The 2025 European Women’s Soccer Championship will take place in Switzerland.
The first-time host prevailed in the decision of the Executive Committee of the European Football Union UEFA against the favored Nordic quartet Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden as well as the other individual applicants France and Poland. The result was announced by UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin after the Lisbon meeting.
The tournament is to take place in four weeks in June and July 2025, as announced by the Swiss Football Association (SFV). Like last time in England in 2022, 16 teams will take part, with 31 games to come. The SFV named Basel, Bern, Geneva, Zurich, St. Gallen, Sion, Lucerne and Thun as venues. “This is a historic day for Switzerland, the SFV and women’s football,” said association president Dominique Blanc after the award.
At the 2022 European Championship in England, which had been postponed by a year due to the corona pandemic, the German team lost to the hosts in the Wembley final. In two years, 16 teams will take part again, there are 31 games in three weeks. The German Football Association is applying together with the Netherlands and Belgium for the Women’s World Cup 2027. This year the World Cup will take place from July 20th to August 20th in Australia and New Zealand.
Switzerland previously hosted the men’s European Championship together with Austria in 2008 and hosted the men’s World Cup in 1954. The four Nordic countries have each hosted the European Championship in the past: Norway 1987, Denmark 1991, Norway and Sweden together in 1997, Finland 2009 and Sweden 2013, when the German team last lifted the title.
At the end of last year, UEFA postponed the award by two months. The continental federation demanded more detailed budget proposals from the applicants in order to be able to get a final picture of all candidatures.
