 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(September 2022) |
Iceland have participated 4 times at the UEFA Women's Championship: Their best achievement is reaching the UEFA Women's Championships quarter final in (2009). [1] [2]
| | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(September 2022) |
Iceland have participated 4 times at the UEFA Women's Championship: Their best achievement is reaching the UEFA Women's Championships quarter final in (2009). [1] [2]
| UEFA Women's Championship record | Qualifying record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
| 1984 | Did not qualify | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 19 | −17 | ||||||||
 1987 | Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
 1993 | Did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | ||||||||
| 1995 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | +8 | |||||||||
 1997 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 21 | −13 | |||||||||
| 2001 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 19 | −5 | |||||||||
 2005 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 26 | 20 | +6 | |||||||||
 2009 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 5 | +26 | |
| 2013 | Quarter-finals | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 8 | +26 | |
 2017 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 2 | +32 | |
| 2022 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 5 | +20 | |
| Total | 4/13 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 22 | –15 | 80 | 41 | 10 | 29 | 191 | 112 | +79 | |
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