Women’s Euros: The Preview

Football Daily

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Katie Smith looks ahead to UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, which starts on Wednesday. She’s joined by England’s all-time record goalscorer Ellen White, former Scotland all-rounder Jen Beattie and The Guardian’s Tom Garry. Also hear from former Switzerland goalkeeper Kathrin Lehmann, Nordic football expert Mia Eriksson, Norway boss Gemma Grainger, former Spain midfielder Vicky Losada, French football expert Julien Laurens & Dutch journalist Rivkah op het Veld.

01:45 Hosts Switzerland missing a key player, 08:15 Eight-time winners Germany into a new era? 11:30 What about the Scandinavian teams? 13:25 Norway boss Gemma Grainger INTERVIEW, 17:40 Can Sweden finally go that final step? 21:30 Will world champions Spain break their Euros duck? 30:30 Italy being tipped to go far in group with Portugal & Belgium, 32:45 Is Group D the group of death? 33:50 French squad selection raises questions, 40:10 Netherlands’ head coach isn’t happy, 46:00 England going in as defending champions, 50:05 Wales going in as tournament debutants.

BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries: Sat 2000 England v Germany in UEFA U21 Final, Sun 1700 England v Jamaica in women’s friendly, Wed 1700 Iceland v Finland on Sports Extra 2, Wed 2000 Switzerland v Norway on 5 Live, Thu 2000 Spain v Portugal on 5 Live.

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0:52.3	Welcome along to the Football Daily and the women's euros 2025 start on Wednesday.
0:58.6	16 teams, 31 matches across eight venues in Switzerland, over 700,000 fans inside those stadiums.
1:07.4	And of course, as ever, 26 days of live coverage for you here on five live sports.
1:13.4	Hopefully you can get as excited as we are for kickoff in six days time.
1:17.3	And along the way, hopefully we can surprise you with some things you maybe didn't know about
1:21.3	the tournament as well and the teams taking part and the players that will be in action.
1:25.2	So no pressure on us this evening and helping me in that task.
1:29.6	We've got England's all-time record scorer Ellen White, former Scotland all-rounder, defender, midfielder.
1:35.2	She's a striker as well, Gem Beatty.
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