Leah Williamson and Lauren James have been named in Sarina Wiegman’s 25-player England squad for his or her upcoming Girls’s World Cup qualifiers.
The pair have returned from damage to be chosen for the fixtures towards Ukraine and Iceland, having not featured for the Lionesses since Euro 2025, whereas goalkeeper Hannah Hampton and defenders Jess Carter and Alex Greenwood are again in after not being a part of November’s experimental squad.
London Metropolis Lionesses defender Poppy Pattinson has earned her first senior call-up, however Wiegman has a bunch of damage points.
Arsenal trio Beth Mead, Katie Reid and Michelle Agyemang, Manchester United midfielder Ella Toone, Chelsea left-back Niamh Charles and Aston Villa’s Missy Bo Kearns are all dominated out.
Aston Villa goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck has been most popular to Khiara Keating, who Wiegman has “massive considerations” over her lack of enjoying time at Manchester Metropolis this season and will likely be a part of the England U23s squad.
England Girls’s squad
Goalkeepers: Hannah Hampton (Chelsea), Anna Moorhouse (Orlando Delight), Ellie Roebuck (Aston Villa).
Defenders: Lucy Bronze (Chelsea), Jess Carter (Gotha), Grace Fisk (Liverpool), Alex Greenwood (Man Metropolis), Taylor Hinds (Arsenal), Maya Le Tissier (Man Utd), Esme Morgan (Washington Spirit), Poppy Pattinson (London Metropolis Lionesses), Leah Williamson (Arsenal), Lotte Wubben-Moy (Arsenal).
Midfielders: Laura Blindkilde Brown (Man Metropolis), Grace Clinton (Man Metropolis, Lucia Kendall (Aston Villa), Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich), Keira Walsh (Chelsea).
Forwards: Aggie Beever-Jones (Chelsea), Freya Godfrey (London Metropolis Lionesses), Lauren Hemp (Man Metropolis), Lauren James (Chelsea), Chloe Kelly (Arsenal), Jess Park (Man Utd), Alessia Russo (Arsenal).
Wiegman: England squad is a puzzle as a result of accidents
Wiegman has been capable of recall a few of her most skilled gamers, however admits the squad has been troublesome to place collectively because of the variety of accidents.
“There’s a bit of little bit of a puzzle in the mean time, however on the identical time, I feel we now have sufficient gamers within the squad to play good video games and to have gamers on the pitch which can be match and may carry out on the highest stage,” she stated.
“We now have this week at their golf equipment, then they arrive to us and we now have some correct time to prepare for the sport on Tuesday [March 3]. We’ll see the place we get there, however I am assured that we get workforce on the pitch.”
Williamson’s return comes after having began simply as soon as within the Girls’s Tremendous League for Arsenal this season, however Wiegman is assured that the centre-back continues to be top-of-the-line gamers to choose.
Wiegman stated: “I am very completely satisfied and it feels superb for her too. She actually wished to be again, however some extra gamers are coming again subsequent week, so I am trying ahead to that.
“She’s skilled and I am in shut contact together with her, I am in shut contact with the membership and she or he’s in place, however sure, she has a bit of little bit of a scarcity of minutes.
“Another gamers are nonetheless within the constructing or did not get the minutes we hoped for. That is additionally one of many the reason why we go along with greater squads and we do have a while to return collectively earlier than we prepare for the Ukraine sport. I nonetheless assume these are the perfect gamers to name up.”
England Girls’s World Cup qualifiers
March 3: Ukraine (a), Mardan Stadyumu, Turkey – 5pm
March 7: Iceland (h), The Metropolis Floor – 12.30pm
April 14: Spain (h), Wembley – 7pm
April 18: Iceland (a), tbc
June 5: Spain (a), tbc
June 9: Ukraine (h), tbc
