Current FIFA Ranking: 4
Highest FIFA Ranking: 3 (last, Nov 2023)
Lowest FIFA Ranking: 27 (February 1996)
Football Team Nickname: The Three Lions
Honours: World Cup (1): 1966
Head coach: Thomas Tuchel (Jan 2025)
Top scorer in qualifying: Harry Kane (8)
Star players: Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)
The first UEFA team to qualify for the 2026 finals, England have reached an eighth consecutive World Cup since failing to reach USA 1994.
Breezing through qualifying, they became just the second European team to win all of their matches in a campaign without conceding after Yugoslavia in qualification for the 1954 FIFA World Cup (4 matches).
Runners-up in the last two European Championship finals, the Three Lions have not reached the final on the world stage since Bobby Moore lifted the trophy at Wembley in 1966.
Now under the stewardship of Thomas Tuchel, the first German and third foreign head coach, who has caused controversy by leaving players such as Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden out of recent squads, they will be hoping to win a trophy on foreign soil for the first time.
Previous World Cup appearances (16):
2022: Quarter-final (1-2 v France)
2018: Fourth
2014: Group stage
2010: Round of 16
2006: Quarter-final
2002: Quarter-final
1998: Round of 16
1990: Fourth
1986: Quarter-final
1982: Second group stage
1970: Quarter-final
1966: Winners
1962: Quarter-final
1958: Group stage
1954: Quarter-final
1950: Group stage
