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UEFA Women's Championship
UEFA Women's Championship (UEFA Women's EURO): quadrennial European women's national team football championship, first held 1984 (Sweden won). Germany leads with 8 titles; England retained the trophy in 2025 before a record 657,291 attendance.
UEFA women's competitions
UEFA women's competitions are the Women's EURO, run since 1982, and the Women's Champions League, which began as the Women's Cup in 2001/02 and was relaunched in 2009.
UEFA Women's Euro 2017
UEFA Women's Euro 2017: the 12th UEFA European Women's Championship, held in the Netherlands 16 July to 6 August 2017. First 16-team finals; hosts Netherlands beat Denmark 4-2 in Enschede for their first title, ending Germany's 22-year reign.
UEFA Women's Euro 2022
UEFA Women's Euro 2022, the 13th UEFA European Women's Championship, was held in England in July 2022 and won 2-1 by England over Germany after extra time at Wembley.
UEFA Women's Euro 2025
UEFA Women's Euro 2025: the 14th European women's football championship, held in Switzerland (2–27 July 2025), won by England on penalties over Spain; record 657,291 attendance and 104 goals.
UEFA Women's Euro 2025 final
UEFA Women's Euro 2025 final: England beat Spain 1-1 (aet, 3-1 penalties) on 27 July 2025 at St. Jakob-Park, Basel, retaining their title; Mariona scored, Russo equalised, Hampton saved twice, Kelly converted the decisive kick.
UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, the Women's European Qualifiers: 51 teams in three leagues, April–July 2024 league stage, eight direct qualifiers plus seven play-off winners joining hosts Switzerland at EURO 2025.
UEFA Women's Euro 2029
UEFA Women's Euro 2029, 15th UEFA European Women's Championship, hosted by Germany after a 3 December 2025 vote (15 votes vs Denmark-Sweden 2, Poland 0); 16 teams, eight stadiums, summer 2029.
UEFA Women's Europa Cup
UEFA Women's Europa Cup: UEFA's second-tier women's club competition, launched 2025/26 as a straight knockout. Häcken won the first edition, beating Hammarby 4-2 on aggregate; Schröder top scored with 8.
UEFA Women's Nations League
UEFA Women's Nations League: biennial European women's national team competition, three leagues of 51 teams, promotion/relegation, finals; Spain won the 2024 inaugural title, which doubled as Olympic qualifying.
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
The UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship is UEFA's annual European championship for under-17 women's national football teams, running since 2007/08 and doubling as World Cup qualification.
UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
The UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship is the European championship for women's national under-19 football teams, founded in 1997/98 and doubling as UEFA's route into the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
UEFA Youth League
UEFA Youth League, annual UEFA Under-19 club competition launched 2013/14 after an ECA request; Champions League path plus domestic champions path; winners lift the Lennart Johansson trophy; Barcelona hold three titles.
UEFI
UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a specification that defines how operating systems boot on platform firmware, and it has replaced the legacy BIOS on most modern systems.
Uehara Yūsaku
Uehara Yūsaku (上原勇作, 1856–1933) was a marshal and general of the Imperial Japanese Army whose resignation as Army Minister in 1912 forced the Saionji cabinet's fall, the Taisho political crisis.
Uejima Onitsura
Uejima Onitsura (上島鬼貫, 1661–1738) was a Japanese haikai poet of the Edo period, born in Itami, known for the doctrine "no haikai apart from truth."
Uele (landform)
Uele (Uellé, Uélé), river in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, rising near the Uganda border at about 1,620 m and flowing about 1,100–1,210 km west to join the Bomu at Yakoma and form the Ubangi River.
Uele (protected area)
Uele is a freshwater ecoregion in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World classification, covering the Uele River basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
Uelen
Uelen (Уэлен; Chukchi Увэлен) is a selo in Chukotsky District, Chukotka, the easternmost inhabited settlement of Russia and Eurasia since 1958, near Cape Dezhnev, with 673 residents (2023) and a famous walrus-ivory carving workshop founded in 1931.
Ueli Aebi
Ueli Aebi (1946–2025) was a Swiss structural cell biologist at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, known for work on the cytoskeleton, nuclear lamina, and nuclear pore complexes.
Ueli Grossniklaus
Ueli Grossniklaus, born 1964 in Beatenberg, Switzerland, is a Swiss plant developmental biologist and full professor at the University of Zurich known for work on genomic imprinting, seed development, and apomixis.
Ueli Rutishauser
Ueli Rutishauser is a Swiss-born systems neuroscientist who studies human memory and cognition by recording individual neurons in living people, directing the Center for Neural Science and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai.
Ueli Schibler
Ueli Schibler (Ulrich Schibler), born in 1947, is a Swiss molecular biologist at the University of Geneva known for discovering self-sustained circadian clocks in organs such as the liver.
Ueli Steck
Ueli Steck (1976-2017), the "Swiss Machine," was a Swiss speed alpinist who set Eiger north face records (2:47:33) and soloed Annapurna's south face in 28 hours; he died on Nuptse in 2017.
Ueli Suter
Ueli Suter is a Swiss neuroscientist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich who studies neuron-glia interactions and myelination, best known for identifying the PMP22 mutation in the Trembler mouse.
Uemura Shōen
Uemura Shōen (上村松園, 1875–1949), real name Uemura Tsune, was a Kyoto nihonga painter of beautiful women and the first woman to receive the Order of Culture.
Ueno Hikoma
Ueno Hikoma (上野彦馬, 1838–1904) was a Japanese photographer who opened one of Japan's first commercial photographic studios in Nagasaki in 1862, photographing leading Bakumatsu figures like Sakamoto Ryōma.
Ueno Park (上野公園)
Ueno Park (上野公園), formally Ueno Onshi Park, is a Tokyo public park designated Japan's first park in March 1873 on the former Kan'ei-ji temple grounds after Dr. Bauduin's proposal; it holds major museums, Ueno Zoo, Shinobazu Pond, and famous cherry blossoms.
Ueno Seiki
Ueno Seiki (上野精機株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor and electronic-parts inspection equipment, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Mizumaki-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, with a stated top share in visual inspection equipment.
Uerdingen
KFC Uerdingen 05 (Krefelder Fußballclub Uerdingen 05), German football club founded 1905 in Krefeld-Uerdingen; Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1953–1995; 1985 DFB Cup winners, 14 Bundesliga seasons, now fifth-tier Oberliga Niederrhein.