UEFA Women's Championship

The UEFA Women's Championship is the main competition in women's football (soccer) between national teams of the UEFA region. The competition is the women's equivalent of the UEFA European Championship, and is sometimes called the European Women's Football Championship.

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Women's football (soccer) - UEFA - UEFA European Championship

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The competition was started in the early 1980s as the UEFA European Competition for Representative Women's Teams. With the increasing popularity of women's football the competition was given European Championship status by UEFA around 1990.

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Six UEFA Women's Championships have taken place, preceded by 3 editions of the earlier European Competition for Representative Women's Teams. The most recent holding of the competition was the 2005 UEFA Women's Championship, which took place in England from June 5 to June 19 2005.

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2005 UEFA Women's Championship - England - June 5 - June 19 - 2005

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