The UEFA European Women’s Championship also called the UEFA Women’s Euro, held every four years, is the main competition in women’s association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. The competition is the women’s equivalent of the UEFA European Championship.
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At a conference on 19 February, 1980 UEFA resolved to launch its own competition for women’s national teams. The meeting minutes had registered the 1979 competition as a “cause for concern”. The first UEFA-run international tournament began only in 1982 when the 1984 European Competition for Women’s Football qualification was launched.
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The 1984 Finals were won by Sweden. Norway won the 1987 Finals. Since then, the UEFA Women’s Championship has been dominated by Germany, which has won eight out of ten events. Norway won in 1993 and the Netherlands in 2017. Germany’s 2013 win had been their sixth in a row.
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In 2022, England became the first senior female football team to win the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 title since the Men’s 1966 FIFA World Cup by beating Germany 2-1.
