UEFA Women's Euro 2025

Women's Euro 2025 gets underway in Switzerland next week:

Games are next day at 4am or 7am NZT, not sure who if anyone has NZ broadcast rights (doesn't appear to be Sky Sport).

The BBC has a good write-up on the competition: England are defending champs but of course Spain are heavily favoured to win. The groups are

It'll be interesting to see how the teams compare to their WWC 2023 form, and what that might mean for 2027.

Spain and Germany favourites for me. 

"We set this goal because, for us, it’s the most genuine sign of growth, and of sustainable development. Already, 22 matches (out of 31) are sold out, and 600,000 tickets overall – and that’s without an opening match at Old Trafford or a final at Wembley."

A somewhat self-congratulatory article from UEFA, but once you get past the PR there’s a lot worth reading about how they see the competition supporting long term growth of the women’s game.

Looking at Uefa's list of broadcasters around the world it appears there is no broadcaster for NZ which is a shame.

In Aus it's on Optus Sport which is paid - but the first match and the Final will be free.

The UK appears to have it all free to air through BBC and ITV.


Edit: Actually here is an article from Bonnie Jansen about TVNZ and Sky Sport deciding not to go for the rights.

Some quotes:
TVNZ+ – which broadcast the men’s Euros last year – told the Herald it opted not to pursue the women’s equivalent at this time.

“For TVNZ as a free, commercially funded broadcaster, we’re not in a position to be able to secure all sports rights. We pick and choose, and our decisions will always be based on what rights are available in market, where we can support local, and what our audience would like to see.”

Sky Sport, which secured the broadcast rights to the Women’s Fifa World Cup in 2023, said: “As with all rights decisions, we consider a variety of factors to ensure we are making choices that make financial and strategic sense.”

Sky said the significant time zone difference between Switzerland and New Zealand was a key consideration when assessing the “potential viewership and engagement”.

The comment contradicts their broadcast of this month’s men’s Uefa Nations League, where kickoff was at 7am.

The Euros group stage fixtures are scheduled mainly for 4am and 7am NZT.

Sky are useless turds. 

Disney + seems to be showing it in a few countries, shame it can't extend here.  Would having a VPN make it available to us?
https://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/news/0298-1d97346ebd79-c3059d9b786f-1000--where-to-watch-uefa-women-s-euro-2025-tv-broadcast-partne/

Set your VPN to Mexico, then ESPN on Disney + shows you the UEFA Womens world cup tab. Just have to convert the start times to NZ and you're sweet.  Well I hope it actually works. 

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Set your VPN to Mexico, then ESPN on Disney + shows you the UEFA Womens world cup tab. Just have to convert the start times to NZ and you're sweet.  Well I hope it actually works. 

Otherwise BBC iPlayer and ITVx are free platforms if your VPN is set to the UK

UEFA.TV App is showing the Games.
I just watched the U21 Men’s Final.

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So just another day in the ALW?

I've just contacted UEFA TV and impressively just got a reply within ten minutes.
All games in the women's Euros are live in NZ via uefa.tv
No full replays available on demand, only highlights.
Games will be streaming here (full live schedule):
https://www.uefa.tv/schedule
Just sign up for free to uefa.tv
I use the uefa.tv app (Google Play) on my TV.
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UEFA's reply to me:
Dear UEFA.tv fan,

Thank you for your recent email – please find our response to your query below:

Live coverage of these fixtures is available in New Zealand but we only provide highlights of the games after this and full replays are not available on our service unfortunately.

We hope this helps clarify further.

Yours in football,

UEFA.tv Team

With Spain v Portugal kicking off 7am Friday NZT, a nice backgrounder on Salma Paralluelo (who I've been a huge fan of after watching her in Spain's WWC games at the RoF, especially when she scored that quarter-final winner against the Netherlands):

Spain star's unorthodox rise to top - and struggle to stay there

In October 2024, after making 92 appearances for club and country in under two years, Paralluelo announced she was taking an indefinite break from the game, citing mental and physical fatigue.

She has been battling to rediscover her form since.

This is the story of Paralluelo's remarkable rise to the top of the game, her injury and personal struggles, and why she can still light up Euro 2025 with Spain.

Edit: Speaking of Spain v Portugal, UEFA have confirmed the game will start with a minute’s silence in honour of Diogo Jota.

I've downloaded the app and streaming it on the tv fine. Great to have it and even better it's free!

I run the UEFA app on my AppleTV, no ads, no big mouth experts, just the football and I like those unbiased UEFA commentators delivering the basics.
In the HT break they just show slow mo goals etc from all camera angles, it is a beautiful sport.

Spain are looking a level above in this game. They are just better at everything.

Wow, what a start to the competition for Spain - Martin-Prieto's headed goal right at the end just summed it up. And I'm in awe seeing Bonmati back on the pitch looking dangerous so soon after her brush with meningitis.

The UEFA.tv coverage really is great, even without installing the app I had no problems watching the game in a browser on my phone and laptop - so I know what I'll be doing on the train to work these coming weeks.

Didn't expect England to be down 2 nil when I switched on....

Ended 2-1 to France.  England with unwanted history being the only title holders to lose their opening game.  Absolutely have to beat the Netherlands now. 

Emphatic 4 nil win for England.  Could not have asked for a better response.  Looking forward to watching the match highlights.

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Emphatic 4 nil win for England.  Could not have asked for a better response.  Looking forward to watching the match highlights.

There must be a lot of relief in the England camp after that one.

I was hoping Wales could hold out against France, both to make their final game against England more interesting and for other reasons, but oh well they gave it their best.

Wow England is on fire.

Just switched over in time to see France score 3 quick goals.  Amazing stuff

Oh no! I was cheering on the dutch but had to stop to drive to work. Huge scorelines here. 

14 goals for the day.  What happened to the Netherlands?? Weren't they quarter finalists at the womens world cup.  To concede that many goals will really hurt 

England v Sweden and France v Germany should be good match ups 

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Spain have looked the best in pool play, followed by the French. Should be an interesting set of quarters. 

I’m especially looking forward to Spain v Switzerland, not just because Spain are on fire but because the home crowd will make for a fantastic atmosphere.

Plus being on Saturday morning I can watch the whole thing without work getting in the way.

Italy are through. Wonder if they'll be playing England or Sweden ....

Well looks like Sweden are going through.  England seem to still be in the tunnel.   

England pull one back.   Not much time left though

And another one!! All square now.

To penalties we go 😬

More misses so far. Lol

Falk has been imense.  Shame she didn't score her own penalty. 

Wow. What a turn around. Huge come back from England. Though the penalties were terrible from both sides. 

Incredible stuff.  England through despite missing more penalties than they scored.  Commiserations to Sweden.

Very entertaining match, but crazy how many penalties were missed.

The majority of England's missed penalties were hit into pretty much the same spot that was just nowhere near enough to the post to make it hard for the keeper.

I feel like the way the Swedish keeper missed her penalty is so common for keepers - I recall Neuer missing 1 or 2 in the same fashion a few years back - they are too used to kicking for length they blast it over the bar.

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Very entertaining match, but crazy how many penalties were missed.

The majority of England's missed penalties were hit into pretty much the same spot that was just nowhere near enough to the post to make it hard for the keeper.

I feel like the way the Swedish keeper missed her penalty is so common for keepers - I recall Neuer missing 1 or 2 in the same fashion a few years back - they are too used to kicking for length they blast it over the bar.

Kepa did the same against Liverpool in a League Cup final.

All happening in this game between France and Germany. Early red card, missed penalty.  Score is 1-1. 

Full time 1-1. Wonder if this penalty shoot out will be better than England and Swedens 

France out, Germany will play Spain . 

What a completely different set of pens compared to yesterdays lot. Well done Germany. Did it the hard way but we're always in this.