Switzerland hosts the largest female sporting event in Europe in July. Euro 2025 could mark a turning point for women’s football. Point J deciphers the challenges of this competition with Sarah Répse, journalist for Morges newspaper and colorful columnist on color 3.
“We are especially waiting for a CAP to be passed for female football on this occasion, that this sport can tend towards professionalism,” explains Sarah Régse, journalist at the Journal de Morges and columnist in color 3.
With 16 teams and 31 games planned in different cities in Switzerland, this euro arouses hopes. UEFA provides for record investments. “It means that people are starting to take an interest in football. And when I say people, that means spectators, but the sponsors too, the clubs will follow,” explains Sarah Répse.
Nearly 570,000 tickets have already been sold out of the 700,000 available. A third of sales come from abroad, an increasing figure compared to the 2022 edition in England.
I hope this euro in Switzerland will make we are interested in women’s football, and therefore that we are taken seriously
If women’s football is progressing internationally, what about Switzerland? “It follows to Switzerland. Gently, but surely”, replies the sporting columnist, and to add: “I hope that the euro will make us be interested in it and that we are taken seriously, because it is not yet the case everywhere”.
What can we expect from this euro? Also find in this episode the testimony of a young Friborg goalkeeper who evokes his passion for football.
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