Match |
Player |
Date |
Opponent |
Venue |
Type |
Res |
Time |
Details |
424 |
Alan
Mullery
(11th appearance, 26yrs 194) |
5 June 1968 - 0-1 vs.
Yugoslavia
Stadio
Communale,
Firenze |
ECF |
NL |
90 |
Retaliatory kick at
Dobrivoje Trivic, despite constant provocation throughout the match. |
472 |
Alan
Ball
(65th appearance, 28yrs 25) |
6 June 1973 - 0-2 vs.
Poland
Stadion
Śląski, Chorzów |
WCP |
AL |
77 |
Grabbed Leslaw Cmikiewicz by the throat,
picking up up from the floor, after he and Martin Peters had
brought him down. |
513 |
Trevor
Cherry
(11th appearance, 29yrs 109) |
12 June 1977 - 1-1 vs.
Argentina
Estadio
La Bombonera,
Buenos Aires |
Fr |
AD |
83 |
Foul tackle from behind; Daniel Bertoni knocked out two teeth in retaliation and also was sent off. |
615 |
Ray
Wilkins
(82nd appearance, 29yrs 265) |
6 June 1986 - 0-0 vs.
Morocco
Estadio
Tecnológico,
Monterrey |
WCF |
ND |
42 |
Straight red - showed disgust at
an offside decision, the ball he threw hit the referee's
feet. |
750 |
David
Beckham
(18th appearance, 23yrs 59) |
30 June 1998 -
2-2 vs.
Argentina
Stade
Geoffroy Guichard,
Saint-Étienne |
WCF |
ND |
47 |
Retaliatory
kick after whistle had blown for foul by Diego Simeone. |
751 |
Paul
Ince
(44th appearance, 30yrs 319) |
5 September 1998 -
1-2 vs.
Sweden
Råsunda Fotbollstadion,
Stockholm |
ECP |
AL |
67 |
Two cautions - two foul tackles, the second a late tackle on Henrik Larsson. |
758 |
Paul
Scholes
(17th appearance, 24yrs 201) |
5 June 1999 -
0-0 vs.
Sweden
Wembley
Stadium,
Wembley |
ECP |
HD |
51 |
Two cautions - two foul tackles |
761 |
David
Batty
(42nd & final app, 30yrs 280) |
8 September 1999 -
0-0 vs.
Poland
Stadion
Wojska
Polskiego, Warszawa |
ECP |
AD |
84 |
Foul
late tackle on
Radoslaw
Michalski |
798 |
Alan
Smith
(6th appearance, 21yrs 353) |
16 October 2002 -
2-2 vs.
Macedonia
Friends
Provident St Mary's Stadium, Southampton |
ECP |
HD |
90+2 |
Two cautions - two foul tackles |
832 |
David
Beckham
(85th appearance, 30yrs 159) |
8 October 2005 -
1-0 vs.
Austria
Old Trafford, Manchester |
WCP |
HW |
59 |
Two cautions - two foul tackles |
842 |
Wayne
Rooney
(33rd appearance, 20yrs 250) |
1 July 2006 -
0-0 vs.
Portugal
Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen |
WCF |
ND |
62 |
Alleged stamp on Ricardo Carvalho |
879 |
Rob
Green
(8th appearance, 29yrs 265) |
10 October 2009 -
0-1 vs.
Ukraine
Stadion Dnepr-Arena, Dnepropetrovsk |
WCP |
AL |
14 |
Professional foul on Artem Milevskiy |
900 |
Wayne
Rooney
(73rd appearance, 25yrs 348) |
7 October 2011 - 2-2 vs.
Montenegro
Stadion Pod Goricam, Podgorica |
ECP |
AD |
74 |
For a
petulant kick out at
Miodrag Dzudović,
after he miscontrols the ball and takes out his frustration |
912 |
Steven
Gerrard
(98th appearance, 32yrs
104) |
11
September 2012 - 1-1 vs. Ukraine
The
National
Stadium,
Wembley |
WCP |
HD |
88 |
Two cautions -
first for jumping for the same
ball, second for a lunge tackle |
930 |
Raheem Sterling
(4th appearance,
19yrs 178) |
4 June 2014 - 2-2 vs.
Ecuador (sub) Sun Life
Stadium, Miami Gardens |
Fr |
ND |
79 |
A bad challenge on Antonio Valencia that also his opponent him being
sent off for retaliation |
1002 |
Kyle Walker
(49th appearance,
30yrs 100) |
5 September 2020 - 1-0 vs.
Iceland Laugardalsvöller,
Reykjavík |
NLP |
AW |
70 |
Two cautions -
first for pushing, the second for a lunge tackle |
1006 |
Harry Maguire
(28th appearance, 27yrs 223) |
14 October 2020 - 0-1 vs.
Denmark
National Stadium, Wembley |
NLP |
HL |
31 |
Two cautions - first for a late tackle, the second for a
dangerous lunge |
Reece James
(3rd appearance, 20yrs 311) |
|
Sent-off after the final whistle for arguing with the
referee |
1034 |
John Stones
(58th appearance,
28yrs 17) |
14 June 2022 - 0-4 vs.
Hungary Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton |
NLP |
HL |
83 |
Two cautions -
first for an innocuous elbow, the
second for getting in the way. |
1043 |
Luke Shaw
(29th appearance,
27yrs 254) |
23 March 2023 -
2-1 vs. Italy
Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Napoli |
ECP |
AW |
80 |
Two cautions - the first for timewasting, the second for a
trip. |
Notes
England did not have a man sent off
until their 424th match in 1968. Three more were dismissed over the next 30
years, and what was truly a magnificent disciplinary record stood at four
dismissals in the 749 matches played through 26 June 1998.
But in England's next 12 matches over a little
more than a year, the total doubled as four more were sent off, one of them the first England player to
be dismissed on home soil. For the first time, England had two men sent off during the
same season--in European Championship qualifying matches against the same
opponent, Sweden. And for the first time England had players sent off in
consecutive seasons, indeed, in three consecutive seasons.
When Paul Scholes committed two yellow
card foul tackles against Sweden in 1999, he became the first England player to
be dismissed on home soil and thus the first at Wembley Stadium.
Scholes was the only England player
sent off in the 223 matches England played at the Empire Stadium. A respite
followed, but it was short. In the second match of England's very next
European Championship qualification campaign, against FYR Macedonia on 16 October
2002, the young yet often-disciplined striker Alan Smith was dismissed for a
second foul tackle, this one coming in time added on at match's end and,
absurdly, after the ball already had crossed the touch line. Smith thus
became the second England player to be sent off on home soil, but this time
at Southampton's new St. Mary's Stadium. Captain David Beckham became
the third player to be sent-off on home soil in October 2005 at Old Trafford, Manchester.
When the young but temperamental Wayne Rooney was sent off during
the 2006 European Championship Finals, it became just the second
time two England players were sent off in one season. Captain Steven Gerrard
became the fourth dismissal at Wembley, the first at the new stadium, September 2012 and the oldest to be
sent-off.
Raheem Sterling became the youngest player to be
sent off when he did so against Ecuador on 4 June 2014. He was 19
years and 179 days old. He was also the only substitute to be sent
off.
Following a respite of over six years,
2020-21 became a record breaking season. The first to see three
players dismissed in one season, and that was only two months in. It
is also the first occasion when two England players were dismissed
in the same match. Although Harry Maguire saw red for two late
tackles at Wembley against Denmark on 14 October,
Reece James was dismissed after the final whistle for arguing with
the referee. His dismissal on his third appearance makes him the
least experienced England player to be dismissed, beating Sterling
by a single appearance.
Luke Shaw is the latest player
dismissed, when he was sent off against Italy on 23 March 2023.
David Batty is the only
player to never play for England again after he was sent-off against
Poland in September 1999.
Eighteen of the
twenty dismissals occurred
in competitive play. Four came in final tournaments, three in the World
Cup, one, the very first, in the European Championships. Fourteen came in qualifying competitions, four in the World Cup,
six in
the European Championship and four in the Nations League. Two more came in a friendly match.
Nine
occurred in matches played in June/July at the end of
the season and three in matches played in September at the beginning of the
season. Four in October. Thirteen
occurred in away matches, only seven at home.
David Beckham and
Wayne Rooney hold the distinction of being dismissed from the field
twice in their England career.
David Beckham
and Steven Gerrard are the only captain's to be sent off.
Of the twenty dismissals, only
three were against South American opposition, two of them Argentina. Another
one each against African opposition. The remaining sixteen were all against
European opposition.
Of the twenty
dismissals, only three came in the first-half.
Following a dismissal, only three matches have ever gone onto to an
England victory. Following Beckham's dismissal at Old Trafford
against Austria in October 2005, England held on to their one-nil
victory. In September 2020, England went onto beat Iceland
following Kyle Walker's dismissal, and against Italy in Naples in
March 2023, England held on to their 2-1 victory. A
further ten matches ended in a draw. Only seven ended in defeat.
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