55 h. ago England Lionesses squad announcement LIVE: Sarina Wiegman names her 23

Follow Mail Sport's live blog as Sarina Wiegman names her 23-player squad to take to Switzerland for the 2025 Women's Euros.

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55 h. ago England squad announcement live: Lionesses team for Women’s Euros named with Lauren James included

Sarina Wiegman will name her 23 Lionesses to travel to Switzerland to Euro 2025 after the shock retirements of Mary Earps and Fran Kirby, plus Millie Bright’s withdrawal from selection

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59 h. ago England squad announcement live: Lionesses team for Women’s Euros to be named after Millie Bright withdraws

Sarina Wiegman will name her 23 Lionesses to travel to Switzerland to Euro 2025 after the shock retirements of Mary Earps and Fran Kirby, plus Millie Bright’s withdrawal from selection

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3 d. ago Predicting England’s Euro 2025 squad after three huge shocks

Sarina Wiegman is preparing to name her 23-player squad as the Lionesses embark on their bid for back-to-back Euros

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3 d. ago Predicting England’s Euro 2025 squad after two shock retirements

Sarina Wiegman is preparing to name her 23-player squad as the Lionesses embark on their bid for back-to-back Euros

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4 d. ago England stunned by second retirement before Euros after Mary Earps disappointment

Fran Kirby, 31, retires on the eve of the Lionesses’ upcoming European Championship campaign – which begins in July – and finishes her career with 77 caps and 19 goals

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4 d. ago Fran Kirby announces international retirement ahead of Euro 2025

The midfielder revealed she was not selected for the Euros and says it was the ‘biggest honour to represent my country’

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4 d. ago Clàudia Pina’s double for Spain means England miss out on Nations League finals

Spain demonstrated why they are the favourites to win the Women’s European Championship in Switzerland as they came from behind to beat England in Barcelona and top their Nations League group.The Spain substitute Claudia Pina proved to be the matchwinner, scoring twice and causing all sorts of problems for the England defence. After England held a half-time lead thanks to Alessia Russo’, the Barcelona forward equalised just inside the hour mark, two minutes after coming on, when she created room for herself to shoot inside the box with her left foot and beat Hannah Hampton. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Sarina Wiegman left ‘sad’ and ‘disappointed’ after Mary Earps’ shock retirement before Euro 2025

The Lionesses take on Portugal and Spain in preparation for the Women’s Euros this summer in Switzerland, with Earps’ retirement leaving Chelsea’s Hannah Hampton as the No. 1

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1 week ago The ‘dangerous’ Australian women whose art was dismissed, forgotten – and even set on fire

A new exhibition celebrates 50 globetrotting women who traded parochial Australia for European modernity to create ‘subtly subversive’ artGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Justine Kong Sing stepped off a steamship into Edwardian London, the Nundle-born daughter of a Chinese merchant could tell straight away she was a long way from Australia: amid the “roar and rush” of the city, no one seemed to notice her.“In the colonies, where foreigners are treated differently, an Oriental suffers keenly the mortification of being stared at, and often assaulted, because of his color!” she wrote in a widely published account. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Thousands of fans celebrate Arsenal's history makers outside Emirates Stadium

Thousands of Arsenal fans descended upon the Emirates Stadium on Bank Holiday Monday to celebrate their women's side who dethroned the Queens of Europe

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1 week ago Inside Arsenal’s Champions League party, including a Jess Glynne concert

Glynne performs in Lisbon and does duet with playerPassionate Josh Kroenke speech praises those involvedA congratulatory speech from Josh Kroenke, an impromptu Jess Glynne concert and appearances from an array of beaming club legends featured on a night of jubilant celebration for ­Arsenal after they won their first women’s European title in 18 years.At a private party in Lisbon that ­continued into the early hours of Sunday after the 1-0 win against ­Barcelona, the club’s co-chair Kroenke is understood to have deli­vered a ­passionate speech ­praising the full team effort that had con­tributed to the long‑awaited ­Women’s Champions League ­triumph, ­reserving ­special praise for the head coach, Renée Slegers, and the head of women’s football, Clare Wheatley, former Arsenal players. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Made at Arsenal, forged with joy: Chloe Kelly the double Euro champion

Sharing Champions League success with former academy teammates made it even sweeter for revitalised forwardChloe Kelly can’t stop grinning. It almost looks painful to hold your mouth so wide, but this is a pain she will willingly bear and keep bearing. Four months ago the forward was on the ropes, her love of football gone and her chance of making England’s Euro 2025 squad slim. An impasse with Manchester City meant she had started one game all season and, despite their staggering injury crisis, it seemed there was no way back. Now, she is a European champion at club and country level, after a deadline-day loan to Arsenal was forced, in part, by a bold decision to go public with the way she was feeling on social media.“I was ready to take a break from football completely,” Kelly says. “I’m just grateful. As soon as I stepped foot in this club, I found happiness. Renée Slegers, as soon as she got on the phone to me, to give me the opportunity to represent this badge, I wanted to repa...

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1 week ago ‘Super proud’: Slegers hails Arsenal after Women’s Champions League success

Head coach says Barcelona win was ‘above expectations’‘We had to suffer but were spot on in crucial moments’The Arsenal head coach, Renée Slegers, said her team’s performance was “above all expectations” after they stunned Barcelona to win the Women’s Champions League title in Lisbon.Cited as the major underdogs before kick-off, Arsenal thwarted a Barcelona side who had won three of the past four finals, and won their first women’s European title since 2007 thanks to substitute Stina Blackstenius’ 74th-minute winner. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Arsenal’s comeback queens face ultimate Barcelona test in Champions League final

New chapter in Arsenal’s storied history awaits as they aim to end continental drought in a sold-out Lisbon finalAfter 18 years, Arsenal are back in the biggest game in women’s European football with a dream to end their long wait for continental glory. They face the holders, the favourites and the much-revered Barcelona, who are aiming to win the Champions League for a third consecutive season on a picture-perfect weekend in Lisbon.Strolling along tree-lined paths through the Portuguese capital’s sun-kissed Parque Eduardo VII, as a group of Barcelona fans cross paths with two Arsenal supporters wearing full red-and-white kit and exchange a few friendly quips about Saturday’s final, it is hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for the 3,467 attendees who saw Arsenal lift the Uefa Women’s Cup – as it was known in 2007 – in the somewhat less glamorous surroundings of Boreham Wood FC’s Meadow Park. In those days, the competition concluded with a two-legged home-and-away final. Arsenal fol...

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2 w. ago France drop Renard, Le Sommer and Dali in shock cull before Women’s Euros

Laurent Bonadei drops trio from Nations League squadIt is not a spur of the moment decision, says France coachFrance have dropped their captain Wendie Renard, their vice-captain Eugénie Le Sommer and the experienced midfielder Kenza Dali for their upcoming Nations League games with little prospect of either making a return for this summer’s Euros.Laurent Bonadei’s side face Switzerland and Iceland in the international window. There had been reports of the trio being left out but the announcement still came as a shock. France are one of the favourites for the European Championship in Switzerland but have been drawn in a tough group with England, the Netherlands and Wales. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Disney+ to enter women’s football market with Champions League rights

Streaming platform in line to agree five-year dealDAZN has shown Champions League for four seasonsThe streaming platform Disney+ is set to show live Women’s Champions League matches from next season across multiple European broadcast territories, including the United Kingdom.It is understood Disney+ has agreed a five-year deal which will mean that it broadcasts every single match in the competition live, which is being perceived as a major step forward for coverage of the European women’s game’s top club competition. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Meet the women running remote mountain refuges in the wilds of the French Alps

Three quarters of mountain refuges in the Vallée des Belleville in Savoie are run by women – Rachel Ifans laces up her hiking boots and scales these formidable peaks to meet some them

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2 w. ago How asylum seeker fisherman became virtual captain of £12million migrant smuggling ring from taxpayer funded flat

Ahmed Ebid, 42, masterminded a £12 million operation, in which around 3,800 migrants, including women and children, were transported to Europe from Libya on overcrowded fishing boats.

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3 w. ago Gérard Depardieu’s conviction was a historic moment for #MeToo in France

The age of impunity is over for male violence against women, say campaigners after the actor was found guilty of sexual assaultWhen Gérard Depardieu, one of France’s biggest cinema stars, was placed on the sex offender register this week after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in 2021, it was a historic moment for the #MeToo movement in the country.“It was a message to all men in power that they are answerable to the courts and can be convicted,” said Catherine Le Magueresse, who represented the European Association Against Violence Towards Women at Work (AVFT) at the trial. “The message is: watch out, the impunity is over.” Continue reading...

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