Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen 2025

This summer I travelled through Switzerland on a family holiday. During this time the Cymru (Wales) women’s football team played at their first ever major championships. I hope you enjoy some of the snapshots from the Swiss tournament which documents and celebrates some of the Cymru fans and football team’s participation in the 2025 Euros.

A Launch on a Lake

Welsh language TV Channel S4C held an event on the Lake of Lucerne in advance of the Cymru women’s participation in Euro 2025.

Thanks to our friend Dee Green from Roath, Cardiff (now a Basel resident) for sending these two pictures – Dee with the Croeso sign and Liss Lloyd

Match Day in St.Gallen

I originally entitled this photo Ten Gallen Hats. However, after speaking to several people, only one had ever heard of the mythical Ten Gallon Hat worn by the cowboys in the Old American West. My survey should have told me to drop my title – but I liked it enough to keep it – and yes, on inspection there are closer to 20 than 10 – but I still like my photo title.

A stylish Swiss store (aren’t they all) in St. Gallen added some Welsh Chic to their window display by featuring a classic Cymru bucket hat.

Some of our Swiss Family (we like to call them Swelsh) added to the Red Wall.

Cymru v France, 9 July

It wasn’t the result that we wanted, but the pride, passion and raw emotion defined the Welsh performance!

Final score: Cymru 1 France 4

Oh No!! The End of the Paper Trail?

As a Welsh football fan who saw my first international game (v Romania) at Ninian Park in 1970, it was disappointing to find that there were no paper tickets which fans could retain as souvenirs of Euro ‘25.

When the men’s team qualified for the 2016 Euros, for many supporters the tournament tickets where symbolic of our participation and years of support.

The Dragon is branded

Our national flag and emblem was prominent in Switzerland wherever we travelled to a location which was hosting a Euro match.

Jess brilliant!

As we arrived at Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Jess Fishlock’s iconic number 10 shirt floated above the rail passengers using the main entrance hall.

After the train we caught a tram which was promoting the Women’s Euros as it made its way over the Limmat River, close to the Lake of Zurich

The Tale of a Few Cities

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Winterthur - Stadium watch. FC Winterthur offered a football environment to watch the Euros.

St.Gallen - Euro action. Cymru v France

Zurich -The Euros are in town. A Zurich tram rumbles through the Bahnhofstrasse under the tournament banners.

Basel Euro-a-go-go! Until 2007 I lived in Switzerland for nearly 6 years - 4 of them in Basel. So to approach the main station with a female football traffic light was something new to me

One example of the progress women’s football has made was the St. Gallen Arena being chosen as a venue at the 2025 Euros.

FC St. Gallen is proclaimed to be the oldest club in continental Europe. When it was established as a men’s side in 1879, who could have imagined a crowd of nearly 16,000 welcoming two women’s teams onto the pitch?

Trains, Trams & Boats

Our family Swiss adventure during the Euros included visits to mountains, lakes and rivers, as well as to towns and villages such as Walde, Rapperswil, Zurich and Basel.