England and Wales learn Euro 2025 opponents as groups drawn – live updates

St. Jakob-Park, Basel (Euro 2025 capacity: 34,050)

• Opening match, 2x GS, QF, Final

Stadion Wankdorf, Bern (29,650)

Stade de Genève, Geneva (28,150)

Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich (23,150)

Arena St.Gallen, St.Gallen (16,100)

Allmend Stadion Luzern, Lucerne (14,550)

Stade de Tourbillon, Sion (8,150)

England may be reigning European champions and Euro holders, but the Lionesses are in Pot 2 of this afternoon’s draw ahead of their tournament defence at Euro 2025.

Sarina Wiegman’s side will face either Switzerland or one of the best teams in the world in the group stage, with Spain, Germany and France all joining the hosts in Pot 1.

Switzerland are in Pot 1 as they are the host nation, with the remaining 15 teams seeded according to the final standings of the European qualifiers, which were held in a different format last season.

England were drawn in a tough qualifying group with France, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland and qualified automatically as group runners-up.

With France claiming top spot, that put England into Pot 2 of the Euro draw. Switzerland were joined by the top-three ranked group winners, which were Spain, Germany and France.

Wales are in Pot 4 because they qualified through the play-offs after finishing the qualifying phase ranked in 20th position.

This afternoon’s draw will be hosted by former Arsenal and England legend Ian Wright along with Swiss presenter Annette Fetscherin.

It will feature several star players from various European countries, including England’s Jill Scott, Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri, France’s Raphael Varane, Italy’s Leonardo Bonucci and Germany’s Sami Khedira.

The tournament kicks off on 2 July 2025, with the knockout stages getting underway from 16 July. The Euro 2025 final will be played on 27 July in Basel.

Pot 1: Switzerland (hosts), Spain, Germany, France

Pot 2: Italy, Iceland, Denmark, England

Pot 3: Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Belgium

Pot 4: Finland, Poland, Portugal, Wales

The Euro 2025 draw will take place today at 5pm BST, and the draw ceremony will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland. The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four. There will be a livestream on the Uefa website.

England will be out to defend their European title as the draw for Euro 2025 is made ahead of the tournament in Switzerland next summer.

The Lionesses won their first major honour on home soil when Sarina Wiegman’s team defeated Germany at Wembley in July 2022.

It was followed by a trip to the World Cup final in Australia the following year, but results have been mixed for the Lionesses since that run down under.

World champions Spain will be considered favourites ahead of England, France and a resurgent Germany side who beat the Lionesses at Wembley in October.

And England were joined by Wales who came through a play-off against the Republic of Ireland thanks to a 2-1 victory away from home in a historic result as they reached a major women’s tournament for the first time.