European Women's Football Championship 2017 / Germany

This article covers the German national team at the 2017 European Women's Football Championship in the Netherlands . Germany took part in the finals for the ninth time and went into the tournament as defending champions, but failed in the quarter-finals.

qualification

Germany was drawn for qualification in group 5 and met Russia, Hungary , Croatia and Turkey . Germany started the qualification with a 12-0 home win against Hungary and remained clean in the other seven games they won and qualified as the second team for the finals on April 12, 2016. Then the German team won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , which ended the term of office of national coach Silvia Neid . Her successor Steffi Jones then started her tenure with two qualifying games. Although the German team scored the second most goals with 35 goals, no German player was able to place in the top 20 goalscorers. The best German goalscorer in qualification was Alexandra Popp with five goals. A total of 16 German players signed the list of goalscorers, making them the majority of all teams. The German team also benefited from two own goals by opposing players.

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	8th	8th	0	0	035-000	+35	24
2.	Russia	8th	4th	2	2	014: 900	+5	14th
3.	Hungary	8th	2	2	4th	008:200	−12	08th
4th	Croatia	8th	2	1	5	008:150	−7	07th
5.	Turkey	8th	1	1	6th	003:240	−21	04th

09/18/2015	Halle (Saale)	Germany	-	Hungary	12: 0 (7: 0)
09/22/2015	Zagreb	Croatia	-	Germany	00: 1 (0: 1)
10/22/2015	Wiesbaden	Germany	-	Russia	02: 0 (1: 0)
25/10/2015	Sandhausen	Germany	-	Turkey	07: 0 (3: 0)
04/08/2016	Istanbul	Turkey	-	Germany	00: 6 (0: 2)
04/12/2016	Osnabrück	Germany	-	Croatia	02: 0 (1: 0)
09/16/2016	Khimki	Russia	-	Germany	00: 4 (0: 3)
09/20/2016	Győr	Hungary	-	Germany	00: 1 (0: 1)

Squad

On June 2nd, Steffi Jones named a preliminary roster with 29 players. On June 30, Jones named the squad for the European Championship finals. Were deleted Pauline Bremer , Johanna Elsig , Alexandra Popp (scribe of the outer band in the left knee), Carina Schlüter , Lisa Schmitz and Lea Schüller .

Anna Paleness, Kristin Demann, Carolin Simon, Sara Doorsoun, Linda Dallmann and Hasret Kayikci are taking part in a major tournament for the first time.

number	Surname	Date of birth	debut	society	Calls	Gates	Last use	EM 2017
								Sp.
goal
12	Laura Benkarth	October 14, 1992	2015	Sc freiburg	5	0	March 7, 2017
01	Almuth Schult	February 9, 1991	2012	VfL Wolfsburg	42	0	4th July 2017	4th
21st	Lisa White	October 29, 1987	2010	SGS Essen	4th	0	March 7, 2017
Defense
14th	Anna paleness	February 27, 1987	2015	VfL Wolfsburg	18th	0	4th July 2017	3
06th	Kristin Demann	April 7, 1993	2015	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	10	0	4th July 2017	4th
03	Kathrin Hendrich	April 6, 1992	2014	1. FFC Frankfurt	15th	1	4th March 2017	1
02	Josephine Henning	September 8, 1989	2010	Olympique Lyon	40	1	4th July 2017	2	1	1
17th	Isabel Kerschowski	January 22, 1988	2007	VfL Wolfsburg	19th	3	4th July 2017	2	1
04th	Leonie Maier	29th September 1992	2013	FC Bayern Munich	54	8th	4th July 2017	2		1
05	Babett Peter	May 12, 1988	2006	VfL Wolfsburg	107	5	4th July 2017	4th	2
07th	Carolin Simon	November 24, 1992	2016	Sc freiburg	3	0	4th July 2017	2
midfield
13	Sara Däbritz	February 15, 1995	2013	FC Bayern Munich	42	8th	4th July 2017	4th
16	Linda Dallmann	2nd September 1994	2016	SGS Essen	5	2	4th July 2017	2
15th	Sara Doorsoun-Khajeh	November 17, 1991	2016	SGS Essen	8th	0	4th July 2017	2
08th	Lena Goessling	March 8, 1986	2008	VfL Wolfsburg	93	10	16th September 2016	2
22nd	Tabea Kemme	December 14, 1991	2013	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	39	2	4th July 2017	1
20th	Lina Magull	August 15, 1994	2015	Sc freiburg	11	2	4th July 2017	4th		1
10	Dzsenifer Marozsán	April 18, 1992	2010	Olympique Lyon	74	30th	4th July 2017	4th	1
attack
19th	Svenja Huth	January 25, 1991	2011	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	27	0	4th July 2017	1
09	Mandy Islacker	August 8, 1988	2015	FC Bayern Munich	15th	5	4th March 2017	4th
23	Hasret Kayikçi	November 6, 1991	2016	Sc freiburg	4th	1	4th July 2017	2
11	Anja noon	May 16, 1985	2004	FC Rosengård	154	50	4th July 2017	4th		1
18th	Lena Petermann	5th February 1994	2015	Sc freiburg	12	4th	April 9, 2017	2
Coaching staff
Head coach	Steffi Jones	December 22, 1972	2016		111	09
Assistant coach	Markus Högner	April 26, 1967	2016

1. ↑ As of June 30, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} Status: 4th July 2017 after the game against Brazil.

preparation

After successfully qualifying, Germany played against Austria for the first time and then against hosts Netherlands and won both games 4-2. The international year ended with a 1-1 draw against Norway. In March 2017, participation in the SheBelieves Cup 2017 was on the program, where, as in the previous year, the opponents were the European champions England (1: 0) and France (0: 0) as well as world champions USA (0: 1). On April 9, the team played in Erfurt against Olympic third Canada , who had won 1-0 three days earlier against group opponents Sweden in the European Championship , and won 2-1. South American champions Brazil were defeated 3-1 in Sandhausen on July 4th .

The De Ruwenberg Hotel in Sint-Michielsgestel was based in the Netherlands .

European Championship finals

Group stage

Utrecht Breda Tilburg Sint-Michielsgestel Rotterdam (VF)

Venues and district (blue)

At the draw on November 8, 2016, Germany was assigned to Pot 1 with hosts Netherlands, France and England. Germany was drawn into group B and met Sweden in the first game of the only group without a European Championship newcomer , then meets Italy and qualifying opponents Russia . Against Sweden there were 19 wins and seven defeats in 26 games, but never a draw. The last time they met in the gold medal game at the Olympic Games, which Germany won 2-1. The last defeat against Sweden was on March 4, 2015 in the first game of the Algarve Cup 2015 when Germany lost 4-2 after leading 2-0, but won the game for 3rd place 2-1 a week later. The balance against the other two opponents is also positive: against the Russians there were 16 wins and two draws in 18 games, but no defeat, and against Italy in 26 games 14 wins, eight draws and four defeats. The last game between the two was the quarter-finals of the last European Championship, which Germany won 1-0. The last defeat against Italy was on March 14, 2007 in the game for 7th place in the Algarve Cup 2007 and was Steffi Jones's last international match.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	004: 100	+3	07th
2.	Sweden	3	1	1	1	004: 300	+1	04th
3.	Russia	3	1	0	2	002: 500	−3	03
4th	Italy	3	1	0	2	005: 600	−1	03
Note: The direct comparison is decisive for places 3 and 4 (see mode ).

Monday, July 17, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Breda
Germany	-	Sweden	0-0
Friday, July 21, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Tilburg
Germany	-	Italy	2: 1 (1: 1)	19 ′ Henning , 29 ′ Mauro 67 ′ Peter ( FE )
Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Utrecht
Russia	-	Germany	0: 2 (0: 1)	10 ′ Peter ( FE ), 56 ′ Marozsán ( FE )

Knockout round

Quarter finals

Germany and Denmark have met 21 times so far, two of them at the European Championship finals. The Germans won twelve games, four times they drew against each other and five games were lost. The last defeat against Denmark was on March 11, 2009 in the game for third place at the Algarve Cup 2009 . The last win against the Danes came a year later in the opening game of the Algarve Cup in 2010 . After that, there was only one game between the two of them at the Algarve Cup 2013 that ended goalless. Both teams won one of the two European Championship finals: the Danes in 1993 the game for third place, which was also the last defeat of the German team in the knockout round at an European Championship and the last game for third place, and the Germans the group game 1997.

Sunday, July 30th 2017, 12:00 p.m. in Rotterdam
Germany	-	Denmark	1: 2 (1: 0)	3 ′ Kerschowski , 49 ′ Nadim , 83 ′ Th. Nielsen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dfb.de: "Preliminary EM team: Goeßling back, Schüller new"
2. ↑ dfb.de: "Jones appoints EM squad - Popp is missing injured"
3. ↑ dfb.de: Women's national team games & dates
4. ↑ uefa.com: "Where do the teams live at the women's EURO?"
5. ↑ uefa.com: "Women's EURO: Seeding list for the final draw"
6. ↑ The game was originally supposed to take place on July 29, 2017 at 8:45 p.m. ( Germany - Denmark postponed to Sunday )