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Austria's football future: Women's European Championship in Switzerland and young talent in focus!
Austria is not planning an adult tournament, while the 2025 Women's European Championship in Switzerland is providing a boost. Details on strategy and organization.
Austria's football future: Women's European Championship in Switzerland and young talent in focus!
Austria looks back on an important past as host of the European Football Championship. The country hosted the men's EURO together with Switzerland in 2008. Switzerland is now writing a new chapter by hosting the Women's European Championship for the first time in 2025. This event will start on July 2nd, 2025 and end on July 27th. A total of 16 nations will take part in this prestigious tournament, which represents a great opportunity to promote women's football.
Although Austria currently has no plans to host an adult finals, the Austrian Football Association is considering organizing a youth tournament. This is done as part of a comprehensive strategic process that extends until 2032. The ÖFB is currently watching mainly from a spectator role and has firmly anchored the topic of a possible bid for a final round on the strategic agenda. However, constant changes at the top of the association as well as the tie-up of resources due to the construction of the ÖFB campus in Vienna-Aspern have affected the pace of these considerations.
Swiss Women's European Championship as an impulse for women's football
The ongoing Women's European Championship in Switzerland has a generous budget totaling 233 million francs (approx. 250 million euros). UEFA is contributing 150 million francs of this, and the public sector and the host cities are also contributing financially. Switzerland expects the tournament to generate a total added value of around 200 million euros. This is intended to sustainably promote women's football and strengthen infrastructure and public interest.
When applying to host future tournaments, UEFA recommends using at least eight stadiums with a capacity of 15,000 to 30,000 seats. In Switzerland, Basel, Bern, Geneva, Zurich, Lucerne, Sion, St. Gallen and Thun are ideal locations. In this context, the ÖFB is evaluating all organizational, infrastructural and economic parameters in order to determine the greatest added value for football.
The European Championship 2025 schedule
The group phase of the Women's European Championship 2025 shows interesting encounters. Here is an overview of the first games:
| Date | Game | time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02.07. | Iceland-Finland | 6 p.m | Thun |
| 02.07. | Switzerland-Norway | 9 p.m | Basel |
| 03.07. | Belgium-Italy | 6 p.m | Sion |
| 03.07. | Spain-Portugal | 9 p.m | Bern |
| 04.07. | Denmark-Sweden | 6 p.m | Geneva |
| 04.07. | Germany-Poland | 9 p.m | St. Gallen |
Public interest in the Women's European Championship will be further strengthened through programs initiated by FIFA, among others, to promote women's football. These include support in key areas such as coach education and the development of women's football leagues. The aim is to use this context to create a sustainable basis for women's football while at the same time promoting diversity and equality in sport. The upcoming men's European Championships in Germany in 2024 are also included in these discussions, as the federal and state governments are providing funding for sustainable projects.
The coming months and years will be crucial for how women's football develops in Austria and Switzerland. With systematic and strategic planning, both youth work and events at the highest level could benefit. Meanwhile, the ÖFB will closely monitor the current developments and results of the 2025 Women's European Championship in order to possibly one day immerse itself in the organization of major football tournaments.
These developments were published by Laola1, Sportschau and FFussball-Magazin. Here too, the central role that the upcoming tournaments can play for both women's football and the associated social developments is highlighted.