Germany’s 22-year Women’s EURO mastery in numbers
No organisation has hold a vital European football pretension for anything like a 22 years that Germany reigned as UEFA Women’s EURO champions – though that ancestral run is over.
Sunday’s 2-1 better by Denmark in Rotterdam finished a holders’ bid for a seventh true title, and ninth overall, during a quarter-final stage. We sum adult Germany’s implausible mastery of a European women’s game.
GERMANY WOMEN’S EURO RECORD
2017: quarter-finals
2013: winners
2009: winners
2005: winners
2001: winners
1997: winners
1995: winners
1993: fourth place
1991: winners
1989: winners
1987: did not qualify
1984: did not qualify
GERMANY WOMEN’S FOOTBALL HONOURS
Women’s EURO champions x 8 (1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013)
FIFA Women’s World Cup winners x 2 (2003, 2007)
Olympic bullion x 1 (2016)
WU19/WU18 EURO winners x 6 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2011)
WU17 winners x 6 (2008, 2009, 2012, 2014*, 2016, 2017)
FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup winners x 3 (2004, 2010, 2014)
*2013/14 book played in late 2013
REIGN
- Germany were champions for 22 years, 4 months and 4 days, or 8,162 days, between winning a pretension on 26 Mar 1995 and losing it on 30 Jul 2017.
- Germany did not remove a knockout compare in a foe from 3 Jul 1993, a third-place play-off opposite Denmark, to 30 Jul 2017, a last-eight tie contra a same opposition.
- The initial UEFA Women’s EURO winners were Sweden on 27 May 1984. Since then, Germany have been champions for 9,624 of a indirect 12,117 days (79.4% of that period).
OVERALL RECORD IN WOMEN’S EURO FINAL TOURNAMENTS
P40 W31 D6 L3 F93 A24
The 3 defeats …
Germany 1-2 Denmark, quarter-finals, 30 Jul 2017
Germany 0-1 Norway, organisation stage, 17 Jul 2013
Germany 1-3 Denmark, third-place play-off, 3 Jul 1993
(Germany also mislaid to Italy on penalties in a 1993 semi-finals after a 1-1 draw)