European Women's Football Championship 2013 / Russia

This article covers the Russian national team at the 2013 European Women's Football Championship in Sweden . Russia took part in the final round for the fourth time and, as in previous appearances, were eliminated in the group stage.

qualification

Russia was drawn for the qualification in Group 1 and met for the first time against Bosnia & Herzegovina and Macedonia , as well as Greece , Poland and Italy . The Russians only lost the games against Italy and drew against Poland in the last game. They finished second and had to qualify for the European Championship through the playoff games against Austria. The best scorer in the qualification was record national player Natalja Schljapina with 7 goals.

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1	Italy	10	9	1	0	35: 00	28
2	Russia	10	7th	1	2	30: 06	22nd
3	Poland	10	5	2	3	17:10	17th
4th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	3	1	6th	12:21	07th
5	Greece	10	0	5	5	07:20	05
6th	North Macedonia	10	0	2	8th	05:49	02

Game results

Group games

09/21/2011	Racibórz	Poland	-	Russia	0: 3
10/22/2011	Krasnoarmeisk	Russia	-	Bosnia-H.	4: 1 (1: 0)
10/26/2011	Treviso	Italy	-	Russia	2: 0 (2: 0)
11/19/2011	Athens	Greece	-	Russia	0: 4 (0: 1)
March 31, 2012	Krasnoarmeisk	Russia	-	Macedonia	8: 0 (2: 0)
04/04/2012	Krasnoarmeisk	Russia	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)
06/16/2012	Krasnoarmeisk	Russia	-	Greece	4: 0 (2: 0)
06/21/2012	Sarajevo	Bosnia-H.	-	Russia	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/15/2012	Prilep	Macedonia	-	Russia	0: 6 (0: 2)
09/19/2012	Moscow	Russia	-	Poland	1: 1 (0: 1)

Playoff games

October 21, 2012	St. Polten	Austria	-	Russia	0: 2 (0: 2)
October 25, 2012	Rostov on Don	Russia	-	Austria	1: 1 (1: 0)

preparation

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

date	Result	opponent	venue	Goal scorers for Russia
April 8, 2013	1: 5	Denmark	Horsens ( DNK )	Olessja Kurotschkina (26.)
June 22, 2013	1-0	Ukraine	Moscow	Natalja Schljapina (90th + 3 ')
July, 1st 2013	6-0	Wales U-19	Moscow
5th July 2013	3: 2	Norway	Moss ( NOR )	Nelli Korowkina (8th), Xenija Zybutowitsch (52nd, 60th)

Contingent

The preliminary roster with 25 players was named on June 13, 2013. Nadezhda Koltakowa and Xenija Kowalenko were deleted .

The most experienced players in the squad are captain and goalkeeper Elwira Todua , who has already played more than 100 international matches and won the European Championship in 2005 with the U-19 team , and record national player Tatjana Skotnikova with 130 international matches. Todua was nominated despite a shoulder injury in the June 22 match against Ukraine.

No.	Player	Date of birth	society	Sp.	goal
goal
12	Yulia Gritschenko (Юлия Гриченко)	10 Mar 1990	FK Kubanochka Krasnodar	0	0	0	0	0
01	Elwira Todua (Эльви́ра То́дуа)	Jan. 31, 1986	FK Rossiyanka Krasnoarmeisk	3	0	0	0	0
21st	Margarita Schirokowa (Маргарита Широкова)	Jan. 14, 1992	FK Rossiyanka Krasnoarmeisk	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
02	Julija Gordejewa (Юлия Гордеева)	0Jan. 5, 1988	ShWSM Izmailovo Moscow	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Anastassija Kostjukowa (Анастасия Костюкова)	Jan 15, 1985	SchFK Sorki Krasnogorsk	3	0	1	0	0
18th	Jelena Medved (Елена Медведь)	Jan. 23, 1985	SchFK Sorki Krasnogorsk	3	0	1	0	0
22nd	Darja Makarenko (Дарья Макаренко)	07th Mar 1992	Zvezda 2005 Perm	1	0	0	0	0
16	Natalja Perzewa (Наталья Перцева)	04th June 1984	FK Rossiyanka Krasnoarmeisk	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Xenija Zybutowitsch (Ксения Цыбутович)	June 26, 1987	FK Ryazan WDW	3	0	0	0	0
midfield
04th	Marija Djachkova (Мария Дьячкова)	May 26, 1982	Zvezda 2005 Perm	1	0	0	0	0
09	Anastassija Posdejewa (Анастасия Поздеева)	June 12, 1993	Zvezda 2005 Perm	1	0	0	0	0
23	Jelena Morozova (Елена Морозова)	15th Mar 1987	SchFK Sorki Krasnogorsk	3	1	0	0	0
05	Olga Petrowa (Ольга Петрова)	0July 9, 1986	FK Rossiyanka Krasnoarmeisk	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Tatiana Skotnikowa (Татьяна Скотникова)	Nov. 27, 1978	FK Rossiyanka Krasnoarmeisk	1	0	1	0	0
08th	Valentina Savchenkova (Валентина Савченкова)	Apr 29, 1983	FK Ryazan WDW	3	0	0	0	0
10	Jelena Terechowa (Елена Терехова)	05th July 1987	FK Ryazan WDW	3	1	0	0	0
03	Ekaterina Stepanenko (Екатерина Степаненко)	May 21, 1983	ShWSM Izmailovo Moscow	0	0	0	0	0
13	Alla Sidorovskaya (Алла Сидоровская)	July 27, 1983	ShWSM Izmailovo Moscow	3	0	0	0	0
06th	Yulia Bessolowa (Юлия Бессолова)	0Apr 4, 1982	ShWSM Izmailovo Moscow	1	0	0	0	0
attack
20th	Nelli Korowkina (Нелли Коровкина)	0Nov 1, 1989	ShWSM Izmailovo Moscow	3	1	1	0	0
07th	Olessja Kurotschkina (Олеся Курочкина)	06 Sep 1983	ShWSM Izmailovo Moscow	1	0	0	0	0
11	Ekaterina Sochneva (Екатерина Сочнева)	Aug 12, 1985	SchFK Sorki Krasnogorsk	3	0	0	0	0
17th	Natalja Schljapina (Наталья Шляпина)	July 13, 1983	FK Rossiyanka Krasnoarmeisk	1	0	0	0	0
Coaching staff
Sergei Lavrentiev		0Apr 9, 1972	Trainer

European Championship finals

The Russian team met in preliminary group C as in 2001 and 2009 against England and as in 1997 against France and Spain .

The Russians had no chance against France in the first game and lost 3-1. Against England they took the lead in the first half and defended it until stoppage time, in which the Englishmen managed to equalize. Third place was achieved through a final 1-1 draw against Spain and with the same number of points as Denmark, the team had to rely on the luck of the draw to reach the quarter-finals. This was however favored by the Danes and so Russia was eliminated.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	France	3	3	0	0	007: 100	+6	09
2.	Spain	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
3.	Russia	3	0	2	1	003: 500	−2	02
4th	England	3	0	1	2	003: 700	−4	01

Friday, July 12, 2013, 6 p.m. in Norrköping
France	-	Russia	3: 1 (2: 0)
Monday, July 15, 2013, 6 p.m. in Linköping
England	-	Russia	1: 1 (0: 1)
Thursday, July 18, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Norrköping
Russia	-	Spain	1: 1 (1: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The game ended 0: 2 (0: 1), but was rated 0: 3 at the "green table [1]
2. ↑ rfs.ru: Russia Women's A-side start their preparation to EURO ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ uefa.com: Russia gives Todua a chance
4. ↑ Back numbers according to [2] , positions partly different than on the association website.

Web links

• uefa.com: Information about the team