The 2001 UEFA Women's Championship was the eighth UEFA Women's Championship, a competition for the women's national football teams and member associations of UEFA. It took place in Germany between 23 June and 7 July 2001. It was won by Germany with 1–0 in the final against Sweden, after a golden goal.^[1]

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UEFA Women's Euro 2001

Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen 2001
Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Dates	23 June – 7 July
Teams	8
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (5th title)
Runners-up	Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	40 (2.67 per match)
Attendance	95,683 (6,379 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Claudia Müller Sandra Smisek (3 goals each)
Best player(s)	Hanna Ljungberg
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16 competing teams formed 4 groups; the winners of each group qualified for the Championship, while the teams finishing second and third had to play a playoff in order to qualify.

Qualified teams

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Country	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
France	Group 1 winner	1 June 2000	1 (1997)
Norway	Group 2 winner	7 May 2000	6 (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997)
Germany (hosts)	Group 3 winner	6 April 2000	5 (1989,2 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997)
Russia	Group 4 winner	14 June 2000	1 (1997)
Sweden	Play-off winner	5 November 2000	5 (1984, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997)
Denmark	Play-off winner	21 November 2000	4 (1984, 1991, 1993, 1997)
Italy	Play-off winner	22 November 2000	6 (1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997)
England	Play-off winner	28 November 2000	3 (1984, 1987, 1995)

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¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year

² As West Germany

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see UEFA Women's Euro 2001 squads

3 goals

• Claudia Müller
• Sandra Smisek

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• Emmanuelle Sykora (playing against Norway)