diff --git a/spark/v4.2/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TypeToSparkType.java b/spark/v4.2/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TypeToSparkType.java
index dc077937577c..7290099d5b75 100644
--- a/spark/v4.2/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TypeToSparkType.java
+++ b/spark/v4.2/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TypeToSparkType.java
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ public DataType struct(Types.StructType struct, List<DataType> fieldResults) {
       Types.NestedField field = fields.get(i);
       DataType type = fieldResults.get(i);
       Metadata metadata = fieldMetadata(field.fieldId());
-      StructField sparkField = StructField.apply(field.name(), type, field.isOptional(), metadata);
+      StructField sparkField =
+          StructField.apply(field.name(), type, field.isOptional(), metadata)
+              .withId(Integer.toString(field.fieldId()));
       if (field.doc() != null) {
         sparkField = sparkField.withComment(field.doc());
       }
diff --git a/spark/v4.2/spark/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TestSparkSchemaUtil.java b/spark/v4.2/spark/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TestSparkSchemaUtil.java
index ba0dfd84110b..d1c01d4e4d10 100644
--- a/spark/v4.2/spark/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TestSparkSchemaUtil.java
+++ b/spark/v4.2/spark/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/TestSparkSchemaUtil.java
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.MetadataAttribute;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.types.DataTypeUtils;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.util.ResolveDefaultColumnsUtils$;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.catalog.CatalogV2Util;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.catalog.Column;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DataType;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DataTypes;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.GeographyType;
@@ -101,6 +103,34 @@ public void testSchemaConversionWithMetaDataColumnSchema() {
     }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testFieldIDsInSparkColumns() {
+    Schema schema =
+        new Schema(
+            optional(
+                10,
+                "location",
+                Types.StructType.of(
+                    optional(11, "latitude", Types.DoubleType.get()),
+                    optional(12, "longitude", Types.DoubleType.get()))));
+
+    StructType sparkSchema = SparkSchemaUtil.convert(schema);
+    StructField location = sparkSchema.apply("location");
+    StructType locationType = (StructType) location.dataType();
+
+    assertThat(location.id().get()).isEqualTo("10");
+    assertThat(locationType.apply("latitude").id().get()).isEqualTo("11");
+    assertThat(locationType.apply("longitude").id().get()).isEqualTo("12");
+
+    Column[] columns = CatalogV2Util.structTypeToV2Columns(sparkSchema, true);
+    assertThat(columns).hasSize(1);
+    assertThat(columns[0].id()).isEqualTo("10");
+
+    StructType columnType = (StructType) columns[0].dataType();
+    assertThat(columnType.apply("latitude").id().get()).isEqualTo("11");
+    assertThat(columnType.apply("longitude").id().get()).isEqualTo("12");
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testGeospatialTypeConversion() {
     // a default-CRS geometry round-trips through the null <-> OGC:CRS84 normalization