England women's national football team

The **England women's national football team**, nicknamed **The Lionesses** are the national senior team for the England set up in international football. They are the current Europen champions and have won both the 2022 and 2025 championships. The team has qualified for six World Cups: 1995, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023.

The team has done well. In the 32 games played so far, they've won 26, drawn 5 and lost 1. The team has scored 138 goals and give up only 12. England are currently ranked Number 4 in the world.

### Major

- **FIFA World Cup**
    - **Third place:** 2015

- **UEFA Women's European Championship**
    - **Champions:** 2022, 2025
    - **Runners-up:** 1984, 2009

- **CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions**
    - **Champions:** 2023

### Minor

- **Pony Home Championship**
    - **Champions:** 1976
- **Mundialito**
    - **Champions:** 1985, 1988
- **Cyprus Cup**
    - **Champions:** 2009, 2013, 2015
- **SheBelieves Cup**
    - **Champions:** 2019
- **Arnold Clark Cup**
    - **Champions:** 2022, 2023

### Current squad

The following 23 players were named to the squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in July 2023.

_Caps and goals are correct as of match played 1 July 2023 against ._

### Most capped players

|#|Name|England career|Caps|Goals|scope=col class=unsortable|Ref||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"||2001–2019|172|40|||
|2|align="left"||2006–2022|161|27|||
|3|align="left"||2005–2019|144|32|||
|4|align="left"||2004–2017|140|12|||
|5|align="left"||2000–2018|130|6|||
|6|align="left"||1997–2013|129|19|||
|7|align="left"|**Steph Houghton**|2007–|121|13|||
|rowspan=1|8|align="left"|**Lucy Bronze**|2013–|130|16||
|9|align="left"||1981–2000|119|30|||
|10|align="left"||1995–2014|117|46|||

### Top goalscorers

|#|Name|England career|Goals|Caps|Average|scope=col class=unsortable|Ref|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Ellen White|2010–2022|52|113|||||
|2|align="left"||1995–2015|46|117|||||
|3|align="left"||1982–1998|44|82|||||
|rowspan="2"|4|align="left"||1988–2003|rowspan=2|40|83|||
|align="left"||2001–2019|172|||||||
|6|align="left"||1983–1998|35|66|||||
|7|align="left"||2004–2017|33|102|||||
|rowspan=2|8|align="left"|****|2018–|32|54||||
|align="left"||2005–2019|32|144||||||
|10|align="left"||1981–2000|30|119|||||

## Related pages

- England men's national football team

## Other websites

- Official site
- Euro2005.net's look on the team
- femaleSOCCER.net's England Women page
- Umbro England Women's Kit Manufacturer
- 'Three Lions on her Shirt' - new book on the England women's team
- englandfc.com - past results
- England's 2023 World Cup Squad. BBC Sport.

## Infobox (national football team)

- **type**: women
- **name**: England
- **badge**: Arms of The Football Association.svg
- **badge size**: 170px
- **nickname**: The Lionesses
- **association**: The Football Association (The FA)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **coach**: Sarina Wiegman
- **captain**: Leah Williamson
Millie Bright (interim)
- **most caps**: Fara Williams (172)
- **top scorer**: Ellen White (footballer), Ellen White (List of international goals scored by Ellen White, 52)
- **fifa trigramme**: ENG
- **fifa max**: 2
- **fifa max date**: March 2018
- **fifa min**: 14
- **fifa min date**: June 2004 – September 2005
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- **first game**: 2–3
(Greenock, Scotland; 18 November 1972)
- **largest win**: England 20–0 Latvia, 20–0
(Doncaster, England; 30 November 2021)
- **largest loss**: 8–0
(Moss, Norway; 4 June 2000)
- **world cup apps**: 6
- **world cup first**: 1995
- **world cup best**: Third place (2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2015)
- **regional name**: UEFA Women's Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 9
- **regional cup first**: 1984 UEFA Women's Championship, 1984
- **regional cup best**: **Champions** (UEFA Women's Euro 2022, 2022)
- **2ndregional name**: Women's Finalissima
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 1
- **2ndregional cup first**: 2023 Women's Finalissima, 2023
- **2ndregional cup best**: **Champions** (2023 Women's Finalissima, 2023)
- **3rdregional cup apps**: 1 (first in 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League, 2023-24 season)
- **3rdregional name**: UEFA Women's Nations League, Women's Nations League