On Tuesday, UEFA will decide where the 2025 Women’s European Football Championship will be held. There are four applications.
The Executive Committee of UEFA is meeting in Lisbon on Tuesday (April 4th, 2023), where the congress with the re-election of President Aleksander Ceferin is scheduled for Wednesday. At the meeting of the executive committee (from 1 p.m.) the venue of the EM 2025 will be announced. There are four applications:
- Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
- France
- Poland
- Switzerland
The award was moved from January to April
The award was originally planned for January 2023. As early as December 2022, however, UEFA had announced that it would only decide on the alignment in April. The reason for the postponement is that UEFA demanded detailed budget proposals.
The postponement should give all applications the opportunity to “to reassess their documents without undue time pressure”according to UEFA.
| Year | winners | host country |
|---|---|---|
1984 | Sweden | home and away game |
1987 | Norway | Norway |
1989 | Deutschland | Deutschland |
1991 | Deutschland | Denmark |
1993 | Norway | Italy |
1995 | Deutschland | no central tournament |
1997 | Deutschland | Norway/Sweden |
2001 | Deutschland | Deutschland |
2005 | Deutschland | England |
2009 | Deutschland | Finland |
2013 | Deutschland | Sweden |
2017 | Netherlands | Netherlands |
2022 | England | England |
Increased requirements, larger stadiums needed
The prerequisite is at least eight stadiums in UEFA category 4, each with at least 15,000 seats and in some cases more than 30,000 seats – the requirements have been increased according to UEFA. As in the 2022 tournament, 16 teams in four groups are to compete in 2025 Ko-round participating Teams determine. The tournament will consist of 31 games.
The EM 2022 in England was supposed to take place in 2021, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, like the men’s tournament, it was postponed by a year. The tournament was a success, with 87,000 fans attending the European Championship final at Wembley Stadium, which was the best-attended event in football history overall. A total of almost 500,000 fans came, which represented a doubling of 2017.
DFB wants the 2027 World Cup together with the Netherlands and Belgium
2023 will find the WM in Australia and New Zealand, the German Football Association (DFB) is currently applying for the 2027 World Cup together with the associations from the Netherlands and Belgium.
