Finland women's national football team
The Finnish women 's national soccer team represents Finland in international women's football. The national reports to the Finnish Football Association and is coached since 2010 by Andrée Jeglertz. Referred to in reference to the " Huuhkajat " ( eagle owls ) Mr. Finland national team, it is " Helmarit " or " Helmipöllöt " (Eng. Raufußkäuze; literally translated: Pearl Owl ) called.
For Euro 2005 we qualified for the first time and reached the semi-finals as a complete surprise. The Association was able to reap the fruits of a successful youth development program for the first time. 2009, the 10th European Championship in Finland took place, so that Finland had qualified automatically as hosts. The Finnish team reached after two wins in the first round the quarter-finals, where the team lost 2:3 against England. The Finnish selection took in 2013 in Sweden for the third time in a woman's European Football Championship in part, but different in the preliminary round of.
- 4.1 Germany
- 4.2 Switzerland
- 4.3 Austria
Tournament Record
World cup
- 2003: not qualified
- 2007: not qualified
- 2011: not qualified
European
Olympic games
- 2008: not qualified
- 2012: not qualified
Nordic Championship
Algarve Cup
The national team participated in 18 sweeps of the Algarve Cup, each year participate in the almost all of the best women's national teams. The best result is achieved fifth place in the second discharge in 1995. Since 2012, the team participates in the concurrently held the Cyprus Cup, where in 2012 and 2013, the sixth, seventh place was occupied.
- 2004: 09th place
- 2005: 10th place
- 2006: 07th place
- 2007: 06th place
- 2008: 08th place
- 2009: 07th place
- 2010: 08th place
- 2011: 10th place
- 2012: did not participate
- 2013: did not participate
- 2014: did not participate
Current squad
Stand: March 7, 2014 ( after the game against England)
Known players
- Jessica Julin ( AIK )
- Laura Österberg Kalmari ( AIK )
- Anne Mäkinen ( Bälinge IF)
- Sanna Malaska (HJK Helsinki)
- Minna Mustonen ( Bälinge IF)
- Essi Sainio (SC Freiburg)
- Jessica Thorn (HJK Helsinki)
- Sanna Valkonen ( AIK )
Games against teams of German-speaking countries
All results from Finnish perspective.