England's Lionesses and world champions Spain remain in the mix for the title but the Netherlands have already gone home after a disastrous tournament

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• Location: Switzerland
• Stadiums: Various, including St. Jakob Park, Stadion Wankdorf, Stade de Genève and more
• Date: July 2 – 27
• Final: July 27, St. Jakob Park

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• Secure your Women's Euro 2025 tickets for this summer's international tournament
• Location: Switzerland
• Stadiums: Various, including St. Jakob Park, Stadion Wankdorf, Stade de Genève and more
• Date: July 2 – 27
• Final: July 27, St. Jakob Park

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The 2025 European Championships have been a real thrill so far and that promises to only intensify as the knockout stages begin. In the groups, there were shocks, upsets and heart-warming stories galore, as well as an absolute bucket load of goals, with the average scored per game sitting at 3.7. It's been a blast.

Now, it gets really, really serious. Each quarter-final has its own interesting narrative and unique selling point, whether it is the opportunity for an underdog to make the semi-finals in Norway vs Italy, repeats of the two semi-finals of 2022 as Sweden take on England and France face Germany, or the match-up between hosts Switzerland and favourites Spain. In perhaps all but the latter case, it's hard to predict who will be in the last four.

But, before that is all decided, there is plenty of time to look back on the group stage, how it unfolded and whether there will be more to some of the stories that developed through the first three matchdays. GOAL breaks down the winners and losers from the Euro 2025 group stage…

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  WINNER: Switzerland

  One of the most heartening stories of the Euro 2025 group stage was the success of the home nation. Switzerland came into this tournament with just one win from their last nine games, a stretch which included two defeats to Norway and two draws with Iceland, both of whom they were going to meet in the group stages. Though Group A was wide open and the Swiss would have the home support, it was still hard to confidently back them to deliver and reach the knockout stages of this competition for the first time.

  How they have performed has been a pleasant surprise, then. La Nati were often passive in the Nations League fixtures that occupied the first six months of their year but they have been anything but in this tournament, providing entertainment as well as results on their way to the last eight.

  "It's incredible," Switzerland captain Lia Walti told after the win over Iceland. "Before the game, I probably cried about three times because, when we came to the stadium, seeing all the fans, seeing all the videos of the city, how amazing people are to support us, it's something we've never experienced before in Switzerland. I hope it's going to do a lot in Switzerland to keep pushing women's football in the right direction."

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  LOSER: Netherlands

  It's been an absolute disaster of a tournament for the Netherlands. Winners of this title in 2017, they were expected to be a contender in Switzerland but instead didn't even make it out of the group stage, conceding nine goals across damning defeats to England and France to end their campaign before the knockout rounds.

  There were signs that this was coming. Andries Jonker had been prickly with the media in the build-up to his final summer in charge, even appearing on a podcast two days before the Euros began to admit that he wondered if he should even go ahead and coach the team, having known since April that his contract wouldn't be renewed. "You talk to people around you and there’s no one around me that says that I need to do this," he explained. "They all say: ‘You shouldn’t do this. Stay at home, let them figure it out'.”

  The chaos continued into the Euros. Sherida Spitse, the team's captain, criticised Jonker for those comments; Danielle van de Donk said she was fit to start against England, after Jonker had said she wasn't; Damaris Egurrola told that she was being deployed in a role that didn't suit her, and that she was getting "the short end of the stick".

  Really, it's perhaps no surprise things didn't work out for the Dutch, who will look forward to a fresh start under England assistant Arjan Veurink, set to be the Oranje's new head coach, later this year.

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  WINNER: Alexia Putellas

  Alexia Putellas came into this tournament as the front-runner for the Ballon d'Or and she has only enhanced that status with her performances in Switzerland so far. The Barcelona midfielder has been the best player on show through the first three rounds of action and her incredible level is only improving Spain's chances of winning the title, which will do her Golden Ball chances no harm either.

  It's been three years since Putellas suffered a devastating ACL injury on the eve of Euro 2022, when she was in the form of her life. She had just enjoyed another remarkable campaign in Catalunya, one which would pave the way for her to scoop up a second successive Ballon d'Or, but she could only watch as Spain crashed out in the quarter-finals.

  Now, after some serious injury woes, she's leading La Roja's charge for a first European title and arguably playing better than ever before.

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  LOSER: Aitana Bonmati

  There have been quite different fortunes for the other two-time Ballon d'Or winner in Spain's ranks. Aitana Bonmati was right up there as a serious contender for the Golden Ball as the Euros approached and while she was perhaps just behind her team-mate in that race, Bonmati has previous of taking over major international tournaments. Do so again in Switzerland and perhaps the odds would swing in her favour.

  However, as it has transpired, Bonmati will be glad just to be on the pitch at all. The 27-year-old was stunningly hospitalised with viral meningitis just two days before Spain were set to fly out to Switzerland and although she was discharged a few days later, it has left her playing a much smaller role in the group stage. She'll be desperate to make her mark on the knockout stages – not so much for her hopes of individual glory, but in order to boost La Roja's chances of winning this tournament.