With this summer’s UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 still fresh in the memory, UEFA returned to the host country, the Netherlands, on Monday to look back at a tournament which set impressive new benchmarks in the progress of women’s football.
The UEFA Conference for Women’s National Team Coaches brought together coaches from UEFA's 55 member associations, who linked up with UEFA’s Women’s EURO technical experts, members of the UEFA Women’s Football Committee and Development and Technical Assistance Committee, and delegates from FIFA and its other continental confederations.
For the first time, 16 teams took part in a Women’s EURO final tournament, and UEFA Women’s Football Committee chairwoman Anne Rei said that the decision to increase the field for this year’s edition had been justified, as it had given more players than ever before the opportunity to perform on the highest European women’s national team stage.