Spain vs Belgium facts

World champions Spain continue their UEFA Women's EURO 2025 campaign against Belgium in Thun.

Spain opened with their biggest win in a Women's EURO final tournament when they defeated Portugal 5-0 on 3 July, after Belgium had earlier lost 0-1 against Italy.

Spain will be through to the quarter-finals if they beat Belgium and Portugal do not beat Italy in the other Group B game on Matchday 2.

Belgium will be unable to reach the quarter-finals if they lose to Spain and Italy avoid defeat by Portugal.

Previous meetings

Matchday 2 marks the first meeting between Spain and Belgium in a Women's EURO final tournament.

The two nations were paired together in qualifying. Spain triumphed 7-0 in Leuven in April 2024, Salma Paralluelo hitting a hat-trick, before winning 2-0 at home just over two months later on their way to topping Group A2.

There had been six previous Women's EURO qualifying meetings, Spain winning three of those – including a 9-1 victory at home in February 2004 – to Belgium's two (D1).

They most recently faced off in Group A3 of the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League, Spain winning on both occasions. Two added-time goals in Valencia completed a dramatic 3-2 victory in February, while the return fixture in May was more emphatic as doubles from Esther González and Athenea del Castillo helped La Roja to a 5-1 win in Leuven.

Form guide

Spain

Spain raced into an early lead against Portugal on Matchday 1,González and Vicky López scoring inside the first ten minutes in Bern, and the advantage was doubled before the break through Alexia Putellas and a second from González. Substitute Cristina Martin-Prieto made it five in second-half added time.

Spain won five of their six qualifying games in Group A2 (L1), scoring 18 goals and conceding five in finishing ahead of Denmark, Belgium and Czechia.

Jenni Hermoso and Paralluelo both scored three goals in qualifying as Spain averaged three per game.

Making their fifth Women's EURO appearance in 2025, Spain have never failed to qualify for the knockout stages. They have reached the quarter-finals in each of the last three editions, while a semi-final appearance on debut in 1997, where they lost 1-2 to runners-up Italy, remains their best showing.

The 5-0 victory against Portugal on Matchday 1 is Spain's biggest EURO victory.

Spain won their first-ever senior major international women's tournament thanks to Olga Carmona's first-half strike against England in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Sydney.

Less than a year later, goals from Aitana Bonmatí (32) and Mariona Caldentey (53) gave La Roja victory against France in the 2023/24 Women's Nations League final in Seville – the inaugural staging of the event.

Current head coach Montse Tomé, who had served as an assistant to Jorge Vila at the 2023 World Cup, guided Spain to that Women's Nations League title and then fourth place at the 2024 Olympic Games.

Belgium

The Red Flames’ Women’s EURO campaign began with a 0-1 loss to Italy in Sion, their opponents scoring the only goal late in the first half.

Belgium's record in qualifying Group A2 was W1 D1 L4 as they finished third behind Spain and Denmark, but ahead of Czechia on head-to-head record.

In the play-offs, a side coached by Ives Serneels firstly defeated Greece 5-0 (0-0 a, 5-0 h) before seeing off Ukraine with a 4-1 aggregate victory (2-0 a, 2-1 h).

Tessa Wullaert finished as Belgium's top scorer in qualifying with five goals; Ella Van Kerkhoven was on target three times during the play-offs.

The Red Flames were eliminated at the group stage on their Women's EURO debut in 2017, but they went one better in 2022 thanks to a 1-0 win against Italy in Manchester on Matchday 3, which followed a 1-1 draw with Iceland and a 1-2 defeat by France. In the quarter-finals, they conceded in added time to lose 0-1 to Sweden.

That remains their only knockout tie in women's senior football.

Serneels' 14-year reign as head coach came to an end in January, with Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir named as his successor.

Key facts

• Spain have won nine of their last ten international matches (L1).

• Esther González has scored in Spain's last two Women's EURO finals matches. No Spanish player has ever found the net in three successive games at the finals.

• Belgium have won only two of their eight Women's EURO final tournament matches (D1 L5).

• Jassina Blom became the first player from Belgium to play in Spain's Primera División Femenina when she moved in 2021 to Tenerife, where she remains. She is the only member of Belgium's squad to have played for a Spanish club.