Germany has won the tournament eight times, seven of them under its current name.
The first edition, held in 1984, was won by Sweden in a penalty shootout against England
The history of the Women’s European Championship spans four decades of European football. From the first editionheld in 1984 and with the victory of Sweden, until the last disputed in 2017 and with victory of the Netherlands, the great dominator of the European women’s national team is without a doubt Germany.
And it is that the Germans have prevailed in eight editions of the tournament. The first time in 1989 (still RFA) and when the tournament was known as UEFA European Championship for women’s teams.
Already with the current name, UEFA European Women’s Championship, Germany won the 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013 editions. Eight awards in total, six of them achieved consecutively until in the final of Enschede 2017 the ‘oranje’ broke the German monopoly.
These are all the finals played:
1984: Sweden – England (played round trip, 1-0, 0-1 and 4-3 Sweden on penalties)
1987: Norway 2-1 Sweden (Oslo)
1989: FRG 4-1 Norway (Osnabruck)
1991: Germany 3-1 Norway (Aalborg)
1993: Norway 1-0 Italy (Cesena)
1995: Germany 3-2 Sweden (Kaiserslautern)
1997: Germany 2-0 Italy (Oslo)
2001: Germany 1-0 Sweden (Ulm)
2005: Germany 3-1 Norway (Blackburn)
2009: Germany 6-2 England (Helsinki)
2013: Germany 1-0 Norway (Solna)
2017 Netherlands – Germany 4-2 (Enschede).