European Women's Football Championship 2013 / Norway
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This article covers the Norwegian national team at the 2013 European Women's Football Championship in Sweden . With the exception of the first edition in 1984, Norway took part in all the finals and won the title twice (1987 and 1993) and is the second most successful team after Germany. Despite poor results in preparation, Norway reached the final for the sixth time, but lost to the German team for the fourth time.
Norway has for the qualification drawn into Group 3 was officially introduced to Belgium , Bulgaria , Iceland , Northern Ireland , and Hungary . Norway lost the opening game in Iceland and on November 19, 2011 for the first time against Northern Ireland. After that all games were won, but before the last matchday the Norwegians were only in second place in the group. On the last day of the match, a 2-1 home win against Iceland made the qualification perfect. The leading Icelanders had to go into relegation, where they were able to prevail with two 3-2 wins against Ukraine.
The squad for the European Championship was named on June 13, 2013 by Even Pellerud , who has been coach of the Norwegians again since early 2013 and won the European Championship title with them in 1993 and the World Cup title in 1995. In addition, 17 reserve players were named, of which seven players have not yet played in the senior national team. Isabell Herlovsen was only named as reserve player, the Norwegians' top scorer in qualifying with 9 goals.
The most experienced player in the squad is Solveig Gulbrandsen with 163 international matches before the European Championship, who also took part in the 2001, 2005 and 2009 European Championship finals and scored the most goals of the currently active players with 47 international goals before the European Championship then last international goal scored in 2010.
↑ Status: July 28, 2013 (after the final against Germany)
European Championship finals
Norway met Germany and Iceland in preliminary group B as in 2009 and also for the first time at a European Championship against the Netherlands and play all games in the Kalmar Arena in Kalmar . With a draw against Iceland and two 1-0 wins against the Netherlands and Germany, Norway became group winners and met Spain, runner-up in Group C, in the quarter-finals, again playing in Kalmar. In two previous matches there were two wins for Norway and Norway also won the quarter-finals. Norway took the lead after a corner in the 3rd minute. After that, Denmark dominated the game for a long time and came to an equalizer three minutes before the end of regular time. The Danes also made the game in extra time, but could not score and then had to go to penalties as they did against France. There the Norwegians had the better shooters, so that Norway reached the final against Germany, which was lost 0-1, with the German goalkeeper Nadine Angerer able to save two penalties for the Norwegians. Thanks to the EM, Norway moved up one place in the FIFA world rankings to 10th place.
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