European Women's Football Championship 2009 / Norway

This article covers the Norwegian national women's football team at the 2009 European Championship in Finland .

qualification

Norway has for qualification are in Group 6 and met with Israel , Austria , Poland and Russia . With seven wins and one draw, the Norwegians became group winners without conceding a goal.

Russia prevailed in the play-off games against Scotland due to the away goals rule and also qualified for the European Championship finals.

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Norway	8th	7th	1	0	26: 00	22nd
2	Russia	8th	6th	1	1	25: 07	19th
3	Austria	8th	3	0	5	13:18	9
4th	Poland	8th	2	1	5	11:20	7th
5	Israel	8th	0	1	7th	03:33	1

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
06/17/2007	Tel Aviv	Israel	0: 3 (0: 3)	0: 1 Gulbrandsen (50.), 0: 2 Gulbrandsen (73.), 0: 3 Wiik (78.)
06/21/2007	Lillestrøm	Austria	3: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Gulbrandsen (44th), 2-0 Wiik (72nd), 3-0 Rønning (90th)
10/27/2007	Stavanger	Russia	3: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Wiik (23rd), 2-0 Gulbrandsen (62nd), 3-0 Larsen Kaurin (88th)
05/03/2008	Kristiansand	Israel	7: 0 (3: 0)	1: 0 Wiik (12th), 2: 0 Gulbrandsen (19th), 3: 0 Wiik (45th), 4: 0 Mykjåland (52nd), 5: 0 Christensen (54th), 6: 0 S. Norbdy (75th penalty), 7-0 Gulbrandsen (82nd)
05/07/2008	Stavanger	Poland	3: 0 (2: 0)	1-0 Storløkken (19th), 2-0 Gulbrandsen (39th), 3-0 Wiik (46th)
06/21/2008	Amstetten	Austria	0: 4 (0: 2)	0: 1 Mykjåland (7th), 0: 2 Gulbrandsen (19th), 0: 3 Mykjåland (58th), 0: 4 Mykjåland (74th)
06/25/2008	Kutno	Poland	0: 3 (0: 1)	0: 1 Gulbrandsen (38th), 0: 2 Mykjåland (50th), 0: 3 Herlovsen (88th)
October 02, 2008	Krasnoarmeisk	Russia	0-0

Results highlighted in green indicate a win, draws highlighted in yellow.

Squad

number	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Sp.	goal
goalkeeper
1	Ingrid Hjelmseth	Stabæk Fotball	04/10/1980	5	0	0	0	0
12	Caroline Knutsen	Røa IL	11/21/1983	0	0	0	0	0
13	Christine Colombo Nilsen	Kolbotn IL	04/30/1982	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
2	Toril Hetland Akerhaugen	Stabæk Fotball	05.03.1982	5	0	1	0	0
15th	Hedda Gardsjord	Røa IL	06/28/1982	1	0	0	0	0
6th	Camilla Huse	Røa IL	08/31/1979	5	0	0	0	0
3	Marita Skammelsrud Lund	Team Strømmen FK	01/29/1989	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Maren Mjelde	Arna-Bjørnar	11/06/1989	5	0	2	0	0
7th	Trine Rønning	Stabæk Fotball	06/14/1982	4th	0	1	0	0
18th	Runa Vikestad	Kolbotn IL	08/13/1984	0	0	0	0	0
midfield
5	Anneli Giske	Fløya IF	July 25, 1985	5	1	0	0	0
19th	Ingvild Landvik Isaksen	Kolbotn IL	02/10/1989	2	0	0	0	0
14th	Marit Sandvei	Team Strømmen FK	05/21/1987	0	0	0	0	0
4th	Ingvild Stensland	Olympique Lyon	08/03/1981	5	0	0	0	0
21st	Lene Storløkken	Team Strømmen FK	06/20/1981	5	1	0	0	0
attack
8th	Solveig Gulbrandsen	Stabæk Fotball	01/12/1981	5	0	0	0	0
9	Isabell Herlovsen	Kolbotn IL	06/23/1988	5	1	0	0	0
11	Leni Larsen Kaurin	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	03/21/1981	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Kristin Lie	Trondheims-Ørn SK	December 13, 1978	1	0	0	0	0
22nd	Cecilie Pedersen	Avaldsnes IL	09/14/1990	5	2	0	0	0
16	Elise Thorsnes	Røa IL	08/14/1988	2	0	0	0	0
10	Melissa Wiik	Stabæk Fotball	02/07/1985	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Bjarne Berntsen		December 21, 1956

Games

Preliminary round

Norway met in the preliminary round Group B in Germany , France and Iceland . With one win, one draw and one defeat, the team finished third in the group.

Monday, August 24, 2009, 5:00 p.m. * in Tampere
Germany	-	Norway	4: 0 (1: 0)
Thursday, August 27, 2009, 5:00 p.m. * in Lahti
Iceland	-	Norway	0: 1 (0: 1)
Sunday, August 30, 2009, 4:00 p.m. * in Helsinki (football stadium)
Norway	-	France	1: 1 (1: 1)

Quarter finals

Friday, September 4, 2009, 8:00 p.m. * in Helsinki (football stadium)
Sweden	-	Norway	1: 3 (0: 2)

Semifinals

Monday, September 7th, 2009, 7:00 p.m. * in Helsinki (football stadium)
Germany	-	Norway	3: 1 (0: 1)

* Local time ( CEST + 1 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ uefa.com: Qualification group 2
2. ↑ uefa.com: Germany versus old rival Norway