England vs Germany, EURO 2022 final: How to watch, kickoff time, preview

LONDON (AP) — England vs Germany, at Wembley Stadium — a EURO 2022 final that underlines the growing stature of women’s soccer in Europe and echoes decades of history.

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When host nation England takes on Germany in the European Championship final Sunday, it will have a tournament-record crowd of nearly 90,000. Euro 2022 as a whole will be easily the best-attended ever. It beat the previous mark of 240,000 part-way through the group stage.

“It’s going to be a great festival of football,” German coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said Wednesday. “That’s a classic in soccer, England-Germany.”

Date: Sunday, July 31, 12 pm ET Kickoff time: 12 pm ET Location: Wembley Stadium, London, England How to watch, stream: ESPN Live scores, stats: On NBCSports.com

England is aiming to win its first major women’s tournament title on the site where the English men’s national team beat West Germany to win its only major title to date, the 1966 World Cup.

Germany has won all eight European finals it’s played — and crushed England 6-2 in the 2009 final — but its momentum had seemed to slow in recent years as other countries invested heavily in women’s leagues.

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England has scored a tournament-leading 20 goals on its way to the final, more than half in two storming wins over former European champions, 8-0 against Norway in the group stage and 4-0 against Sweden in the semifinals.

Beating eight-time winner Germany would be the perfect way for England to write history.

England showed it is possible back in February, winning 3-1 in Wolverhampton for its first-ever victory against Germany on