Spain Women Euro 2025 squad: Aitana Bonmati leads star-studded world champions

Spain Women Euro 2025 squad has been confirmed and it is stuffed to the brim of star players.

The strongest Euro 2025 squad at the tournament includes back-to-back Ballon d'Or Femenin winners Aitana Bonmati and Alexia Putellas, who are first and 14th in FourFourTwo's best current player list, are included, as well as key players like Salma Paralluelo, Claudia Pina and Mariona Caldentey. Spain's depth of stars is so vast that there is no room for Jenni Hermoso.

Spain will be targeting the one trophy they have never won in the Euros. They are the favourites too after winning the World Cup in 2023.

It’s been a turbulent couple of years for La Roja since they won their first major honour, beating England 1-0 in the 2023 World Cup Final. Widely despised boss Jorge Vilda was sacked as part of the fallout from FA president Luis Rubiales forcibly kissing Hermoso before the trophy lift, with his assistant Montse Tome given the job instead.

Early results under Tome were promising, with Spain winning the inaugural Nations League in 2024, but they had an unexpectedly bad Olympics at which they failed to claim a medal. Issues that plagued Vilda’s era – poor tactical acumen and players being ostracised – have persisted under Tome.

Nevertheless, she still has at her disposal many of the best players on the planet. Alexia Putellas has fully recovered from the ruptured ACL injury she suffered on the eve of Euro 2022, allowing Tome to use the iconic Barcelona midfield of Putellas, Aitana Bonmati and Patri Guijarro. Mariona Caldentey’s move to Arsenal has allowed the 29-year-old forward to establish herself as a star and play some of the best football of her career.

If there are concerns for Spain, it will be in defence, but one thing Spain continue to show is a never-say-die attitude. On three occasions in the past year, they’ve overturned a two-goal deficit to win a game, against Denmark, Belgium and Colombia (the latter on penalties). Despite the handful of draws and losses they’ve sustained, they’re still very much the team to beat.

Spain Women's Euros squad

Spain Women Euros squad

• GK: Esther Sullastres (Sevilla)
• GK: Cata Coll (Barcelona)
• GK: Adriana Nanclares (Athletic Bilbao)
• DF: Laia Aleixandri (unattached)
• DF: Ona Battle (Barcelona)
• DF: Olga Carmona (Real Madrid)
• DF: Jana Fernandez (Barcelona),
• DF: Maria Mendez (Real Madrid)
• DF: Leila Ouahabi (Manchester City)
• DF: Irene Paredes (Barcelona)
• MF: Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona)
• MF: Patricia Guijarro (Barcelona)
• MF: Vicky Lopez (Barcelona)
• MF: Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)
• MF: Maite Zubieta (Athletic Bilbao)
• FW: Mariona Caldentey (Arsenal)
• FW: Athenea del Castillo (Real Madrid)
• FW: Lucia Garcia (Monterrey)
• FW: Esther Gonzalez (Gotham FC)
• FW: Cristina Martin-Prieto (Benfica)
• FW: Salma Paralluelo (Barcelona)
• FW: Claudia Pina (Barcelona)
• FW: Alba Redondo (Real Madrid)

Predicted line-up

4-3-3: Coll; Batlle, Paredes, Aleixandri, Carmona; Bonmati, Guijarro, Putellas; Pina, Paralluelo, Caldentey

Spain fixtures and results

Euro 2025 qualifying

April 5: Belgium 0-7 Spain, Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium
April 9: Spain 3-1 Czech Republic, El Plantío, Burgos, Spain

May 31: Denmark 0-2 Spain, Vejle Stadium, Vejle, Denmark
June 4: Spain 3-2 Denmark, Heliodoro Rodríguez López, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

July 12: Czech Republic 2-1 Spain, Letní stadion, Chomutov, Czech Republic
July 16: Spain 2-0 Belgium, Riazor, A Coruna, Spain

Friendlies

October 25: Spain 1-1 Canada, Francisco de la Hera, Almendralejo, Spain
October 29: Italy 1-1 Spain, Stadio Romeo Menti, Vicenza, Italy

November 29: Spain 5-0 South Korea, Estadio Cartagonova, Cartagena, Spain
December 3: France 2-4 Spain, Stade de Nice, Nice, France

Women's Nations League

February 21: Spain 3-2 Belgium, Estadi Ciutat de València, Valencia, Spain
February 26: England 1-0 Spain, Wembley, London, England

April 4: Portugal 2-4 Spain, Pacos de Ferreira, Portugal
April 8: Spain 7-1 Portugal, Vigo, Spain

May 30: Belgium 1-5 Spain, Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium
June 3: Spain 2-1 England, RCDE Stadium, Spain

Friendly

27 June: Spain v Japan, Butarque stadium, Leganes, Spain

Euro 2025

July 3: Spain v Portugal, Stadion Wankdorf, Bern, Switzerland
July 7: Spain v Belgium, Arena Thun, Thun Switzerland
July 11: Italy v Spain, Stadion Wankdorf, Bern, Switzerland

Everything you need to know about Spain

LESSON FROM QUALIFYING

Spain breezed through a group containing Denmark, Belgium and the Czech Republic, although the latter recorded a historic win over them. Eleven different Roja players scored 18 goals across six games, displaying wide-ranging creativity and unmatched ruthlessness.

STRENGTHS

Total technical superiority. Playing against Spain often feels like a nightmarish version of whack-amole. Decide to double up on Bonmati? You risk setting Putellas free. Sit back and try to defend? You risk affording Guijarro the freedom to play a pinpoint pass.

WEAKNESSES

Spain lack an in-form striker, with Tome leaving all-time top scorer Hermoso out of Nations League squads in February and March. The head coach has tried different options, including Salma Paralluelo, Esther Gonzalez, Alba Redondo, Lucia Garcia and Cristina Martin-Prieto over recent months, but Hermoso could yet be recalled.

MOST LIKELY TO…

Fight to the Ballon d’Or death. Putellas and Bonmati have their eyes on this summer delivering a third gong – the latter stepped out of the former’s shadow in 2023 and 2024, but now they’re both gunning for the limelight.

LEAST LIKELY TO…

Revert to long balls. This Spain team plays exactly as you would expect, heavily influenced by the considerable Barcelona contingent that make up their XI. Predictable, no doubt, but they’re so technically proficient, just try preventing it.

WHAT THEY HOPE WILL HAPPEN

Defeat England. La Roja’s World Cup final success seemed to have exorcised any demons from their Euro 2022 quarter-final exit to the Lionesses, but a February loss at Wembley showed that this clash has all the hallmarks of becoming an epic international rivalry.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN

The spectre of the Olympics means it’s not as simple as saying Spain will just win the whole thing because they’re the best team in the competition. But they’re the best team in the competition, and probably will win the whole thing.

Spain manager: Montse Tomé

True to the Spanish tradition that has served them so well both in the men's and women's game, Montse Tomé was promoted from assistant manager following Jorge Vilda's ignomious exit from the post following the 2023 World Cup.

Tomé has already led Spain to a Nations League victory, delivering a 2-0 win over France in the final of the inaugural edition of the tournament last February.

Spain came away from the Olympics empty-handed, however, never really reaching their best as they went out to eventual winners Brazil in the semi-finals before losing to Germany in the bronze medal game.

Spain's star player

Aitana Bonmati

The two-time Ballon d'Or winner ranks at number 10 in FourFourTwo's list of the 100 greatest women's footballers of all time, and at just 27 years old has a legitimate chance of climbing all the way to the top of the list before her career is done.

The European Championship is the only bit of silverware Bonmati is yet to get her hands on after her star turn for Spain at the 2023 World Cup and consistently brilliant performances for Barcelona, helping them to win three Champions Leagues titles.

Goalscorer, playmaker, superstar: Bonmati is the player to watch not just for Spain, but in the entire tournament.