Women's World Cup or European Championship 2025-20256

Women's World Cup or European Championship 2025-20256

UEFA Women's Euro - Group Stage - Group B

Spain 5 - 0 Portugal

Portugal have never won their opening fixture at a Women's World Cup or European Championship. They lost 2-0 to Spain at Euro 2017, drew 2-2 with Switzerland at Euro 2022 and were beaten 1-0 by the Netherlands at the 2023 World Cup.

Spain became just the fourth side to score four or more goals in the first half of a Uefa Women's Euro game after Norway (four v Italy in 2005), France (five v Italy in 2022) and England (six v Norway in 2022).

Spain's previous biggest win in the finals stages of a European Championship was their 4-1 victory over Finland at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes on 8 July 2022.

World champions Spain made an impressive start to their Euro 2025 campaign with an emphatic victory over Portugal.

Before the match there was a minute's silence following the death of Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota, who died in a car crash early on Thursday, along with his brother Andre Silva.

Some fans held up pictures of Jota or shirts bearing his name, while a picture of him in a Portugal kit was also displayed on the big screens at the stadium.

Spain beat Portugal 4-2 and 7-1 in the Nations League in April so were firm favourites for this game in Bern, Switzerland, and needed only 87 seconds to open the scoring.

Olga Carmona's fine pass from deep on the left was controlled on her shoulder by Esther Gonzalez before the striker flicked a volley into the net.

The second goal followed six minutes later when Arsenal winger Mariona Caldentey's low cross was slid into the net by 18-year-old Vicky Lopez.

Caldentey then registered a superb assist as her cross-field pass was superbly taken by Alexia Putellas who skipped inside a challenge and calmly added a third.

In a one-sided encounter, Gonzalez made it 4-0 before half-time, tapping in the rebound after Claudia Pina's cross bounced off a post.

Substitute Cristina Martin-Prieto added a fifth in the third minute of second-half stoppage time with a powerful header following Salma Paralluelo's cross.