Sarina Wiegman Euros record

Partner Authors Published: 24 Jun 25 07:41

Sarina Wiegman made history at the last Women's Euros when, by leading England to glory, she became the first coach - male or female - to win the European Championship with two different countries.

This summer the Dutchwoman is plotting to join another elite club by becoming just the second coach - after Germany's Tina Theune - to complete a hat-trick of Euro triumphs.

Wiegman has already carved her name into England international folklore by becoming just the second coach after Sir Alf Ramsey to lead the national team to a major title, ending a 56-year wait since Bobby Moore famously held aloft the World Cup at Wembley.

She was so close to going one better than and guiding England to the World Cup final two summers back, only to suffer heartache against Spain.

Two years on and are there more records to be broken, more feats to be achieved, by the woman who has grabbed the Lionesses by the mane and taken them to the very pinnacle of the game?

England are 4/1 to retain their European crown and you wouldn't put it past Sarina Wiegman completing the most extraordinary of trebles.

The chronicles of a coaching great

Almost as soon as she could walk Sarina Wiegman was playing football with the boys, was playing in a boys' side by the age of eight and in her teens was marked down in her Netherlands home as a young player with a big future.

And that's turned into quite the understatement.

Over 100 caps for Netherlands later, with a few trophies thrown in for good measure, the one-time central midfielder turned defender had a fine playing career but has trumped it spectacularly with a stand-out one as a coach.

A success at club level winning the Dutch Cup with Ten Leede and the double with Den Haag, she became the Netherlands' head coach in December 2016 to something of a fanfare, given her record as player and coach.

But even she probably couldn't have anticipated the success she would have in charge of her own national team, taking them to European Championship glory just a few months later and the World Cup final two years after that, losing 2-0 to the United States.

Euros record with Netherlands

Four years after finishing bottom of their group at Euro 2013, there was pressure on Wiegman.

New in the job she may have been, but the Dutch were at home and expectations were certainly higher than at the previous finals.

Ranked No.9 by UEFA going into the tournament, a quarter-final place was anticipated as a bare minimum.

What the Dutch got instead was an inspired and attractive side who got better and better as the tournament went on, becoming just the fourth different nation to lift the trophy - and doing so in style.

Netherlands at the 2017 Euros

Group stage: v Norway 1-0, v Denmark 1-0, v Belgium 2-1
Quarter-finals: v Sweden 2-0
Semi-finals: v England 3-0
Final: v Denmark 4-2

Euros record with England

Two years after Netherlands were crowned Queens of Europe, they almost completed an unlikely double at the World Cup, going all the way to the final where they lost 2-0 to the powerful United States.

The next target was the 2021 Euros in England - only this time she'd be going there as head coach of the hosts.

The tournament was held back a year but England were well-fancied after good runs at recent competitions. They just needed finessing into a winning force and in the capable hands of a career winner, that was exactly what happened.

The Lionesses cruised through the group stage without conceding a goal, survived an almighty scare against Spain in the last eight and then pipped Germany in extra-time to win the cup for the first time.

England at the 2022 Euros

Group stage: v Austria 1-0, Norway 8-0, Northern Ireland 5-0
Quarter-finals: v Spain 2-1 (aet)
Semi-finals: v Sweden 4-0
Final: v Germany 2-1 (aet)

And her next trick … ?

So how about the three-peat?

That's next on Wiegman's to-do list in Switzerland this summer and at 4/1 England are rightly very well-fancied.

The standard of the women's game continues to improve which means there are more contenders, but England are strong, every bit as strong as they were in 2022.

Spain, deserved World Cup winners against Wiegman's team in Australia in '23, are 2/1 favourites and again, rightly so. They are a classy squad of players.

And Wiegman will get an early taste of the calibre of opposition in the group phase where two of England's rivals in a particularly tough section are France - 5/1 to go all the way - and her home country and 16/1 shots Netherlands.

Successfully defending the title will be tough - but the Lionesses are in the safest of hands.