{"id":552466,"date":"2026-03-20T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552466\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:01:09","slug":"england-squad-for-march-2026-thomas-tuchel-names-roster-for-uruguay-and-japan-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552466\/","title":{"rendered":"England squad for March 2026: Thomas Tuchel names roster for Uruguay and Japan friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Tuchel names his England squad for the March internationals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the former Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain coach&#8217;s final selection before picking the squad to contest the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>England will take on Uruguay and Japan in friendly internationals before the end of this month, with competition for places on the plane to North America hotting up.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel operated with a fairly settled squad throughout England&#8217;s qualification campaign, but there are still areas of need and the potential for late &#8220;bolters&#8221; to the squad to win a spot at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Left-back is a spot that remains up for grabs and Newcastle United&#8217;s Lewis Hall has been tipped for his first call-up under Tuchel. Luke Shaw&#8217;s return to form and fitness at Manchester United means a stalwart of the Gareth Southgate era could also return to the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw&#8217;s United team-mate Kobbie Mainoo has not played for England since the final of Euro 2024 but is also firmly in contention as Tuchel ponders the back-up to first-choice midfield duo Declan Rice and Elliot Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WORLD CUP HQ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/world-cup\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest World Cup news<\/a> | <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/football\/news\/world-cup-2026-schedule-fixtures\/bd2ffea0a515a899ed06abdd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full World Cup schedule<\/a> | Buy World Cup tickets<\/p>\n<p>England squad for March 2026<\/p>\n<p>A full squad list will be posted here after Tuchel names his squad at around 10 a.m. GMT (6 a.m. ET)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Tuchel\" image_resolution=\"16:9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2240277719.jpg.webp.webp\" title=\"Thomas Tuchel\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit\">          Getty    <\/p>\n<p>England schedule for March international break<\/p>\n<p>England will play two games in this break, both friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>They face Uruguay on March 27 and Japan on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>Each match will take place at Wembley Stadium and kick off at 7:45 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>The Three Lions will play June friendlies against New Zealand and Costa Rica prior to their World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/football\/news\/england-world-cup-draw-2026-group-schedule\/8a00a2f453c846bc7de0af41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full schedule for World Cup Group L featuring England, Croatia, Panama and Ghana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Tuchel names his England squad for the March internationals on Friday. It will be the former Bayern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-552466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}