{"id":80747,"date":"2025-10-14T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80747\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:35:07","slug":"england-qualify-for-2026-world-cup-after-convincing-win-over-latvia-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80747\/","title":{"rendered":"England qualify for 2026 World Cup after convincing win over Latvia | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

England are through to next summer’s World Cup thanks to a convincing 5-0 win over Latvia in their latest qualifier. <\/p>\n

Thomas Tuchel’s side have dominated their group in the qualifying games and tonight’s win means they are through to next summer’s main tournament with two matches to spare.<\/p>\n

England is the first European team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup after winning their six Group K matches so far, with the team not conceding a single goal.<\/p>\n

\"England's<\/p>\n

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\n England’s Harry Kane scores on a penalty kick during the qualifying match against Latvia. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

In tonight’s game in Riga, the Three Lions were already up 3-0 at half-time thanks to Anthony Gordon scoring once and Harry Kane twice, including a penalty.<\/p>\n

The fourth goal came early in the second half when Djed Spence’s shot bounced off the leg of Latvia’s Maksims Tonisev, and substitute Eberechi Eze sealed the deal for England’s 5-0.<\/p>\n

There are two games left to play for Tuchel’s team, against Serbia on November 13 at Wembley Stadium and Albania on November 16 in the country’s capital, Tirana.<\/p>\n

\"Bukayo<\/p>\n

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\n Bukayo Saka is challenged by Latvia’s Daniels Balodis. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

\"Elliot<\/p>\n

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\n Elliot Anderson, Jordan Henderson and Marcus Rashford applaud to fans after the match: AP<\/p>\n

England won the first leg against Serbia 5-0 and the one against Albania 2-0.<\/p>\n

Next year’s men’s World Cup will take place from June to July next year.<\/p>\n

The 23rd edition of the tournament will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

The draw for the 2026 cup’s group stage fixtures will take place in Washington on 5 December, with US President Donald Trump set to join FIFA president Gianni Infantino to decide the match-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England are through to next summer’s World Cup thanks to a convincing 5-0 win over Latvia in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-80747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80747","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=80747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}