Since the inaugural international match in 1872, the England national football team has represented England in international football. It is governed by The Football Association (FA), England’s regulatory organization for football, which is connected with UEFA and is under the worldwide authority of FIFA, the world football’s governing body. [3] [4] The FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, and the UEFA Nations League are the three major international competitions in which England competes.
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England is the football world’s second-oldest national team. It took part in the world’s first international football match, against Scotland, in 1872. England’s home stadium is Wembley Stadium in London, and their training facility is St George’s Park in Burton upon Trent. Gareth Southgate is the team’s manager.
England is one of just eight countries that have won a World Cup. [5] England has reached the World Cup 16 times. It won the World Cup Final in 1966, which it also hosted, and finished fourth in 1990 and 2018. England has never won the European Championship, with a best finish of runner-up in 2020. England, as a constituent country of the United Kingdom, is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and thus does not participate in Olympic Games. England is the only team to have won the World Cup at the senior level but not their major continental title, and the only non-sovereign entity to have done so.
Early Years
The England national football team is the world’s joint-oldest, having been created at the same time as Scotland. On March 5, 1870, the Football Association organized a representative match between England and Scotland. [6] On November 30, 1872, officials from Scottish football teams organized a rematch. This match, held at Hamilton Crescent in Scotland, is regarded as the first official international football match since the two sides were recruited and handled individually, rather than by a single football organisation. [7] Over the next 40 years, England competed in the British Home Championship exclusively with the other three Home Nations—Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
England did not have a permanent home stadium at initially. They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first games against non-Home Nations teams during a trip of Central Europe in 1908. [8] Wembley Stadium, their home field, built in 1923. [8] As the relationship between England and FIFA deteriorated, they withdrew from FIFA in 1928, only to return in 1946. [9] As a result, they did not compete in a World Cup until 1950, when they were defeated 1-0 by the United States, failing to advance past the first round in one of the team’s most humiliating defeats. [10]
On September 21, 1949, at Goodison Park, they suffered their first home defeat to a foreign team, a 2-0 setback to Ireland. [11] Their second defeat at Wembley came in 1953, when they were defeated 6-3 by Hungary. [12] Hungary won the rematch 7-1 in Budapest. This is England’s biggest defeat in history. “It was like playing men from outer space,” a perplexed Syd Owen stated after the game. [13] England reached the quarter-finals of the 1954 FIFA World Cup for the first time, losing 4-2 to reigning champions Uruguay. [14]
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