World Cup 2026: Which Premier League, EFL and Scottish Premiership players are heading to this summer’s tournament | Football News

With the squads now confirmed and locked in, more than 200 players from the UK are heading to the 2026 World Cup.

These players feature in the Premier League, Sky Bet EFL, Scottish Premiership – and there is even one who plays non-League football.

And, aside from the Cape Verde, Iran, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia squads, there is at least one representative for every nation at this summer’s tournament.

Below is the list in full…

Algeria (1)

Premier League: Rayan Ait-Nouri (Man City)

Argentina (5)

Premier League: Enzo Fernandez (Chelsea), Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa), Lisandro Martinez (Man Utd), Cristian Romero (Tottenham)

Australia (5)

EFL: Cameron Burgess (Swansea), Nestory Irankunda (Watford), Harry Souttar (Leicester), Mohamed Toure (Norwich)

Scotland: Cammy Devlin (Hearts)

Austria (1)

Premier League: Kevin Danso (Tottenham)

Belgium (8)

Premier League: Timothy Castagne (Fulham), Maxim De Cuyper (Brighton), Jeremy Doku (Man City), Senne Lammens (Man Utd), Amadou Onana (Aston Villa), Youri Tielemans (Aston Villa), Leandro Trossard (Arsenal)

Scotland: Nicolas Raskin (Rangers)

Bosnia & Herzegovina (1)

Premier League: Amir Hadziahmetovic (Hull)

Brazil (8)

Premier League: Alisson Becker (Liverpool), Casemiro (Man Utd), Matheus Cunha (Man Utd), Bruno Guimaraes (Newcastle), Gabriel Magalhaes (Arsenal), Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal), Rayan (Bournemouth), Igor Thiago (Brentford)

Canada (7)

Premier League: Owen Goodman (Crystal Palace)

EFL: Ali Ahmed (Norwich), Alfie Jones (Middlesbrough), Cyle Larin (Southampton), Liam Millar (Hull)

Scotland: Derek Cornelius (Rangers), Alistair Johnston (Celtic)

Colombia (2)

Premier League: Jefferson Lerma (Crystal Palace), Daniel Munoz (Crystal Palace)

Croatia (3)

Premier League: Josko Gvardiol (Man City), Mateo Kovacic (Man City), Ivor Pandur (Hull)

Curacao (3)

EFL: Tahith Chong (Sheffield United), Sontje Hansen (Middlesbrough), Ar’jany Martha (Rotherham)

Czech Republic (1)

EFL: Tomas Soucek (West Ham)

DR Congo (6)

Premier League: Noah Sadiki (Sunderland), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (West Ham), Yoane Wissa (Newcastle)

EFL: Edo Kayembe (Watford), Axel Tuanzebe (Burnley)

Scotland: Aaron Tshibola (Kilmarnock)

Ecuador (3)

Premier League: Nilson Angulo (Sunderland), Moises Caicedo (Chelsea), Piero Hincapie (Arsenal)

Egypt (1)

Premier League: Omar Marmoush (Man City)

England (20)

Premier League: Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest), Dan Burn (Newcastle), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal), Marc Guehi (Man City), Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), Jordan Henderson (Brentford), Reece James (Chelsea), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), Tino Livramento (Newcastle), Noni Madueke (Arsenal), Kobbie Mainoo (Man Utd), Nico O’Reilly (Man City), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Declan Rice (Arsenal), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Djed Spence (Tottenham), James Trafford (Man City), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa)

France (6)

Premier League: Rayan Cherki (Man City), Lucas Digne (Aston Villa), Malo Gusto (Chelsea), Maxence Lacroix (Crystal Palace), Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace), William Saliba (Arsenal)

Germany (5)

Premier League: Pascal Gross (Brighton), Kai Havertz (Arsenal), Malick Thiaw (Newcastle), Florian Wirtz (Liverpool), Nick Woltemade (Newcastle)

Ghana (4)

Premier League: Antoine Semenyo (Man City), Brandon Thomas-Asante (Coventry)

EFL: Jordan Ayew (Leicester), Abdul Fatawu (Leicester)

Haiti (2)

Premier League: Wilson Isidor (Sunderland)

EFL: Jean-Ricner Bellegarde (Wolves)

Iraq (1)

Premier League: Ali Al-Hamadi (Ipswich)

Ivory Coast (3)

Premier League: Amad Diallo (Man Utd), Evann Guessand (Aston Villa), Ibrahim Sangare (Nottingham Forest)

Japan (4)

Premier League: Wataru Endo (Liverpool), Daichi Kamada (Crystal Palace), Ao Tanaka (Leeds)

Scotland: Daizen Maeda (Celtic)

Mexico (1)

Premier League: Raul Jimenez (Fulham)

Morocco (4)

Premier League: Issa Diop (Fulham), Noussair Mazraoui (Man Utd), Chadi Riad (Crystal Palace), Chemsdine Talbi (Sunderland)

Netherlands (15)

Premier League: Nathan Ake (Man City), Brian Brobbey (Sunderland), Cody Gakpo (Liverpool), Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool), Jorrel Hato (Chelsea), Justin Kluivert (Bournemouth), Tijjani Reijnders (Man City), Robin Roefs (Sunderland), Jurrien Timber (Arsenal), Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), Jan Paul van Hecke (Brighton), Micky van de Ven (Tottenham), Bart Verbruggen (Brighton), Mats Wieffer (Brighton)

EFL: Crysencio Summerville (West Ham)

New Zealand (9)

Premier League: Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest)

EFL: Tyler Bindon (Sheffield United), Liberato Cacace (Wrexham), Max Crocombe (Millwall), Matthew Garbett (Peterborough), Marko Stamenic (Swansea), Ben Waine (Port Vale)

Scotland: Elijah Just (Motherwell)

Non-League: Tommy Smith (Braintree Town)

Norway (10)

Premier League: Kristoffer Ajer (Brentford), Sander Berge (Fulham), Oscar Bobb (Fulham), Erling Haaland (Man City), Jorgen Strand Larsen (Crystal Palace), Martin Odegaard (Arsenal)

EFL: Sondre Langas (Derby), Egil Selvik (Watford), David Moller Wolfe (Wolves)

Scotland: Thelo Aasgaard (Rangers)

Panama (1)

EFL: Jose Cordoba (Norwich)

Paraguay (3)

Premier League: Omar Alderete (Sunderland), Diego Gomez (Brighton)

EFL: Gustavo Caballero (Portsmouth)

Portugal (7)

Premier League: Diogo Dalot (Man Utd), Ruben Dias (Man City), Bruno Fernandes (Man Utd), Pedro Neto (Chelsea), Matheus Nunes (Man City), Bernardo Silva (Man City)

EFL: Jose Sa (Wolves)

Scotland (20)

Premier League: Ryan Christie (Bournemouth), Tyler Fletcher (Man Utd), Ben Gannon-Doak (Bournemouth), Angus Gunn (Nottingham Forest), Aaron Hickey (Brentford), George Hirst (Ipswich), John McGinn (Aston Villa), Nathan Patterson (Everton)

EFL: Lyndon Dykes (Charlton), Dominic Hyam (Wrexham), Kenny McLean (Norwich), Ross Stewart (Southampton)

Scotland: Findlay Curtis (Rangers), Craig Gordon (Hearts), Grant Hanley (Hibernian), Liam Kelly (Rangers), Kieran Tierney (Celtic), Anthony Ralston (Celtic), Lawrence Shankland (Rangers), John Souttar (Rangers)

Senegal (8)

Premier League: Habib Diarra (Sunderland), Idrissa Gueye (Everton), Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea), Iliman Ndiaye (Everton), Ismaila Sarr (Crystal Palace), Mamadou Sarr (Chelsea), Pape Matar Sarr (Tottenham)

EFL: El Hadji Malick Diouf (West Ham)

South Africa (1)

EFL: Lyle Foster (Burnley)

South Korea (5)

EFL: Jun-Ho Bae (Stoke), Ji-Sung Eom (Swansea), Hee-Chan Hwang (Wolves), Seung-Ho Paik (Birmingham),

Scotland: Hyun-Jun Yang (Celtic)

Spain (7)

Premier League: Marc Cucurella (Chelsea), Mikel Merino (Arsenal), Yeremy Pino (Crystal Palace), Pedro Porro (Tottenham), David Raya (Arsenal), Rodri (Man City), Martin Zubimendi (Arsenal)

Sweden (11)

Premier League: Yasin Ayari (Brighton), Lucas Bergvall (Tottenham), Anthony Elanga (Newcastle), Gabriel Gudmundsson (Leeds), Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal), Alexander Isak (Liverpool), Victor Lindelof (Aston Villa)

EFL: Hjalmar Ekdal (Burnley), Victor Johansson (Stoke), Jacob Widell Zetterstrom (Derby)

Scotland: Benjamin Nygren (Celtic)

Switzerland (4)

Premier League: Dan Ndoye (Nottingham Forest), Noah Okafor (Leeds) Granit Xhaka (Sunderland),

EFL: Zeki Amdouni (Burnley)

Tunisia (3)

EFL: Hannibal Mejbri (Burnley), Anis Ben Slimane (Norwich)

Scotland: Sebastian Tounekti (Celtic)

Turkey (2)

Premier League: Altay Bayindir (Man Utd), Ferdi Kadioglu (Brighton)

United States (6)

Premier League: Tyler Adams (Bournemouth), Brenden Aaronson (Leeds), Chris Richards (Crystal Palace), Antonee Robinson (Fulham), Haji Wright (Coventry)

Scotland: Auston Trusty (Celtic)

Uruguay (3)

Premier League: Rodrigo Bentancur (Tottenham), Manuel Ugarte (Man Utd)

EFL: Santiago Bueno (Wolves)

Uzbekistan (1)

Premier League: Abdukodir Khusanov (Man City)

You can follow the 2026 World Cup on Sky Sports’ platforms, with live blog coverage of every single game of the 104 matches, from the opener on Thursday June 11 to the final on Sunday July 19.