UEFA Women's Euro 1993

UEFA Women's Euro 1993
Tournament details
Host country Italy
Dates 29 June – 4 July
Teams 4
Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Norway (2nd title)
Runners-up  Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played 4
Goals scored 8 (2 per match)
Top scorer(s) Denmark Susan Mackensie
(2 goals)
Best player Norway Hege Riise

The 1993 UEFA Women's Championship, also referred to as Women's Euro 1993 was a football tournament that happened between 1991 and 1993 (with the qualifying round). The final games was held in Italy. The UEFA Women's Championship is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries affiliated to UEFA, the European governing body, who have qualified for the competition. The competition aims to determine which national women's team is the best in Europe.

Norway won the competition against Italy who played at home in the Final.[1]

Format

In the qualifying round, 23 teams divided into 8 groups (all of 3 teams, except 1 which had two) and the winner of each group would be qualified into the quarter-finals of the Competition. Then teams played a 2-leg knockout round. In the semifinals and final, only one game would be played and the winner of the final would be proclaimed the Champion. The losers of the semifinals would play a Third Place playoff game.

Qualification

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1993 UEFA Women's Championship squads

Results

Semifinals

29 June 1993
Norway  1 0  Denmark
Andersen  63'
Sportilia, Santa Sofia
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Plarent Kotherja (Albania)

30 June 1993
Italy  1 1 (a.e.t.)
(4-3 pen)
 Germany
Morace  63' Mohr  56'
Stadio Romeo Neri, Rimini
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Third place playoff

3 July 1993
 Germany 1 3 Denmark 
Meinert  31' Mackensie  10',  42'
Nissen  35'
Stadio Alfiero Moretti, Cesenatico
Attendance: 500
Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)

Final

4 July 1993
 Italy 0 1 Norway 
Hegstad  75'
Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Alfred Wieser (Austria)

Awards

 Women's Euro 1993 Champions 

Norway
Second title

Goalscorers

2 goals
1 goal

See also

References

  1. "1993: Azzurre left feeling blue –". Uefa.com. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
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