Switzerland to host Women’s Euro 2025 soccer match

LISBON, Portugal — Switzerland was chosen Tuesday to host soccer’s Women’s European Championship in 2025.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin mentioned the manager committee selected the Swiss bid over three different candidates after the utmost three rounds of voting. The different candidates have been France, Poland and the anticipated favourite, a four-nation Nordic undertaking with Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The 2025 match can have 16 groups enjoying 31 video games over about three weeks.

Switzerland plans to make use of stadiums in eight totally different cities all related by practice. They embrace Basel, Bern, Geneva and Zurich, which additionally hosted video games when the lads’s Euro 2008 was held in Switzerland and Austria.

Two of the eight stadiums, in Bern and Thun, have synthetic turf surfaces that must be transformed to grass for the match.

England gained the final European Championship as host in 2022, which had been postponed for one 12 months throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The males’s Euro 2020, which was performed in 2021, was held throughout 11 totally different nations.