European Women's Football Championship 2017 / Netherlands

This article covers the Dutch national team at the 2017 European Women's Football Championship in the Netherlands . The Dutch women are taking part in the final round for the third time and are hosting it for the first time.

qualification

On December 4, 2014, the Netherlands was awarded the contract to host the European Championship finals and prevailed in the third attempt after 2009 and 2013 against Austria, France, Israel, Poland, Scotland and Switzerland. The team is automatically qualified as a host.

Squad

On May 30, a squad was named for the games as part of the preparations for the European Championship against Japan and Austria in June. Due to an injury Sari van Veenendaal had to cancel the games against Japan and Austria on June 7th and Barbara Lorsheyd was nominated for her . On June 14th, the squad for the European Championship finals was named. Merel van Dongen , Danique Kerkdijk , Barbara Lorsheyd and Siri Worm were removed from the provisional roster and are on a stand-by list, as are Marjolijn van den Bighelaar , Jeslynn Kuijpers , Myrthe Moorrees , Marthe Munsterman and Paulina Quaye . Ellen Jansen was not considered for this or the squad. There were also Lineth Beerensteyn and Stefanie van der Gragt .

Number.	Surname	Date of birth	debut	society	Calls	Gates	Last use	EM 2017
								Sp.
goal
16	Angela Christ	03/06/1989	2009	PSV Eindhoven	016	00	03/01/2017
23	Loes Geurts	01/12/1986	2005	Paris Saint-Germain	117	00	06/13/2017
01	Sari van Veenendaal	04/03/1990	2011	Arsenal Ladies FC	032	00	07/08/2017	6th
Defense
04th	Mandy van den Berg	08/26/1990	2010	Reading FC	085	06th	07/08/2017	3		1
05	Kika van Es	10/11/1991	2009	Achilles '29	037	00	07/08/2017	6th
03	Stefanie van der Gragt	08/16/1992	2013	FC Bayern Munich	037	03	03/08/2017	6th		2
20th	Dominique Janssen	January 17, 1995	2014	Arsenal Ladies FC	022nd	00	06/13/2017	1
22nd	Liza van der Most	10/08/1993	2014	Ajax Amsterdam	006th	00	06/13/2017	1
midfield
19th	Sheila van den Bulk	04/06/1989	2016	Djurgården Damfotboll	003	00	03/06/2017
10	Daniëlle van de Donk	08/05/1991	2010	Arsenal Ladies FC	065	10	07/08/2017	6th	1	2
15th	Sisca Folkertsma	05/21/1997	2016	PSV Eindhoven	007th	00	06/09/2017
14th	Jackie Groenen	12/17/1994	2016	1. FFC Frankfurt	019th	01	07/08/2017	6th		2
13	Renate Jansen	December 07, 1990	2010	FC Twente	014th	03	07/08/2017	4th
18th	Vanity Lewerissa	04/01/1991	2015	PSV Eindhoven	009	00	07/08/2017	1
02	Desiree van Lunteren	12/30/1992	2012	Ajax Amsterdam	046	00	07/08/2017	5		1
09	Vivianne Miedema	07/15/1996	2013	FC Bayern Munich	051	41	07/08/2017	6th	4th	1
12	Jill Roord	04/22/1997	2015	FC Twente	016	03	06/13/2017	3
08th	Sherida Spitse	May 29, 1990	2006	FC Twente	133	20th	07/08/2017	6th	3
attack
21st	Lineth Beerensteyn	10/11/1996	2016	FC Twente	014th	03	04/11/2017	3
06th	Anouk Dekker	11/15/1986	2009	HSC Montpellier	061	06th	07/08/2017	6th		2
11	Lieke Martens	12/16/1992	2011	FC Rosengård	074	30th	07/08/2017	6th	3
07th	Shanice van de Sanden	10/02/1992	2005	Liverpool Ladies FC	040	09	07/08/2017	6th	1
17th	Kelly Zeeman	11/19/1993	2013	Ajax Amsterdam	018th	00	06/13/2017	3
Coaching staff
Head coach	Sarina Wiegman	10/26/1969	2017		104	03
Assistant coach	Foppe de Haan	06/26/1943	2017
Assistant coach	Arjan Veurink	09/23/1986	2017

1. ↑ Numbers at the final round ( Netherlands squad ). The positions correspond to the information provided by the Dutch Association. UEFA sometimes names others.
2. ↑ As of June 14, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} As of July 8, 2017, after the game against Wales

preparation

In March 2016, the Dutch hosted the qualifying tournament for the third European starting place at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . The Dutch took second place behind the later silver medalist Sweden, ahead of Switzerland and Norway, which was not enough to participate in the Olympic Games. In subsequent friendly matches, they won against the lower- placed teams in the FIFA world rankings , New Zealand (2-0), South Africa (1-0 and 2-0) and Scotland (7-0), and the better-placed teams Canada (1: 0). 2), USA (1: 3) and Germany (2: 4) but lost. There was also a last-minute defeat against final opponents Belgium and a 0-1 defeat against England at the end of November. After that, the tenure of bond coach Arjan van der Laan ended, as the KNVB did not trust him to lead the team successfully into the European Championship finals. The post was initially taken over temporarily by the former national player and assistant coach Sarina Wiegman , who held the post on an interim basis after the 2015 World Cup and then took over the post full-time in January 2017. The Dutch started the European Championship year with a training camp and games against Romania, which missed the European Championship finals in the playoffs against Portugal, on January 20th (7: 1) and European Championship participants Russia (4: 0) on January 24th in Spain. In March 2017, participation in the Algarve Cup was on the program, where the team met in the group games against EM participants Sweden (1: 0) as well as Australia (2: 3) and China (1: 0), three teams, who survived the group stage at the 2016 Olympic Games. In the game for 5th place, Vice World Champion Japan was defeated 3-2. In April the Dutch played against European champions France on the 7th (1: 2) and Iceland on the 11th (4: 0). On June 9th they played again against the Japanese and lost 1-0 in Breda . On June 13th they played against EM newcomer Austria and won 3-0. At the end of the preparation, Wales were defeated 5-0 on July 8th .

Accommodation during the final round will be the Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Center in Zeist .

European Championship finals

Group stage

Tilburg Utrecht Rotterdam Zeist Doetinchem (VF) Enschede (HF + F)

Venues and district (blue)

At the draw on November 8, 2016, the Netherlands was assigned to Pot 1 as hosts and set as the group head of Group A. The Netherlands met Norway in the opening game , then Denmark and in the final group game against EM newcomer and neighbor Belgium . Against Belgium there were 20 wins, four draws and three defeats in 27 games up to the draw. Even before the draw, both had agreed on a friendly game for November 24, 2016, which was lost 3-2. Against Denmark and Norway, however, the balance is negative. Against the Danes there were five wins and five draws, but ten defeats, although the last four games were won, including the last group game at the 2009 European Championships , which made the Dutch women reach the knockout round in their first finals and advanced to the semi-finals. Against Norway there were four wins, six draws and 13 defeats, most recently in the unsuccessful Olympic qualification.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	004: 100	+3	09
2.	Denmark	3	2	0	1	002: 100	+1	06th
3.	Belgium	3	1	0	2	003: 300	± 0	03
4th	Norway	3	0	0	3	000: 400	−4	00

Sunday, July 16, 2017, 6:00 p.m. in Utrecht
Netherlands	-	Norway	1: 0 (0: 0)	66 ′ van de Sanden
Thursday, July 20, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Rotterdam
Netherlands	-	Denmark	1: 0 (1: 0)	20 ′ tip ( FE )
Monday, July 24, 2017, 8:45 p.m. in Tilburg
Belgium	-	Netherlands	1: 2 (0: 1)	27 ′ Spitse ( FE ), 74 ′ Martens

Knockout round

Quarter finals

The Netherlands and Sweden have met 20 times so far, of which the Dutch have lost ten games and won five games and played a draw. The last time they met was in March at the Algarve Cup 2017 and the Dutch women won 1-0. They have never met at a European Championship finals. The winner of this game will meet the winner of the match between England and France in the semi-finals.

Saturday, July 29, 2017 in Doetinchem
Netherlands	-	Sweden	2: 0 (1: 0)	33 ′ Martens , 64 ′ Miedema

Semifinals

Thursday, August 3, 2017 in Enschede
Netherlands	-	England	3: 0 (1: 0)	22 ′ Miedema , 62 ′ van de Donk , 90 + 4 ′ Millie Bright

final

Sunday, August 6, 2017, 5 p.m. in Enschede
Netherlands	-	Denmark	4: 2 (2: 2)	10, 89 ′ Miedema , 28 ′ Martens , 51 ′ Spitse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ onsoranje.nl: "Merel van Dongen terug in Oranje-selectie"
2. ^ Van Veenendaal niet tegen Japan en Oostenrijk
3. ↑ onsoranje.nl: "Wiegman kiest Oranjeselectie voor WEURO 2017"
4. ↑ In the first two group matches
5. ↑ From the 2017/18 season Arsenal FC
6. ↑ In the games on July 24th and 29th and August 3rd and 6th
7. ↑ From the 2017/18 season FC Bayern Munich
8. ↑ From the 2017/18 season FC Barcelona
9. ↑ België - Nederland 3 - 2 ( Memento of the original dated December 1, 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.  
10. ↑ Nederland - Engeland 0 - 1 ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Van der Laan weg bij Oranjevrouwen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Wiegman bondscoach Oranjevrouwen ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2017 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.  
13. ↑ onsoranje.nl: "Selectie oefentrip Oranjevrouwen" ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 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.  
14. ↑ fpf.pt: "As equipas da Algarve Cup 2017"
15. ↑ Agenda: Vrouwen A-elftal ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 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.  
16. ↑ uefa.com: "Where do the teams live at the women's EURO?"
17. ↑ uefa.com: "Women's EURO: Seeding list for the final draw"
18. ↑ onsoranje.nl: "Oranjevrouwen onderuit in België" ( Memento of the original from November 27, 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.