The 2025 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2025 or simply Euro 2025, was the 14th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe. The tournament was played in Switzerland from 2 to 27 July 2025. This was the third edition since the tournament was expanded to 16 teams. The tournament returned to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was delayed to 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Defending champions England retained the title, defeating Spain in the final via a penalty shootout. It was the first time a country defended their European title since Germany in 2013, and the first time the title was decided via a shootout since the inaugural tournament in 1984.
Record attendance and viewership across Europe caused the tournament to be declared a huge success by UEFA's head of women's football, Nadine Kessler. Every host city has also stated it was a massive success. The tournament broke the total attendance record, previously held by England in 2022, with 657,291 spectators.
Host selection
Applications were submitted in August 2022, while final submissions were made in October. Switzerland was selected to host the tournament on 4 April 2023 at the UEFA Executive Committee in Lisbon, Portugal. To be appointed as hosts, a majority of votes was needed in the first round. If the first vote did not produce a majority, the two bids with the most votes would advance to a second and final round. As the first round produced a three-way tie for first, a ballot was used to determine which two bidders would proceed to the second round.
+ Voting results Country(s) Votes by round 1st Tiebreak 2nd 4 6 9 , , , 4 4 4 4 3 — 1 — — Total 13 13 13
Confirmed bids Four declarations of interest to host the tournament were received by UEFA before the deadline of 12 October 2022.
Poland – On 3 June 2021, Zbigniew Boniek, head of the Polish Football Association, announced that the association had filed its bid at UEFA to host the 2025 Women's Championship, citing women's football as gaining in popularity in many European countries, including Poland. Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden – On 15 October 2021, the Danish Football Association announced that the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, with support from Iceland and Faroe Islands, had confirmed their bids to host the UEFA Euro 2025. On 6 April they submitted their application with multiple stadiums in each host country. The government of Sweden declared its support on the 12th. Finland also submitted an application to be part of the 2025 women's football European Championship on 12 October 2022. France – On 3 February 2022, the French Football Federation and its president, Noël Le Graët, confirmed that France had been bidding for the organisation of the competition. Switzerland – On 14 September 2022, the Swiss Football Association officially confirmed the bid and announced Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lucerne, Lausanne (withdrew), Zurich, Thun, St. Gallen, and Sion as their candidate-cities to host the events.
Switzerland previously hosted the men's 1954 FIFA World Cup and co-hosted the men's UEFA Euro 2008 with Austria.
Venues During the bidding process, venues in Lausanne (Stade Olympique de la Pontaise), Neuchâtel (Stade de la Maladière) and Schaffhausen (Stadion Breite) failed to make the cut. Liechtenstein's capital, Vaduz, was also included in the Swiss bid, but due to the capacity of the Rheinpark Stadion not meeting requirements, the idea was scrapped. Right before the vote, Lausanne (with the Stade de la Tuilière as their proposed venue) voluntarily withdrew as a venue to focus on hosting the 2025 Swiss Federal Gymnastics Festival.
On 2 December 2023, the schedule was provisionally announced, with Basel chosen to host the opening match and final. Originally, the eight venues were going to be divided into four pairs (Basel and Lucerne, Zurich and St. Gallen, Bern and Thun, and Geneva and Sion) with each pair hosting one group. However, this was changed instead to having two different geographical clusters. With the exception of the opening match and a group C match, the two different geographical clusters were: Bern, Geneva, Sion and Thun in the west zone, with Basel, Lucerne, St. Gallen and Zurich in the east zone. Previously, Bern wanted to host the final, but after Young Boys raised concerns about the turf being damaged, they were only allowed to use the stadium as far as the quarterfinals.
For commercial reasons, venues in Lucerne (Swissporarena), St. Gallen (Kybunpark) and Thun (Stockhorn Arena) changed their names for the tournament. The four stadiums previously used in UEFA Euro 2008 (St. Jakob-Park, Stadion Wankdorf, Stade de Genève and Stadion Letzigrund) were chosen to host matches.
The following 8 host cities and stadiums were selected for Switzerland's bid:
Basel Bern Geneva Zurich St. Jakob-Park Stadion Wankdorf Stade de Genève Stadion LetzigrundCapacity: 34,250Capacity: 29,800Capacity: 26,750Capacity: 22,700 St. Gallen Lucerne Thun Sion Arena St.Gallen Allmend Stadion Luzern Arena Thun Stade de TourbillonCapacity: 16,300Capacity: 14,350Capacity: 8,100Capacity: 7,750
Team base camps Each team chose a "team base camp" for its stay between the matches. The teams trained and resided in these locations throughout the tournament, travelling to games staged away from their bases. The "team base camp" needed to be in Switzerland. UEFA announced the hotels and training sites for each participating team; additional potential sites were later announced on 11 February 2025.
+Team base campsTeamTraining siteHotel Stade Saint-Laurent, Saillon Les Bains de Saillon Hôtel, Saillon Stade des Buchilles, Boudry Hôtel Beaulac Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel Sportanlage Au, Opfikon Dolder Grand, Zurich Centre Sportif de Versoix, Versoix InterContinental Geneva, Geneva Sportanlage Bützel, Thal Hotel Heiden, Heiden Sportzentrum Buchlern, Zurich FIVE Zurich, Zurich Sportplatz Zelgli, Thun Parkhotel Gunten, Thermoplan Arena, Weggis Campus Hotel Hertenstein, Weggis Stadion Lachen, Thun Belvédère Strandhotel, Spiez Stade des Chézards, Colombier Beau-Rivage Hôtel, Neuchâtel Stadion Herti Allmend, Zug SeminarHotel am Ägerisee, Unterägeri Stade des Arbères, Meyrin Geneva Marriott Hotel, Geneva Stade Juan-Antonio-Samaranch, Lausanne Royal Savoy Hôtel & Spa, Lausanne Eizmoos, Cham On Your Marks, Cham FC Dürrenast, Thun Hotel Seepark, Thun Sportanlage Güttingersreuti, Weinfelden Wellneshotel Golfpanorama,
Qualification
All 55 UEFA national teams were able to submit an entry for the competition by 23March 2023. This involved participation in both the inaugural 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League and UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying. The Nations League took place between September 2023 and February 2024. The qualification was organised between April and December 2024.
In total, 51teams entered the qualifying competition. Russia was not permitted to enter the competition, as Russian teams had been suspended indefinitely from UEFA and FIFA competitions in 28February 2022 due to their country's invasion of Ukraine. In addition, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein and San Marino did not submit an entry.
Of the 16 qualified teams, 14 had taken part in the 2022 edition, while Austria and Northern Ireland missed out, having qualified in 2022. Poland and Wales both made their first appearance in a major finals tournament.
The lowest ranked team to qualify was Wales, ranked 30th, while the highest placed team to not qualify was Austria, positioned 19th.
Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the final tournament alongside host Switzerland.
Order Team Qualified as Date of qualification Best performance 13rd201720223 (2017, 2022)23212th198912 (1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013)335th19974 (1997)245th20095 (2013)14511th19848 (2017)1268th1997 (2022)10710th19847 (2022)5813th8 (1993, 1997)1395th20095 (2017)11103rd20173 (2017, 2022)221113th198713 (1987, 1993)13125th20052 (2005)26131st271412th198420229 (1984)6153rd20173 (2022)20161st30
Final draw
The final draw took place at 17:00 CET on 16 December 2024 at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne. Former footballer, Ian Wright, and Swiss sports presenter, , hosted the draw. The guests for the draw were all footballers who have participated in a men's or women's Euro. Those players were: Leonardo Bonucci, Verónica Boquete, Lara Dickenmann, Sami Khedira, Jill Scott, Caroline Seger, Xherdan Shaqiri and Raphaël Varane. The draw started with the hosts, Switzerland, being assigned to position A1. The draw continued with, in order, pots 1, 2, 3 and 4 being drawn, with each team selected then allocated into the first available group alphabetically. The position for the team within the group would then be drawn (for the purpose of the schedule).
Seeding The seeding was according to the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying ranking.
+Pot 1Team 19 1 2 3 +Pot 2Team 4 5 6 7 +Pot 3Team 8 9 10 12 +Pot 4Team 13 16 17 20
Draw
+ Group ATeamA1 A2 A3 A4
+ Group BTeamB1 B2 B3 B4
+ Group CTeamC1 C2 C3 C4
+ Group DTeamD1 D2 D3 D4
Schedule
ScheduleRoundMatchdayDateGroup stageMatchday 1 2–5 July 2025Matchday 2 6–9 July 2025Matchday 3 10–13 July 2025Knockout stageQuarter-finals 16–19 July 2025Semi-finals 22–23 July 2025Final27 July 2025
Squads
Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers, by the deadline of 25 June 2025.
Match officials On 31 March 2025, UEFA announced the selected match officials for the tournament.
Referees
Edina Alves Batista Ivana Martinčić
Stéphanie Frappart Katalin Kulcsár Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi Silvia Gasperotti
Iuliana Demetrescu
Marta Huerta de Aza Tess Olofsson Désirée Grundbacher
Assistant referees
Ainhoa Fernández
Heini Hyvönen Camille Soriano
Andreia Ferreira Sousa Vanessa Gomes Daniela Constatinescu
Guadalupe Porras Ayuso Štaša Špur
VARs
Jarred Gillett Sian Massey-Ellis Willy Delajod Christian Dingert
Tamás Bognár
Dennis Higler Tiago Martins
Momčilo Marković
Guillermo Cuadra Fernández Judit Romano García Fedayi San
Support referees
Shona Shukrula Olatz Rivera Olmedo
Group stage
The provisional match schedule was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Hamburg, Germany on 2December 2023.
Tiebreakers In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3points for a win, 1point for a draw, 0points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria would be applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings: Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above would be reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Lower disciplinary points (red card = 3points, yellow card = 1point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3points); Position in the Women's European Qualifiers overall phase rankings.
However, these criteria do not apply if two teams tied on points, goal difference and goals scored drew against each other in their final group match with knockout stage implications, and no other team in the group finished with the same number of points; in that case, the tie is broken by a penalty shoot-out.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
Awards
UEFA Team of the Tournament