# England national football team results (unofficial matches)

This is a list of the England national football team's results from 1870 to the present day that, for various reasons, are not accorded the status of official International A Matches.

## 1890s

The Football Association (FA) instigated a four-game tour of Germany and Austria by a representative England team in November 1899. The England team played a representative German team in Berlin on 23 November 1899, with the German side losing 1–0. Two days later a slightly altered German side lost 10–2. The third and fourth matches were played in Prague and Karlsruhe against a combined Austrian and German side, and England won 6–0 and 7–0. Those games cannot be considered as "official" and are known as "proto-international matches" (Ur-Länderspiele) in Germany because they were organised by a regional federation from Berlin and the German Football Association (DFB) was not founded until 28 January 1900.

## 1900s

* ↑ Germany also played a match against England Amateurs on 21 September 1901.$^{:10}$
* ↑ This was scheduled as a full international and was the title decider in the 1901–02 British Home Championship. A capacity crowd was in attendance. During the first half, a new wooden stand collapsed, killing 25 and injuring 500. The match was played to a conclusion to mitigate any further crowd panic, but was not recorded as a full international fixture. The official match was replayed in England a month later.

## 1910s
### World War I

* 1 2 3 Football Association XI tour of South Africa.
* ↑ Fundraising benefit match for the Lord Mayor of Liverpool's War Scroll Fund.$^{:12}$
* ↑ Fundraising benefit match for the Sir Douglas Haig Base Hospitals. Jimmy McMullan played for England after squad members had to pull out at short notice.
* ↑ Fundraising benefit match for the Prisoners of War Fund and the Ulster Volunteer Force Hospital. Newcastle United's Bill McCracken, an Ulsterman, helped to organise the event and was a guest player for England.

## 1920s

* 1 2 3 Football Association XI tour of South Africa.
* 1 2 3 4 5 Football Association XI tour of Australia.
* ↑ Football Association XI tour of Canada.
* 1 2 3 Football Association XI tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.

## 1930s

* ↑ Football Association XI tour of Canada.
* ↑ Subsequent trial matches were billed as Probables versus Possibles.
* ↑ Trial of 2 referee system.
* ↑ King's Silver Jubilee Trust Fund International
* 1 2 3 As it did not take place against a standard national opponent, FIFA no longer considers this match to be valid as a full international; however, the FA still does so.
* ↑ 75th Anniversary of the Football Association.
* 1 2 3 Football Association XI tour of South Africa.

### World War II

* ↑ After two English players were injured in a traffic accident on their way to the match, two players from the local club Newcastle United who had been in the crowd as spectators appeared for England, including Tommy Pearson, a Scot who later also appeared for his native country.

## 1940s

* 1 2 3 4 Originally considered to be an official England team. Later downgraded to Services XI.
* 1 2 Swiss Football Association 50th anniversary.
* ↑ Fundraising match for the Burnden Park disaster.

## 1950s

* ↑ Football Association XI tour of Canada and United States.
* ↑ Instead of being contested between the Football League champions and FA Cup winners, the 1950 Charity Shield was an exhibition match between the England squad of the 1950 FIFA World Cup and the FA representative team that concurrently toured Canada.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Football Association XI tour of United States and Australia.
* ↑ The opponent was officially the 'Rest of the World', but in practice all the players were from continental Europe.
* ↑ 90th anniversary of the Football Association.
* ↑ As it did not take place against a standard national opponent, FIFA no longer considers this match to be valid as a full international; however, the FA still does so.
* ↑ The opponent was officially the 'Rest of the World', but in practice all the players were from continental Europe.
* 1 2 3 4 Included Welsh international Trevor Ford.
* ↑ Belgrove F.C. exhibition match.
* 1 2 3 4 Football Association XI tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.

## 1960s

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 Football Association XI tour of Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand and United States.
* ↑ Team billed as F.A. XI, assembled to take the berth vacated by Tottenham Hotspur's Football League and FA Cup Double.
* ↑ Team billed as F.A. XI, assembled to take the berth vacated by Tottenham Hotspur's Football League and FA Cup Double.
* 1 2 Part of the Football Association's centenary celebrations.
* 1 2 3 As it did not take place against a standard national opponent, FIFA no longer considers this match to be valid as a full international; however, the FA still does so.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Football Association XI tour of Tahiti, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand.

## 1970s

* ↑ Golden Jubilee match for the Football Association of Ireland.

## 1980s

* ↑ Centenary commemoration match for the London Football Association.
* ↑ Testimonial for retiring Athletic Bilbao player Txetxu Rojo. Served as a warm-up for the 1982 FIFA World Cup, as England would play their opening round matches at the same venue.

## 1990s

1995
* The friendly match between England and the Republic of Ireland on 15 February 1995 in Dublin had to be abandoned after 27 minutes due to missile throwing and riotous disorder among extremist elements in the England support; caps were still awarded to the players and the match (along with David Kelly's goal for Ireland) is counted as a full international; it was never replayed.
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