[5][6] Defending champions Netherlands, who won UEFA Women's Euro 2017 as hosts, were eliminated in the quarter-finals by France.

Hosts England won their first UEFA Women's Championship title by beating Germany 2–1 after extra time in the final, held at Wembley Stadium in London.

[11]:808 England were confirmed as hosts at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, on 3 December 2018.

[12][6][5] They had previously hosted the Women's Euro in 2005, described as a watershed in terms of developing the sport, with stadium and television audiences having exceeded expectations.

[11]:800 A January 2022 study debated the benefits of England hosting Euro 2022 in terms of sports tourism – though mainly for the men's game, England was already a global hub for football – or for the improvements major sporting events can bring to a host, as no new stadiums or infrastructure would be required in the nation; it suggested that the hosts "intended to leverage further the development of the women's game in England and enhance the country's image as one of the main hubs of women's football.

[15] UEFA later announced on 2 May 2022 that Russian teams were banned from every European competition, disqualifying Russia from the Women's Euro 2022.

The hosts were assigned to position A1 in the draw while the other teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking following the end of the qualifying stage, calculated based on the following:[20] Meadow Lane in Nottingham and London Road in Peterborough were initially included on the list of stadiums when the Football Association submitted the bid to host the tournament.

Music artist Joy Crookes was heavily involved in Euro 2022: she devised the story and took part in the announcement video for the England squad,[81] and her song "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" was used as the title sequence music for the BBC's coverage of the tournament, accompanied by a video featuring Crookes and various players.

[82] "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" is also on the soundtrack of the videogame FIFA 22,[83] and has been used as the title music for Sky's coverage of the Women's Super League (WSL) outside of Monday Night games.

Hisense launched a countdown campaign that focused on individual women's players to generate recognition, and during the tournament used social media to engage fans with clips from matches.

[87][88] A social media account for Tiny Buzz was used throughout the tournament, giving the car a characteristic tone of voice to engage fans.

[113] England invested £3.1 million into related social impact programmes across the country, including the Euro 2022 roadshow, which travelled to ten cities and attracted over 35,000 visitors to learn about the history of women's football.

[114] The tournament achieved an estimated live viewership of around 365 million globally via all channels and fan engagement on social media saw related hashtags on Twitter and TikTok reach over a billion views each, marking successful growth in international popularity of and interactive elements of women's football.

[89][90] Following the tournament, it was reported that a record 29,000 girls were set to compete in the National Cup in 2022–23,[113] with the FA saying that England's victory was a factor in the popularity of women's football in the UK increasing so substantially afterwards.

By August 2022, a month after the conclusion of the tournament, the number of new participants in girls' and women's football was in the tens of thousands.

[89] Before this, the number of school-age girls in England dropping out of sports primarily due to societal reasons had been at a record high.

Nearly three-quarters of residents in host cities felt that Euro 2022 had brought their communities closer, and millions of pounds sterling boosted local economies.

Hundreds of thousands of opportunities in grassroots football in England were created, with some people saying that watching Euro 2022 encouraged them to be more active.

[90] Dr Rachael Bullingham of the University of Gloucestershire opined that the positive image of the tournament and its numerous openly LGBT+ players would help with awareness of LGBT+ issues in sport and encourage more sportspeople to come out, as well as improving public attitudes towards homosexuality in general.