Mel C and Wolf Alice make Lionesses World Cup song

Spice Girl Melanie C, popular prima Self Esteem and Wolf Alice vocalist Ellie Rowsell person teamed up to grounds a opus for England's Women's World Cup team.

Titled Call Me A Lioness, the way references England players Chloe Kelly and Ella Toone, who scored the winning goals astatine the 2022 Euro final.

Both players are backmost connected the squad for the World Cup, which kicks disconnected successful Australia this week.

Mel C said she was "cheering connected our women's squad to bring it location again".

She's joined connected the opus by Marika Hackman, Rachel Chinouriri, Shura, Jasmine Jethwa, Rose Gray, Highlyy, and Al Greenwood of the aptly-named set Sports Team.

The way was co-written by rising prima Olivia Dean, who said she wanted to seizure a feeling of "togetherness".

"We wanted to marque a opus that gives girls a soundtrack to their pridefulness of the Lionesses and of being a woman, and to unite everyone successful that pride," she said successful a statement.

"Whenever I perceive Call Me A Lioness I deliberation astir being successful a brew plot singing it astatine the apical of my lungs with my friends."

The opus is being released arsenic an "unofficial" anthem, arsenic the Football Association stopped commissioning euphony for England's planetary campaigns pursuing the 2014 Brazil World Cup.

Proceeds from income and streams volition payment charities that enactment grassroots girls and women's football, including Football Beyond Borders, Manchester Laces, Street Soccer London and Girls United.

Call Me A Lioness was the brainchild of songwriter Glen Roberts, who realised that England's triumph past summertime was being soundtracked by the aforesaid aged songs: from Sweet Caroline to Three Lions.

He called up Dean and asked her to assistance him constitute an anthem specifically for the women's team.

The duo took inspiration from Gabby Logan's BBC commentary astatine Euro 2022, erstwhile she said: "The Lionesses person brought shot home. Now it's down to the remainder of america to marque definite it stays here. You deliberation it's each over? It's lone conscionable begun."

With the opus complete, they formed an 11-person squad of their ain to grounds the vocals.

"It was beauteous surreal to beryllium surrounded by truthful galore unthinkable musicians singing a opus astir women's football," said Hackman. "I decidedly wouldn't person pictured that for myself erstwhile I was a kid!"

"I emotion the opus truthful much. The Lionesses are the aboriginal and I americium truthful arrogant and excited to get down them this summer," added Self Esteem, the signifier sanction of vocalist Rebecca Lucy Taylor.

"Recording it was precise fun. Can't judge I'm connected a opus with Melanie C. Baby Becky is quaking."

The grounds is released connected Thursday 19 July, nether the sanction Hope FC - a notation to Hope Powell, the erstwhile manager, subordinate and manager of the nationalist team, who made her planetary debut astatine the property of 16 and went connected to people 35 goals for the England team.

It marks Mel C's 3rd quality connected an England song, aft 1998's (How Does It Feel To Be) On Top Of The World and a 2014 screen of Take That's Greatest Day.