UEFA Women's Euro 2013

UEFA Women's Euro 2013
Europamästerskapet i fotboll för damer 2013
Tournament details
Host countrySweden
Dates10–28 July
Teams12
Venue(s)7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Germany (8th title)
Runners-up Norway
Tournament statistics
Matches played25
Goals scored56 (2.24 per match)
Attendance216,888 (8,676 per match)
Top scorer(s)Sweden Lotta Schelin (5 goals)
Best player(s)Germany Nadine Angerer[1]
2009
2017

The 2013 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as Women's Euro 2013, was the 11th European Championship for women's national football teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament, held in Sweden from 10 to 28 July 2013,[2] became the most-watched in the history of the Women's Euros.[3] It concluded with Germany, the defending champions, winning their sixth consecutive and eighth overall Women's Euro title after defeating Norway in the final.[4]

Sweden were selected as hosts by UEFA's Executive Committee in 2010, meaning their team automatically qualified for the final tournament. The other eleven finalists were decided by a qualifying competition, featuring 44 teams, staged between March 2011 to October 2012. It was the last time the finals featured twelve teams, as from 2017 onwards they would be expanded to include sixteen teams.[5]

  1. ^ "Germany No1 Angerer heads up all-star squad". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 30 July 2013.
  2. ^ "UEFA Women's Euro 2013 Match Schedule" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
  3. ^ "Women's EURO ticket sales record broken". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 13 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Angerer the hero as Germany make it six in a row". UEFA. uefa.com. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Women's EURO and U17s expanded". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 8 December 2011.