	1	0	0	0
09	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	10/25/1977	6th	2	0	0	0
Coaching staff
	Silvia Neid	trainer	05/02/1964
	Ulrike Ballweg	Co-trainer	09/17/1965
	Michael Fuchs	Goalkeeping coach	04/01/1970
	Dr. Norbert Stein	Fitness trainer	10/14/1953

Quarter

The German team traveled to Finland on August 19, 2009 and moved into their accommodation in the Scandic Rosendahl Hotel in Tampere . All three preliminary round matches of the DFB-Elf were played in the third largest city in Finland. In addition to the 22 players, 14 other people belonged to the German delegation. After the group stage, the team moved to a hotel in downtown Lahti and, after reaching the semi-finals, to Helsinki .

Games

Preliminary round

Germany met in the preliminary round Group B in France , Iceland and Norway . Right at the beginning there was a new edition of the final of the EM 2005 . Three goals of the 4-0 success came in stoppage time when the Norwegians pressed for the equalizer. With their first two wins, Germany was already certain of group victory before the third game. In the third game, the national coach spared some of the regular staff, so the win against Iceland was more difficult than expected.

Monday, August 24, 2009, 5:00 p.m. in Tampere
Germany	-	Norway	4: 0 (1: 0)
Thursday, August 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m. in Tampere
France	-	Germany	1: 5 (0: 3)
Sunday, August 30, 2009, 4:00 p.m. in Tampere
Germany	-	Iceland	1: 0 (0: 0)