{"id":146389,"date":"2025-11-18T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:56:08","slug":"england-news-conference-wiegman-to-speak-for-first-time-since-earps-book-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146389\/","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\">Tuesday, 3 March &#8211; Ukraine v England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 7 March &#8211; England v Iceland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuesday, 14 April &#8211; England v Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 18 April &#8211; Iceland v England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friday, 5 June &#8211; Spain v England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuesday, 9 June &#8211; England v Ukraine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spain celebrate winning the 2023 World Cup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/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":2,"featured_media":146390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-146389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}