This list
contains the results of matches not accorded status as official internationals.
It includes wartime and victory internationals as well as other matches regarded
as less than full internationals for a variety of reasons, among them the status
of the team representing England and of the opposing team. We will add
more matches to this list when we finish our research.
* Although the half-time break was introduced
on 23 February 1870, the teams only changed ends if no goal had been
scored in the first 45 minutes. This rule existed up until 1876, when
the half-time interval was introduced.
|
Before The
First Official International |
|
x |
Charlie Alcock |
|
Friendlies |
|
1 |
5 March 1870 - England 1 Scotland 1
[0-0]
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(500-600) |
Baker
Crawford |
HD |
|
2 |
19 November 1870 -
England 1 Scotland 0*
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval,
Kennington
(650) |
Walker |
HW |
|
3 |
25 February
1871 -
England 1 Scotland 1* The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(500-600+) |
Walker
Nepean |
HD |
|
4 |
18 November 1871
- England 2 Scotland 1*
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval,
Kennington
(650+) |
Walker
(2)
Renny-Tailyour |
HW |
|
5 |
24 February 1872 -
England 1 Scotland
0* The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(650+) |
C.Clegg |
HW |
|
Season 1891-92 |
|
x |
International Selection Committee
(The F.A.) |
|
6 |
19 December 1891- England 6 Canada 1
[3-0] The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(n/k) |
|
HW |
|
Season 1901-02 |
|
x |
|
|
British Championship
- downgraded to unofficial |
|
7 |
5 April 1902
- Scotland 1 England 1
[1-1]
Ibrox
Park, Glasgow
(100,000) |
|
AD |
|
Wartime Internationals (WWI) |
|
x |
|
|
Victory
Internationals |
|
- |
26 April 1919
- England 2 Scotland 2
[1-2]
Goodison Park, Liverpool
(45,000) |
|
HD |
|
- |
3 May 1919
- Scotland 3 England 4
[0-3]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(80,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
11 October 1919
- Wales 2 England 1
[1-0]
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff
(20,000) |
|
AL |
|
- |
18 October 1919
- England 2 Wales 0
[n/k]
Victoria
Ground, Stoke-on-Trent
(16,000) |
|
HW |
|
Season 1933-34 |
|
x |
|
|
Trials |
|
- |
21 March 1934
- England 1 Rest of England 7
[n/k]
Roker Park, Sunderland
(n/k) |
|
HL |
|
Season 1934-35 |
|
- |
27 March 1935
- England 2 Rest of England 2
[2-1]
Hawthorns, West Bromwich
(12,846) |
|
HD |
|
Season 1935-36 |
|
x |
|
|
King George V Jubilee Fund |
|
- |
21 August 1935
- Scotland 4 England 2
[3-0]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(56,316) |
|
AL |
|
|
This match was
organized to raise funds for Glasgow’s contribution to the King George V
Jubilee Fund. James, England v. Scotland, pp. 154-55;
Rollin, Rothmans
Book of Football Records, p. 313; Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of Europe,
vol. 1, p. 181. |
|
Wartime Internationals (WWII) |
|
x |
|
|
War-time Internationals |
|
- |
11 November 1939
- Wales 1 England 1
[1-0]
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff
(28,000) |
|
AD |
|
- |
18 November 1939
- Wales 2 England 3
[0-0]
Racecourse Ground, Mold Road, Wrexham
(17,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
2 December 1939
- England 2 Scotland 1
[1-1]
St.
James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(15,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
13 April 1940
- England 0 Wales 1
[0-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(40,000) |
|
HL |
|
- |
11 May 1940
- Scotland 1 England 1
[0-0]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(75,000) |
|
AD |
|
- |
8 February 1941
- England 2 Scotland 3
[2-2]
St.
James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(25,000) |
|
HL |
|
- |
26 April 1941
- England 4 Wales 1
[2-0]
City Ground, Nottingham
(13,016) |
|
HW |
|
|
Bryan
Horsnell & Douglas Lamming, Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World
Wars, pp. 32, 48 (1995), has this match played 26 April 1941, a
Saturday, and reproduces a programme cover for the match bearing that date. Unless the
programme's date was a typographical error, this must be regarded as authoritative.
However, other sources, perhaps themselves reproducing a typographical error, put the date
as 16 April 1941, a Wednesday. Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of Europe, vol.
1, p. 183; Rollin, Rothmans Book of Football Records, p. 282;
Michael
Robinson & Gareth Davies, Soccer: The International Line-ups &
Statistics Series—Wales 1876-1960, p. 36 (1995). |
|
- |
3 May 1941
- Scotland 1 England 3
[1-1]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(78,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
7 June 1941
- Wales 2 England 3
[1-2]
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff
(20,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
4 October 1941
- England 2 Scotland 0
[2-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(65,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
25 October 1941
- England 2 Wales 1
[2-0]
St.
Andrew's Ground, Birmingham
(25,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
17 January 1942
- England 3 Scotland 0
[1-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(64,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
18 April 1942
- Scotland 5 England 4
[2-1]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(91,000) |
|
AL |
|
|
Horsnell &
Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars,
p. 48, has the attendance as 75,000, but Hockings & Radnedge,
Nations of Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, puts it at 91,000.
|
|
- |
9 May 1942
- Wales 1 England 0
[1-0]
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff
(30,000) |
|
AL |
|
- |
10 October 1942
- England 0 Scotland 0
[0-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(75,000) |
|
HD |
|
- |
24 October 1942
- England 1 Wales 2
[1-1]
Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton
(25,097) |
|
HL |
|
- |
27 February 1943
- England 5 Wales 3
[3-2]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(75,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
17 April 1943
- Scotland 0 England 4
[0-2]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(105,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
8 May 1943
- Wales 1 England 1
[1-0]
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff
(25,000) |
|
AD |
|
- |
25 September 1943
- England 8 Wales 3
[4-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(80,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
16 October 1943
- England 8 Scotland 0
[5-0]
Maine
Road, Manchester
(60,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
19 February 1944
- England 6 Scotland 2
[1-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(80,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
22 April 1944
- Scotland 2 England 3
[1-3]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(133,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
6 May 1944
- Wales 0 England 2
[0-1]
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff
(50,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
16 September 1944
- England 2 Wales 2
[2-2]
Anfield
Road, Liverpool
(38,483) |
|
HD |
|
- |
14 October 1944
- England 6 Scotland 2
[0-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(90,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
3 February 1945
- England 3 Scotland 2
[1-1]
Villa
Park, Birmingham
(65,780) |
|
HW |
|
|
Horsnell & Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, p. 49,
puts the attendance at 64,000, but Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of
Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, states it was 65,780.
|
|
- |
14 April 1945
- Scotland 1 England 6
[1-1]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(133,000) |
|
AW |
|
- |
5 May 1945
- Wales 2 England 3
[1-1]
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff
(25,000) |
|
AW |
|
x |
|
|
Victory Internationals |
|
- |
26 May 1945
- England 2 France 2
[1-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(65,000) |
|
HD |
|
|
Horsnell & Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, p. 49,
states the attendance as 60,000, while Hockings & Radnedge, Nations
of Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, has it as 65,000.
|
|
- |
15 September 1945
- Ireland 0 England 1
[0-0]
Windsor
Park, Belfast
(45,061) |
|
HD |
|
- |
20 October 1945
- England 0 Wales 1
[0-1]
Hawthorns, West Bromwich
(54,611) |
|
HL |
|
|
Horsnell & Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, p. 49,
puts the attendance at 56,000, but Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of
Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, states it as 54,611.
|
|
- |
19 January 1946
- England 2 Belgium 0
[2-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
(85,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
13 April 1946
- Scotland 1 England 0
[0-0]
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow
(139,468) |
|
AL |
|
x |
|
|
Burnden Park Disaster Fund |
|
- |
24 April 1946
- England 2 Scotland 2
[2-1]
Maine
Road, Manchester
(70,000) |
|
HD |
|
|
This match was
organized to raise relief funds for the victims of the Burnden Park disaster of March 9,
1946, in which 33 died and more than 500 were injured when crush barriers collapsed at a
second round F.A. Cup match between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City.
Rollin, Rothmans Book of Football Records, p. 313; Hockings &
Radnedge, Nations of Europe, vol. 1, p. 184; see
Nawrat &
Hutchings, The Sunday Times Illustrated History of Football, p. 70. |
|
x |
|
|
Victory Internationals |
|
- |
11 May 1946
- England 4 Switzerland 1
[0-0]
Stamford Bridge, Chelsea, London
(75,000) |
|
HW |
|
- |
19 May 1946
- France 2 England 1
[0-0]
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir,
Colombes, Paris
(58,481) |
|
AL |
|
Season
1950-51 |
|
x |
Walter Winterbottom |
|
F.A. Charity Shield |
|
- |
20 September 1950
- England 4 Canada 2
[n/k]
Stamford Bridge, Chelsea, London
(75,000) |
|
HW |
|
Season 1961-62 |
|
- |
12 August 1961
- Tottenham Hotspur FC 3 England 2
[n/k] White Hart Lane, London
(n/k) |
|
AL |
|
Season
1975-76 |
|
x |
Don Revie |
|
USA Bicentennial Cup |
|
- |
31 May 1976
-
Team America 1
England 3
[0-2]
John F.
Kennedy Stadium,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(16,239) |
|
AW |
|
|
This was a
U.S.A. Bicentennial Tournament match, commemorating the 200th anniversary of
the U.S.A.’s Declaration of Independence. Team America’s players were drawn
from North American Soccer League clubs and included players, like Pele, Mike England
and Bobby Moore, who had performed for other national teams. Consequently, Team
America’s tournament matches were not regarded as official internationals. |
|
Friendlies |
|
- |
10 June 1976 -
England 8 Uxbridge FC 0 [n/k]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London
(probaly behind closed doors) |
|
HW |
|
Season 1985-86 |
|
x |
Bobby
Robson |
|
|
|
- |
14 May 1986 -
Korea Republic 1
England 4
[0-2]
Fountain Valley School Field, Denver, USA
(n/k) |
|
NW |
|
- |
28 May 1986 -
Monterrey FC 1
England 4
[n/k]
n/k
(n/k) |
|
AW |
|
Season 1986-87 |
|
x |
|
|
The Valley Parade Disaster Fund |
|
- |
14 December 1986 -
Bradford City
FC 2
England 1
[n/k]
Valley Parade, Bradford
(n/k) |
|
AL |
|
Season 1987-88 |
|
x |
|
|
Friendlies |
|
- |
4 June 1988 -
Aylesbury United FC 0
England 7
[n/k]
The Stadium, Buckingham Road, Aylesbury
(6,031) |
Beardsley (4), plus three others |
AW |
|
Season 1993-94 |
|
x |
Terry
Venables |
|
|
|
- |
26 May
1996 -
Hong Kong Golden Select
XI 0
England 1
[0-1]
Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong
(26,000) |
|
AW |
|
Season 1997-98 |
|
x |
Glenn
Hoddle |
|
|
|
- |
9 June
1998 -
Caen XI 0
England 1
[0-0]
Stade
Michel d'Ornano, Caen
(200) |
|
AW |
|
|
This World Cup
1998 warm-up match was held behind closed doors. The Football Association
and the small French second division club which summoned a local selection
to serve as England’s opposition invited 200 local dignitaries to attend.
|
|
Season 2009-10 |
|
x |
Fabio
Capello |
|
|
|
- |
7 June
2010 -
Platinum Stars
0 England
3 [0-1]
Moruleng Stadium, Lesetlheng,
NW Province, South Africa
(10,000) |
Defoe, J.Cole, Rooney |
AW |
|
|
Edworthy, Niall, England: The Official F.A.
History, pp. 16, 18, 176-82 (Virgin
Books, London, 1997)
Farror, Morley & Douglas Lamming, A
Century of English International Football 1872-1972, pp. 9-11, 13-14, 24,
238-40 (Robert Hale & Company, London, 1972)
The Football Association, The Official FA
and England Yearbook 1998-99, pp. 91-92
(Pan Books, Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, 1998)
Hockings, Ron & Keir Radnedge, Nations
of Europe, vol. 1, pp. 174-201
(Articulate, Ernsworth, Hampshire, U.K., 1993)
Horsnell, Bryan & Douglas Lamming, Forgotten
Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, pp. 11, 48-49
(Yore Publications, Harefield, Middlesex, 1995)
James, Brian, England v Scotland, pp. 74-76, 87-89,
113-15, 154-55, 160-87 (Sportsmans Book Club
edition, Readers Union Limited, London, 1970, originally published by Pelham
Books, 1969)
Mitchell, Andy, First Elevens: The Birth of
International Football, pp. 16-59 (Andy Mitchell Media,
Scotland, 2012)
Nawrat, Chris & Steve Hutchings, The
Sunday Times Illustrated History of Football, pp. 13, 70
(1998 ed., Hamlyn, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., London, 1998)
Oliver, Guy, The Guinness Book of World
Soccer: The History of the Game in Over 150 Countries, pp. 275-86
(2nd ed., Guinness Publishing Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1995)
Payne, Mike, England: The Complete Post-War
Record, p. 240 (Breedon Books Publishing
Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Robinson, Michael & Gareth Davies, Soccer:
The International Line-ups & Statistics Series—Wales 1876-1960, pp.
36-39 (Soccer Book Publishing Ltd.,
Cleethorpes, South Humberside, England, 1995)
Rollin, Jack, Rothmans Book of Football
Records, pp. 275-76, 281-83, 313
(Headline Book Publishing, London, 1998)
Reports from the London Daily Telegraph and
London Times of May 27, 1996
Reports from Agence France Presse and Reuters
datelined June 9, 1998
Reports from The Independent, London Daily
Telegraph and London Times of June 10, 1998
Warsop, Keith, ed., British and Irish Special and
Intermediate Internationals (SoccerData, Nottingham, U.K., 2002)
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