City's previous major tournament debutants | OneFootball

With just 10 days to go until the 2025 Euros kicks off, we look back at past and present City players who have made their debut at a major tournament.

Ahead of this summer’s tournament City have added two more debutants to an impressive list as Jess Park and Khiara Kheating are set to feature at their first major tournament with the Lionesses hoping to retain their title as European Champions.

Find out when our current and former City stars represented their respective nations for the first time.

World Cup 2015

We had two representatives for England during the tournament hosted in Canada, as Lucy Bronze and Toni Duggan stepped onto the pitch for the Lionesses.

After a successful tournament brushing past Norway and Canada in the knockout stages, they unfortunately exited the competition at the semi-final stage. Falling to a 2-1 defeat against Japan.

Despite a few chances from City’s Toni Duggan, England couldn’t find a way to breakthrough, and it ended in a heartbreaking way to go out for Mark Sampson’s side as an injury time own goal was the difference between the two and saw Japan progress to the final.

Lucy Bronze scored two goals in the tournament before being forced off through injury in the semi-final stage.

She was also shortlisted for the golden ball award as well as being named in the All-Star Squad alongside fellow City stars, Steph Houghton and Karen Bardsley.

Euro 2017

After a successful domestic campaign with City bringing home the FA Cup, we saw a further five players making debuts.

Mie Leth Jans and Jane Ross got the call up for Denmark and Scotland, while Demi Stokes, Nikita Parris and Izzy Christiansen featured for England.

Mie Leth Jans’ Denmark had a superb tournament in the Netherlands as they reached the final against the host nation.

Their run to the prestigious final round saw them bat off competition from Germany and Austria before suffering a 4-2 defeat.

Jane Ross and Scotland didn’t make it out of the group stage as they faced a difficult set of matches against England, Portugal and Spain.

Although it didn’t appear to be an easy feat it was close between second, third and fourth with all three teams finishing on three points and forcing the decision on who would progress to go down to goal difference, which they were just pipped over by Spain.

Like two years previously at the World Cup, England managed to reach the semi-finals stage once again before losing 3-0 against the Netherlands as Vivianne Miedema scored the opening goal through a header.

On a lighter note, Nikita Parris scored in England’s group stage fixture against Portugal as they secured a 2-1 victory.

World Cup 2019

France hosted the World Cup in 2019 as we saw seven Cityzens ready to face the international stage.

Janine Beckie and Canada battled their way out of the group stages but were knocked out by Sweden in the Round of 16. Despite that, Beckie did register one assist during the Group E fixtures.

Yui Hasegawa also represented Japan as they suffered a similar fate to Canada. Despite making it out of a tricky group including England, Argentina and Scotland, they fell to a 2-1 defeat against the Netherlands also in the Round of 16. On a positive note, Hasegawa found the net on one occasion – a 43rd minute equaliser against the ‘oranje’.

Unfortunately for Scotland’s Jen Beattie, Caroline Weir and Claire Emslie they failed to make it out of their group as they finished bottom on one point. Their only point came against Argentina in a 3-3 draw which saw Beattie score in the 49th minute to make it 2-0.

England had yet another successful but disheartening tournament as Keira Walsh, Abbie McManus and Georgia Stanway helped England reach the semi-final stage.

It was the second successive World Cup where the Lionesses fell at the final hurdle, losing narrowly to the United States.

Euro 2022

Also known as the tournament that changed the course of women’s football in England, saw Lauren Hemp, Chloe Kelly and Ellie Roebuck help England to their most successful campaign yet.

England were also hosting the tournament with the final held at Wembley Stadium in front of 87,192 people and the rest was history.

The Lionesses’ saw off Germany with a 2-1 win after extra time, with Chloe Kelly scoring THAT iconic goal at the home of England football.

It was a moment that will go down in history and will forever be engraved into everyone’s mind – including the celebration that followed.

World Cup 2023

Fast-forward two years and this tournament saw a whopping total of nine City starlets head out for the first time.

Hosted in Mary Fowler, Alanna Kennedy and Hayley Raso’s home nation of Australia it was the perfect way for the trio to mark their maiden major tournament.

And their nation had a fantastic tournament as they went on to finish fourth, with all three players contributing a combined total of five goals along the way.

Esme Morgan and Laura Coombs helped England in another incredibly successful yet disappointing campaign.

The Lionesses reached the final of the competition with only Spain to beat to add World Champions to their trophy cabinet.

Despite an impressive run to the final and with the chance to make history, Spain were crowned Champions after a dominant and deserved 1-0 win.

Kerstin Casparij was called up for the Netherlands as they reached the quarter-finals of the tournament and forcing the eventual Champions, Spain, to extra time.

Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw represented the Reggae Girlz and Fillipa Angeldahl also featured for Sweden.

Although the Reggae Girlz failed to make it past the Round of 16, Sweden finished third after being beaten by Spain and then going on to win 2-0 against Australia in the third place play off. Angeldahl also contributed one goal during the impressive run in a 2-1 victory over Japan.