Women's sport takes centre stage in the 2025 sporting calendar with major tournaments in football, rugby union and cricket. England's Lionesses will be the defending champions at Euro 2025 in Switzerland in July, England's Red Roses are favourites to lift the Women's Rugby World Cup at Twickenham's Allianz Stadium in September and England will bid to bring home the Women's Cricket World Cup from India in October. Other big events include Ashes cricket series down under for England's men and women, a British and Irish Lions rugby tour in Australia and a Ryder Cup in the United States.
Meanwhile, BBC Sports Personality of the Year Keely Hodgkinson has the chance to add indoor and outdoor world athletics titles to the Olympic 800m gold she won in Paris. Here's our guide to the highlights of the year and a calendar which lists the main events each month. The 2025 Women's European Championships take place from 2-27 July, with Sarina Wiegman's England seeking to make a third successive major final.
The Lionesses, who won the Euros in dramatic fashion at Wembley in 2022 before finishing runners-up to Spain in a similarly nail-biting final at the 2023 World Cup, face Wales, France and Netherlands in the group stage. Rhian Wilkinson's Wales beat the Republic of Ireland in the play-offs to reach a major tournament for the first time and play England in their final group game on 13 July. Germany's Thomas Tuchel will take charge of England's men for the first time on 21 March when the Th.