UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 Final Preview

Reigning champions, England meet world champions, Spain in a blockbuster UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 Final.

Victory would see England defend their crown and clinch a second UEFA Women’s Euro title, whilst Spain are chasing a first title in this competition.

 

Team News

Lauren James is set to be available for England following her recovery from an ankle injury suffered in the first half of the Lionesses’ semi-final comeback over Italy, which saw her substituted at half time.

Spain will welcome defender, Laia Aleixandri back into the starting line-up, after she was suspended for their extra-time victory over Germany in their semi-final clash.

 

When is Kick-Off?

England meet Spain at St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland, on Sunday 27 July at 6pm CEST (5pm UK Time), live on BBC One, ITV1, BBC iPlayer and ITVX (STV and STV Player in Scotland) in the UK.

 

Road to Final

England

Stage	Opposition	Result
Group Stage	France	1-2
Group Stage	Netherlands	4-0
Group Stage	Wales	6-1
Quarter-Final	Sweden	2-2*
Semi-Final	Italy	2-1 (A.E.T)

*England won 3-2 on penalties.

England opened their title defence with a 2-1 loss to France despite Keira Walsh’s late header after first-half goals from Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Sandie Baltimore for the French.

Lauren James’ brace plus goals from Georgia Stanway and Ella Toone saw England bounce back in their second group match with a 4-0 demolition of Netherlands.

Sarina Wiegman’s Lionesses wrapped up knockout qualification as Group D runners-up with a 6-1 win over Wales, as Stanway, Toone, Lauren Hemp, Alessia Russo, Beth Mead and Aggie Beever-Jones found the net.

Late goals from Lucy Bronze and Michelle Agyemang salvaged a 2-2 draw for England in the Quarter-Finals after Kosovare Asllani and Stina Blackstenius put the Swedes ahead, before the Lionesses prevailed 3-2 in a tense penalty shootout which went to sudden death.

Chloe Kelly dispatched a 119th-minute rebound winner from her saved penalty to complete a semi-final comeback against Italy in extra time, after Agyemang cancelled out Barbara Bonansea’s strike with a last-gasp normal-time equaliser.

 

Spain

Stage	Opposition	Result
Group Stage	Portugal	5-0
Group Stage	Belgium	6-2
Group Stage	Italy	3-1
Quarter-Final	Switzerland	2-0
Semi-Final	Germany	1-0 (A.E.T)

Esther Gonzalez’ braze plus goals from Vicky Lopez, Alexia Putellas and Cristina Martin-Prieto saw Spain open their campaign with a 5-0 demolition of Portugal, albeit hours after Portuguese Men’s forward – Diogo Jota had been killed in a car accident.

Putellas went on to net twice as Spain overcame Belgium 6-2 in a thriller with Irene Paredes, Gonzalez, Mariona Caldentey and Claudia Pina too on the scoresheet for the world champions, amidst goals from Justine Vanhaevermaet and Hannah Eurlings for the Belgian Red Flame.

Second-half goals from Patricia Guijarro and Gonzalez saw Spain come from behind to top Group B with a 3-1 win over Italy in their final group match, after Athenea del Castillo had cancelled out Elisabetta Oliviero’s opener.

Quick-fire goals from Del Castillo and Pina in the space of five second-half minutes saw the world champions clinically dispatch tournament hosts, Switzerland in their Quarter-Final clash.

Spain needed a tightly-angled clinical 113th-minute strike from Aitana Bonmati to sneak past Germany in a scrappy semi-final clash between the two pre-tournament title favourites.

 

Stat Attack

• England have won two of three previous meetings against Spain in UEFA Women’s Euro (W2, L1).
• Spain have scored in two of their three previous clashes against England in this competition, having won 3-2 in Group Stage of 2013 then lost 2-0 in 2017 at Group Stage and 2-1 in extra time in Quarter-Finals in 2022.
• Across UEFA Women’s Euro and FIFA Women’s World Cup combined, England and Spain met four times at major tournaments and taken two wins apiece.
• No team has had more individual goalscorers in a single edition of the Women’s Euro than England in this tournament, with the Lionesses having produced 11 different goalscorers in five matches.
• Spain have kept three clean sheet in five matches across this tournament (W5), during which they scored 17 goals and conceded three goals.

 

Prediction

Having put fans through the Andy Murray style emotional wringer in their last two matches, (if also watch tennis, you know) England now need to produce their most clinical performance if want to successfully defend their crown but their shaky defence could be their Achilles heel if not tightened.

Spain though will need to be more creative because their attack look nullified against Germany’s resilient defence with little variety and intensity shift until the second half of extra time, where they got lucky with Bonmati’s clinical finish otherwise they would of probably needed penalties.

England though will know that Spain’s defence is vulnerable when put under pressure as proven by Belgium and Italy, whilst Cata Coll did a superb job to just keep Germany out at times in the semi which shows that their back lines can be beaten with the right quality.

Nevertheless this is too tough to call because England manager, Sarina Wiegman knows how to win titles and they have deep goalscoring depth, yet so do Spain who have the confidence from their World Cup Final victory two years ago so I can see this going to extra time.

Fitness consequently could well play a part in that case and given that Spain have played just one period of extra time compared to England’s two additional periods, I can see the world champions just having the edge but it will be a nervy watch.

Prediction: England 1-2 (AET) Spain