Which young players could light up Euro 2025?

In July 2022, arsenic Sarina Wiegman's Lionesses were celebrating being crowned champions of Europe, Germany's Lena Oberdorf was named nan inaugural young subordinate of nan tournament.

Three years connected and a caller harvest of players, from 16 countries, will get successful Switzerland hoping to radiance astatine this summer's Women's Euros.

BBC Sport has selected 7 players nether nan property of 23 to look retired for.

Before England's penultimate Women's Nations League group game, each of nan attraction was connected Mary Earps' retirement. After nan match, a different sanction dominated nan headlines: Aggie Beever-Jones.

The guardant seized her opportunity successful nan absence of injured duo Alessia Russo and Ella Toone, scoring a 33-minute hat-trick against Portugal.

Tipping her to make an effect astatine Euro 2025, erstwhile England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley praised her versatility, activity and goalscoring prowess.

"She tin play connected nan right, left, and successful cardinal areas. She's perpetually connected nan move, hunting for nan correct opportunity to pounce connected defenders," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"She is seldom offside. She is simply a existent goalscorer, putting herself about, making a nuisance of herself."

Beever-Jones, who joined Chelsea's academy aged nine, was nan Blues' apical goal-scorer successful nan WSL past play pinch 9 and besides claimed nan victor successful their FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool to support them connected way for a home treble.

Wales will make history this summertime by competing successful their first awesome women's tourney and Carrie Jones, contempt her tender years, is already good established successful nan squad.

Jones has been an world footballer for six years having made her Wales debut astatine 15 - earlier she was eligible to play for nine broadside Cardiff City - and spent 4 seasons successful nan WSL pinch Manchester United, Leicester City and Bristol City followed by a move to Swedish broadside IFK Norrkoping successful 2024.

A versatile guardant player, she is commonly deployed connected nan near flank for Wales but tin besides play successful cardinal midfield aliases a lone striker.

In 2019, erstwhile Wales world Gwennan Harries tipped Jones to beryllium "one of Wales' champion players, external complete nan adjacent 10-20 years".

"She's specified a talent. So composed, sewage 2 awesome feet, but astir importantly for me, her activity ethic is outstanding, a existent squad player," she said.

At 21, Salma Paralluelo already boasts a heavyweight CV.

A personnel of nan 2023 World Cup-winning squad, she started 5 of Spain's 7 matches, came disconnected nan chair to people successful nan 4th and semi-finals, and earned young subordinate of nan tourney honours. That triumph meant she became nan first subordinate to clasp world titles astatine Under-17, Under-20 and elder level.

She has besides won nan 2024 Nations League, while domestically she is simply a two-time Champions League victor pinch Barcelona.

In 2024, she was nan youngest subordinate successful nan apical 20 of The Guardian's 100 champion female footballers successful nan world, external and vanished 3rd successful nan Ballon d'Or standings for nan past 2 seasons.

Paralluelo, who had to take betwixt shot and athletics, is simply a beingness winger who drives difficult astatine defenders and possesses a prolific near foot.

She will beryllium a cardinal attacking threat for Spain, though she took a break aft past summer's Olympics - because of intelligence and beingness exhaustion and an rumor pinch her near knee - and she has recovered playing clip harder to travel by connected her return.

At 19, Wieke Kaptein has already won aggregate home trophies, first pinch FC Twente and now pinch Chelsea.

During nan 2024-25 campaign, nan cardinal midfielder forced her measurement into Sonia Bompastor's star-studded XI, starting 7 of their 10 Champions League games, and was identified by BBC Sport arsenic 1 of nan unsung heroes of nan Blues' invincible WSL season acknowledgment to her contributions successful nan mediate of nan pitch.

Bompastor has been afloat of praise for Kaptein's activity rate, stating: "She brings a batch of value retired of possession. She is really assured but besides useful difficult disconnected nan ball. She useful truthful difficult for nan team."

Team-mate Kadeisha Buchanan added: "She's a unsocial player. She's cool, laid back. She shows that connected nan section - she's very composed. She's a fun, young talent."

Internationally, she has amassed 20 caps since making her debut successful April 2023, typically playing connected nan correct of a midfield three, and made history arsenic nan youngest subordinate to correspond nan Netherlands astatine a Women's World Cup later that year.

The second-youngest subordinate successful nan Germany squad and group to play successful her first awesome tournament, Franziska Kett has agelong been connected nan radar of nationalist squad caput coach Christian Wuck, who described her arsenic a move defender.

The left-back made her debut for Bayern Munich successful 2022 - 1 period earlier her 18th day - and has gone connected to characteristic for nan German champions successful some nan Frauen-Bundesliga and Women's Champions League.

A personnel of nan Under-19s squad which vanished arsenic runners-up astatine nan European Championships successful 2023, she was handed her elder debut successful April 2025.

"We person been keeping tabs connected Franziska Kett and her improvement for immoderate clip now," Wuck said. "She provides a awesome woody of dynamism pinch her explosive style of play. We judge that she tin do a occupation for nan nationalist team."

In a Barcelona squad brimming pinch apical talent, you could beryllium forgiven for not knowing Sydney Schertenleib's name.

However, since moving to Spain from Grasshopper Zurich past summer, nan 18-year-old has quickly established herself arsenic a first-team regular, starting each but 2 of Barcelona's convention matches since nan opening of March and coming disconnected nan chair successful some legs of their Champions League quarter-final against Wolfsburg.

Although she typically plays connected nan near broadside of a midfield aliases guardant 3 for Barcelona, Switzerland leader Pia Sundhage has preferred to usage her arsenic a right-sided striker, yielding 2 goals successful her first 10 appearances.

In her first elder tournament, and playing connected location soil, nan mounting is cleanable for Schertenleib to make an impact.

Sombath is 1 of a number of promising young French defenders looking to capitalise connected nan omission of nan antecedently immovable Wendie Renard from nan squad for nan Euros.

Born successful France to Thai parents, she joined Lyon aged 16 from rivals Paris St-Germain and 12 months later she made her elder debut alongside nine fable Renard astatine centre-back successful their opening crippled of nan season.

Former Lyon head Joe Montemurro said: "I deliberation she's going to go a typical player. She has each nan qualities to go a apical defender.

"At a large nine for illustration Lyon, location are much knowledgeable players, truthful she needs a small patience. But successful nan future, I deliberation she'll beryllium a awesome subordinate for nan French nationalist team."

Comfortable astatine right-back aliases successful cardinal defence, Sombath made her France debut successful November and was past paired alongside caller skipper Griedge Mbock successful France's 4-0 triumph complete Switzerland successful May.

She besides sewage nan motion up of Renard astatine centre-back for Lyon's Champions League semi-final first limb triumph complete Arsenal.