The DFB team at EURO 2025: sights set firmly on the title
16 teams are competing for the EURO 2025 cup - find out everything you need to know here, plus a few fun facts.
In Switzerland, Europe’s 16 best national teams in women’s football are competing for the European cup. The top favourites are the world champions from Spain. However, Germany’s national squad is also hoping to win the title - as are France and defending champions England.
Germany’s team for the Women's EURO 2025
Find out everything you need to know here about the Women's EURO 2025 in Switzerland and the team of the German Football Association (DFB).
Scores the most goals: Lea Schüller.
Top striker Lea Schüller from FC Bayern Munich wants to win the European title. She doesn’t care about her reputation as top goal scorer: “I believe that winning the cup is what really counts this year. So I don’t have any personal goals. I just want the team to end up with the title.” So far, Schüller has scored 52 goals in 75 internationals.
A fighter on the pitch and eloquent when talking to the press: Giulia Gwinn.
Defender Gwinn will wear the rainbow armband when she captains her team at EURO 2025. “We are just happy that this has been made possible,” said the 25-year-old from Bayern Munich. The captain’s armband in the rainbow colours, which Alexandra Popp already wore during EURO 2022 in England, symbolises diversity and sends out a message against discrimination. This is the first time that Gwinn will be captaining the DFB team during a tournament. Gwinn suffered a serious knee injury in the first match against Poland, so the European Championship is over for her.
Already has a European title under her belt: Sara Däbritz.
The midfield player from Real Madrid is the only member of the German squad to have already won a European championship. In 2013, when a German team last won the title, Däbritz was the youngest player in the DFB squad at just 18 years old. Today, she is the most experienced German player, having appeared in 108 internationals.
Gives a lot of impetus to the game: Linda Dallmann.
As the German team’s playmaker, Linda Dallmann from Bayern Munich has recently played herself into the spotlight. Coach Christian Wück says that the technically proficient Dallmann, who is just 1.58 metres tall, “has proven - regardless of whether she plays right from the start or is brought on during the match - that she transforms the game”.
An optimistic coach: Christian Wück
The former Bundesliga pro has coached the women’s national team since August 2024. Previously, Christian Wück trained several of the DFB’s national youth teams. Before him, the team was coached by Tina Theune (1996 – 2005), Sylvia Neid (2005 – 2016), Steffi Jones (2016 – 2018), Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (2018 – 2023) and twice by Horst Hrubesch, who in each case served as an interim coach. Shortly before EURO 2025 kicked off, Wück said that there would be “no excuses. The outcome of EURO 2025 will be up to us.”
Sets the course: DFB sporting director Nia Künzer.
A former national player, Künzer has been responsible for the women’s national team as the DFB’s first sporting director for women’s football since January 2024. Her contract was recently extended by three years. In 2003, in the World Cup final against Sweden,Künzer scored a “golden goal” with a header, deciding the tournament in Germany’s favour. A mother of two, in her private life she is well known for her volunteer work and social engagement.
The German team’s group matches
In the EURO 2025 group stage, the German team has three matches:
- Germany vs. Poland 2:0 (0:0) 1:0 Brand (52.), 2:0 Schüller (66.)
- Germany vs. Denmark: 8 July in Basel
- Sweden vs. Germany: 12 July in Zurich
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Open consent formFun facts about the Women’s EURO 2025
You should know these three facts about EURO 2025 - even if you aren’t all that interested in football.
A German European Championship record
There is one ranking in which the DFB comes first: no other association has won as many European Championship titles (8) as Germany’s DFB. Then come Norway (2), Sweden, the Netherlands and England (with 1 each).
Maddli – the mascot
Maddli - the EURO 2025 mascot with the big eyes - will make an appearance at all the matches. A St Bernard puppy, it is named after Madeleine Boll, Switzerland’s first licensed female footballer.
Konektis – a rather special match ball
What’s new about the EURO 2025 match ball Konektis is its colourful design, but above all the fact that it is equipped - for the first time during a women’s EURO tournament - with Connected Ball Technology sensors. This is intended to make the job of referees and other officials easier. (with dpa)
