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England will play Spain for the first time since the Euro 2025 final (Getty)<\/p>\n
England<\/a> and Spain<\/a> meet again in a Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a> qualifier at Wembley.<\/p>\n The Lionesses<\/a> defeated Spain on penalties to win the Euro 2025<\/a> final in Basel last summer, after Spain beat England two years earlier to win the World Cup in Sydney.<\/p>\n Now, Sarina Wiegman\u2019s European champions will face the world champions in qualifying for the 2027 World Cup in Brazil, with Ukraine and Iceland also in their four-team group.<\/p>\n There is only one automatic qualifying place available and England and Spain will arrive at Wembley level on six points from two games played.<\/p>\n England put six past Ukraine last month before beating Iceland 2-0, with Spain also recording two victories from their first two matches.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s everything you need to know<\/p>\n When is England v Spain? <\/p>\n The Lionesses will play the world champions at 7pm BST on Tuesday 14 April at Wembley.<\/p>\n How can I watch it? <\/p>\n It will be shown live on ITV 1 and ITV X, with coverage starting from 6:30pm.<\/p>\n What is the England team news? <\/p>\n There is a \u201cquestion mark\u201d over Leah Williamson\u2019s fitness as the England captain has not played in a month. If Williamson is unavailable, two of Esme Morgan, Jess Carter and Lotte Wubben-Moy would likely start.<\/p>\n Keira Walsh is set to win her 100th cap in midfield alongside Georgia Stanway and Lauren James, Lauren Hemp and Jess Park are among the options to start behind striker Alessia Russo, who scored England\u2019s equaliser against Spain.<\/p>\n Ella Toone, Grace Clinton, Michelle Agyemang and Aggie Beever-Jones are unavailable due to injury while Erica Meg Parkinson, 17, and Keira Barry have received their first call-ups this camp.<\/p>\n What is the Spain team news? <\/p>\n Aitana Bonmati is not part of the Spain squad after breaking her leg in training in December.<\/p>\n Predicted line-ups<\/p>\n England XI: Hampton; Bronze, Morgan, Carter, Greenwood; Walsh, Stanway; Park, James, Hemp; Russo<\/p>\n Spain XI: Coll; Batlle, Parades, Codina, Carmona; Patri, Putellas, Caldentey; Lopez, Del Castillo, Pina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England will play Spain for the first time since the Euro 2025 final (Getty) England and Spain meet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2975,2383,2970,2973,2972,2971,2379,17,2974],"class_list":{"0":"post-4061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-2027-world-cup-in-brazil","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-england-team","11":"tag-european-champions","12":"tag-jess-carter","13":"tag-lauren-james","14":"tag-lionesses","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-wembley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}