Lionesses Euro 2025 ratings - every England player ranked: From clutch queen Chloe Kelly to up-and-down Lauren James

It was never in doubt, right?… On Sunday, England completed one of the most extraordinary and dramatic routes to a major tournament title that the sport has ever seen, beating Spain on penalties in the 2025 European Championship final to successfully defend their status as continental champions.

No team had ever won two penalty shootouts in a single edition of the Women’s Euros before, and no team had ever gone to three lots of extra-time either, but the Lionesses ticked both of those boxes in a rollercoaster ride that broke the hearts of Sweden, Italy and Spain along the way.

As the latest success in the Sarina Wiegman era starts to really sink in for England fans, بالجم rates and ranks every Lionesses player for their contributions in Switzerland…

Barring any extenuating circumstances, there was never any expectation that any goalkeeper other than Hannah Hampton would play for the Lionesses at Euro 2025 and that proved to be the case, with Anna Moorhouse playing the role of an unused sub in each of England’s six games in Switzerland.

Like Moorhouse, Khiara Keating did not take to the pitch at Euro 2025 as Hampton was an ever-present in between the sticks. What a valuable experience this is likely to have been, though, for someone who is still just 21 years old. It’s a similar situation to that which Hampton was in at Euro 2022, and look how that helped her development.

One of just two outfielders not to take to the pitch, Lotte Wubben-Moy’s inclusion in the squad this summer was no doubt helped by Millie Bright’s withdrawal from selection, with the Arsenal defender having not featured in a Lionesses camp in 2025 until she made the cut for the Euros. Still, as a well-known asset off the pitch due to her fantastic character and personality, Wubben-Moy played her part in other ways in Switzerland.

Wiegman has long said that she sees Maya Le Tissier as more of a right-back, despite her playing – and excelling – as a centre-back for Manchester United. Still, on the three occasions that the England boss opted to sub off Lucy Bronze at Euro 2025, she didn’t turn to Le Tissier to replace her, instead deploying Niamh Charles on the opposite side to usual.

Only those who didn’t take to the pitch at all played fewer minutes for England at the Euros than Jess Park, whose only appearance in the tournament was as a half-time substitute in the 6-1 thumping of Wales in the group stages.

Having played a lot of minutes for the Lionesses in 2025, that’s sure to have disappointed her somewhat, though just being involved in her first major tournament will have been an honour.

It’s really hard to give Jess Carter a satisfying rating because her tournament was so up and down. After being exposed as a left-back in the Lionesses’ opener, she looked much more solid in her natural centre-back role in England’s next two outings, before being targeted successfully by Sweden in the quarter-finals.

Wiegman made a switch for the semi-finals which put Carter on the bench, but then brought the Gotham defender back for the final, in which she was immense. This might not be as low a rating as many expect her to get, but the 27-year-old deserves to have it bumped up by the resilience and quality she showed against Spain, in the biggest game of the summer.

Grace Clinton actually appeared in five of England’s six games at Euro 2025, but that still only resulted in her playing a grand total of 64 minutes. The most notable moment of that short playing time was a poor penalty that was easily saved in the shootout against Sweden. However, she has hardly the only one to fluff her lines that night.

The regularity with which Wiegman turned to her in extra-time, trusting her to bring energy to a tired midfield, was also encouraging in her first major tournament.

Esme Morgan only played two games at Euro 2025, subbed on in the 70th minute of the quarter-final against Sweden, thus playing extra-time as well as the final stages of the 90, before starting the semi-final win over Italy. It was never going to be easy for her to be thrown into a defence that struggled to convince all tournament long, but she did her best, with the manner in which she was exposed for Italy’s opener showing that England’s problems in the position did not stem from Carter, whom she was replacing, but rather the team set-up.

It’s hard to rate and rank Charles because while she did have a huge moment in the final, scoring a brilliant penalty as England went on to beat Spain in a shootout, she actually only played 80 minutes at this tournament, the fourth-fewest of any Lioness to take to the pitch. That said, she did little wrong when she was given an opportunity and her lack of action makes her conviction from the spot in such a high-pressure moment all the more impressive.

Like Charles, Aggie Beever-Jones sits right on the line of qualifying for a rating. She played the third-fewest minutes of those to get on the field for England this past month, only accumulating 77 across three appearances, but she did manage to get a goal and an assist, both in the 6-1 thumping of Wales.

Having seemingly come to the Euros as the back-up to Alessia Russo, she was usurped in the pecking order by Michelle Agyemang, leaving her with a much more limited role than expected, something that was surely disappointing. However, that was more to do with her team-mate’s brilliance and her suitability to certain situations, rather than anything Beever-Jones did wrong on her major tournament debut.

On the one hand, it was a bit of a surprise that Georgia Stanway didn’t stand-out as a top performer during England’s run to the Euros title. When they lifted this trophy in 2022, she was superb, and then she was arguably the Lionesses’ best player when they reached the final of the 2023 Women’s World Cup.

However, some poor overall displays as a team in which England lacked control of games certainly contributed to Stanway not being able to get her foot on the ball and take charge, while her very recent return from four months out with a knee injury likely played its part, too. She did save her best performance of the knockout rounds for the final, at least.

It’s difficult to rate Lauren James, too, as the Chelsea winger clearly wasn’t fit by the end of the tournament. She played well in the group stages, with her performance against the Netherlands a particular stand-out, but looked leggy in the quarter-final win over Sweden and picked up an ankle knock in the clash with Italy that would result in her limping off before half-time in the final.

Given it feels important to place more emphasis on the knockout rounds for this exercise, James’ score has to take a bit of a hit, albeit for reasons out of her control.

Ella Toone’s tournament is a tricky one to grade as her two best performances came in the group stage, with her struggling to really make her mark in the knockouts. She was vital in England getting back on track with a 4-0 thumping of the Netherlands, when defeat would’ve sent them home early, before stealing the show in a fantastic 45-minute display against Wales.

However, she is another who ends up with a rating somewhere near the middle, with the ups and the downs balancing each other out when assessing her overall tournament.

While things didn’t quite fall for Lauren Hemp in the knockout stages of Euro 2025, there was certainly no lack of effort from the winger, who consistently honoured her defensive duties when England were up against it. After impressing massively in an attacking sense in the wins over the Netherlands and Wales, a lack of end product plagued her once the group stages were over, but she still had some bright and important moments to give her a slightly above average rating overall.

Having began the Euros in a starting role, Beth Mead will have been disappointed to drop out of the XI after the opening game as Wiegman rejigged things in attack and moved James out wide. The rest of her tournament came as a substitute, albeit one she executed well.

Mead wasn’t an impactful ‘finisher’ quite like Chloe Kelly or Michelle Agyemang, but she regularly came on in a midfield position in the knockout stages and provided a calm and assured presence to help swing the momentum back in the Lionesses’ favour. The only mark against her was that she missed penalties in both shootouts – the only England player to do so.

While Wiegman tried to solve the issues on the left-hand side of defence, it felt imperative for Leah Williamson, her captain, to stand tall at right centre-back. On occasion, she didn’t quite do that, with two surprisingly poor performances coming against France and Sweden.

However, the skipper made amends as England’s best defender against Italy and then she put in a solid display in the final to help guide her Lionesses over the line.

Having established herself as a world-class centre-back in recent years, this tournament was a tricky one for Alex Greenwood as she was asked to return to her old left-back role, owing to England’s total lack of options there. How she applied herself, though, was admirable.

She was by no means at her brilliant best, but the 31-year-old used all of her experience and quality to help the team address a massive issue and limit how much it could be exposed.

After enjoying her best scoring season to date in the build-up to this Euros, many might have expected Alessia Russo to net more than her final total of two goals at this tournament. Yet, there was only so much she could do about the lack of service she was often feeding off.

Still, she managed to score a truly terrific and extremely important goal in the final, while her incredible three-assist performance in the vital win over the Netherlands should not be forgotten either.

Aside from a rather anonymous display against Sweden in the quarter-finals, Keira Walsh was impressively consistent at the Euros, particularly given England were nowhere near their best. Win or lose, she was often one of the Lionesses’ best players, capping off her summer with a classy performance in a final she grew into brilliantly.

Lucy Bronze wasn’t without her sloppy moments in Switzerland, but she certainly made amends for them with some hugely positive contributions along the way to this Euro 2025 title. Her display against Sweden was the stand-out, featuring a crucial header to kickstart England’s comeback and the winning penalty in the shootout, but her performance against Spain in the final was also particularly impressive, especially given she started poorly.

That she did it all with a fractured tibia, too, is extraordinary.

Not in her wildest dreams would Michelle Agyemang have envisioned her summer going as it did. Having won her first England cap back in April, she went to the Euros as something of a wildcard, but Wiegman used her talents to wonderful effect, with the 19-year-old coming up big as a goal-scoring super-sub in the defeats of Sweden and Italy.

She was not quite as impactful when introduced against Spain in the final, but that felt more like a learning lesson for Wiegman and the style of play the Lionesses should be focusing on when Agyemang is on the pitch.

There was really not much more Hannah Hampton could have done better at Euro 2025. In her first major tournament as a starter, she was so regularly the hero, coming up with huge penalty saves in the shootout wins over Sweden and Spain, with a crucial double-save in the victory over Italy sandwiched in between.

Her focus, distribution and the commanding of her area all improved as the tournament progressed, with there no more impressive goalkeeper on show in Switzerland.

Who else was going to top this list if not the hero of the tournament? Chloe Kelly didn’t start a single game at Euro 2025, and only six players who got on the pitch for England played fewer minutes, with her total of 248 averaging out at 41 per appearance. Yet, what she did with those opportunities was incredible.

In the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final, she was the game-changer, the player who helped rescue the Lionesses from the jaws of defeat as they somehow dragged themselves up off the canvas and across the line, to clinch a second successive European Championship title.