Women's European Championship

Football

Follow all 25 matches LIVE (22 matches on Eurosport, 3 matches on Eurosport 2) - 23rd August - 10th September 2009

Football UEFA Women's EURO 2009 in Finland

23 August - 10 September

The pitch

Held every four years the UEFA Women's EURO is the greatest event in women's football alongside the FIFA World Cup. It has grown from eight participating teams in 2005 to 12 teams this year. The tournament will be held in Helsinki, Lahti, Tampere and Turku.

The cast

12 teams divided into 3 groups.

Group A: Finland, Ukraine, Denmark, Netherlands

Group B: Germany, Iceland, Norway, France

Group C: Sweden, England, Russia, Italy

Germany and their stars Birgit Prinz (striker), Renate Lingor (playmaker) and Nadine Angerer (goalkeeper) are the favourites of the competition, having won the last four editions. The Nordic countries, especially Norway, finalists in 2005, are their main rivals.

The broadcast

Eurosport Group is host broadcaster of the event and will produce and broadcast all 25 matches LIVE (22 matches on Eurosport, 3 matches on Eurosport 2). The production will be in HD. Right before some matches Eurosport's on-site journalists will do LIVE interviews with a special guest to introduce the match. There will also be LIVE interviews right after the match.