UEFA Women's Euro 2013

The 2013 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as the 2013 Women's Euros or just the 2013 Euros, 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, became the most-watched in the history of the Women's Euros. It concluded with Germany, the defending champions, winning their sixth consecutive and record-extending eighth overall Women's Euro title after defeating Norway in the final.
Sweden was 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.

Host selection

was awarded the hosting of the tournament on 4 October 2010 at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Minsk, Belarus. The only rival host bid came from the Netherlands. Several other European national associations, including Switzerland, Bulgaria and Poland, had shown interest in staging the tournament but did not submit final applications. Sweden had previously co-hosted the tournament in 1997 alongside Norway.

Qualification

A total of 44 teams entered the qualification process to compete for the eleven available places in the final tournament, alongside host nation Sweden, who qualified automatically. Six teams were firstly eliminated during an eight-team preliminary round staged in Macedonia and Malta on 3–8 March 2011.
On 14 March 2011 38 teams – the 36 top-ranked nations and the two teams advancing from the preliminary round – were then drawn into seven qualifying groups at a draw in Nyon, Switzerland. Matches in these qualifying groups began in September 2011 and concluded a year later. The seven group winners automatically qualified for the final tournament along with the best-ranked runners-up. The remaining six runners-up entered into two-legged play-offs held in October 2012 to determine the final line-up. The following twelve teams participated in the final tournament:

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA ranking at start of event
	Hosts			2009		5
	Group 1 winner			2009		12
	Group 2 winner			2009		2
	Group 3 winner			2009		11
	Group 4 winner			2009		6
	Group 5 winner			2009		21
	Group 6 winner			2009		7
	Group 7 winner			2009		13
	Best runner-up			2009		14
	Play-off winner			1997		18
	Play-off winner			2009		22
	Play-off winner			2009		15

Venues

The tournament was staged at seven venues in seven different towns with each group being staged at two different venues. At some venues, the capacity was reduced during the championship.

Gothenburg	Solna	Norrköping
Gamla Ullevi	Friends Arena	Nya Parken
Capacity: 16,600	Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 10,500
3 group matches, 1 semi-final	Final	3 group matches, 1 semi-final

Linköping		Kalmar
Linköping Arena		Guldfågeln Arena
Capacity: 7,300		Capacity: 10,900
3 group matches, 1 quarter-final		3 group matches, 1 quarter-final

Halmstad		Växjö
Örjans Vall		Myresjöhus Arena
Capacity: 7,500		Capacity: 10,000
3 group matches, 1 quarter-final		3 group matches, 1 quarter-final

Final draw

The final draw for the tournament group stage took place on 9 November 2012 at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg. The ceremony was conducted by the UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino, with the teams drawn out by tournament ambassadors Patrik Andersson and Steffi Jones.
As hosts, Sweden were automatically placed in the top-seeded pot, though they would have been in any case owing to their UEFA coefficient ranking. The eleven qualifiers were placed into the three final draw pots according to their UEFA coefficient ranking. It was decreed in advance the groups into which the three top-seeded teams would be placed.

Seedings

Team
	42,503	2
	43,460	1
	40,251	3

Team
	34,971	7
	34,524	8
	34,436	9
	33,697	10
	33,661	11
	32,999	12

Match officials

Twelve referee trios were announced by the UEFA on 19 June 2013. All officials were based in Jönköping.

Squads

The twelve national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players by 3 June 2013 at the latest. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.

Results

The final match schedule for the tournament was confirmed on 6 December 2012. All twelve finalists began the tournament at the group stage, with those not eliminated then advancing to the knockout stage.

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up would qualify for the knockout stage, along with the best two third-placed teams; the remaining four teams would be eliminated.

Tie-breaking criteria

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied:

Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system as at [|the final draw];

However, the normal tiebreaking rules do not apply if two teams tie after having met in their final fixture of the group stage, then their ranking will be determined by penalty shoot-out;
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Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Ranking of third-placed teams

The best two third-placed teams advanced to the knockout stage, with teams being ranked using points as the only criterion. UEFA introduced this principle to avoid teams entering their final matches and "playing on" the previous results, and also to negate the factor of the potentially different strengths of the groups by eliminating goal difference from the calculation. As both Denmark and Russia finished with two points, in accordance with the regulations, UEFA conducted a drawing of lots on 18 July following the completion of the group matches to determine which of these two teams would advance: Denmark was selected and so advanced.

Knockout stage

The eight advancing teams entered the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time of two periods was played. If the score was still level after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shootout.
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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

;5 goals

Lotta Schelin

;3 goals

Nilla Fischer

;2 goals

;1 goal

;Own goal