{"id":387781,"date":"2025-11-18T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387781\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:53:13","slug":"england-news-conference-wiegman-to-speak-for-first-time-since-earps-book-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387781\/","title":{"rendered":"England news conference: Wiegman to speak for first time since Earps book release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What will 2026 hold for the Lionesses?published at 12:26 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:26 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the focus for now is on these end of term friendlies, eyes will soon turn to what the new year holds for England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will look to qualify for the 2027 World Cup, to be held in Brazil, and have been drawn alongside Spain &#8211; who beat them in the 2023 final &#8211; in their preliminary group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England will host world champions Spain at Wembley in April, with the return fixture in June. Only the group winners qualify automatically for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside Spain, England have been drawn against Iceland and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Group A3 fixture list<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Tuesday, 3 March <\/b>&#8211; Ukraine v England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Saturday, 7 March<\/b> &#8211; England v Iceland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Tuesday, 14 April <\/b>&#8211; England v Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Saturday, 18 April<\/b> &#8211; Iceland v England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Friday, 5 June<\/b> &#8211; Spain v England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Tuesday, 9 June<\/b> &#8211; England v Ukraine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spain celebrate winning the 2023 World Cup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ca77de89-30f9-4796-927c-63a61339d979.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What will 2026 hold for the Lionesses?published at 12:26 GMT 12:26 GMT While the focus for now is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":387782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-387781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115571275200870805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}