Women's EURO 2025 final draw

The UEFA Women's EURO 2025 final draw took place on 16 December at the Swiss Tech Convention Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The draw split the 16 contenders into four groups of four teams. Hosts Switzerland are being joined in the final tournament by eight teams that progressed directly from the qualifying league stage plus seven play-off winners. The top two teams from each final tournament group advance to the knockout phase.

Former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright and Swiss sports presenter Annette Fetscherin anchored the broadcast of the draw, enlisting the help of Leonardo Bonucci (Italy), Verónica Boquete (Spain), Lara Dickenmann (Switzerland), Sami Khedira (Germany), Jill Scott (England), Caroline Seger (Sweden), Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) and Raphaël Varane (France).

The ceremony also included a performance from Swiss artist Stress featuring Karolyn, an appearance from Women's EURO 2025 mascot Maddli and the official unveiling of the tournament match ball.

Draw overview

The teams were divided into four groups of four teams, Groups A to D.

Hosts Switzerland were placed in position A1.

The 15 teams that qualified via the European Qualifiers were classified in accordance with the overall Women's European Qualifiers league stage rankings.

The three seeded teams from Pot 1 were drawn into positions one in Group B to D.

The remaining 12 teams were allocated at random to positions 2 to 4 in each group. For this purpose, four additional pots (Pots A to D) with three balls each were used:

Pot A: Positions A2, A3 and A4

Pot B: Positions B2, B3 and B4

Pot C: Positions C2, C3 and C4

Pot D: Positions D2, D3 and D4

The group positions determine the order of matches in the group stage, as outlined in the match schedule

Draw procedure

The draw started with Pot 1, from where the teams were drawn to fill position 1 in each group.

One ball was drawn and the team assigned to position 1 of Group B; a second ball was drawn and the team assigned to position 1 of Group C; the last ball was drawn and the team assigned to position 1 of Group D.

The draw continued with Pot 2. A ball was drawn and the team assigned to Group A. In order to determine the position of the drawn team within Group A (i.e. A2, A3 or A4) a ball was drawn from Pot A. A second ball was drawn from Pot 2 and assigned to Group B. Once again, to determine the position of the drawn team within Group B, a ball was drawn from Pot B. The same procedure was repeated for Groups C and D consecutively until all balls from Pot 2 had been drawn and the teams positioned in each group.

Once Pot 2 was emptied, the draw proceeded to Pot 3 and then to Pot 4, using the same procedure as for Pot 2.

Knockout bracket

All times CET

Quarter-finals

Wednesday 16 July
Match 25: Winners Group A vs Runners-up Group B (Geneva, 21:00)

Thursday 17 July
Match 26: Winners Group C vs Runners-up Group D (Zurich, 21:00)

Friday 18 July
Match 27: Winners Group B vs Runners-up Group A (Bern, 21:00)

Saturday 19 July
Match 28: Winners Group D vs Runners-up Group C (Basel, 21:00)

Semi-finals

Tuesday 22 July
Match 29: Winners Match 26 vs Winners Match 25 (Geneva, 21:00)

Wednesday 23 July
Match 30: Winners Match 28 vs Winners Match 27 (Zurich, 21:00)

Final

Sunday 27 July
Winners Match 29 vs Winners Match 30 (Basel, 18:00)

Women's EURO 2025 in Switzerland: Venues

St. Jakob-Park, Basel
Stadion Wankdorf, Bern
Stade de Genève, Geneva
Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich
Arena St.Gallen, St.Gallen
Allmend Stadion Luzern, Lucerne
Stade de Tourbillon, Sion
Arena Thun, Thun