The UEFA Women's European Championship, also called the UEFA Women's EURO, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. It is held every four years mostly in odd-numbered years, one year after the men's. It was first held in 1984. The reigning champions are England, who won the tournament in 2022 and 2025. The most successful nation in the history of the tournament is Germany, with eight titles, followed by Norway with two titles in 1987 and 1993 and a single title for Sweden in 1984 and the Netherlands in 2017.
The latest edition of the UEFA Women's Championship was the 2025 tournament held in Switzerland after the previous edition was held in 2022 which was postponed from 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The next edition will be held in 2029 and it will be hosted by Germany.
History
Previous European championships
In 1957 in West Berlin, a European Championship was staged by the International Ladies Football Association. Four teams, representing West Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and the eventual winners, England, played the tournament at the Poststadion,
The Italian Women's Football Federation FICF, which eventually merged into the Italian Football Federation, organised a European tournament in Italy in 1969 for women's national teams, a tournament won by the home team, Italy, who beat Denmark 3–1 in the final. The two nations were also the finalists of the 1970 Women's World Cup in Italy.
Italy hosted another European women's tournament a decade later, the 1979 European Competition for Women's Football – won by Denmark.
UEFA displayed little enthusiasm for women's football and were particularly hostile to Italy's independent women's football federation. Sue Lopez, a member of England's squad, contended that a lack of female representation in UEFA was a contributory factor: