Switzerland coach Pia Sundhage is leaning into soccer history to prepare for one of the toughest games in her storied career Friday at the Women’s European Championship.

Switzerland coach Pia Sundhage says facing world champions Spain in Friday's European Championship quarterfinal in Bern is the biggest challenge of her managerial career to date.

On July 18 in Bern, Switzerland, Spain will take on Switzerland in UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, with a start time of 3 p.m. ET. Which side will prevail? Check out our prediction below. In UEFA Women's Euro, Alexia Putellas has collected three goals and four assists in three matches for Spain.

The goals flew in at Women's EURO 2022, the 78 in the group stage more than the number in the whole of the only previous 16-team final tournament, 2017, and ending on 95. However, Switzerland 2025 outpaced that and the record fell after the second quarter-final, with five games to spare.

Switzerland have reportedly assigned extra security for Alisha Lehmann ahead of their Women’s Euro 2025 quarter-final with Spain. Lehmann has played just nine minutes for Switzerland at Euro 2025, after pre-tournament doubts over whether she would make the 23-player squad at all.

Hosts Switzerland train ahead of Euro 2025 QF against world champions Spain

Gerhardsson went out on a high by winning the Swedish Cup in 2016 (no other manager at Euro 2025 has won a senior trophy in men’s football).

Spain’s opponents at the Women’s European Championships maybe don’t want to hear Aitana Bonmatí says she is even better as a player after her recent spell in the hospital.