England national football team

The **England football team** are a team who play football for England. They play their matches in England at Wembley Stadium.

They played their first game in 1872 against Scotland.

They won the FIFA World Cup in 1966 when they beat West Germany by 4 goals to 2 at the old Wembley Stadium.

## Most appearances

|width="50"|#|style="width:150px;"|Name|style="width:100px;"|Career|width="50"|Caps|width="50"|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Peter Shilton|1970–1990|125|0|||||
|2|align="left"|Wayne Rooney|2003–2018|120|53|||||
|3|align="left"|David Beckham|1996–2009|115|17|||||
|4|align="left"|Steven Gerrard|2000–2014|114|21|||||
|rowspan="1"|5|align="left"|Bobby Moore|1962–1973|108|2||||
|6|align="left"|Harry Kane|2015-|107|66|||||
|7|align="left"|Ashley Cole|2001-2014|107|0|||||
|8|align="left"|Bobby Charlton|1958-1970|106|49|||||
|9|align="left"|Frank Lampard|1999-2014|106|29|||||
|10|align="left"|Billy Wright|1946-1959|105|3|||||

## Top scorers

|width="50"|#|style="width:150px;"|Name|style="width:100px;"|Career|width="50"|Goals|width="50"|Caps|style="width:110px;"|Average|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|style="text-align:left;"|Harry Kane|2015-|66|107|0.6168||||||
|2|style="text-align:left;"|Wayne Rooney|2003-2018|53|120|0.4416||||||
|3|style="text-align:left;"|Bobby Charlton|1958-1970|49|106|0.4622||||||
|4|style="text-align:left;"|Gary Lineker|1984-1992|48|80|0.6000||||||
|5|style="text-align:left;"|Jimmy Greaves|1959–1967|44|57|0.7719||||||
|6|style="text-align:left;"|Michael Owen|1998–2008|40|89|0.4494||||||
|rowspan="3"|7|style="text-align:left;"|Nat Lofthouse|1950–1958|30|33|0.9090|||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Alan Shearer|1992–2000|30|63|0.4762|||||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Tom Finney|1946–1958|30|76|0.3947|||||||
|rowspan="2"|10|style="text-align:left;"|Vivian Woodward|1903–1911|29|23|1.2609|||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Frank Lampard|1999–2014|29|106|0.2735|||||||

## Honours

- **Olympic football tournament**
- ** Gold medal (2):** 1908, 1912

- **FIFA World Cup**
- **  Winner (1):** 1966
- Fourth Place (2): 1990, 2018

- **UEFA European Championship**

- Runners-up (1): 2020, 2024

- Third Place (1): 1968
- Semi-finals (1): 1996

- ** UEFA Nations League**

- Third Place (1): 2018 -19

- **British Championship**
- **  Winners (54)**  _(including 20 shared)_

## Recent Games

|width=160|Date|width=180|Type of Game|width=150|Home Team|width=70|Result|width=150|Away Team|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|27 March 2018|align=left|Friendly|align="left"||1–1|align="left"||||
|2 June 2018|align=left|Friendly|align="left"||2–1|align="left"||||
|7 June 2018|align=left|Friendly|align="left"||2–0|align="left"||||
|18 June 2018|align=left|2018 FIFA World Cup Group G|align="left"||1–2|align="left"||||
|24 June 2018|align=left|2018 FIFA World Cup Group G|align="left"||6–1|align="left"||||
|28 June 2018|align=left|2018 FIFA World Cup Group G|align="left"||0–1|align="left"||||
|3 July 2018|align=left|2018 FIFA World Cup R16|align="left"||1–1 (3–4p)|align="left"||||
|7 July 2018|align=left|2018 FIFA World Cup QF|align="left"||0–2|align="left"||||
|11 July 2018|align=left|2018 FIFA World Cup SF|align="left"||2–1 (aet)|align="left"||||
|14 July 2018|align=left|2018 FIFA World Cup 3rd|align="left"||2–0|align="left"||||

- <small> Green means that the team won.</small>
- <small> Yellow means the team had a draw.</small>
- <small> Red means the team lost.</small>

## Minor tournaments

|Year|Round|Position|GP|W|D*|L|GS|GA|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1964 Taça de Nações|Group Stage|3rd|3|0|1|2|2|7|
|1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup Tournament|Group Stage|2nd|3|2|0|1|6|4|
|1985 Rous Cup|1 Match|2nd|1|0|0|1|0|1|
|1985 Ciudad de México Cup Tournament|Group Stage|3rd|2|0|0|2|1|3|
|1985 Azteca 2000 Tournament|Group Stage|2nd|2|1|0|1|3|1|
|1986 Rous Cup|**Champions** 1 Match|1st|1|1|0|0|2|1|
|1987 Rous Cup|Group Stage|2nd|2|0|2|0|1|1|
|1988 Rous Cup|**Champions** Group Stage|1st|2|1|1|0|2|1|
|1989 Rous Cup|**Champions** Group Stage|1st|2|1|1|0|2|0|
|1991 England Challenge Cup|**Champions** Group Stage|1st|2|1|1|0|5|3|
|1993 U.S. Cup|Group Stage|4th|3|0|1|2|2|5|
|1995 Umbro Cup|Group Stage|2nd|3|1|1|1|6|7|
|1997 Tournoi de France|**Champions** Group Stage|1st|3|2|0|1|3|1|
|1998 King Hassan II International Cup Tournament|Group Stage|2nd|2|1|1|0|1|0|
|2004 FA Summer Tournament|**Champions** Group Stage|1st|2|1|1|0|7|2|
|**Total**||**6 Titles**|55|25|17|13|74|47|
- _*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks._

## Related pages

- England women's national football team

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: England
- **badge**: Arms of The Football Association (include star).svg
- **badge size**: 170px
- **fifa trigramme**: ENG
- **nickname**: _The Three Lions_
- **association**: The Football Association
- **confederation**: UEFA (America)
- **coach**: Thomas Tuchel
- **most caps**: Peter Shilton (125)
- **captain**: Harry Kane
- **top scorer**: Harry Kane (73)
- **home stadium**: Wembley Stadium
- **fifa rank**: 4th
- **fifa max**: 3
- **fifa max date**: August 2012
- **fifa min**: 27
- **fifa min date**: February 1996
- **elo max**: 1
- **elo max date**: 1872–1876, 1892–1911,
1966–1970, 1987–1988
- **elo min**: 17
- **elo min date**: 11 June 1995
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- **first game**: 1872 Scotland vs England football match, 0–0
(Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872)
- **largest win**: 13–0
(Belfast, Ireland; 31 July 1882)
  1–8
(Serravalle (San Marino), Serravalle, San Marino; 15 November 2021)
- **largest loss**: Hungary 7–1 England (1954 association football friendly), 7–1
(Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954)
- **world cup apps**: 15
- **world cup first**: 1950
- **world cup best**: Champions, (1966 FIFA World Cup, 1966)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Football Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 10
- **regional cup first**: UEFA Euro 1968, 1968
- **regional cup best**: Runners-up, (UEFA Euro 2020, 2020, UEFA Euro 2024, 2024)