UEFA Women's Euro 2025

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UEFA Women's Euro 2025
Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen 2025
Championnat d'Europe féminin de football 2025
Campionato europeo di calcio femminile 2025
Campiunadi d'Europa da ballape dunna 2025
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Tournament details
Host countrySwitzerland
Dates2–27 July 2025
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)8 (in 8 host cities)
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The 2025 UEFA Women's Championship will be 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 will be played in Switzerland from 2 to 27 July 2025. [1] It will be the third edition since it was expanded to 16 teams. The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was indirectly delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Host selection

Applications were submitted in August 2022, [2] while final submissions were made in October. [3] Switzerland were selected as hosts of the tournament on 4 April 2023 at the UEFA Executive Committee in Lisbon, Portugal. To be appointed as hosts, an absolute majority of votes was needed in the first round. If the first vote did not produce an absolute 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. [4]

Voting results
CountryVotes by round
1stTiebreak2nd
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 469
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark /Flag of Finland.svg  Finland /Flag of Norway.svg  Norway /Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 444
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 43—
Flag of France.svg  France 1——
Total131313

Confirmed bids

Four declarations of interest to host the tournament were received by UEFA before the deadline of 12 October 2022. [5]

Cancelled bids

Qualification

Qualified teams

All 55 UEFA national teams were able to submit an entry for the competition by 23 March 2023 at the latest. [16] This involved participation in both the inaugural 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League and UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying.

In total, 51 teams entered the qualifying competition. [17] Russia were not permitted to enter the competition, as Russian teams had been suspended indefinitely from UEFA and FIFA competitions in 28 February 2022 due to their country's invasion of Ukraine. [18] In addition, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein and San Marino did not submit an entry.

The following teams have qualified for the final tournament alongside host Switzerland.

OrderTeamMethod of
qualification		Date of
qualification		Finals
appearance		Last
appearance		Previous best
performance		 FIFA ranking
at start of draw
1Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Hosts4 April 20233rd 2022 Group stage (2017, 2022)

Final draw

The final draw will take place on 16 December 2024 with hosts Switzerland placed in group position A1.

Venues

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Switzerland stadia map

The following are the 8 host cities and stadiums selected for Switzerland's bid: [19] [20]

Group stage

The provisional match schedule was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Hamburg, Germany on 2 December 2023. [21]

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland (H)00000000Advance to knockout phase
2A200000000
3A300000000
4A400000000
First match(es) will be played: 2 July 2025. Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts
Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svgvA2
St. Jakob-Park, Basel
A3vA4
Stockhorn Arena, Thun
A2vA4
Stade de Tourbillon, Sion
Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svgvA3
Stadion Wankdorf, Bern
A4vFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Stade de Genève, Geneva
A2vA3
Stockhorn Arena, Thun

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1B100000000Advance to knockout phase
2B200000000
3B300000000
4B400000000
First match(es) will be played: 3 July 2025. Source: UEFA
B1vB2
Stadion Wankdorf, Bern
B3vB4
Stade de Tourbillon, Sion
B2vB4
Stade de Genève, Geneva
B1vB3
Stockhorn Arena, Thun
B4vB1
Stadion Wankdorf, Bern
B2vB3
Stade de Tourbillon, Sion

Group C

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1C100000000Advance to knockout phase
2C200000000
3C300000000
4C400000000
First match(es) will be played: 4 July 2025. Source: UEFA
C1vC2
Kybunpark, St. Gallen
C3vC4
Stade de Genève, Geneva
C2vC4
St. Jakob-Park, Basel
C1vC3
Swissporarena, Lucerne
C4vC1
Letzigrund, Zürich
C2vC3
Swissporarena, Lucerne

Group D

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1D100000000Advance to knockout phase
2D200000000
3D300000000
4D400000000
First match(es) will be played: 5 July 2025. Source: UEFA
D1vD2
Letzigrund, Zürich
D3vD4
Swissporarena, Lucerne
D2vD4
Letzigrund, Zürich
D1vD3
Kybunpark, St. Gallen
D4vD1
St. Jakob-Park, Basel
D2vD3
Kybunpark, St. Gallen

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
 
          
 
16 July – Geneva
 
 
 
 
22 July – Geneva
 
 
 
 
 
17 July – Zürich
 
 
 
 
 
27 July – Basel
 
 
 
 
 
18 July – Bern
 
 
 
 
 
23 July – Zürich
 
 
 
 
 
19 July – Basel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Quarter-finals

Winner Group AvRunner-up Group B
Stade de Genève, Geneva
Winner Group CvRunner-up Group D
Letzigrund, Zürich
Winner Group BvRunner-up Group A
Stadion Wankdorf, Bern
Winner Group DvRunner-up Group C
St. Jakob-Park, Basel

Semi-finals

Winner QF3vWinner QF1
Stade de Genève, Geneva
Winner QF4vWinner QF2
Letzigrund, Zürich

Final

Winner SF1vWinner SF2
St. Jakob-Park, Basel

Sponsors

PlayStation is an official sponsor of UEFA Women's Euro 2025 [22]
Amazon became an official UEFA Women's Football partner and will sponsor UEFA Women's Euro 2025 [23]

Broadcasting

Europe

TerritoryBroadcasterReferences
France
 [24]
United Kingdom
Finland YLE

Marketing

Preparations

Switzerland has stated has that their goal is to sell out every game at the tournament and increase the benchmark for women's sporting events. [25]

On 8 March 2024, to celebrate 500 days to go before the tournament starts, the Swiss Football Association organised a kick off event in Bern. During the event, they launched their slogan for the tournament, Summit of Emotions. [26]

Despite being skeptical about the money involved, [27] [28] Lucerne will fund the tournament for 4 million Francs and will organise an event a exactly a year before the tournament starts. [29] [30] [31]

Tickets

Around 720,000 tickets will be on sale for the tournament. Tickets prices start at 25 Francs. [32]

Controversies

Government funding

On 31 January 2024, the Swiss federal government announced they would support the tournament with 4 million Francs. [33] [34] This sparked controversy as during the bidding process, they promised 15 million Francs and was a big reason why the Swiss bid won. [35] [36] Many people around women's football and politicians in Switzerland criticised the funding cuts, with people from the former saying how England's hosting of the 2022 edition changed the perception of the sport in the country and had big economic benefits for the host cities. [35] [37] Regarding the latter, co-president of the parliamentary group “Euro 25” Corina Gredig, said that the tournament will become a “junk tournament” with the lack of money. [38] [39] While municipal councillor of host city Thun, Katharina Ali-Oesch, said they the city might have to withdraw as a host venue due to the cuts in funding. [38]

The Swiss Football Association also said that this money will only be partially sufficient for their goals for the tournament and hoped the situation will be taken up again in the further political discussion. [34] [40]

On 16 February 2024, the Committee of the Council of States for Science, Education and Culture, applied for a federal contribution of 15 million Francs for the competition. [41] The Council of States was able to get a cross-party commission motion calling for the federal government to support the Women's Euro 2025 in Switzerland with 15 million Francs to be unanimously approved by the lower house. [42] [43] [44]

Then, on 6 March 2024, the eight host cities sent a letter to the federal government asking them to reconsider their decision, stating that they have spent millions on this tournament and hoped for improvements. [45]

On 19 April 2024, mayor of Lucerne, Beat Züsli, stated that in order to deliver to tournament as sustainable as possible, the 15 million Francs are vital. [30] [46] [47] [48]

On 27 April 2024, the Swiss house of representatives voted in favour of increasing the money to 15 million Francs. [49] [50]

The official decision on the amount of money for the tournament will be confirmed during a Swiss parliament session in June 2024. [51]

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