UEFA Women's Euro 2017 final

UEFA Women's Euro 2017 final

De Grolsch Veste in Enschede hosted the final.
Event	UEFA Women's Euro 2017
Netherlands Denmark 4 2
Date	6 August 2017 (2017-08-06)
Venue	De Grolsch Veste, Enschede
Player of the Match	Sherida Spitse (Netherlands)[1]
Referee	Esther Staubli (Switzerland)[2]
Attendance	28,182[3]
Weather	Partly cloudy 20 °C (68 °F) 44% humidity[4][5]

The UEFA Women's Euro 2017 final was the last football game to decide who would win the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. It happened on 6th August 2017 in Enschede, Netherlands.^[6] The teams playing were the Netherlands and Denmark because they won their semi-final matches. The Netherlands won the final 4–2, and it was their first time winning the UEFA Women's Championship.^[7][8]

Background

This was also the first time that both the Netherlands and Denmark reached the final. It was a big deal because, for the first time since 1993, a country other than Germany won the competition. Before this, only two other countries, Norway and Sweden, had won this championship. Norway lost to both the Netherlands and Denmark in the early games, and Sweden lost to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals.^[9]

These two teams had already played against each other in the group stage, and the Netherlands won 1–0 with a penalty from Sherida Spitse.

How the teams got here

Further information: UEFA Women's Euro 2017

Netherlands		Round	Denmark
Opponents	Result	Group stage	Opponents	Result
Norway	1–0	Match 1	Belgium	1–0
Denmark	1–0	Match 2	Netherlands	0–1
Belgium	2–1	Match 3	Norway	1–0
Group A winner Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  Netherlands (H) 3 9 2  Denmark 3 6 3  Belgium 3 3 4  Norway 3 0 Source: UEFA (H) Host		Final standings	Group A runner-up Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  Netherlands (H) 3 9 2  Denmark 3 6 3  Belgium 3 3 4  Norway 3 0 Source: UEFA (H) Host
Opponents	Result	Knockout stage	Opponents	Result
Sweden	2–0	Quarter-finals	Germany	2–1
England	3–0	Semi-finals	Austria	0–0 (aet) (3–0 p)

Match

Details

6 August 2017 (2017-08-06)

17:00 CEST

Netherlands	4–2	Denmark
Miedema  10', 89' Martens  28' Spitse  51'	Report	Nadim  6' (pen.) Harder  33'

De Grolsch Veste, Enschede

Attendance: 28,182^[3]

Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

Netherlands[10]

Denmark[10]

GK 1 Sari van Veenendaal RB 2 Desiree van Lunteren  57' CB 6 Anouk Dekker  43' CB 3 Stefanie van der Gragt  72' LB 5 Kika van Es  90+4' CM 14 Jackie Groenen  21' CM 10 Daniëlle van de Donk CM 8 Sherida Spitse (c) RF 7 Shanice van de Sanden  90' CF 9 Vivianne Miedema LF 11 Lieke Martens Substitutions: DF 20 Dominique Janssen  57' FW 13 Renate Jansen  90' DF 4 Mandy van den Berg  90+4' Manager: Sarina Wiegman

GK 1 Stina Lykke Petersen RB 8 Theresa Nielsen CB 5 Simone Boye Sørensen  77' CB 12 Stine Larsen LB 19 Cecilie Sandvej RM 7 Sanne Troelsgaard Nielsen CM 4 Maja Kildemoes  61' CM 13 Sofie Junge Pedersen  82' LM 11 Katrine Veje CF 10 Pernille Harder (c) CF 9 Nadia Nadim  45' Substitutions: DF 15 Frederikke Thøgersen  61' DF 2 Line Røddik Hansen  77' MF 6 Nanna Christiansen  82' Manager: Nils Nielsen

Player of the Match: Sherida Spitse (Netherlands)[1] Assistant referees:[2] Belinda Brem (Switzerland) Sanja Rodjak Karšić (Croatia) Fourth official: Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany) Fifth official: Katrin Rafalski (Germany)

Match rules[11] 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of three substitutions, with a fourth allowed in extra time.

References

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3. "Netherlands vs. Denmark - 6 August 2017". Soccerway. Perform Group. 6 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
4. "UEFA Women's EURO - Netherlands-Denmark - Match info". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 6 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
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6. "UEFA Women's Euro 2017 Match Schedule" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. November 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
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11. "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship, 2015–17" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.