Italy’s Euro 2025 squad is coming collectively piece-by-piece and a Nations League marketing campaign will assist head coach, Andrea Soncin, finalise who makes the aircraft to Switzerland this summer season.
They’ve the celebrities of their ranks to realize that aim however they do discover themselves in a troublesome group . World champions and favourites Spain , Portugal and Belgium await them within the preliminary levels of the competitors.
To progress from the group stage would imply Italy go one higher than in 2022 the place they crashed out after dropping to Belgium and France and drawing in opposition to Iceland.
Italy Girls’s Euros squad Italy Girls Euro 2025 squad: the final Italian squad
The squad introduced on February 12 to face Wales and Denmark in a Girls’s Nations League double header this month is as follows:
GK: Rachele Baldi (Inter)
GK: Francesca Durante (Fiorentina)
GK: Laura Giuliani (Milan)
GK: Margot Shore (Bologna)
DF: Valentina Bergamaschi (Juventus)
DF: Lisa Boattin (Juventus)
DF: Lucia Di Guglielmo (Roma)
DF: Maria Luisa Filangeri (Fiorentina)
DF: Martina Lenzini (Juventus)
DF: Elena Linari (Roma)
DF: Beatrice Merlo (Inter)
DF: Elisabetta Oliviero (Lazio)
DF: Julie Piga (Milan)
MF: Arianna Caruso (Bayern Monaco)
MF: Giulia Dragoni (Roma)
MF: Manuela Giugliano (Roma)
MF: Benedetta Glionna (Roma)
MF: Giada Greggi (Roma)
MF: Eva Schatzer (Juventus)
MF: Emma Severini (Fiorentina)
MF: Annamaria Serturini (Inter)
FW: Chiara Beccari (Juventus)
FW: Barbara Bonansea (Juventus)
FW: Agnese Bonfantini (Fiorentina)
FW: Michela Cambiaghi (Inter)
FW: Sofia Cantore (Juventus)
FW: Valentina Giacinti (Roma)
FW: Cristiana Girelli (Juventus)
FW: Martina Piemonte (Lazio)
Italy fixtures and outcomes Euro 2025 qualifying
April 5 2024: Italy 2-0 Netherlands , San Vito, Cosenza, Italy
April 9 2024: Finland 2-1 Italy , Helsinki Soccer Stadium, Helsinki, Iceland
Might 31 2024: Norway 0-0 Italy , Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
June 2 2024: Italy 1-1 Norway, Paolo Mazza, Ferrara, Italy
July 12 2024: Netherlands 0-0 Italy , Fortuna Sittard Stadion, Sittard, Netherlands
July 16 2024: Italy 4-0 Finland , Druso, Bolzano, Italy
Friendlies
October 25 2024: Italy 5-0 Malta , Stadio Tre Fontane, Rome, Italy
October 29 2024: Italy 1-1 Spain , Romeo Menti di Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy
December 2 2024: Germany 1-2 Italy , Vonovia Ruhrstadion, Bochum, Italy
Girls’s Nations League
February 21 2025: Italy vs Wales , Brianteo, Monza, Italy
February 25 2025: Italy vs Denmark, Stadium Alberto Picco, La Spezia, Italy
April 4 2025: Sweden vs Italy, Strawberry Area, Solna, Sweden
April 8 2025: Denmark vs Italy, Area Herning, Herning, Denmark
Might 30 2025: Italy vs Sweden, TBC
June 3 2025: Wales vs Italy , TBC
Euro 2025
July 3 2025: Belgium vs Italy, Stade de Tourbillon, Sion, Switzerland
July 7 2025: Portugal vs Italy, Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
July 11 2025: Italy vs Spain, Stadion Wankdorf, Bern, Switzerland
Sweden supervisor: Andrea Soncin
Andrea Soncin has managed the staff since September 2023 (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Andrea Soncin was appointed boss in September 2023, after the World Cup the place the staff crashed out within the group stage. Since then Italy have endured inconsistent type however there have been glimpses of what they’ll obtain, notably of their 1-1 draw in opposition to Spain .
The Italy job can also be Soncin’s first appointment in worldwide soccer. He beforehand has been a coach for Venezia , the place he was caretaker boss twice.
He has stated concerning the group Italy has been drawn in: “Awaiting us is a really aggressive group. We’re very centered on our path, conscious that in these competitions all of the opponents are very sturdy and organised.”
Italy’s star participant Lisa Boattin
Lisa Boattin made her worldwide debut in 2016 (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Juventus defender Lisa Boattin is closing in on 50 caps for Italy after making her debut again in 2016. Whereas she is a powerful, stable defender for her facet, a aim she scored in 2021 gave the staff a slice of historical past.
That aim, which was her first at worldwide stage, sealed a 2-0 win over Romania and booked Italy direct qualification to the World Cup. It was the primary time Italy’s ladies’s staff had secured direct qualification.
Boattin is about to play an important function in an enormous 2025 for the staff and her management expertise – having captaining Italy’s youth groups – ought to shine by.
