Their 2026 World Cup
All eight matches and an assist against Croatia, with the highest average midfield rating for England after Bellingham.
Match by match
E. Anderson played 8 matches for England: 7 as a starter and 1 off the bench.
| Round | Match | His game |
|---|---|---|
| Group L | vs Croatia 4-2 | Started, played the full match · 1 assist |
| Group L | vs Ghana 0-0 | Started, off on 74′ |
| Group L | vs Panama 2-0 | Started, off on 84′ |
| Round of 32 | vs DR Congo 2-1 | Started, played the full match |
| Round of 16 | vs Mexico 3-2 | Started, off on 75′ |
| Quarter-finals | vs Norway 2-1 | Started, played the full match |
| Semi-finals | vs Argentina 1-2 | Started, played the full match · 🟨 |
| Third-place play-off | vs France 6-4 | Came on in the 79′ |
Who he is
- Born
- 6 November 2002 · aged 23 at the World Cup
- Birthplace
- Whitley Bay
- Club
- Manchester City F.C.
- Height
- 1.79 m
Data: Wikidata (CC0).
Biography
Elliot Junior Anderson (born 6 November 2002) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team.
Early life Elliot Junior Anderson was born on 6 November 2002 in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. He was a pupil at Valley Gardens Middle School and Whitley Bay High School. His maternal grandfather, Geoff Allen, played as an outside-left for Newcastle United from 1964 to 1968. He has two brothers including elder brother, Wil Anderson, who appeared on the eleventh series of Love Island.
Newcastle United Anderson first joined Newcastle United at the age of eight having previously been at Wallsend Boys Club and signed his first professional contract with the club in November 2019, signing another long-term deal a year later on his eighteenth birthday. On 9 January 2021, Anderson made his first-team debut in a 2–0 defeat to Arsenal in the third round of the FA Cup. On 18 January, Anderson made his Premier League debut against the same opposition in a 3–0 defeat, as an 87th-minute substitute.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · opening summary of the article.
Tournament data from API-Football. See more rankings on the World Cup data hub.
Photo: Bryan Berlin · Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)