Women's Euro 2025 team profiles

The Women's European Championship starts in Switzerland on July 2 where England will aim to retain their title. Here we profile the 16 teams hoping to get their hands on the trophy.

Belgium

The Red Flames proved they could compete with the best when they upset England 3-2 in a Nations League game in April, thanks to two goals and an assist from Tessa Wullaert.

The 32-year-old Inter Milan forward, who has 92 goals in 144 appearances for Belgium, leads a team gunning for at least a second consecutive quarter-final appearance at the Euros. 

World champions Spain are the favourites to win their group, but Belgium should be in the thick of the battle for second place with Italy and Portugal.

Denmark

The Danes will once again look to Pernille Harder as their talisman in a group where they will face Germany, Sweden and Poland, and though they have plenty of solid players, none has the star power of their 32-year-old record goalscorer.

Harder's finishing is superb, but so too is her playmaking, causing a headache for coaching staff tasked with getting the best out of both her and the players around her.

The surprise inclusion of 37-year-old striker Nadia Nadim by coach Andree Jeglertz has raised plenty of eyebrows in Danish football, and after a humiliating 6-1 friendly defeat to Sweden in early June, the Danes have a lot to improve upon before the tournament. 

England

The defending champions head to Switzerland after a rocky few weeks that saw defender and co-captain Millie Bright withdraw her name from contention to focus on her mental and physical health and goalkeeper Mary Earps announce her shock international retirement after losing her starting role to Hannah Hampton.

The Lionesses, who have also had a rough patch of results with