UEFA Women's Euro 2025

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.

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, Zurich, Thun, St. Gallen, and Sion as their candidate-cities to host the events.
Venues

During the bidding process, venues in Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Schaffhausen 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 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 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, St. Gallen and Thun changed their names for the tournament. The four stadiums previously used in UEFA Euro 2008 were chosen to host matches.
The following 8 host cities and stadiums were selected for Switzerland's bid:

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	Training site	Hotel
	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.

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.

Seeding

The seeding was according to the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying ranking.

Team
	19
	1
	2
	3

Team
	8
	9
	10
	12

Draw

	Team
A1
A2
A3
A4

	Team
B1
B2
B3
B4

	Team
C1
C2
C3
C4

	Team
D1
D2
D3
D4

Schedule

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.