European Women's Football Championship 2013 / Finland

This article is about the Finnish national team at the 2013 European Women's Football Championship in Sweden . Finland previously participated in two finals. While the semi-finals were reached in 2005 and the quarter-finals as hosts in 2009, this time the end came after the group stage.

qualification

Finland was drawn into group 5 for the qualification and met Estonia and Belarus for the first time , as well as Slovakia and Ukraine . The Finns qualified early on September 15, 2012 with a 5-0 win in Estonia and were able to afford a 0-1 home defeat against the Ukrainians on the last day of the match, making them second in the group, but unable to prevail against Iceland in the relegation games. The best Finnish goalscorer in qualifying was Sanna Talonen with 6 goals.

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1	Finland	8th	6th	1	1	22: 04	19th
2	Ukraine	8th	5	1	2	18: 04	16
3	Belarus	8th	4th	1	3	10:17	13
4th	Slovakia	8th	3	1	4th	08: 07	10
5	Estonia	8th	0	0	8th	05:31	00

Game results

October 22, 2011	Vantaa	Finland	-	Estonia	6: 0 (1: 0)
October 27, 2011	Maladsetschna	Belarus	-	Finland	2: 2 (1: 1)
March 31, 2012	Senec	Slovakia	-	Finland	0: 1 (0: 0)
April 5, 2012	Vantaa	Finland	-	Slovakia	2: 0 (1: 0)
June 16, 2012	Chernihiv	Ukraine	-	Finland	1: 2 (0: 1)
June 20, 2012	Helsinki	Finland	-	Belarus	4: 0 (1: 0)
09/15/2012	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Finland	0: 5 (0: 3)
19th September 2012	Helsinki	Finland	-	Ukraine	0: 1 (0: 0)

preparation

In preparation for the EM, four test matches were played:

date	Result	opponent	venue	Goal scorers for Finland
April 4, 2013	0-0	Slovakia	Senec ( SVK )
April 7, 2013	1: 3	Slovakia	Senec ( SVK )	Sanna Talonen (21.)
1st June 2013	0: 3	France	Valenciennes ( FRA )
19th June 2013	2: 2	Switzerland	Helsinki	Emmi Alanen (8th, 72nd)

Contingent

The squad for the EM was named on June 28, 2013.

No.	Surname	society	Date of birth	International matches	Gates	Last use	Sp.	goal
goal
01	Minna Meriluoto	Jitex BK	4th October 1985	045	00	July 16, 2013	1	0	0	0	0
12	Siiri Välimaa	Nice Futis Pori	April 14, 1990	000	00	-	0	0	0	0	0
23	Tinja-Riikka Korpela	Lilleström SK	May 5, 1986	047	00	07/13/2013	2	0	0	0	0
Defense
02	Nea-Stina Liljedahl	FC Honka Espoo	January 16, 1993	000	00	-	0	0	0	0	0
03	Tuija Hyyrynen	Umeå IK	March 10, 1988	056	00	July 16, 2013	3	0	0	0	0
04th	Susanna Lehtinen	KIF Örebro	May 8, 1983	071	03	July 16, 2013	3	0	0	0	0
06th	Laura Kivistö	PK-35 Vantaa	June 26, 1981	012	00	July 16, 2013	3	0	0	0	0
08th	Katri Nokso-Koivisto	Lilleström SK	November 22, 1982	077	01	07/16/2013	1	0	0	0	0
16	Anna Westerlund	Piteå IF	April 9, 1989	059	00	07/16/2013	3	0	1	0	0
22nd	Pirjo Leppikangas	PK-35 Vantaa	September 12, 1987	002	00	03/13/2013	0	0	0	0	0
Midfield and attack
05	Tiina Saario	Åland United	January 15, 1982	022nd	00	07/16/2013	2	0	0	0	0
07th	Annika Kukkonen	Sunnanå SK	April 12, 1990	041	01	07/16/2013	3	0	1	0	0
09	Marianna Tolvanen	FC Honka Espoo	December 27, 1992	032	04th	07/13/2013	2	0	0	0	0
10	Emmi Alanen	Kokkola F10	04/30/1991	029	06th	07/16/2013	3	0	1	0	0
11	Nora Heroum	FC Honka Espoo	July 20, 1994	015th	00	07/16/2013	3	0	0	0	0
13	Heidi Kivelä	PK-35 Vantaa	November 6, 1988	004th	00	07/16/2013	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Sanna Talonen	KIF Örebro	June 15, 1984	090	24	07/16/2013	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Leena Puranen	Jitex BK	October 16, 1986	055	06th	06/01/2013	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Jaana Lyytikäinen	Åland United	October 22, 1982	034	02	07/13/2013	2	0	1	0	0
18th	Natalia Kuikka	Merilappi United	December 1, 1995	005	00	07/16/2013	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Henni Malinen	FC Honka Espoo	17th November 1988	000	00	-	0	0	0	0	0
20th	Annica Sjölund	Jitex BK	March 31, 1985	064	15th	07/16/2013	2	1	0	0	0
21st	Ella Vanhanen	Pallokissat	September 15, 1993	003	00	07/13/2013	1	0	0	0	0
Coaching staff
	Andrée Jeglertz	February 14, 1972	Trainer
Remarks: As of July 16, 2013

European Championship finals

Finland met hosts Sweden in preliminary group A as in 2005 and Denmark as in 2005 and 2009 as well as Italy for the first time at a European Championship . Against Denmark, the Finns were able to prevail at the EM 2005 due to the direct comparison as group runners-up behind Sweden and thus reached the semi-finals, where they failed to record European champions Germany. At the home European championship in 2009 they were even winners of the preliminary group, but then lost to England in the quarter-finals.

The Finnish team could not build on the results of the home European championships, even if only the game against hosts Sweden was lost, the Finnish team was eliminated as the bottom of the group. The only goal for the Finnish team was scored by Annica Sjölund in their last game against Denmark.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sweden	3	2	1	0	009: 200	+7	07th
2.	Italy	3	1	1	1	003: 400	−1	04th
3.	Denmark	3	0	2	1	003: 400	−1	02
4th	Finland	3	0	2	1	001: 600	−5	02

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 6 p.m. in Halmstad
Italy	-	Finland	0-0
Saturday, July 13, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Gothenburg
Finland	-	Sweden	0: 5 (0: 3)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Gothenburg
Denmark	-	Finland	1: 1 (1: 0)

Individual evidence

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Web links

• uefa.com: Information about the team