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Published 13 December 2024 2 min read
England Women's Senior Team

UEFA Women's EURO 2025 draw details

Written by:

Nicholas Veevers

Find out when the draw for next summer's EURO in Switzerland takes place and how it will work

EURO 2025: TICKET INFO

England will learn their group stage opponents at next summer’s UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 Finals, when the draw takes place on Monday 16 December at 5pm GMT.

The Lionesses sealed their spot at the Finals earlier this year, and they now head to Switzerland to defend their title between 2 and 27 July 2025.

Head coach Sarina Wiegman will be at the Swiss Tech Convention Centre in Lausanne, where the 16 contenders will be split into four groups of four teams for the first stage of the tournaments and the draw will be live streamed by UEFA.

Hosts Switzerland will be joined in the tournament by the eight teams who qualified directly from the qualifying league stage and the seven play-off winners. Each group will contain one team each from one of four seeding pots.

The pots are seeded in accordance with the overall Women's European Qualifiers league stage rankings, although Switzerland are placed in position A1 for scheduling purposes as the host nation.
England head to Switzerland next summer as EURO holders following their success in 2022
England head to Switzerland next summer as EURO holders following their success in 2022
The remaining teams in Pot 1 will be drawn to fill the other groups and from there, all groups will contain one team each from Pots 2 to 4. You can see the pots below.

Hosts (placed in position 1 of Group A): Switzerland

Pot 1 (positions 1 to 3 in rankings): Spain, Germany, France

Pot 2 (positions 4 to 7 in rankings): Italy, Iceland, Denmark, England (holders)

Pot 3 (positions 8 to 11 in rankings): Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Belgium

Pot 4 (positions 12 to 15 in rankings); Finland, Poland, Portugal, Wales

We’ll have full coverage of the draw and reaction from Sarina on the day.

Dates for UEFA Women's EURO 2025 games are as follows:-

Group stage matchday one: 2–5 July
Group stage matchday two: 6–9 July
Group stage matchday three: 10–13 July
Quarter-finals: 16–19 July
Semi-finals: 22–23 July
Final: 27 July