British Championship and World Cup Preliminary match
281	Saturday, 10 October 1953 - Wales 1 England 4 [1-1] Ninian Park, Cardiff (61,000)	Allchurch Wilshaw (2), Lofthouse (2)	AW

1959 official Peter Walton born 1966 Tony Adams born in Romford

1955 amateur Queen's Park Rangers 2 Great Britain 1 1956 representative FA XI 2 RAF 2 at Hillsborough 1957 England team chosen to play Wales 1959 amateur Great Britain 7 Caribbean Territories 2 1960 England team chosen to play Luxembourg 1977 youth England 3 Hungary 0 in Las Palmas 1978 youth USSR 0 England 1 in Las Palmas  funeral of Alf Strange in Markeaton 1981 UEFA Group 4 Romania 1 Switzerland 2 1984 David Johnson joins Preston North End FC for free 1988 Howard Wilkinson appt as Leeds United FC manager 1989 under 21 Poland 1 England 3 at Jastrzebie-Zdrój 1990 under 16 France 3 England 1 in Sestri 1995 under 21 Norway 2 England 2 at Stavenger 1997 under 21 Italy 0 England 1 at Reiti  Paul Bracewell joins Fulham FC as an assistant

1998 England fail to score against Bulgaria for first time since 1962 UEFA Group 2 Poland 3 Luxembourg 0 Paul Ince banned for three matches by UEFA

European Championship Preliminary match
752	Saturday, 10 October 1998 - England 0 Bulgaria 0 [0-0] Wembley Stadium, Wembley (72,974)		HD

1999 England's first visit to Sunderland under 19 England 9 San Marino 0 in Dagenham

Friendly match
762	Sunday, 10 October 1999 - England 2 Belgium 1 [1-1] Stadium of Light, Sunderland (40,897)	Shearer, Redknapp Strupar	HW

2002 James Trafford (unused) born in Cockermouth

2000 under 21 Finland 2 England 2 at Valkeakoski 2002 under 19 England 2 Yugoslavia 2 in Kidderminster  Howard Wilkinson appointed as Sunderland manager 2003 under 21 Turkey 1 England 0 in İstanbul 2004 under 20 England 1 Netherlands 0 in Huddersfield 2006 under 21 Germany 0 England 2 in Leverkusen 2008 under 21 Wales 2 England 3 at Ninian Park         under 19 Nrthern Ireland 1 England 3 at Windsor Pk

2009 Rob Green becomes the only goalkeeper sent off for England UEFA Group 6 Belarus 4 Kazakhstan 0

World Cup Preliminary match
879	Saturday, 10 October 2009 - Ukraine 1 England 0 [1-0] Stadion Dnepr-Arena, Dnepropetrovsk (31,000)	Nazarenko	AL
		Rob Green

2010 under 19 Cyprus 0 England 4 at Malmedy 2011 under 21 Norway 1 England 2 at Drammen 2013 under 21 San Marino 0 England 4 at Serravalle         under 19 England 1 Slovenia 1 at Ptuj 2014 under 21 England 2 Croatia 1 at Molineux         under 19 England 3 Belarus 0 in Grevenmacher 2015 under 20 Turkey 1 England 2 in Ulm         under 19 Finland 0 England 1 at Skopje 2016 under 20 England 2 United States 0 in Rochdale         under 19 England 2 Bulgaria 1 at Adams Park 2017 under 21 Andorra 0 England 1 at Andorra La Vella         under 20 England 4 Czech Republic 0 at St. George's 2018 C England 1 Estonia U23 0 in Leyton 2019 under 20 Italy 2 England 2 in Parma         under 17 Germany 3 England 3 in San Pedro 2020 under 17 England vs. Scotland at SGP unplayed

Opposition On This Day

1845 official Archibald Rae (Scotland) born 1887 goalkeeper László Domonkos (Hungary) born 1910 Johann Urbanek (Austria) born 1929 Joseph Ujlaki (France) born in Budapest 1943 Reinhard Libuda (West Germnay) born 1963 Dollah Sellah (Malaysia) born 1964 official Ole Borgan (Norway) born 1967 Jacek Zieliński (Poland) born 1968 official Laurent Duhamel (France) born in Rouen & Marinos Ouzounidis (Greece) born 1972 Ricardo Sa Pinto (Portugal) born 1974 Julio Cruz (Argentina) born 1977 Sanel Kuljić (Austria) born 1978 George Mallia (Malta) born 1980 official Sergejus Slyva (Lithuania) born in Kaunas 1981 Francisco Rodríguez (Mexico) born 1984 official Jan Seidel (Germany) born in Oberkrämer & Márcio Vieira (Andorra) born 1986 Vadim Demidov (Norway) & Dmitry Verkhovtsov (Belarus) born 1987 Thomas Enevoldsen (Denmark) born 1990 Rafael Tolói (Italy) born in Brazil 1991 Xerdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) born 1994 Alessandro Golinucci (San Marino) born 1996 Jurgen Degabriele (Malta) born 1998 Alex Martínez (Andorra) born

1945 Edoardo Reja (Albania manager) born 1954 Fernando Santos (Portugal manager) born

  

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