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The Three Lions Squad for the matches against Brazil & Belgium  March 2024
Player	Birthdate	Age	Pos	Club	St	Sub	App
Bellingham, Jude V.W.	29 June 2003	20	M	Real Madrid CF, Spain	19	9	28	2		0	2
Bowen, Jarrod	20 December 1996	27	M	West Ham United FC	3	3	6	0		0	None
Branthwaite, Jarrad P.	27 June 2002	21	CD	Everton FC	0	0	0	0		0	none
Chilwell, Benjamin J.	21 December 1996	27	LB	Chelsea FC	18	2	20	1		0	None
Dunk, Lewis C.	21 November 1991	32	CD	Brighton & Hove Albion FC	3	1	4	0		0	None
Foden, Philip W.	28 May 2000	23	RF	Manchester City FC	21	11	32	4		0	1
Gallagher, Conor J.	6 February 2000	24	M	Chelsea FC	5	7	12	0		0	1
Gomez, Joseph D.	23 May 1997	26	CD	Liverpool FC	9	3	12	0		0	2
Gordon, Anthony M.	24 February 2001	23	F	Newcastle United FC	1	0	1	0		0	None
Henderson, Jordan B.	17 June 1990	33	M	Amsterdamsche FC Ajax, Netherlands	55	26	81	3	1	9	10
Johnstone, Samuel L.	25 March 1993	30	G	Crystal Palace FC	4	0	4	0ᵍᵃ		0	None
	Johnstone withdrew from the squad on 24 March because of injury
Kane, Harry E.	28 July 1993	30	F	FC Bayern München, Germany	77	12	89	62		63	3
	Kane withdrew from the squad following the Brazil match because of injury
Konsa, Ezri N.	23 October 1997	26	CB	Aston Villa FC	0	1	1	0		0	None
Lewis, Rico M.	21 November 2004	18	FB	Manchester City FC	1	0	1	0		0	None
	Lewis was drafted into the squad on 24 March as a replacement for Walker
Maddison, James D.	23 November 1996	27	F	Tottenham Hotspur FC	4	1	5	0		0	1
Maguire, J. Harry	5 March 1993	31	CD	Manchester United FC	59	4	63	7	1	1	13	1
	Maguire withdrew from the squad on 24 March because of injury
Mainoo, Kobbie B.	19 April 2005	18	CM	Manchester United FC	0	1	1	0		0	None
	Mainoo was drafted into the squad on 19 March after initially being a member of the U21s
Palmer, Cole J.	6 May 2002	21	AM	Chelsea FC	0	2	2	0		0	None
Pickford, Jordan L.	7 March 1994	30	G	Everton FC	59	0	59	43ᵍᵃ		0	None
Ramsdale, Aaron C.	14 May 1998	25	G	Arsenal FC	4	0	4	5ᵍᵃ		0	None
Rashford, Marcus	31 October 1997	26	F	Manchester United FC	26	34	60	17		1	1
Rice, Declan	14 January 1999	25	M	Arsenal FC	45	4	49	3		0	5
					also has 3 Republic of Ireland appearances
Saka, Bukayo A.T.	5 September 2001	22	F	Arsenal FC	23	9	32	11		0	None
	Saka withdrew from the squad on 21 March because of injury
Stones, John	28 May 1994	29	CD	Manchester City FC	62	8	70	3		0	7	1
Toney, Ivan B.E..	16 March 1996	28	CF	Brentford FC	0	1	1	0		0	None
Trafford, James H.	10 October 2002	21	G	Burnley FC	0	0	0	0ᵍᵃ		0	none
	Trafford was drafted into the squad on 24 March as a replacement for Johnstone
Walker, Kyle A.	28 May 1990	33	RD	Manchester City FC	74	8	82	1	1	2	12	1
	Walker withdrew from the squad on 24 March because of injury
Watkins, Oliver G.A.	30 December 1995	28	F	Aston Villa FC	4	6	10	3		0	None

All information is complete to and including England's last match, the seventh of the 2023-24 season, against Brazil on 23 March 2024.

Diary

Thursday, 14 March 2024 - Gareth Southgate names his 25-man squad, the first squad of 2024. Anthony Gordon and Jarrad Branthwaite have received their first call-ups.
Liverpool's Joe Gomez returns for the first time since November 2020 and Chelsea's Ben Chilwell returns to the set-up for the first time since last September after missing out through injury. There are also returns for Brentford's Ivan Toney, who returns for the first time since serving his suspension, and John Stones, who returns after missing out on the previous squad because of injury.
Injury concerns over Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold, Chelsea's Levi Colwill, Manchester City's Jack Grealish, Crystal Palace's Marc Guéhi and Newcastle United's Kieran Tripper and Callum Wilson mean they all miss out having featured in the previous squad. Kalvin Phillips, on loan at West Ham United, misses out because of loss of form, whereas Manchester City's Rico Lewis returns to the under-21 set up. Milan's Fikayo Tomori is dropped in favour of a recall to Gomez.
Southgate revealed that Arsenal's centre-back, Ben White, who has signed a new four year contract today, has asked not to be considered.
In the evening, Aston Villa secure progression in the Europa Conference League with a 4-0 victory over Ajax, who included Jordan Henderson in their line-up, with a first call by Ollie Watkins, who was then substituted with a 33rd minute injury.

Saturday, 16 March 2024 - In today's football, the FA Cup quarter-final matches dominate, with Manchester City, including Kyle Walker and Phil Foden, see of Newcastle United, including Anthony Gordon, to reach their sixth consecutive semi-final. In the Premier League, Ivan Toney's Brentford lose at Burnley and James Maddison's Tottenham lose at Fulham. In the Bundesliga, Bayern München, including Harry Kane, beat SV Darmstadt, with Kane netting his 31st league goal this season.

Sunday, 17 March 2024 - Harry Kane leaves Germany bound for England, but is carrying a left ankle injury, picked up in yesterday's Bundesliga victory.
In today's football, Chelsea advance to the FA Cup semi-finals following victory over Leicester City, Cole Palmer on the scoresheet, and also starring Conor Gallagher and an appearance from the bench from Ben Chilwell. In the day's second fixture, Extra Time was needed to send Manchester United through, who had Marcus Rashford starting and scoring and Harry Maguire as a substitute, and Liverpool, and Joe Gomez. In the Premier League, West Ham, including Jarrod Bowen, draw with Aston Villa, featuring Ezri Konsa and Ollie Watkins. In Eredivisie, Jordan Henderson and Ajax stage a comeback to draw at Sparta Rotterdam.

Monday evening, 18 March 2024 - Following a morning of official kit releases, it is announced that England's oldest living ex-player, Ron Baynham, has died, aged 94 years. The baton of oldest living is passed to Tommy Banks.

Tuesday afternoon, 19 March 2024 - As the players begin arriving at St. George's Park, Gareth Southgate has called up Kobbie Mainoo, Manchester United's talented teenage midfielder, from the under-21 set up.

Wednesday, 20 March 2024 - 22 of the 26 members of the squad are all training at St. George's Park. Frank Lampard, former captain, was watching from the sidelines alongside youth coach Joe Edwards and technical director John McDermott. The three players missing were training indoors, Harry Kane, Jordan Henderson, Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer.

Thursday, 21 March 2024 - After another day of training at St. George's Park, Bukayo Saka trains indoors and is then withdrawn from the squad to return to Arsenal to continue his rehabilitation. Kane and Henderson also continue indoors.

Friday, 22 March 2024 - Harry Kane and Jordan Henderson continue their personal training programmes indoors as the rest of the 23-man squad are out training. However, by the time of Southgate's Press Conference in the evening, both players, and Cole Palmer, are ruled out of tomorrow night's match. Kane also remains 'extremely doubtful' for the match against Belgium on Tuesday.

Saturday, 23 March 2024 - England 0 Brazil 1 - Brazil's new teenage sensation Endrick struck late on to condemn England to defeat in a scrappy friendly at Wembley. The game looked to be petering out into a draw before Vinicius Jr broke clear, the 17-year-old substitute left with a simple finish from close range despite England keeper Jordan Pickford's save with 10 minutes left. It capped an unsatisfactory night for England. Their defence, Harry Maguire in particular, looked vulnerable as they lost captain Kyle Walker to a hamstring injury early on. Gareth Southgate gave a debut to Newcastle United's Anthony Gordon from the start, while Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa and Manchester United's teenage midfield prodigy Kobbie Mainoo made their first appearances as substitutes.
Following the match, Gareth Southgate confirmed that Harry Kane has returned to his club for further rehabilitation.

Sunday, 24 March 2024 - James Trafford and Rico Lewis have moved across from the under-21 to join the England senior men’s squad at Tottenham Hotspur’s training ground following the withdrawal of Harry Maguire, Kyle Walker and Sam Johnstone through injury. It is Burnley goalkeeper Trafford’s first senior call up. Manchester City’s Lewis has one senior appearance having made his debut for Gareth Southgate’s side in North Macedonia in November 2023. Maguire, Walker and Johnstone have returned to their respective clubs for assessment having sustained injuries in recent days.

Monday, 25 March 2024 - Decaln Rice will captain his country for the first time tomorrow night as he picks up his fiftieth appearance. Gareth Southgate confirms, that after all 23 members of the squad have been training today, that of the injury concerns, Jude Bellingham had cramp, Cole Palmer is back, and Jordan Henderson 'probably does not have 90 minutes in him.' Ivan Toney will be involved against Belgium.

England Form: last six games
W W W W D L  f 10:a 4  success: 75%
1047	12 September 2023 - Scotland 1 England 3 [0-2] The National Stadium, Glasgow (51,000)	Maguire OG Foden, Bellingham, Kane	Fr	AW
1048	13 October 2023 - England 1 Australia 0 [0-0] The National Stadium, Wembley (81,116)	Watkins		HW
1049	17 October 2023 - England 3 Italy 1 [1-1] The National Stadium, Wembley (83,194)	Kane (2 (1 pen)), Rashford Scamacca	ECP	HW
1050	17 November 2023 - England 2 Malta 0 [1-0] The National Stadium, Wembley (81,388)	Pepe OG, Kane		HW
1051	20 November 2023 - North Macedonia 1 England 1 [1-0] Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje (27,982)	Bardhi Atanasov OG		AD
1052	23 March 2024 - England 0 Brazil 1 [0-0] The National Stadium, Wembley (83,664)	Endrick	Fr	HL