The England ladies’s soccer workforce had been greeted by cheering crowds as they returned house on Monday after their Euro 2025 victory over Spain.

Lots of of followers holding flags and wearing England kits waited exterior Southend Airport to catch a glimpse of the triumphant squad.

The Lionesses then travelled by coach to attend a reception at Downing Avenue, hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. The gamers offered them with a signed England shirt, and loved canapes and drinks in No 10’s backyard.

An open-top bus parade in central London is because of observe on Tuesday. A procession alongside The Mall can be deliberate, and a ceremony on the Queen Victoria Memorial in entrance of Buckingham Palace.

England defended their European title with a 3-1 penalty shootout victory within the Euro 2025 closing in Basel on Sunday.

Chloe Kelly scored the successful spot-kick following two saves from goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, serving to the squad turn out to be first English workforce to win a significant match on overseas soil.

Again house, greater than 16 million folks noticed the match stay on TV – the most-watched tv second of the yr to date.

The Lionesses arrived in Southend shortly after 15:30 BST on board a airplane that includes the England badge and the phrase “House” on its aspect.

“The Lionesses have introduced it house once more,” Rayner mentioned in the course of the No 10 occasion. “And what a improbable feeling that’s. Champions of Europe once more.”

“You have made us all so so proud,” the deputy prime minister added – telling the Lionesses they had been “a shining instance of expertise and pleasure for ladies’s soccer”.

England supervisor Sarina Wiegman additionally gave a brief speech – joking that being at Downing Avenue was “completely different from standing subsequent to a pitch”.

“I’ve to make my apologies [for giving] you numerous coronary heart assaults,” she mentioned. “We made it via and that is why we’re right here now. “The workforce is simply unimaginable”.

Earlier, holding the Euro 2025 trophy, skipper Leah Williamson was the primary participant to emerge from the airplane, strolling down the steps of the gangway alongside Wiegman.

The entire squad – wearing tracksuits and their winner’s medal – then joined them on the tarmac, posing for {a photograph} in entrance of the airplane.

About an hour later, by now wearing England’s official tailor-made clothes line, the gamers emerged from the terminal and walked to their coaches in entrance of the gang of followers.

The Lionesses and their assist workers arrived at Downing Avenue shortly earlier than 19:00 for the reception.

They posed for an additional {photograph} on the steps of No 10, which had been embellished with red-and-white St George’s flags.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who was in Scotland on Monday assembly US President Donald Trump, held a video name with Wiegman and among the England squad in the course of the reception.

“It is pretty right here”, the England coach might be heard telling Sir Keir in the course of the five-minute name, as she thanked him for supporting the workforce in the course of the Euros.

The occasion got here hours earlier than ministers introduced plans to double the period of time ladies’s and women’ soccer groups get allotted at government-funded sports activities services.

The authorities beforehand pledged to spend £900m on main UK sporting occasions and grassroots services – together with £400m into new and upgraded sports activities services over the following 4 years.

In the meantime, ministers say a brand new taskforce will carry collectively leaders from throughout sport and academia with the purpose of replicating the progress made in ladies’s soccer in different sports activities.

Additionally on Monday, King Charles III paid tribute to the Lionesses, saying that they had the Royal Household’s “warmest appreciation and admiration”.

It’s understood plans for a reception within the autumn at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Fort are being explored by officers.

Requested about requires the workforce to be recognised with honours, the prime minister’s spokesman harassed there was an impartial course of for nominations.

However he added: “I hope we’ll see numerous nominations for this unimaginable successful workforce.”

Downing Avenue dismissed calls for an additional financial institution vacation following the victory, with the spokesman saying: “If we had a financial institution vacation each time the Lionesses win we would by no means go to work.”

Royal Mail has, nevertheless, introduced plans to mark England’s win with a particular postmark, which will likely be utilized to stamped mail throughout the UK from Monday to Friday.

It reads: “It is House. Once more. Champions of Europe 2025. England Ladies’s Soccer Squad.”