{"id":224944,"date":"2026-04-09T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224944\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:08:07","slug":"england-to-face-new-zealand-in-tampa-costa-rica-in-orlando-in-world-cup-warm-ups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224944\/","title":{"rendered":"England to face New Zealand in Tampa, Costa Rica in Orlando in World Cup warm-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

England<\/a> have confirmed the venues for their pre-World Cup friendlies against New Zealand and Costa Rica in June.<\/p>\n

Thomas Tuchel’s side will face New Zealand at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on June 6 before lining up against Costa Rica to the Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando on June 10.<\/p>\n

The World Cup kicks off the following day but England do not play their tournament opener against Croatia<\/a> until June 17.<\/p>\n

The Raymond James Stadium is the home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It hosted the Super Bowl in 2021.<\/p>\n

MLS<\/a> side Orlando City and the NWSL’s Orlando Pride play their home games at Inter&Co Stadium.<\/p>\n

England will play New Zealand at the Raymond James Stadium on June 6.\u00a0Kirby Lee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Both games were announced in February but the Football Association has only just been able to announce the locations.<\/p>\n

Tuchel’s side will have a lengthy stint in Florida which will give the squad chance to acclimatise to what are expected to be sweltering conditions.<\/p>\n

England will then head into camp in Kansas City, where they will be based at the Soccer Swope Village for the duration of the tournament.<\/p>\n

The Missouri city was their preferred location, despite two of their group games and several potential knockout matches being on the east coast.<\/p>\n

England will play Costa Rica at the Inter&Co Stadium on June 10.\u00a0Mark Thorstenson – Orlando City\/MLS via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Swope Soccer Village is one of the training bases of MLS side Sporting Kansas City<\/a> and has state-of-the-art facilities.<\/p>\n

England are in Group L, meaning they will be among the last sides to take to the field in the tournament.<\/p>\n

They begin against Croatia in Dallas on June 17, six days after the tournament opener, then head to Boston to take on Ghana<\/a> on June 23 before closing their group stage against Panama<\/a> in New Jersey on June 27.<\/p>\n

England have not played New Zealand since a tour Down Under in 1991, winning 1-0 and 2-0 under Graham Taylor.<\/p>\n

They have met Costa Rica more recently, suffering defeat in the disappointing 2014 World Cup group stage and then winning in a home friendly ahead of the 2018 edition.<\/p>\n

– From Man United lows, England boos to a new deal: Why Maguire feels ‘back’<\/a>
– Predicting England’s World Cup squad: Who will Tuchel take, who’s on the fringes?<\/a><\/p>\n

Preparations for the tournament began in earnest last with Wembley friendlies against Uruguay<\/a> and Japan<\/a>, which threw up more questions than answers for Tuchel.<\/p>\n

A second-string squad drew 1-1 with the South Americans before a team bereft of Harry Kane<\/a>, Bukayo Saka<\/a>, Declan Rice<\/a> and Jude Bellingham<\/a> then lost 1-0 to the Asian side.<\/p>\n

Information from PA contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have confirmed the venues for their pre-World Cup friendlies against New Zealand and Costa Rica in June.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-224944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}