UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, Switzerland - qualifiers

[amenina]

Four bids to host UEFA Women’s EURO 2025

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/02 ... euro-2025/

France
Poland
Switzerland
joint bid from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

The UEFA Executive Committee will appoint the host association(s) of UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 in January 2023.

[amenina]

UEFA European Qualifiers phase

The European Qualifiers start in spring 2024, following the conclusion of the UEFA Nations League, and are composed of a league stage and final tournament play-offs.

The European Qualifiers league stage is played in the same format as the Nations League, with teams split into three leagues: League A with 16 teams, League B with 16 teams and League C with 19 teams. Each team’s starting league position is determined based on the results of the Nations League, as described above.

Again, teams compete in groups of four or three teams (League C) and over six matchdays, with each team playing one home match and one away match against all the other teams in their group.

The ultimate goals of this phase of the competition are to qualify for the UEFA Women’s EURO (or the FIFA Women’s World Cup) and to be positioned as high as possible in the league system for the next cycle.

The European Qualifiers ranking at the end of the league stage determines three main outcomes: who qualifies directly for the final tournament, who goes into the play-offs for the final tournament, and what starting league position teams will have in the upcoming Nations League. Depending on the league standings, teams will either maintain their position in the league or be automatically promoted or relegated.

Direct qualification for UEFA Women’s EURO 2025

The final European Qualifiers league ranking will reward the eight top teams in League A with direct qualification for UEFA Women’s EURO 2025. If the team of the host association have not qualified automatically, they will be guaranteed a slot. In the case of multiple hosts, this guarantee will cover a maximum of two teams.

European Qualifiers play-offs for UEFA Women’s EURO 2025

The remaining slots will be contested over two rounds of home-and-away European Qualifiers play-offs. The play-off path illustrated below may be adjusted to take into account the performance of the team(s) of the host association(s).

In the first round, the teams finishing third and fourth in League A will play the winners and three best-ranked runners-up in League C. The eight winners progress to the second round.

The four group winners and two best-ranked runners-up in League B will be drawn into six ties against the remaining two runners-up and four third-placed teams in League B. The six winners progress to the second round.

In the second round, the teams will be drawn into seven ties, with the seven winners progressing to the final tournament.

The UEFA European Qualifiers phase will be played from spring 2024 to autumn 2024.

[amenina]

In the normal scenario, 7 teams will qualify through the playoffs. There are 28 total teams in playoffs: 8 from League A, 12 from League B, and 8 from League C.

If the hosts are in the top two of League A, 8 teams will qualify through playoffs.

Possibly in this case, all 16 League B teams will be in playoffs. In this case there are 32 total teams in playoffs, so after two rounds 8 teams will qualify.

If there are multiple hosts, a maximum of 2 may be given automatic entry. So 6 teams will qualify through playoffs.

Possibly in this case, either only 8 League B teams will be in playoffs, or only 4 League C teams will be in playoffs. In this case there are 24 total teams in playoffs, so after two rounds 6 teams will qualify.

Also notice that since the hosts do not play in playoffs, some adjustments have to be made, e.g. if the hosts are from League A, then fewer than 8 League A teams will be in playoffs. Most likely another team from League B or C will be added to the playoffs.

[Kjello]

Switzerland it is!

[Jackson Harrison]

Switzerland it is!

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[Jackson Harrison]

According to Ceferin it took 3 rounds of voting! (it was an exhaustive ballot) so was very close.

The returning officer has given notice that the results were as follows:
The UEFA Executive Committee has appointed the Swiss Football Federation as hosts of UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 at their meeting in Lisbon.

The 16-team tournament will take place in eight venues across Switzerland in the summer of 2025.


To be appointed as hosts, absolute majority was needed in the first round, and the voting results were as follows:

Candidate / Number of votes

Nordics (Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden) - 4

Poland - 4

Switzerland - 4

France - 1

A ballot between the three tied bids was therefore necessary to determine which two bidders should proceed to the second round, and it produced the following results:

Candidate / Number of votes

Switzerland - 6

Nordics (Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden) - 4

Poland - 3

The two bidders with most votes thus progressed to the second round and the final result were as follows:

Candidate / Number of votes

Switzerland - 9

Nordics (Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden) - 4


Surprised France went out so early!

[Diouf]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

[Jackson Harrison]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

Have already posted above.

Makes you wonder with UEFA being based in Switzerland how much influence it had. No way has Switzerland got the best infrastructure!

[amenina]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

Switzerland to host UEFA Women’s EURO 2025

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/mediase ... euro-2025/

Proposed stadiums:

https://www.football.ch/sfv/nationaltea ... -2025.aspx

Basel – St. Jakob-Park, capacity 38,512
Bern – Stadion Wankdorf, capacity 31,783
Geneva – Stade de Genève, capacity 30,084
Zürich – Letzigrund, capacity 26,104
St. Gallen – kybunpark, capacity 19,694
Lucerne – Swissporarena, capacity 16,800
Sion – Stade Tourbillon, capacity 16,263
Lausanne – Stade de la Tuilière, capacity 12,544
Thun – Stockhorn Arena, capacity 10,398



Congratulations to Switzerland! I hope the tournament will be more successful than Credit Suisse!

[Jackson Harrison]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

Switzerland to host UEFA Women’s EURO 2025

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/mediase ... euro-2025/

Proposed stadiums:

https://www.football.ch/sfv/nationaltea ... -2025.aspx

Basel – St. Jakob-Park, capacity 38,512
Bern – Stadion Wankdorf, capacity 31,783
Geneva – Stade de Genève, capacity 30,084
Zürich – Letzigrund, capacity 26,104
St. Gallen – kybunpark, capacity 19,694
Lucerne – Swissporarena, capacity 16,800
Sion – Stade Tourbillon, capacity 16,263
Lausanne – Stade de la Tuilière, capacity 12,544
Thun – Stockhorn Arena, capacity 10,398



Congratulations to Switzerland! I hope the tournament will be more successful than Credit Suisse!

An excuse for me to pay Switzerland a visit I guess!

[amenina]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

Have already posted above.

Makes you wonder with UEFA being based in Switzerland how much influence it had. No way has Switzerland got the best infrastructure!

There are actually a few negatives about France:
1. They already hosted the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, and will host the Olympics women's football tournament next year, so three major women's football tournaments in such a short period of time is just too much.
2. From what I heard, the 2019 Women's World Cup wasn't very well promoted inside France, especially compared to what happened last year with the Euros in England and what is happening this year with the World Cup in New Zealand/Australia.
3. The recent turmoil with the French women's team probably didn't make the public too enthusiastic about the team in general.

The problem with Poland is that their team isn't that good, so most likely will be eliminated after the group stage, so may be considered a negative.

And after the last men's Euros held all over Europe, perhaps UEFA is not too keen with the joint Nordic bid, especially spread out among four countries.

[Jackson Harrison]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

Have already posted above.

Makes you wonder with UEFA being based in Switzerland how much influence it had. No way has Switzerland got the best infrastructure!

There are actually a few negatives about France:
1. They already hosted the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, and will host the Olympics women's football tournament next year, so three major women's football tournaments in such a short period of time is just too much.
2. From what I heard, the 2019 Women's World Cup wasn't very well promoted inside France, especially compared to what happened last year with the Euros in England and what is happening this year with the World Cup in New Zealand/Australia.
3. The recent turmoil with the French women's team probably didn't make the public too enthusiastic about the team in general.

The problem with Poland is that their team isn't that good, so most likely will be eliminated after the group stage, so may be considered a negative.

And after the last men's Euros held all over Europe, perhaps UEFA is not too keen with the joint Nordic bid, especially spread out among four countries.

And both Finland and Sweden hosting recently is a downside of Nordic so guess Switzerland was the best of a bad set of choices.

Next time I hope UEFA don't leave it so late i think they should open bidding process now and make a decision next year to give 5 years to prepare.

[Lorric]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

These votes are weird. So what made someone ditch Poland between Rounds 1 and 2? Unless they didn't but some sort of tiebreaker came in.

[Jackson Harrison]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

These votes are weird. So what made someone ditch Poland between Rounds 1 and 2? Unless they didn't but some sort of tiebreaker came in.

I thought exactly the same thing mate.

No tiebreaker. A defection! A brown envelope on their desk maybe?

[Jackson Harrison]

@amenina

What happens with play-offs if Switzerland finished in the play-off places? I.E. Whi replaces them?

PS: Might be helpful to add Switzerland to the opening title, I'm annoying I know