From grassroots participation to elite player development, Wales want a lasting legacy from Euro 2025.

Wales coach Rhian Wilkinson issued a passionate plea for more sports opportunities for girls and women after their 6-1 thrashing by England on Sunday laid bare the vast difference in experience and opportunities between the neighbouring nations.

“We’re Wales,” says Michele Adams, one of the three women who successfully lobbied the Football Association of Wales (FAW) in 1992 to formally recognise a national women’s team, more than 20 years after the near 50-year ban on women’s football was lifted in the country.

After bowing out of their first major tournament at the group stages, for Wales women's football the big question will now be, what comes next?

Viewing figures for the England vs Wales match at Women’s Euro 2025 averaged more than double the numbers for Chelsea’s Club World Cup final triumph on the same day. The Lionesses booked their spot for the quarter-finals of Euro 2025 on Sunday afternoon,

In a game of soccer or any sport Wales always want to beat England. At the Women’s European Championship on Sunday, Wales can eliminate the defending champion English just with a draw in the final round of Group D games.

Wales can prevent England from reaching the knockout stages should they take at least a draw from Sunday's final group stage fixture.

But the Uefa vice-president admitted Wales were still "playing catch-up" to the world's leading football nations given that they were not officially established until 1993 - with their withdrawal from the Euro 2005 qualifiers also being another major setback.