What is UEFA Women's Euro 2005?
The '''2005 UEFA Women's Championship''', also called '''WOMEN'S EURO 2005''' ([[trademark]] of [[UEFA]]), was a [[football (soccer)|football]] tournament for [[women's football (soccer)|women]] held from 5 June to 19 June 2005 in [[Lancashire]], [[England]]. The [[UEFA Women's Championship]] is a regular tournament involving European national teams from countries that are part of [[UEFA]], the European governing body, who have qualified for the competition. The competition tries to determine which national women's team is the best in Europe. [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]] won the competition for the fourth consecutive tournament. It was the sixth time overall (including one win in the predecessor tournament, the ''European Competition for Representative Women's Teams'') that they won. Their championship win was the last for coach [[Tina Theune-Meyer]], who months earlier had announced that she would retire at the end of the tournament. In her nine years in charge of Germany, they won three European titles, two bronze medals in the [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Olympics]], and the [[FIFA Women's World Cup 2003|2003 World Cup]]. ==Teams and structure== Eight national teams participated–seven which qualified from earlier stages, plus England, which received an automatic berth as the host nation. They were split into two groups of 4: Group A and Group B. Each team in a group played each other once, with the top two teams in each group moving into the semi-finals. The winner faced the runner-up of the other group in a play-off, with the winner of each semi-final advancing to the final to determine the champion. ===Group A=== *{{fbw|ENG}} *{{fbw|SWE}} *{{fbw|FIN}} *{{fbw|DEN}} ===Group B=== *{{fbw|GER}} *{{fbw|FRA}} *{{fbw|NOR}} *{{fbw|ITA}} ==Qualification== :''See main article: [[2005 UEFA Women's Championship qualification]]'' A qualifying round ran from 22 March to 3 October 2004 <sup>[http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/woco/FixturesResults/index.html]</sup>. The teams which were entere