UEFA Women's EURO 1995 (champions - Germany)
Germany beat Sweden 3-2 in Kaiserslautern for a third title, the winning goal scored by a 17-year-old substitute who had been on the pitch for barely three minutes. It was the edition at which women's internationals went from 80 minutes to 90, and the one that ended Norway's run of reaching every final.
Why this wins its question: A 3-2 scoreline hides three things UEFA's review supplies. This was the edition at which women's internationals stopped being 80 minutes and became 90 - a structural change almost nothing records. The winning goal was scored by a 17-year-old substitute about three minutes after she came on, which only appears when the line-up is read against the goal times. And Norway's run of reaching every final ended in a semi-final turned by another substitute's hat-trick. A fresh one-minute conflict between two UEFA pages is recorded rather than smoothed.
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Germany beat Sweden 3-2 in the Women's EURO 1995 final at the Fritz-Walter-Stadion in Kaiserslautern on 26 March 1995, in front of 8,500 spectators, for a third title. Malin Andersson put Sweden ahead on 6 minutes, Maren Meinert equalised on 32, Birgit Prinz put Germany in front and Bettina Wiegmann made it 3-1 on 83, with Anneli Andelen pulling one back on 88.
Prinz was 17 and a substitute. UEFA's line-up shows her replacing Brocker-Grigoli in the 61st minute, so she scored the goal that won a European final within about three minutes of coming on.
UEFA's two pages date that goal differently: its list of every final gives it on 64 minutes, while its 1995 tournament review says Prinz scored "on 65 minutes". Neither page acknowledges the other.
1995 was the edition at which matches were increased to 90 minutes, from 40 minutes each way. A record 29 nations entered, and the combination produced heavy qualifying scorelines: Germany scored 55 goals without reply in their six games, and Slovenia lost 10-0 twice to England and 17-0 to Spain, a tournament record defeat. Spain went out without losing a match.
The calendar was rearranged around the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, held in Sweden that summer: the semi-finals reverted to two legs played in winter, and the final was staged as a one-off match in March.
Norway's run ended here. They had reached at least the final in every previous edition, and led the semi-final second leg in Jonkoping through Linda Medalen on 28 minutes, having won the first leg 4-3 with a last-minute Anita Waage goal. Sweden's half-time substitute Lena Videkull then scored a hat-trick - one either side of the hour and one 14 minutes from the end - after Ulrika Kalte had equalised.