UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 semifinals: Qualified teams and schedule

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Holders England look Italy portion satellite champions Spain instrumentality connected Germany arsenic the Women’s Euro enters its last week.

A last-minute winner, 2 thrilling shootouts, missed penalties and countless saves – the quarterfinals of the UEFA Women’s Euro delivered everything 1 could inquire for.

The play present rolls connected to the last week with 4 teams near successful the hunt for the European crown.

Here’s however the Euro 2025 semifinals enactment up:

⚽ First semifinal: England vs Italy

When: Tuesday astatine 9pm (19:00 GMT)
Where: Stade de Geneve, Geneva

A long-cherished imagination became a world for Italy connected Wednesday erstwhile skipper Cristiana Girelli’s 90th-minute header ended their 28-year hold for a spot successful the semifinals of the Women’s European championships.

Coming into the contention arsenic the underdogs, Italy stunned Norway 2-1 arsenic Girelli scored doubly portion Ada Hegerberg netted erstwhile for the Norwegians aft missing a punishment for the 2nd clip successful this year’s tournament.

“I felt thing different, thing special. I person seen successful the eyes of my teammates a peculiar light,” the 35-year-old Girelli said aft the game. “If you person a flame, you person to proceed to live. We suffered a lot, but we fought until the end.”

Their fairytale tally present faces its adjacent trial against holders England, who snatched triumph from the jaws of defeat, winning 3-2 successful a melodramatic punishment shootout against Sweden connected Thursday.

Eleven minutes from full-time the Lionesses – trailing 2-0 and connected the brink of elimination – mounted a accelerated comeback, scoring 2 goals successful 2 minutes to nonstop the lucifer into other time.

In the punishment shootout, which featured 14 attempts, defender Lucy Bronze slammed her spot footwear into the extortion of the nett arsenic the seventh punishment taker, and goalkeeper Hannah Hampton made 2 saves arsenic England manager Sarina Wiegman breathed a suspiration of alleviation arsenic her broadside qualified for the last 4 astatine Euro 2025.

“It was hard. One of the hardest games I’ve ever watched. Very emotional. We could’ve been retired 4 oregon 5 times during the game,” Wiegman said.

England are unbeaten successful their past 5 matches against Italy, each friendlies, with 4 of those ending successful victories. The victor of the archetypal semifinal volition look either Spain oregon Germany successful the final.

Italy's Cristiana Girelli cups her ears successful solemnisation aft scoring a 90th-minute wintertime against Norway to nonstop her squad to the Euro 2025 semifinals.

⚽ Second semifinal: Germany vs Spain

When: Wednesday astatine 9pm (19:00 GMT)
Where: Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich

Spain kept their quest for a maiden Women’s Euro rubric live by knocking retired hosts Switzerland 2-0 successful Friday’s quarterfinal contempt failing doubly from the punishment spot.

The satellite champions were made to enactment hard against a stubborn Swiss defence successful the archetypal fractional earlier ace sub Athenea del Castillo scored the opener soon aft the hr mark, and Claudia Pina doubled the pb with a superb curling effort. Spain’s triumph kept their 100 percent winning grounds astatine Euro 2025 intact.

“Maybe we’d similar to look Germany again due to the fact that of what happened astatine the Olympics,” del Castillo said aft the match, referring to their 1-0 decision to Germany successful the bronze medal lucifer astatine Paris 2024.

Athenea whitethorn conscionable get the revenge she hinted at: Germany are through, and Spain volition present conscionable their Olympic nemesis successful the semifinals.

The Germans defeated France 6-5 connected penalties successful Saturday’s thrilling semifinal, pulling disconnected a superb comeback from a extremity down contempt playing with 10 players for astir of the match. In the 13th minute, German midfielder Kathrin Hendrich was issued a consecutive reddish paper aft she pulled the hairsbreadth of France skipper Griedge Mbock.

With the lucifer tied 1-1 aft other time, the contention was decided connected penalties. Germany’s goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger was the hero, firing home from a important spot footwear herself earlier pulling disconnected a decisive punishment prevention to seal the upset triumph against France.

“There is simply a precise hard and pugnacious hostile [Spain] we person to look [in the final]. Everybody truly gave their eventual effort here, and we request to regenerate. We person to marque definite we recover,” said the 34-year-old Berger, who produced a drawstring of outstanding saves passim the match.

Germany are unbeaten successful 8 meetings with Spain, winning 5 and drafting 3 with a extremity number of 18-3.