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Lionesses: Euro 2025 Guide

Check out our full guide to the Lionesses Euro's 2025 campaign

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Saturday, 5 July 2025

England will be looking to defend their European title at UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 in Switzerland!

The build-up for the holders hasn’t been smooth with key players being injured, Mary Earps and Fran Kirby retiring from international football whilst Millie Bright made herself unavailable for selection for the squad, and there have been inconsistent results on the pitch!


The Lionesses are in a tough group alongside France, Netherlands and Wales and will need to play at their best to get through to the knockout stages.


Here is our guide and preview for England at Euro 2025.


 

History in Euros

England go into the Euros as current champions having beaten Germany 2-1 at Wembley Stadium in 2022 thanks to Chloe Kelly’s extra time winning goal.  The Lionesses have also been runners-up twice in 1984 and 2009 and reached the semi-finals in 1995 and 2017.

 

How they qualified

The Lionesses qualified automatically for the finals after finishing as runners-up in their group behind France, who they also play in the group stage in Switzerland. Also in the group were Sweden and the Republic of Ireland.  England won 3, drew 2 and lost 1 whilst qualifying.

England 1 – 1 Sweden (Russo)

Republic of Ireland 0 – 2 England (James, Greenwood)

England 1 – 2 France (Mead)

France 1 – 2 England (Stanway, Russo)

England 2 – 1 Republic of Ireland (Russo, Stanway)

Sweden 0 – 0 England

 

Squad

Head coach – Sarina Wiegman

1 – Hannah Hampton – Chelsea – Goalkeeper (16 caps)

2 – Lucy Bronze – Chelsea – Defender (139 caps, 19 goals)

3 – Niamh Charles – Chelsea – Defender (24 caps)

4 – Keira Walsh – Chelsea – Midfielder (87 caps, 1 goal)

5 – Alex Greenwood – Manchester City – Defender (99 caps, 7 goals)

6 – Leah Willamson – Arsenal – Defender (58 caps, 5 goals)

7 – Lauren James – Chelsea – Forward (28 caps, 7 goals)

8 – Georgia Stanway – Bayern Munich – Midfielder (78 caps, 22 goals)

9 – Beth Mead – Arsenal – Forward (68 caps, 36 goals)

10 – Ella Toone – Manchester United – Midfielder (59 caps, 21 goals)

11 – Lauren Hemp – Manchester City – Forward (64 caps, 18 goals)

12 – Maya Le Tissier – Manchester United – Defender (8 caps)

13 – Anna Moorhouse –Orlando Pride – Goalkeeper (0 caps)

14 – Grace Clinton – Manchester United – Midfielder (11 caps, 3 goals)

15 – Esme Morgan – Washington Spirit – Defender (14 caps)

16 – Jess Carter – Gotham FC – Defender (45 caps, 2 goals)

17 – Michelle Agyemang – Arsenal – Forward (1 cap, 1 goal)

18 – Chloe Kelly – Arsenal – Forward (53 caps, 8 goals)

19 – Aggie Beever-Jones – Chelsea – Forward (8 caps, 5 goals)

20 – Jess Park – Manchester City – Midfielder (19 caps, 3 goals)

21 – Khiara Keating – Manchester City – Goalkeeper (0 caps)

22 – Lotte Wubben-Moy – Arsenal – Defender (13 caps, 1 goal)

23 – Alessia Russo – Arsenal – Forward (51 caps, 23 goals)

 

Head coach Sarina Wiegman will be looking to make it three Euros titles in a row after winning in 2017 with the Netherlands and in 2022 with England.


Wiegman’s squad includes six players who won the English domestic treble with Chelsea and five of Arsenal’s UEFA Women’s Champions League winners. 


With Earps retirement, Hannah Hampton is now clear number one in goal.  Anna Moorhouse and Khiara Keating are the two other goalkeepers in the squad but both haven’t made an international appearance yet.


In defence, Lucy Bronze looks to certain start at right-back with captain Leah Williamson and Alex Greenwood in the centre.  The left-back position looks to be between Jess Carter, who impressed in the friendly against Jamaica, and Niamh Charles.  The other defenders in the squad are Maya Le Tissier, Esme Morgan and Lotte Wubben-Moy.  There is a bit of versatility in which positions across the back some of these players can play.



Keira Walsh looked likely to start in the defensive midfield role with Georgia Stanway in front of her.  Ella Toone started in the number 10 role against Jamaica and scored twice whilst Lauren James, who is coming back from injury and whose minutes could be managed, could also play there or in the wide attacking positions.  Alternatives in the midfield roles are Grace Clinton and Jess Park. 


Others that will be competing for starting spots in the wide attacking positions as well as James are Beth Mead, Chloe Kelly and Lauren Hemp. 


Alessia Russo looks like she has cemented her position up front with Aggie Beever-Jones and Michelle Agyemang, who is a bit of a wildcard in the squad after scoring 41 seconds into her senior debut against Belgium, as alternatives in that role.

 


Form

England go into the Euros in mixed form.  In 2025, they have beaten world champions Spain 1-0 at Wembley Stadium but also lost 3-2 away to Belgium.  In their final warm-up game, the Lionesses beat Jamaica 7-0 with Ella Toone scoring twice and Lucy Bronze, Georgia Stanway, Alessia Russo, Aggie Beever-Jones and Beth Mead also found the net.


Results in 2025

Portugal 1 – 1 England (Russo)

England 1 – 0 Spain (Park)

England 5 – 0 Belgium (Bronze, Bright, Beever-Jones, Park, Walsh)

Belgium 3 – 2 England (Mead, Agyemang)

England 6 – 0 Portugal (Beever-Jones (3), Bronze, Mead, Kelly)

Spain 2 – 1 England (Russo)

England 7 - 0 Jamaica (Toone (2), Bronze, Stanway, Russo, Beever-Jones, Mead)

 

Group Opponents

England go into the Euros 5th in the world ranking.


Their first opponents in the group are France.  They are currently ranked 10th in the world.  Their best performance at the Euros was reaching the semi-finals in 2022.  France go into the tournament in really good form having won 8 out of 8 matches in 2025.  In their two warm-up games, they beat Belgium 5-0 and Brazil 3-2.


The Netherlands are the Lionesses second opponents.  They are 11th in the world rankings at the moment.  They won the Euros in 2017 on home soil with Wiegman in charge of them.  They beat Finland 2-1 in their warm-up match but their form, like England, has been a little inconsistent this year.


Wales will be making their first appearance in the Euros.  They are the lowest ranked side in the tournament currently being 30th in the world.  They didn’t have any warm-up friendlies with their last matches being defeats to Denmark and Italy a month ago.  They have drawn twice with Sweden (ranked 6th in the world) this year though.

 

Group games

Saturday 5th July

France v England - Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich (8pm BST) - Live on ITV1

Wednesday 9th July

England v Netherlands - Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich (5pm BST) - Live on BBC One

Sunday 13th July

England v Wales - Arena St. Gallen, St. Gallen (8pm BST) - Live on ITV1

 

Where to watch and listen

All Euro 2025 games will be shown live on the BBC and ITV in the UK.  Check TV guides to see what is on where.  BBC Radio will be coving lots of the games during the tournament as will talkSport if you want to listen to the matches (check their schedules).

 

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