Newsblog for the women’s European Championship
Rainbow bandage? DFB-Elf makes decision
Updated on July 1st, 2025 – 4:39 p.m.Reading time: 7 min.
The start of the women’s European Championship is imminent. You can find out all the important news about the tournament here.
In July, Switzerland becomes the center of European football. For the first time, the country expects a European women’s championship. 16 national teams compete against each other in eight cities to win the continental title.
Giulia Gwinn will wear the rainbow bandage as a German captain at the European Football Championship in Switzerland. “For us it is nice that it was made possible. It was also no question to change the bandage at all,” said the 25-year-old from FC Bayern Munich at the DFB press conference in Zurich with a view to the debates and bans in the past.
The rainbow-colored captain’s armband is a symbol of the so-called LGBTQI+community and is intended to set a sign against discrimination and for diversity. The then German captain Alexandra Popp was already wearing the rainbow bandage at the EM 2022 in England.
World champion Spain can breathe a sigh of relief shortly before the European Football Championships in Switzerland with a view to the sick star player Aitana Bonmatí. The midfielder of FC Barcelona was released from the clinic on Sunday after a multi -day hospital stay due to viral meningitis. The Spanish association announced this.
The 27-year-old will “join the team in the next few days,” said a short message. The association did not provide information on the condition of the two -time world footballer or forecasts on possible missions at the tournament in Switzerland (July 2 to 27).
Bonmatí missed the last preparatory game against Japan in Leganés (3-1) on Friday and posted a photo from the bedside on Instagram. It could be seen that she was watching the test on television.
A few days before the start of the European Championship of women (2nd to July 27th), Spain’s national team has to tremble for the use of his most important player. You can read who it is and why it is missing here.
The European Football Union expects a rich minus shortly before the start of the European European Championships in Switzerland. She assumes a net loss of 20 to 25 million euros, said Nadine Kessler, Women’s Football Director of UEFA, at a press conference in Nyon.
This is mainly due to the lush prize money. At the tournament that will start next Wednesday, the continental association will pour 41 million out to the 16 national teams-more than ever with a women’s European Championship. In 2022 the association had distributed 16 million, before that only 8 million (2017) or 2.2 million (2013) were distributed.
“We increase enormously because we know how important prize money is, what they do in relation to public perception, but also with regard to the promotion of development,” said the 37 -year -old Kessler. The direction of voice, you can be happy about it. “We are investing more, even if we don’t make any money with the euro because it is simply the right one.”