Denmark women's national football team

The Denmark women's national football team (Danmarks kvindefodboldlandshold) represents Denmark and Greenland in international women's football. The team is controlled by the Danish Football Association (DBU) and competes as a member of UEFA in various international football tournaments such as the FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA Women's Euro, the Summer Olympics, the Algarve Cup, and, since 2023, the new UEFA Women's Nations League.

Denmark have qualified four times for the FIFA Women's World Cup and nine times for the UEFA Women's Championship, reaching the final in 2017.

At the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 in Netherlands, Denmark was drawn into Group A with Netherlands, Norway and Belgium. They secured a 1–0 victories over Belgium and Norway, but lost 1–0 to Netherlands. Despite that they managed to advance as runners-up in the group, to the quarter-finals against Germany. The Danes surprisingly won against the 22-year reigning champions of Europe and qualified to the semifinals, with a 2–1 win. Denmark defeated Austria 3–0 on penalties to reach the final for the first time, after the match finished goalless. In the final the team met Netherlands at the De Grolsch Veste, Enschede, standing in front of a crowd of 28,182 spectators. The Dutch team defeated Denmark, by a 4–2 victory and claimed their first UEFA Euro title.

In March 2007, Denmark was ranked sixth in the FIFA Women's World Rankings, reaching the highest ranking since it was introduced. The worst ranking so far was a 20th place finish in June 2016.

History
Denmark were one of the earliest pioneers of women's football competing in the 1971 Women's World Cup.

2023 Women's World Cup
Denmark were in Group D with England, China and Haiti. They lost to England and defeated China and Haiti to finish second in the group. They were eliminated in the Round of 16 when they lost 2-0 to Australia.

Home stadium
The Denmark women's national football team usually plays their home matches at the Energi Viborg Arena, Viborg, having a capacity of 10,000 spectators.

The highest number of spectators for a women's international match on Danish soil is 9,337 and was set during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cicle against Finland at the Viborg Stadium on 27 September 2006.

A new record for the national team was set to on 24 June 2022 at a Exhibition match against Brazil in Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, where 21,542 attended.

Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.


 * Legend

Current squad
23 players were called up for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying matches on July 12 and 16 against and, respectively.

Caps and goals are current as of the 16 July 2024 match against .

Recent call-ups
The following list of active players were not called up for the latest match of the national team, but were called up for an A-level match within the last 12 months.

INJ

INJ MED

MED INJ INJ INJ


 * INJ = Withdrew due to injury
 * PRE = Preliminary squad
 * MED = Withdrew on medical grounds
 * RET = Retired from the national team
 * COV = COVID-19 positive test or close contact

Previous squads

 * FIFA Women's World Cup:
 * World Cup 1991 squad
 * World Cup 1995 squad
 * World Cup 1999 squad
 * World Cup 2007 squad
 * World Cup 2023 squad


 * UEFA Women's Euro:
 * Euro 1984 squad
 * Euro 1991 squad
 * Euro 1993 squad
 * Euro 1997 squad
 * Euro 2001 squad
 * Euro 2005 squad
 * Euro 2009 squad
 * Euro 2013 squad
 * Euro 2017 squad
 * Euro 2022 squad


 * Olympic Games:
 * Olympics 1996 squad

Player records
Players listed in bold are still active at national level.

FIFA Women's World Cup

 * *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Invitational trophies

 * Women's Nordic Football Championship: Winner 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982

World Cup (Old invitational event)

 * 1970 : Champions (non-official competition)
 * 1971 : Champions (non-official competition)
 * 1981 : Runners-up (non-official competition)
 * 1984 : Did not participate (non-official competition)
 * 1985 : Third Place (non-official competition)
 * 1986 : Did not participate (non-official competition)
 * 1988 : Did not participate (non-official competition)

European Championship (Unofficial events)

 * 1969 : Runner-up (non-official competition)
 * 1979 : Champions (non-official competition)

Honours

 * FIEFF Women's World Cup
 * Winners (2): 1970, 1971


 * UEFA Women's Euro
 * Runners-up: 2017