England will play China in a friendly at Wembley on 29 November, their first confirmed fixture following the Lionesses’ Euro 2025 triumph at the weekend.
The match will be the third of four friendlies for Sarina Wiegman’s victorious team across the autumn, with the first two, in October, still to be announced. It pits the Asian champions against their European counterparts and will be the Lionesses’ third Wembley fixture of 2025, following victories over Spain in February and Portugal in May.
England’s autumn friendlies will help prepare for their 2027 World Cup qualifying campaign, which begins in February. Wiegman’s side were World Cup finalists in 2023 and will hope to go one better in Brazil in two years. Their most recent meeting with China came during the run to the 2023 final, a 6-1 win in Adelaide.
“After an incredible month and the celebrations this week, we are already planning ahead,” Wiegman said. “It will be special to have a final visit to Wembley this year and something for us all to look forward to once the new season starts. There are not many opportunities for us to play non-European opposition in the calendar so I am happy we have been able to secure a top Asian side like China for this Fifa window.”
The fixture with China, ranked 17th in the world, will kick off at 5.30pm and be broadcast live on ITV.
Separately, the FA confirmed the Women’s FA Cup prize pot for the season, with the reward for winning the final frozen at £430,000 for a third straight year. The men’s FA Cup winners receive £2m, highlighting a continuing disparity. The overall men’s fund is around £20m, while the women’s sits at approximately £6m.
