From Ballon d’Or winners to high-scoring forwards to veteran playmakers, these are the celebrities who’ll seize the headlines at UEFA Ladies’s Euro 2025.
Sixteen nations will purpose for glory at this version of the match, going down throughout Switzerland from July 2-27. You can watch all 31 video games throughout FOX Sports activities, culminating with the ultimate on July 27 at St. Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland (12 p.m. ET, FOX).
What’s at stake for these gamers and groups? Lots. For England, it is about successful a consecutive Euro championship after seeing a few of their high stars from the 2022 match retire. For Spain, a brand new piece of silverware to go along with the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup title would additional cement their legacy.
Every squad within the match has standout gamers, however these 10 stars – together with a number of these two co-favorite sides – would be the focus of followers and opponents alike. Let’s dive in:
Aitana Bonmatí | Midfielder | Spain
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What’s At Stake: We noticed the frustration in Bonmati’s face after Barcelona misplaced to Arsenal within the UEFA Champions League remaining earlier this spring, so you’ll be able to wager that might be a motivating issue for the two-time reigning Ballon d’Or champion. Not solely that, however the final time we noticed Spain on the world’s stage was the 2024 Paris Olympics when La Roja misplaced to Brazil within the semifinal match. Bonmati has received a whole lot of trophies – together with the 2023 World Cup – however Spain has by no means received the Euro’s earlier than and she or he might be anxious to steer her workforce to a title. – Laken Litman
Kadidiatou Diani | Ahead | France
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What’s At Stake: In 2023, Diani received the Silver Boot on the Ladies’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. In 2024, Diani was the highest scorer within the UEFA Champions League. However the 30-year-old ahead has by no means received a world trophy for her workforce, both at membership degree or with Les Bleues. This summer time represents her subsequent likelihood, and it’s a very good one: After Spain and England, France is the bookies’ subsequent favourite to say the title in Switzerland. – Doug McIntyre
Caroline Graham Hansen | Ahead | Norway
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What’s At Stake: Hansen, who completed second within the 2024 Ballon d’Or voting, is one among Norway’s high gamers proper now. The Barcelona winger – who, like Bonmati, might be anxious to do properly this summer time after dropping out on a Champions League title – is artistic, enjoyable to look at and doubtless a bit beneath the radar regardless of her dominance on the pitch. Norway has a robust group of gamers, which additionally contains extra acquainted stars like Ada Hegerberg. But when this group goes to make a run at successful its first European championship since 1993, it can take an enormous effort from the 30-year-old Hansen. – Litman
Chloe Kelly | Ahead | England
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What’s At Stake: Who may neglect that Kelly was the hero of the 2022 Euros? She scored the game-winning purpose in further time to present England an exciting 2-1 win over Germany, and promptly ripped off her jersey in celebration. Since then, Kelly has been up and down for the Lionesses. However she’s lately discovered her footing at Arsenal, the place she transferred this spring, earlier than serving to the membership win the Champions League. The 27-year-old ahead is taking part in extra confidently than ever and is anxious to assist England win a second title. – Litman
Clàudia Pina | Ahead | Spain
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What’s At Stake: There’s a lot expertise from Barcelona taking part in in these Euros, it’s straightforward to neglect the Spanish membership didn’t win the Champions League title this season. Pina was one of many the reason why her membership made a run to the title sport although, coming in as the highest scorer in Champions League with 10 objectives. She’s had a while to relaxation and get well following a protracted and laborious season, and Spain definitely hopes she’s in high type to be a risk in entrance of purpose this summer time. – Litman
Alexia Putellas | Midfielder | Spain
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What’s At Stake: The 2-time Ballon d’Or winner tore her ACL on the eve of Euro 2022, torpedoing Spain’s probabilities of successful its first continental title. Putellas returned in time to occupy a supporting function as La Roja received the 2023 World Cup, however one other knee damage prevented the Barcelona famous person from taking part as Spain claimed final 12 months’s UEFA Nations League. This summer time’s Euros, in different phrases, marks the primary main match for a totally wholesome Putellas because the 2019 Ladies’s World Cup. – McIntyre
Alessia Russo | Ahead | England
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What’s At Stake: Russo is coming off arguably her finest membership season ever – she helped lead Arsenal to a Champions League title and received the WSL Golden Boot (12 objectives). Now, she’s trying to take England again to the highest of Europe by successful a second straight Euro championship. Russo performed within the 2022 remaining, approaching as a second-half sub and was on the England squad that misplaced to Spain within the 2023 World Cup remaining. Whereas the 26-year-old ahead remains to be younger in her profession, she’s received quite a bit and if the Lionesses win all of it this summer time, she’ll be a significant cause why. – Litman
Lea Schüller | Ahead | Germany
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What’s At Stake: Schüller’s worldwide strike fee is gaudy, with 52 objectives in 75 appearances for Germany. It hasn’t translated into silverware, nonetheless: the 27-year-old’s profession with the Frauenteam has been marked by close to misses, together with a bronze medal on the 2024 Olympics, one other third-place end in that 12 months’s Nations League and a heartbreaking loss to England on the Euro 2022 remaining. If the Germans are to win their ninth European title this July (and their first in additional than a decade), Schüller will play a significant function. – McIntyre
Keira Walsh | Midfielder | England
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What’s At Stake: The Lionesses’ maestro is trying to lead the defending champions to their second consecutive European title. Walsh orchestrated England’s unforgettable Euro 2022 overcome Germany on residence soil three years in the past, however she struggled mightily within the 2023 World Cup remaining loss to Spain. Now 28 and the Lionesses’ vice-captain, the Chelsea standout might be extremely motivated to place that setback proper this summer time. – McIntyre
Daniëlle van de Donk | Midfielder | Netherlands
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What’s At Stake: The excessive level of Van de Donk’s 15-year worldwide profession got here in 2017, when she helped the Oranje win Euro 2017. However the Dutch couldn’t flip that triumph into pattern; they misplaced the World Cup remaining to america two years later, then bombed out of the 2020 Olympics, Euro 2022 and World Cup 2023 within the quarterfinals. The Netherlands didn’t qualify for final summer time’s Paris Video games. Together with her thirty fourth birthday approaching in August, this may very well be her remaining alternative so as to add one other main trophy earlier than hanging up her cleats. – McIntyre
Laken Litman covers faculty soccer, faculty basketball and soccer for FOX Sports activities. She beforehand wrote for Sports activities Illustrated, USA In the present day and The Indianapolis Star. She is the creator of “Robust Like a Lady,” revealed in spring 2022 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX. Comply with her at @LakenLitman.
Doug McIntyre is a soccer reporter for FOX Sports activities who has lined United States males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups at FIFA World Cups on 5 continents. Comply with him @ByDougMcIntyre.
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