Spain vs Switzerland Preview & Prediction | UEFA Women’s EURO 2025

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World champions Spain have breezed through the group stages in impressive fashion as they now prepare to take on hosts Switzerland in the quarter-finals this weekend.

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Spain team news: Esther Gonzalez a doubt

Goalkeeper Cata Coll was in a race against time to get fit for the tournament, but she has now been dropped by Spain boss Montserrat Tome. As well as the likely absence of Coll from the starting eleven, the Spanish could be without the tournament’s top scorer, Esther Gonzalez, who is an injury doubt.

Predicted XI (4-3-3): Nanclares; Fernandez, Paredes, Mendez, Ouahabi; Bonmati, Guijarro, Putellas; Del Castillo, Paralluelo, Caldentey

Unavailable:

Questionable: Gonzalez (Injured)

Switzerland team news: Illness in the camp

A couple of days before their clash with Spain, the hosts had to cancel their training session due to a cold going through the camp. No names were given as to who may have picked up an illness, but that will certainly have been disruptive to their plans. It is believed that both Julia Stierli and Coumba Sow have been affected.

Predicted XI (3-5-2): Peng; Calligaris, Wandeler, Maritz; Beney, Reuteler, Walti, Vallotto, Riesen; Folmli, Schertenleib

Unavailable:

Questionable: Stierli (Illness), Coumba (Illness)

Key stats

This is the first Women’s EURO final tournament match between these teams.
Spain defeated Switzerland 5-1 in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup round of 16 in Auckland – their only previous major final tournament encounter – among the scorers were Aitana Bonmatí (two) and Alba Redondo for Spain.
Bonmatí added another double against Switzerland when Spain beat them 5-0 in Córdoba in the UEFA Women’s Nations League on 26 September 2023, Lucía García having opened the scoring.
The return fixture in Zurich, on 31 October 2023, was won 7-1 by Spain, Alexia Putellas and Athenea Del Castillo both scoring twice and María Méndez once – with her first international goal – for Spain, with Alayah Pilgrim also scoring her first goal for Switzerland in reply.
Spain were losing quarter-finalists at the last three editions of Women’s EURO. They were defeated 2-1 in extra-time against England in 2022.
Spain’s best Women’s EURO final tournament performance was on debut in 1997 when they lost 2-1 against Italy in the semi-finals.
Spain won their first senior major international women’s tournament at the 2023 Women’s World Cup and added the UEFA Nations League title in 2024.
Spain progressed to the quarter-finals after winning all three matches in a Women’s EURO group for the first time.
Spain have won 11 of their last 12 international matches (L1).
Spain have scored 14 goals in three matches at Women’s EURO 2025. The most they scored in a final tournament previously was six in four matches (2022).
Esther González is the first Spanish player to score in four successive Women’s EURO final tournament appearances. Overall, only Germany’s Alexandra Popp has scored in five successive appearances at the finals.
Esther González is Spain’s top scorer in Women’s EURO final tournaments with five goals. Alexia Putellas is second with four.
Alexia Putellas has seven goals involvements at WEURO 2025 (three goals and four assists).
Switzerland have reached the knockout rounds for the first time, in their third Women’s EURO participation.
The host nation has now progressed through to the knockout rounds for the fifth edition in a row. The last hosts not to qualify from the group stage were England in 2005. Norway, co-hosts in 1997, are the only other hosts not to have qualified from their group.
Switzerland have scored in their last eight Women’s EURO matches.
Noelle Maritz, Ana-Maria Crnogorčević and Lia Wälti could become the first players to make ten Women’s EURO appearances for Switzerland. They have featured in all the previous nine matches their country has played at Women’s EURO final tournaments.
Laia Ballesté, a late call-up to Switzerland’s squad, was born in Spain and has spent her entire career in the country, playing for Alavés (2019-20), Logroño (2020-21), Rayo Vallecano (2021-22), Sporting Huelva (2022-24) and, since 2004, Espanyol.
Switzerland’s Sydney Schertenleib plays for Barcelona, where she was a club colleague in 2024/25 of ten Spain squad members – Ona Batlle, Jana Fernández, Irene Paredes, Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas, Patricia Guijarro, Cata Coll, Salma Paralluelo, Vicky López and Clàudia Pina.
Three other Switzerland squad members have also played in Spain – Viola Calligaris (Atlético de Madrid 2017-19, Valencia 2019-20, Levante 2020-23), Ana-Maria Crnogorčević (Barcelona 2019-23, Atlético de Madrid 2023-24), and Livia Peng (Levante 2023 loan).
Crnogorčević was a Barcelona team-mate of Fernández, Paredes, Bonmatí, Putellas, Guijarro, Coll, Paralluelo, López, Pina and Mariona Caldentey, winning two UEFA Women’s Champions Leagues, four Spanish league titles and three domestic cups during her time with the Catalan club.
Caldentey joined Switzerland’s Lia Wälti at Arsenal in 2024, the two players winning the 2024/25 Women’s Champions League together. Wälti was an unused substitute in the 1-0 win over Barcelona in the final.
Switzerland’s Iman Beney recently joined Manchester City, where Spain’s Leila Ouahabi has played since 2022.

Spain vs Switzerland prediction

Spain have been the dominant force in women’s international football for the last couple of years, at least in Europe and outside of the Olympics. They romped through the group stages with three wins from three, coming from behind to beat Italy by three goals to one in their final game to mean they had scored 13 goals in those three games.

They now face a Switzerland side that were always expected to give Group A a go as hosts, and they managed to squeeze through to the knockout stages. After a defeat against Norway and a victory against Denmark, the Swiss then managed to share a 1-1 draw with Finland in their final game with a second-half stoppage-time equaliser.

Spain head into this one almost expecting to be crowned European champions, and they are expected to win this quarter-final quite comfortably, even against the hosts.

Spain vs Switzerland tip: Spain to win -1 handicap

Spain vs Switzerland Preview & Prediction | UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 | Quarter-Final