The England girls’s soccer workforce will participate in an open-top bus parade in central London on Tuesday after their Euro 2025 victory over Spain.

A procession alongside The Mall will start at 12:10 BST earlier than a ceremony on the Queen Victoria Memorial in entrance of Buckingham Palace.

Followers started to collect alongside the route within the early hours of the morning, travelling from locations like Gloucester, Norwich and Exeter. The celebrations can even be broadcast dwell throughout the BBC, ITV and Sky.

On Monday, the Lionesses have been greeted by jubilant crowds as they landed again within the UK, earlier than attending a reception at Downing Road hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

The ceremony on the Queen Victoria Memorial shall be hosted by former England star Alex Scott.

Tradition Secretary Lisa Nandy stated the Lionesses’ homecoming parade can be an opportunity for followers to “cheer these heroes residence” after the workforce had “executed our nation proud”.

Sue Day, director of ladies’s soccer on the FA, instructed BBC Radio 4’s Right this moment programme exterior Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning: “It is a second in time that we are able to actually seize to vary the world slightly bit.”

A whole lot of followers holding flags and wearing England kits waited exterior Southend Airport on Monday to catch a glimpse of the returning triumphant squad.

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

Chloe Kelly scored the successful spot kick following two saves by goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, serving to the squad grow to be the primary English workforce to win a significant match on overseas soil.

Again residence, greater than 16 million individuals noticed the match dwell on TV – the most-watched tv second of the 12 months thus far.

“The Lionesses have introduced it residence once more,” Rayner stated through the No 10 occasion. “And what a implausible feeling that’s. Champions of Europe once more.”

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

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

“It is beautiful right here,” the England coach could possibly be heard telling Sir Keir as she thanked him for supporting the workforce through the Euros.

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

The authorities beforehand pledged to spend £900m on main UK sporting occasions and grassroots amenities – together with £400m for brand spanking new and upgraded sports activities amenities over the subsequent 4 years.

The FA’s Ms Day stated there was way more to be executed for girls’s soccer.

“We wish extra matches on the telly, we wish extra alternatives for followers to have the ability to become involved, we wish more cash to have the ability to pay the gamers with, we wish extra youngsters enjoying in colleges,” she stated.

“So we’ve got to actually seize this second and switch it into every part all of us need soccer to be for ladies.”

Ministers say a brand new taskforce will convey collectively leaders from throughout sport and academia with the purpose of replicating the progress made in girls’s soccer in different sports activities.

Olympic gold medallist Dame Katherine Grainger stated that, whereas such sporting occasions created “unimaginable momentum” throughout and instantly after they happen, policymakers at the moment are “significantly better at recognising you can not assume that that feel-good issue and enthusiasm will keep round”.

The British Olympic Affiliation chair instructed Right this moment that “one of many greatest issues for athletes” was that their performances on giant sporting platforms “have an effect on individuals’s lives”.

Followers gathered on The Mall indicated this was turning into the case for the Lionesses, with a number of saying their daughters now needed to play soccer.

King Charles III stated the workforce had the Royal Household’s “warmest appreciation and admiration” on Monday.

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

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

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

Downing Road 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 might by no means go to work.”

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

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