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This is the full list of all 91 England opponents in order of first match played (and last match played)

1872-79
Scotland P 114 H 57 A 57 N 0
 30 November 1872 - 10 June 2017		        
Wales P 102 H 50 A 51 N 1
18 January 1879 - 16 June 2016		        

 

1882
Ireland P 61 H 30 A 31 N 0
18 February 1882 - 11 November 1953		        

 

1908
Austria P 18 H 6 A 11 N 1
6 June 1908 - 16 November 2007		  

Hungary P 22 H 10 A 11 N 1
10 June 1908 - 11 August 2010
Bohemia P 1 H 0 A 1 N 0
13 June 1908		        

 

1921-39

Belgium P 23 H 6 A 11 N 6
21 May 1921 - 14 July 2018		   France P 31 H 11 A 16 N 4
10 May 1923 - 13 June 2017
Sweden P 25 H 9 A 13 N 3
21 May 1923 - 7 July 2018		   Luxembourg P 9 H 4 A 5 N 0
21 May 1927 - 4 September 1999
Spain P 27 H 12 A 13 N 2
15 May 1929 - 15 October 2018		   Germany P 16 H 7 A 6 N 3
10 May 1930 - 10 November 2017
Italy P 27 H 9 A 12 N 6
13 May 1933 - 27 March 2018		   Switzerland P 26 H 11 A 13 N 2
20 May 1933 - 9 June 2019
Czechoslovakia P 12 H 5 A 5 N 2
16 May 1934 - 25 March 1992		   Netherlands P 22 H 11 A 8 N 3
18 May 1935 - 6 June 2019
Norway P 12 H 5 A 7 N 0
14 May 1937 - 3 September 2014		  

Finland P 11 H 3 A 8 N 0
20 May 1937 - 24 March 2001
Rest of Europe P 1 H 1 A 0 N 0
26 October 1938		   Yugoslavia P 14 H 7 A 6 N 1
18 May 1939 - 13 December 1989
Romania P 11 H 4 A 4 N 3
24 May 1939 - 20 June 2000		        

 

1946-59
Ireland, Republic of P 16 Ab 1 H 7 A 7 N 2
30 September 1946 - 7 June 2015		   Portugal P 23 H 10 A 9 N 4
25 May 1947 - 2 June 2016

Denmark P 20 H 8 A 10 N 2
26 September 1948 - 8 September 2020		   Chile P 6 H 3 A 2 N 1
25 June 1950 - 15 November 2013
USA P 11 H 3 A 6 N 2
29 June 1950 - 15 November 2018		  

Argentina P 14 H 6 A 2 N 6
9 May 1951 - 12 November 2005
Uruguay P 11 H 5 A 4 N 2
31 May 1953 - 19 June 2014		   Rest of the World P 2 H 2 A 0 N 0
21 October 1953 - 23 October 1963
Ireland, Northern P 37 H 19 A 18 N 0
2 October 1954 - 7 September 2005		   Germany, West (FDR) P 16 H 6 A 6 N 4
1 December 1954 - 4 July 1990
Brazil P 26 H 12 A 6 N 8
9 May 1956 - 14 November 2017		   USSR P 11 H 4 A 3 N 4
18 May 1958 - 21 May 1991
Peru P 3 H 1 A 2 N 0
17 May 1959 - 30 May 2014		   Mexico P 9 H 5 A 3 N 1
24 May 1959 - 24 May 2010

 

1962-66
Bulgaria P 12 H 6 A 5 N 1
7 June 1962 - 14 October 2019		   GDR (East Germany) P 4 H 2 A 2 N 0
2 June 1963 - 12 September 1984
Poland P 19 H 9 A 9 N 1
5 January 1966 - 15 October 2013		        

 

1970-75
Colombia P 6 H 2 A 1 N 3
20 May 1970 - 3 July 2018		   Ecuador P 3 H 0 A 1 N 2
24 May 1970 - 4 June 2014
Malta P 5 H 2 A 3 N 0
3 February 1971 - 1 September 2017		  

Greece P 9 H 5 A 4 N 0
21 April 1971 - 16 August 2006
Cyprus P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
16 April 1975 - 11 May 1975		        

 

1980-89
Australia P 7 H 2 A 5 N 0
31 May 1980 - 27 May 2016		   Iceland P 4 H 1 A 2 N 1
2 June 1982 - 5 September 2020
Kuwait P 1 H 0 A 0 N 1
25 June 1982		   Turkey P 11 H 6 A 5 N 0
14 November 1984 - 22 May 2016
Egypt P 3 H 1 A 1 N 1
29 January 1986 - 3 March 2010		   Israel P 4 H 1 A 3 N 0
26 February 1986 - 8 September 2007
Canada P 1 H 0 A 1 N 0
24 May 1986		   Morocco P 2 H 0 A 1 N 1
6 June 1986 - 27 May 1998
Paraguay P 3 H 1 A 0 N 2
18 June 1986 - 10 June 2006		   Saudi Arabia P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
16 November 1988 - 23 May 1998
Albania P 4 H 2 A 2 N 0
8 March 1989 - 5 September 2001		        

 

1990-98
Tunisia P 3 H 0 A 1 N 2
2 June 1990 - 18 June 2018		   Cameroon P 4 H 2 A 0 N 2
1 July 1990 - 26 May 2002
New Zealand P 2 H 0 A 2 N 0
3 June 1991 - 8 June 1991		   Malaysia P 1 H 0 A 1 N 0
12 June 1991
CIS P 1 H 0 A 1 N 0
29 April 1992		 San Marino P 6 H 3 A 3 N 0
17 February 1993 - 5 September 2015
Nigeria P 3 H 2 A 0 N 1
16 November 1994 - 2 June 2018		   Japan P 3 H 2 A 0 N 1
2 June 1995 - 30 May 2010
Croatia P 10 H 5 A 3 N 2
24 April 1996 - 18 November 2018		   China P 1 H 0 A 1 N 0
23 May 1996
Moldova P 4 H 2 A 2 N 0
1 September 1996 - 6 September 2013		   Georgia P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
9 November 1996 - 30 April 1997
South Africa P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
24 May 1997 - 22 May 2003		   Czech Republic P 4 H 3 A 1 N 0
18 November 1998 - 11 October 2019

 

2000-09
Ukraine P 7 H 4 A 3 N 0
31 May 2000 - 10 September 2013		   Korean Republic (South) P 1 H 0 A 1 N 0
21 May 2002
Slovakia P 6 H 3 A 2 N 1
12 October 2002 - 4 September 2017		   Macedonia FYR P 4 H 2 A 2 N 0
16 October 2002 - 7 October 2006
Liechtenstein P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
29 March 2003 - 10 September 2003		   Serbia and Montenegro P 1 H 1 A 0 N 0
3 June 2003
Azerbaijan P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
13 October 2004 - 30 March 2005		   Jamaica P 1 H 1 A 0 N 0
3 June 2006
Trinidad & Tobago P 3 H 0 A 1 N 2
15 June 2006 - 1 June 2008		   Andorra P 4 H 2 A 2 N 0
2 September 2006 - 10 June 2009
Estonia P 4 H 2 A 2 N 0
6 June 2007 - 9 October 2015		   Russia P 3 H 1 A 1 N 1
12 September 2007 - 11 June 2016
Kazakhstan P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
11 October 2008 - 6 June 2009		   Belarus P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
15 October 2008 - 14 October 2009
Slovenia P 6 H 3 A 2 N 1
5 September 2009 - 5 October 2017		        

 

2010-19
Algeria P 1 H 0 A 0 N 1
18 June 2010		   Montenegro P 6 H 3 A 3 N 0
12 October 2010 - 14 November 2019
Ghana P 1 H 1 A 0 N 0
29 March 2011		   Honduras P 1 H 0 A 0 N 1
7 June 2014
Costa Rica P 2 H 1 A 0 N 1
24 June 2014 - 7 June 2018		   Lithuania P 4 H 2 A 2 N 0
27 March 2015 - 8 October 2017
Panama P 1 H 0 A 0 N 1
21 June 2018		   Kosovo P 2 H 1 A 1 N 0
10 September 2019 - 17 November 2019

 

 

Not yet played...
this is a list of FIFA-affiliated countries that England have yet to play, in order of highest ranked, as of October 2019.
Top 50 - Senegal (20), Venezuela (26), Iran (27), Serbia (33), Bosnia & Herzegovina (48).
 51 to 100 - Congo DR, Côte d'Ivoire, Qatar, Mali, Burkina Faso, United Arab Emirates, El Salvador, Iraq, Bolivia, Curaçao, Cape Verde Islands, Guinea, Uganda, Zambia, Benin, Syria, Oman, Uzbekistan, Gabon, Haiti, Lebanon, Congo, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Vietnam, Jordan, Armenia, Palestine.
101-210 - Bahrain, Libya, Mauritania, India, Niger, Kenya, Thailand, Faroe Islands, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Korea DPR, Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Togo, Philippines, Antigua & Barbudas, Sudan, Rwanda, Chinese Taipei, Guatemala, Turkmenistan, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Nicaragua, Lesotho, St. Kitts & Nevis, Solomon Islands, Yemen, Comoros, Latvia, Burundi, Hong Kong, Botswana, Myanmar, Eswatini, Afghanistan, Suriname, Ethiopia, Liberia, Dominican Republic, Maldives, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Singapore, Barbados, Grenada, South Sudan, Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Gambia, Nepal, Belize, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Bermuda, Indonesia, Cambodia, Mauritius, Guyana, Chad, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, São Tomé e Príncipe, Macau, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Mongolia, Dominica,  Laos, Bhutan, Montserret, Brunei Darussalam, American Samoa, Cayman Islands, Samoa, Aruba, Guam, Gibraltar, Somalia, Timor-Leste, Seychelles, Bahamas, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Turks and Caicos Islands, Eritrea, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla.

 

Total first match - 30 November 1872
first win - 8 March 1873
first loss - 7 March 1874		  

P 1003 W 571 D 243 L 189 F 2200 A 983 - 68.9% +382