Women's Euro 2025

England in a “very good place” ahead of Sweden EURO 2025 quarter-final

July 17 – England’s players and their manager Sarina Wiegman have warned not to underestimate quarter-final opponents Sweden, who have enjoyed a perfect EURO 2025 so far.

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DateGroup    VenueKick off (local)
July 2Grp ASwitzerland12NorwayBasel, St-Jakon Park9pm
July 2Grp AIceland01FinlandThun, Arena Thun6pm
July 3Grp BSpain50PortugalBern, Stadium Wankdorf9pm
July 3Grp BBelgium01
ItalySion, Stade de Tourbillon6pm
July 4Grp CGermany20PolandSt Gallen, Arena St Gallen9pm
July 4Grp CDenmark01SwedenStade de Genève6pm
July 5Grp DFrance21EnglandStadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 5Grp DWales03NetherlandsAllmend Stadion, Lucern6pm
July 6Grp ASwitzerland20IcelandStadion Wankdorf, Bern9pm
July 6Grp ANorway21FinlandStade de Touillon, Sion6pm
July 7Grp BPortugal11ItalyStade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 7Grp BSpain62BelgiumArena Thun6pm
July 8Grp CGermany21DenmarkSt Jakob Park, Basel6pm
July 8Grp CPoland03SwedenAllmend Stadion, Lucerne9pm
July 9Grp DEngland40NetherlandsStadion Letzigrund, Zurich6pm
July 9Grp DFrance41WalesArena St Gallen9pm
July 10Grp AFinland11SwitzerlandStade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 10Grp ANorway43IcelandArena Thun9pm
July 11Grp BItaly13SpainStadium Wankdorf, Bern9pm
July 11Grp BPortugal12BelgiumStade de Touillon, Sion9pm
July 12Grp CSweden 41GermanyStadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 12Grp CPoland32DenmarkAllmend Stadion, Lucerne9pm
July 13Grp DNetherlands25FranceSt Jakob Park, Basel9pm
July 13Grp DEngland61WalesArena St Gallen9pm
July 16QF1Norway12ItalyStade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 17QF2Sweden--EnglandStadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 18QF3Spain--SwitzerlandStadion Wankdorff, Bern9pm
July 19QF4France--GermanySt Jakob Park, Basel9pm
July 22Semi-finalItaly--Winner QF2Stade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 23Semi-finalWinner QF3--Winner QF4Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 27 FinalTBA--TBASt Jakob Park, Basel6.00pm

Matt Scott: The hard times are over – Villa is no longer a bleak house

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Sixpence a year of overspending was all it took to bring misery to the burghers of 19th Century London, as Wilkins Micawber famously observed. Although life in the Premier League today could not be more different to that of Dickensian England, Micawber’s lesson is well heeded,

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Webb gathers his federations for congress as new era readies for new challenges

Jeffrey Webb7

April 14 – This Thursday the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) will gather its national federations in Bahamas for what will be the third annual congress under the presidency of Jeffrey Webb. It has been a period of dramatic transformation and reform for the confederation and produced a regional governing body that is virtually unrecognisable in comparison to what had gone before.

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Shaky start for Russian legacy as Rotor Volgograd goes bust

Rotor Volgograd fans

April 14 – World Cup legacy is championed as an important ingredient of hosting the world’s biggest sporting event and generally the build-up to the event generates enthusiasm and excitement for the game – it is a catalyst for the growth of the game in the country. So the news that Rotor Volgograd, one of Russia leading clubs in the 1990s has gone bust, is a an unfortunate counter to the legacy proposition.

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Mihir Bose: So what will Blatter do after May 29?

No, this is not a joke question but a very serious one. The jokey part of it is that once on the afternoon of May 29 in Zurich, the national associations re-elect Sepp Blatter for a fifth term as President, the 78 year old will cavort on stage possibly with a football as he acknowledges the hosannas of his followers like a medieval monarch. He has done that in the past and, as in 2002,

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