England secure Euro 2025 qualification after stalemate in Sweden
Sweden 0-0 EnglandLionesses second in group behind France
Pack your fondue set, book your yodelling lessons and start saving up for an overly-expensive watch; England are going to the 2025 Women’s European Championships in Switzerland to defend their title, after securing automatic qualification with a nervy goalless draw in Sweden. They got there – just.
The holders had left themselves an alpine mountain to climb when they lost at home to France in May and slipped down to third in the ‘group of death’, but since then they have resiliently defied this toughest of qualifying draws to secure a place amongst the 16 sides that will contest next summer’s finals, without the need to participate in the lengthy playoff process between October and December. That unenviable fate which now awaits the Olympic silver medallists Sweden.
