{"id":565610,"date":"2025-11-12T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565610\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:21:53","slug":"england-news-conference-tuchel-speaks-before-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565610\/","title":{"rendered":"England news conference: Tuchel speaks before Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which countries have qualified for World Cup?published at 13:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"England captain Harry Kane and team-mates celebrate after securing qualification for the 2026 World Cup with a win in Latvia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/599be0e7-e81b-45d2-bb2f-93458e211ab6.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1003\" height=\"564\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England are one of 28 teams to have already qualified for next summer&#8217;s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means 20 places are still up for grabs, with the tournament extended to include 48 competing nations for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The countries that have already secured their spot are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Hosts: <\/b>Canada, Mexico, United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Africa: <\/b>Algeria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Asia: <\/b>Australia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Europe: <\/b>England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Oceania:<\/b> New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">South America: <\/b>Argentina (reigning champions), Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of those countries, three have qualified for the World Cup for the first time in their history &#8211; Cape Verde, Jordan and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suriname and Curiacao also remain hopeful of joining them as World Cup debutants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Which countries have qualified for World Cup?published at 13:12 GMT 13:12 GMT Image source, Getty Images England are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-565610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115536944083873334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}