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  "summary": "Germany beat Norway 3-1 at Ewood Park for a fourth successive title, then a record. The edition's defining number is not the final's crowd of just over 21,100 but the 29,092 who watched England play Finland in the opening match - at the time a record for a women's match anywhere in Europe.",
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    "Who won Women's Euro 2005?",
    "What was the attendance record for a women's match in Europe in 2005?",
    "Who scored in the 2005 Women's Euro final?"
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      "text": "Germany beat Norway 3-1 in the Women's EURO 2005 final at Ewood Park in Blackburn, in front of more than 21,100 spectators, for a fourth successive European title - at the time a record for the competition. Inka Grings scored on 21, Renate Lingor on 24 and Birgit Prinz on 63, with Dagny Mellgren replying on 41.",
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      "text": "The tournament's biggest crowd was not the final. England's 3-2 win over Finland in the opening match at the City of Manchester Stadium on Sunday 5 June drew 29,092, which UEFA recorded at the time as a record for a women's match in Europe. In all, 117,384 spectators attended the 15 matches, played in Manchester, Blackpool, Warrington, Preston and Blackburn.",
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      "text": "Finland reached the semi-finals with 19,000 registered players, the smallest playing base at the tournament alongside Italy. They qualified by beating Denmark 2-1 in Blackpool on the final matchday, while Sweden's 1-0 win over the hosts eliminated England, both of whom had needed only a draw.",
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      "text": "The all-Scandinavian semi-final was the match of the tournament: Norway beat Sweden 3-2 after extra time, Hanna Ljungberg scoring two equalisers before Solveig Gulbrandsen's 109th-minute winner, which ended Marika Domanski-Lyfors's nine-year spell as Sweden coach. Germany reached the final by beating Finland 4-1.",
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      "text": "Isabell Herlovsen, then 16, made her international mark at this tournament, scoring in the semi-final win over Sweden and coming on in the final. Grings finished as leading scorer with four goals, and the title was the last act of Tina Theune-Meyer's time as Germany coach.",
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      "text": "Eurosport screened every fixture live and the BBC showed England's three group games and the final; more than three and a half million viewers watched the hosts lose to Sweden on 11 June, a 20 per cent share of the English audience on a Saturday evening. The English FA was received at the House of Commons in recognition of the tournament's organisation.",
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  "winning_edge": "Every summary of 2005 records Germany's fourth in a row. UEFA's own review makes a different point stick: the largest crowd of the tournament watched a group game, not the final - 29,092 for England against Finland, a European record for a women's match at the time, against just over 21,100 at Ewood Park. It also carries what a scoreline cannot, that Finland reached the semi-finals from a base of 19,000 registered players, the smallest in the field.",
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