World Cup squad announcement day

The Three Lions squad for the FIFA 2026 World Cup will be named on Friday 22 May, and you’ll be able to see it first on the official England app.

Head coach Thomas Tuchel will select a 26-player squad for the tournament in Canada, Mexico and USA, which takes place between 11 June and 19 July, and Three Lions fans will be able to see the list on the app before it goes anywhere else.

You can download the app on Apple's App Store and Google Play, and you can register for free to gain access to a host of exclusive content.

What to look out for

As we countdown to the announcement, here’s what you can expect to see on the official app and our wider channels on Friday.

It will kick-off on Friday morning, with a live blog on the app building up to the big moment before our live show from Wembley Stadium will begin from 9.45am BST, exclusively on the app so make sure you've registered and signed in to the app to watch this

Hosted by presenter Kyle Walker and featuring former England internationals Daniel Sturridge and Theo Walcott, who both represented the Three Lions at the World Cup, they will be joined by Tuchel who will speak for the first time about his squad selection once it has been revealed later that morning.

From there, our live blog will continue with all the reaction and a more detailed breakdown of who’s on the plane to North America in June.

And there's more. You'll be able to watch Tuchel's first press conference after the announcement live on the app.

To keep you in the mood, our England World Cup Squad Selector game is live on the app, allowing you to select your own World Cup squad!

And if you correctly pick the same 26 players as Tuchel, you will be in with a chance of winning a signed England shirt by the official squad! Entry for this closes at 11.59pm BST on Thursday 21 May.

As we continue the build-up to the World Cup, you can see more features on the app as the likes of Anthony Gordon, Jason Steele, Jarrod Bowen and Dominic Solanke have all spoken about their own World Cup memories from growing up.

You can also see a rundown of all the kits worn by England men's teams at previous World Cups, from our first entry back in 1950 up until the last tournament in Qatar 2022.

After the squad is named, the Three Lions will head to Florida in early June for a pre-World Cup training camp which will also see them play two games against New Zealand (9pm BST, Saturday 6 June) and Costa Rica (9pm BST, Wednesday 10 June) with tickets for those matches now on sale.

England will then begin their World Cup campaign a week later when they meet Croatia in their group stage opener in Dallas on Wednesday 17 June (9pm BST), before facing Ghana in Boston on Tuesday 23 June (9pm BST) and then finishing the group stage games against Panama in New Jersey on Saturday 27 June (10pm BST).

And the England app will be the best place for fans to stay close to the team in North America throughout what promises to be an exciting summer, with exclusive content from the camp, behind-the-scenes access, match coverage and reaction and much more to come, all in the app.

Once downloaded, fans can register and sign into the app, so you can easily follow the teams that matter most to you and enjoy a more personalised experience.