Squad, line-ups and fixture schedule for the Cape Verde team in USA · Canada · Mexico

Spain coach Luis de la Fuente said Lamine Yamal could be fit in time for the team's first World Cup match against Cape Verde on June 15 as the forward recovers from a torn left hamstring. Yamal suffered the injury during a match for Barcelona on April 22.

Cape Verde centre-back Roberto Lopes gets a warm Irish send-off as the Shamrock Rovers player departs for the World Cup.

Before Cape Verde made its World Cup debut, Sandro Mendes was one of the players to have represented the national team during his international career, giving him a unique insight into the progress Cape Verdean football has made in this small country on its journey to the world's biggest football tournament.

Cape Verde will make its World Cup debut at the 2026 tournament in the United States, Mexico and Canada. In the third instalment of a four-part series, RFI looks at the journey of the second

Yamal and Williams both missed the end of the club season due to hamstring injuries but De la Fuente included them in his World Cup squad anyway

For the first time in history, the tiny volcanic archipelago of just 525,000 people, one of the smallest countries in the world, has qualified for the competition.

LONDON: Cape Verde are the only African newcomers in this year's World Cup and with a population of around 600,000 are the third smallest nation to qualify in the tournament's long history.