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Which UK-based players are heading to the 2026 World Cup?

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.

Image: Man City's Rayan Ait-Nouri

Premier League : Rayan Ait-Nouri (Man City)

Image: Aston Villa's Emi Martinez

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

Image: Watford's Nestory Irankunda

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

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Image: Tottenham's Kevin Danso

Image: Arsenal's Leandro Trossard

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)

Image: Hull's Amir Hadziahmetovic

Premier League : Amir Hadziahmetovic (Hull)

Image: Brentford's Igor Thiago

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)

Image: Southampton's Cyle Larin

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)

Image: Crystal Palace's Daniel Munoz

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

Image: Hull's Ivor Pandur

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

Image: Sheffield United's Tahith Chong

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

Image: West Ham's Tomas Soucek

Image: Kilmarnock's Aaron Tshibola

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

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

Image: Arsenal's Piero Hincapie

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

Image: Man City's Omar Marmoush

Premier League : Omar Marmoush (Man City)

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)

Image: Crystal Palace's Jean-Philippe Mateta

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)

Image: Arsenal's Kai Havertz

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

Image: Man City's Antoine Semenyo

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

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

Image: Sunderland's Wilson Isidor

Premier League : Wilson Isidor (Sunderland)

Image: Ipswich's Ali Al-Hamadi

Image: Man Utd's Amad Diallo

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

Image: Leeds' Ao Tanaka

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

Image: Fulham's Raul Jimenez

Image: Man Utd's Noussair Mazraoui

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

Image: Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk

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)

Image: Port Vale's Ben Waine

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)

Non-League : Tommy Smith (Braintree Town)

Image: Man City's Erling Haaland

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)

Image: Norwich's Jose Cordoba

Image: Sunderland's Omar Alderete

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

Image: Man Utd's Bruno Fernandes

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)

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)

Image: Everton's Iliman Ndiaye

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)

Image: Burnley's Lyle Foster

Image: Celtic's Hyun-Jun Yang

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

Image: Arsenal's Mikel Merino

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

Image: Arsenal's Viktor Gyokeres

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)

Image: Sunderland's Granit Xhaka

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

Image: Burnley's Hannibal Mejbri

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

Image: Man Utd's Altay Bayindir

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

Image: Celtic's Auston Trusty

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

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

Image: Man City's Abdukodir Khusanov

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.

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