Netherlands Women Euro 2025 squad: Full team for former champions

The Netherlands Women Euro 2025 squad has been announced.

The Dutch have been competitive in recent times and are considered dark horses among the other Euro 2025 squads – but to fulfil that promise, the Netherlands will first compete with England, France and Wales to get out of the group of death at Euro 2025 in hopes of repeating their brilliantly stylish triumph at Euro 2017.

The 2017 European champions want their trophy back – though it’s not going to come easily. Most bookies have the Dutch down as favourites to join Wales in dropping out of a nasty-looking group, so they can’t afford a slow start against them in the opening fixture.

Yet this team still includes members of the victorious squad from eight years ago: they know how to win and they have more than enough quality to bloody the nose of anyone they come across. There's a real mix of serious experience and promising young players to choose from, luckily.

Andries Jonker, who replaced Mark Parsons after Euro 2022, has integrated several younger players but will leave after Euro 2025 to be succeeded by Arjan Veurink, Sarina Wiegman’s No.2 with England. Jonker previously assisted Louis van Gaal at Barcelona and Bayern Munich and worked in the Arsenal men's youth set-up.

In attack, Vivianne Miedema, Lineth Beerensteyn and Esmee Brugts can exploit defences, with Miedema still the star in this team. Despite an injury-hit campaign, the Manchester City no.9 is the Netherlands’ biggest attacking threat. She’s still only 28 but could reach 100 international goals this summer; she hit No.97 in April, only to quickly be sidelined again with hamstring trouble.

With the Netherlands going through a transition phase, can they embrace a new label as underdogs?

Netherlands Women's Euros squad

Netherlands Women Euro 2025 squad

The squad for this summer is as follows:

• GK: Daphne van Domselaar (Arsenal)
• GK: Lize Kop (Tottenham)
• GK: Danielle de Jong (Twente)
• DF: Veerle Buurman (Chelsea)
• DF: Kerstin Casparij (Man City)
• DF: Caitlin Dijkstra (Wolfsburg)
• DF: Dominique Janssen (Manchester United)
• DF: Ilse van der Zanden (Utrecht)
• DF: Lynn Wilms (Unattached)
• MF: Damaris Egurrola (Lyon)
• MF: Jackie Groenen (PSG)
• MF: Wieke Kaptein (Chelsea)
• MF: Victoria Pelova (Arsenal)
• MF: Jill Roord (FC Twente)
• MF: Sherida Spitse (Ajax)
• MF: Danielle van de Donk (London City Lionesses)
• FW: Lineth Beerensteyn (Wolfsburg)
• FW: Esmee Brugts (Barcelona)
• FW: Chasity Grant (Aston Villa)
• FW: Renate Jansen (PSV)
• FW: Romée Leuchte (PSG)
• FW: Vivianne Miedema (Man City)
• FW: Katja Snoeijs (Everton)

Predicted XI

4-3-3: Van Domselaar; Casparij, Janssen, Spitse, Brugts; Groenen, Van de Donk, Kaptein; Beerensteyn, Mierdema, Roord

Netherlands fixtures and results

Euro 2025 qualifying

April 5: Italy 2-0 Netherlands, Stadio San Vito-Gigi Marulla, Cosenza, Italy
April 9: Netherlands 1-0 Norway, Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands

May 31: Netherlands 1-0 Finland, Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel, Rotterham, Netherlands
June 4: Finland 1-1 Netherlands, Tammelan Stadion, Tampere, Finland

July 12: Netherlands 0-0 Italy, Fortuna Sittard Stadion, Sittard, Netherlands
July 16: Norway 1-1 Netherlands, Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway

Friendlies

October 25: Netherlands 15-0 Indonesia, De Vijverberg, Doetinchem, Netherlands
October 29: Denmark 1-2 Netherlands, Esbjerg Stadion, Esbjerg, Denmark

November 29: Netherlands 4-1 China, Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel, Rotterham, Netherlands
December 3: Netherlands 1-2 USA, ADO Den Haag Stadium, The Hague, Netherlands

Women's Nations League

February 21: Netherlands 2-2 Germany, Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands
February 26: Scotland 1-2 Netherlands, Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland

April 4: Netherlands 3-1 Austria, Asito Stadion, Almelo, Netherlands
April 8: Austria 1-3 Netherlands, Cashpoint-Arena, Altach, Austria

May 30: Germany 4-0 Netherlands, Weserstadion, Bremen, Germany
June 3: Netherlands 1-1 Scotland, Koning Willem II stadion, Tilburg, Netherlands

Euro 2025

July 5: Wales v Netherlands, Allmend Stadion, Lucerne, Switzerland
July 9: England v Netherlands, Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland
July 13: Netherlands v France, St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland

Everything you need to know about the Netherlands

LESSON FROM QUALIFYING

Give the nerves a rest. The Oranje won only two of their six qualifiers, both 1-0 at home, and needed an 80th-minute equaliser in Norway to seal their ticket on the last day.

STRENGTHS

A cocktail of attacking players who convert their opportunities. Lineth Beerensteyn, Vivianne Miedema and Esmee Brugts, who should get forward from left-back, can exploit top defences in a variety of ways.

WEAKNESSES

A shaky backline. While they have what appears to be a solid set of defensive players, the Netherlands are prone to being caught out on the break and have a tendency to ship soft goals.

MOST LIKELY TO…

Keep people guessing. The Dutch have been experimenting recently, trying out different formations in search of a winning formula.

LEAST LIKELY TO…

Shut out the elite. They’ve played Germany (twice), Spain, England and the USA in the past 18 months and conceded at least twice each time – they can’t do that in July.

Vivianne Miedema, Lineth Beerensteyn and Esmee Brugts can exploit defences

WHAT THEY HOPE WILL HAPPEN

Handed a relatively gentle start, the Dutch follow up a drubbing of Wales with further victories over England and France, reaching the last eight full of confidence that carries them through to a second European Championship crown.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN

Their group-stage fate will likely be settled by the finest of margins. If they do progress, they’ll probably run straight into one of the other tournament favourites in Germany or Sweden. All in all, it’s a big ask.

Netherlands manager: Andries Jonker

After a brief spell as interim boss in 2001, Andries Jonker returned for a second spell as national team manager after the Netherlands' disappointing Euro 2022, when they went out at the quarter-final stage to France.

Much of Jonker's career has been spent in the men's game, where he has had spells as an assistant manager with Barcelona and Bayern Munich; as academy manager at Arsenal; and as head coach of Volendam, MVV, Willem II, Wolfsburg and Telstar.

Jonker took the Netherlands to the 2023 World Cup, where they once again went out in the quarter-finals - though there was some mitigation in their extra-time defeat having come against eventual winners Spain.

Netherlands' star player

Vivanne Miedema

Injuries have limited the centre-forward's playing time for club and country over the past few years, but the Netherlands' all-time leading goalscorer still has a massive part to play.

Miedema is on track to clock up 100 goals for her country as prior to the Euros beginning she has 97 goals.

She is the Netherlands' all-time goalscorer, for the men or women's teams.