England’s final fixture on home soil before the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be a send-off match against Portugal.
The game is on Saturday 1 July, kicking-off at 3.15pm and broadcast live on ITV1.
The Lionesses will welcome their fellow finalists to Milton Keynes four days before heading for the finals in Australia and New Zealand. The meeting with Portugal will feature the squad that was announced by Sarina Wiegman last Wednesday to represent England at the tournament.
Wiegman told englandfootball.com: “I’m really pleased to have a competitive game for our last home fixture. We had two big games in April against Brazil and Australia where we learned so much. This will be another challenging match against a team that have performed well and are going to their first World Cup.
“Portugal will also want to show they can be a threat to teams in Australia, and they have very technical players with good ability. For us, it will be important to come together again as a team after the end of the club season and feel the support of our fans.
“We’ll do our best to give them a good performance. It will only be three weeks until our opening World Cup game so it will be such an important moment in our preparation.”
Tickets will go on sale to My England Football members on Friday 9 June and on general sale from midday on Monday 12 June.
Before the World Cup begins, England will take on Canada in a behind-closed-doors match on 14 July.
