For Spain To Win Euro 2025, It Must Do Something It's Never Done: Beat Germany

World Cup winner Spain has never reached the final of the Women’s European Championship. It has also never beaten Germany.

Both those things could change on Wednesday.

Spain plays Germany in the Euro 2025 semifinals in Zurich, knowing that it has never managed to get the better of its opponents in eight previous meetings — five losses and three draws.

"For my experience in the Spanish team in the last seven years, I had the chance to play five times against Germany. We never managed to beat them, but I also feel that in those five times we were closer and closer to the victory," Spain coach Montse Tomé said Tuesday.

"Today we are in another point, they are also a different team. But Germany is always Germany."

Spain beat Switzerland to reach only its second-ever Euros semifinal — 28 years after its first. After winning the World Cup and Nations League in the past two years, the team is moving closer to adding the European Championship trophy to its collection.

Spain has lost just one of its past 15 matches — winning 12 — since its last encounter with Germany, a 1-0 defeat in the bronze medal match at last year’s Paris Olympics.

"Every player tries to find a way to write history," captain Alexia Putellas said. "I see tomorrow's match more as an opportunity than revenge.

"The Olympics was a totally different competition. That game will have nothing to do with tomorrow’s game. We have the opportunity to beat them for the first time."

Spain has lost just one of its past 15 matches — winning 12 — since its last encounter with Germany, a 1-0 defeat in the bronze medal match at last year’s Paris Olympics. (Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images)

While Spain is favorite to progress, Germany has proved you can never write off the