Norway Women's Euros Squad 2025 has been confirmed.
One of the more experienced Euro 2025 squads will feature Maren Mjelde who will play in her ninth straight major tournament, as Norway bid for a marked improvement on their last European Championship outing.
They crashed out in the group stage of the last edition with their worst result coming in an 8-0 loss to England – yet they're better than that showing, for sure.
Their performances at the 2023 World Cup saw better form but not at the heights fans would expect – this is a side that has the likes of 2018 Ballon d'Or Feminin winner Ada Hegerberg and Carolina Graham Hansen, ranked at no.4 in FourFourTwo's list of the best women's players in the world right now, in their ranks.
Still, there's change in the dugout. English boss Gemma Grainger makes her tournament bow, having lost a World Cup play-off with Wales in the last minute of extra time. The former England U17 head coach had agreed to stay with Cymru until 2027, but an approach from Norway was simply too good to turn down.
Hegerberg has been appointed the new captain, taking over from Mjelde who had held the responsibility for a decade. Hegerberg is an icon in the sport but has a big task on getting results with Norway, especially at this summer's tournament.
She is the perfect focal point for her team-mates: if they can create a chance, she’ll snaffle it. This is the Lyon goal machine’s fourth Euros, as outings at the 2017 and 2022 editions bookended her five-year international exile due to a dispute with Norway’s FA.
Norway Women's Euros squad
Norway Women Euro 2025 squad
The squad announced for the tournament is as follows:
- GK: Cecilie Fiskerstrand (Fiorentina)
- GK: Selma Panengstuen (Brann)
- GK: Aurora Mikalsen (Köln)
- DF:Guro Bergsvand (Wolfsburg)
- DF: Thea Bjelde (Valerenga)
- DF: Marit Bratberg Lund (Benfica)
- DF: Tuva Hansen (Bayern Munich)
- DF: Mathilde Harviken (Juventus),
- DF: Maren Mjelde (Everton)
- DF: Emilie Woldvik (Rosengard)
- MF: Vilde Boe Risa (Atletico Madrid)
- MF: Ingrid Engen (unattached)
- MF: Signe Gaupset (SK Brann)
- MF: Justine Kielland (Wolfsburg)
- MF: Frida Maanum (Arsenal)
- MF: Lisa Naaslund (Manchester United)
- MF: Guro Reiten (Chelsea)
- FW: Celin Bizet (Manchester United)
- FW: Caroline Graham Hansen (Barcelona
- FW: Ada Hegerberg (Lyon)
- FW: Synne Jensen (Atletico Madrid)
- FW: Karina Saevik (Valerenga)
- FW: Elisabeth Terland (Manchester United)
Predicted line-up
4-3-3: Fiskerstrand; Woldvik, Harviken, Bergsvand, T. Hansen; Boe Risa, Maanum, Engen; C.G. Hansen, Hegerberg, Reiten
Norway fixtures and results
Euro 2025 qualifying
April 5 2024: Norway 4-0 Finland, Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
April 9 2024: Netherland 1-0 Norway, Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands
May 31 2024: Norway 0-0 Italy, Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
June 4 2024: Italy 1-1 Norway, Paolo Mazza, Ferrara, Italy
July 12 2024: Finland 1-1 Norway, Veritas Stadion, Turku, Finland
July 16 2024: Norway 1-1 Netherlands, Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway
October 25 2024: Albania 0-5 Norway, Loro Boriçi Stadium, Shkoder, Albania
October 29 2024: Norway 9-0 Albania, Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
November 29 2024: Northern Ireland 0-4 Norway, Inver Park, Larne, Northern Ireland
December 3 2024: Norway 3-0 Northern Ireland, Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
Women's Nations League
February 21 2025: France 1-0 Norway, Stadium de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
February 25 2025: Norway 2-1 Switzerland, Viking stadion, Stavanger, Switzerland
April 4 2025: Iceland 0-0 Norway, Thróttarvöllur, Reykjavik, Iceland
April 8 2025: Norway 0-2 France, Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
May 30 2025: Norway 1-1 Iceland, Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim, Norway
3 June 2025: Switzerland 0-1 Norway, Stade de Tourbillon, Sion, Switzerland
Euro 2025
July 2 2025: Switzerland v Norway, St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland
July 6 2025: Norway v Finland, Stade de Tourbillon, Sion, Switzerland
July 10 2025: Norway v Iceland, Arena Thun, Thun, Switzerland
Everything you need to know about Norway
LESSON FROM QUALIFYING
Learn to get over the line. Norway won their opening qualifier 4-0, but despite leading in Finland and at home to the Dutch, they didn’t win again until the play-offs brought opportunities to thrash Albania and Northern Ireland. They’ll face stronger opposition in Switzerland.
1984 DNQ
1987 Winners
1989 Finalists
1991 Finalists
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2017 Group
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STRENGTHS
Skipper Ada Hegerberg, Arsenal’s Frida Maanum and pacy Barcelona winger Caroline Graham Hansen (left) represent a fearsome trio that guarantees goals... right?
WEAKNESSES
In fact, Norway are often stifled by elite defences. As a result, they’ve not beaten a fellow top-10 UEFA nation since 2022, in 15 attempts.
MOST LIKELY TO…
Reminisce. Norway were once the dominant force: from 1987 to 2000 they reached six major finals and won two European Championships, one World Cup and Olympic gold.
LEAST LIKELY TO…
Bring the hosts a gift. For a third successive Euros, Norway face the home nation in their group, and they’re determined not to make it a hat-trick of defeats after losing 1-0 to the Netherlands in 2017 and 8-0 to England in 2022. Ouch.
WHAT THEY HOPE WILL HAPPEN
Norway arise from their slumber and relive former glories.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN
New talents help them to squeeze out of a tight group, where a tricky quarter-final awaits. Finish second and they’re likely to face World Cup holders Spain in the last eight.
Norway manager: Gemma Grainger
The Norway manager was appointed in January 2024 and she left her role as Wales head coach to take up the job.
Grainger steered the team to Euros qualification and the team have been much more consistent under their new boss.
The manager has a long history in women's football management. She has managed Leeds United, Middlesborough and England U17 before taking up the Wales job and now the role with Norway.
Can Grainger steer Norway to Euros silverware? It is not out of the question.
Norway's star player
Caroline Graham Hansen
The Norwegian team is packed full of stars and so it was tricky to narrow it down to one star player, especially with the likes of Hegerberg in their ranks. But Caroline Graham Hansen is one of the best players in the world.
Her consistent performances for Barcelona have steered them to multiple trophies and her goal-scoring record for the club is eye-watering. Graham Hansen, who is number four in FourFourTwo's list of best current players, played 40 games for the Spanish giants in the 2023/24 season and scored 32 goals.
In the last few years she hasn't quite reached those heights in a Norway shirt but that has followed the entire team's shaky form. If Norway find a way to consistently get her on the ball she will produce something magic. It is just inevitable with a player of her level.
