in qualifying for the 2027 World Cup <\/a>in Brazil, with Ukraine and Iceland also in their four-team group.<\/p>\nThere 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
England captain Leah Williamson has not played in a month and misses out on a place in the squad having not proved her fitness in time for tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Her absence means Keira Walsh, who will win her 100th cap, will wear the captain\u2019s armband.<\/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. Both are on the bench.<\/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
Confirmed line-ups<\/p>\n
England XI: Hampton; Bronze, Wubben-Moy, Morgan, Greenwood; Kendall, Walsh, Stanway; Hemp, Russo, James<\/p>\n
Spain XI: Coll; Batlle, Paredes, Mapi Leon, Carmona; Caldentey, Guijarro, Putellas; Lopez, Gonzalez, 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":4633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3326,3333,751,3330,3327,2383,2970,2973,3325,3328,2377,2378,2379,3332,3331,17,3329,3324,2974,3323],"class_list":{"0":"post-4632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-aitana-bonmati","9":"tag-batlle","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-caldentey","12":"tag-ella-toone","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-england-team","15":"tag-european-champions","16":"tag-grace-clinton","17":"tag-greenwood","18":"tag-keira-walsh","19":"tag-leah-williamson","20":"tag-lionesses","21":"tag-pina","22":"tag-russo","23":"tag-spain","24":"tag-stanway","25":"tag-the-world-cup","26":"tag-wembley","27":"tag-womens-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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