Women’s Euro 2025: Record crowds in Switzerland

Three days of the preliminary round and twelve football evenings have already spent since the start of Euro 2025. The quarter -finals are already starting on Wednesday. The time to make a first point on the figures and the significant facts of the first matches of the continental competition which is played in the Swiss stadiums.

Several new reference brands have been established during this euro in Switzerland. During the preliminary round, 461,582 supporters passed the gantry of the eight Swiss stages. Never has a European female championship attracted so many people for its first round. The records for a match of the Swiss women’s team and for a 1st round meeting without the host team also fell, each time more than 34,000 people in St-Jacques Park.

Several decisions have changed thanks to the sensors integrated into the balloons of this continental competition. This is in particular a goal from Germany against Denmark, canceled for an offside. The technology made it possible to see the exact time when the ball has left the foot of the passer. A penalty whistled for Switzerland against Iceland has also been refused to Swiss players for the same reason. Overall, the Var was one of the stars of this first round, often with decisions that have taken too much time.

Alexia Putellas is just irresistible, during this 2025 Euro. The Barcelona player, at the controls of a team from Spain in large shape, crushes the individual statistics of the preliminary tour. The Golden Ball 2021 and 2022 goes to a new reward. During the group stage, she was the best passenger (4 assists), the one who participated most in a goal (3 goals and 4 assists), the woman who created the most occasions (15) and the one who has drawn the most on the opposing cage (15) since the start of the competition.

Last Sunday, at 10:49 p.m., 71.1% of the Swiss French -speaking people who had a remote control in hand looked at the qualifying equalization of Riola Xhemaili against Finland. At that time, they were 286,000 to jubilant! The Germans were even more numerous in proportion to party. On the other side of the Sarine, 77.2% of the Germans looked at this decisive meeting, the trifle of 891,000 people. Add the RSI, the bars and the fan zones and it can be legitimately estimated that a little more than 15% of the entire Swiss population vibrated that evening.

Lia Wälti’s health has long been a subject of discussion before the start of the euro. But the player of Arsenal, freshly victorious of the Champion League without playing too much, knows herself very well and her coach, Pia Sundhage, knew it. Her management was perfect and the 32 -year -old Bernese quickly showed why she was essential for her selection, by her way of regulating the game of the Swiss. Even more impressive, the captain is the player who recovered the most balloons during this euro (26 recovery), tied with the Swedish Nathalie Björn.

The last 0-0 in a European female championship dates from July 23, 2022. The French people then met the Dutch in Rotherham in the quarterfinals of Euro 2022 in England and the score was still zero after the 90 initial minutes. France had ended up prevailing in overtime. It also means that no part ended with a zero and virgin score this year in Switzerland. 89 goals have been scored since July 2, or 3.71 Goals on average per game. The average time between each realization is 24 minutes.