Germany at the UEFA Women's Championship

Gero Bisanz had gradually rejuvenated the team and had quite chances to qualify for the first played finals.

A defeat in Finland and a goalless draw in Norway brought the West German team a better ranking.

For the first time, a women's football match was broadcast live on West German television.

Although Norway went into the match as a favorite, but the West German team could inspire the audience with a furious 4: 1 victory.

The Danes won this match 3: 1 To date, the fourth place at the 1993 European Championships is the worst placement of a German team.

For the first time, Tina Theune-Meyer led the German national team through the European Championship qualification.

Although there were significant wins against Finland and the Slovakia, a draw and defeat to world champions Norway missed their group victory.

With goals from Sandra Minnert and Birgit Prinz the German team won 2–0 and the fourth European Championship was sealed.

In the preliminary round, the DFB-Elf showed three convincing games and was able to beat Sweden, Russia and England clear.

After a pass from Maren Meinert Claudia Müller scored Golden goal and the European Championship number five was perfect.

[4] As the reigning world champion, the DFB team was, of course, a favorite in qualifying for the European Championships in England.

Inka Grings scored five goals in this game alone, while goalkeeper Silke Rottenberg remained almost unemployed.

After the sixth European Championship, the fourth in a row, Tina Theune-Meyer resigned and handed over the coaching office to her assistant Silvia Neid.

The group draw held on 18 November 2008 awarded Germany the vice-European champions Norway as well as the France and Iceland.

So the team did themselves against the already eliminated Icelandic long-hard and could only achieve in the 50th minute by the half-time substitute Inga Grings the 1: 0 winner.

In the semi-finals, they again met Norway, who had reached the quarter-finals only as one of the two best group stages and had surprisingly won 3–1 against the favored Swedes.

This developed into the top scoring final in European history, in which the English women held long, but by the 4: 2, the fifth tournament goal of Inga Grings was the spell broken.

As Spain lost on 16 June 2012 against Switzerland, the participation of the German team was determined by the direct comparison before the last two games.

In the final round, the German team started with a 0–0 against the Netherlands, with the Dutch women had better chances to score.

The subsequent game against Iceland was won 3–0 and due to the results of the other groups Germany was already qualified for the quarter-finals.

In the semi-finals, the tournament's youngest team met host Sweden, who competed with the oldest squad of all participants and was favored after their previous games.

The German team won the title for the eighth time with the third 1–0 victory in this European Championship, in which Nadine Angerer could hold two penalties by the Norwegians.

Also the remaining games after the Olympic victory, after Steffi Jones took over the post as national coach, were won.

Germany started with a goalless draw against Sweden, which made it the first time in the encounter with the Scandinavians no winner.

The German team seemed to be more alert at first, taking the lead in the third minute with an Isabel Kerschowski long shot from the Danish goalkeeper.

As the German players then no longer managed to score chances, Germany dropped out of the quarter-finals for the first time in a European Championship finals.

[12] Shortly after the European Championship, striker Anja Mittag announced her retirement from the national team.