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England's Record
by Type of Match

 

 

England's Record by Type of Match

Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
World Cup 196 116 49 31 418 138 +280 37 102 2.133 0.704 71.7 +85
European Championship 154 94 39 21 331 105 +226 23 88 2.149 0.682 73.7 +73
Nations League 18 5 6 7 18 22 -4 9 8 1.00 1.222 44.4 -2
British Championship 266 161 56 49 661 282 +379 30 90 2.485 1.06 71.1 +112
Minor Tournament 31 11 10 10 40 35 +5 9 9 1.29 1.129 51.6 +1
Friendly 400 226 96 78 886 445 +441 68 135 2.215 1.113 68.5 +148

England's Record by Type of Match and Venue
  Home Matches Away Matches Neutral Venue
Type P W D L F A P W D L F A P W D L F A
World Cup 66 52 12 2 181 33 65 38 17 10 147 42 65 26 20 19 90 63
European Championship 69 49 15 5 172 31 62 38 16 8 127 47 23 8 7 8 32 27
Nations League 8 3 2 3 12 12 8 2 3 3 5 7 2 0 1 1 1 3
British Championship 135 88 23 24 370 145 131 73 33 25 291 137 - - - - - -
Minor Tournament 12 5 6 1 23 15 8 3 1 4 5 9 11 3 3 5 12 11
Friendly 189 115 45 29 404 181 202 106 48 48 465 252 9 5 3 1 17 11

Notes

The six British Championship matches for 1949-50 and 1953-54 doubled as qualifying matches for the World Cup final tournaments of 1950 and 1954.  The six British Championship matches for 1966-67 and 1967-68 also served as qualifying matches for the European Championship final tournament of 1968.  The numbers for 12 British Championship matches are thus duplicated within the World Cup and European Championship numbers.  For that reason, addition of the home and away column numbers in the tables results in double counting of these 12 matches and produces sums that are greater than the actual overall numbers, and therefore omitted.

The friendly away match of 17 May 1953 against Argentina, abandoned midway through the first half because of torrential rain with both teams scoreless, is treated differently.  Although the teams played for only 21 minutes, the football associations of England and Argentina agreed the match would stand as a scoreless draw.  Since the Football Association records list the 1953 Argentina match as a draw, we have bowed to their official status although we believe it would have been more accurate to record it for what it was, an abandonment.  Accordingly, we have recorded the match as a scoreless draw and counted it in making our team record computations. 

The friendly away match of 15 February 1995 against the Republic of Ireland, abandoned after 27 minutes because of crowd violence with the Republic leading 1-0, did not produce an official result.  The Football Association's official website has only recently made mention of the match in its matches list although caps were awarded to England's players.  We have chosen to record it in our matches list because caps were awarded.  Accordingly, we have recorded the match as a scoreless draw and counted it in making our team record computations. 
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