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Description
	White long-sleeved shirt with crew neck. Embroidered emblem on left breast and red number on back in standard Umbro font. Navy blue shorts and white socks.
Variations	In the 14 matches, beginning with the game against Scotland in 1966, and ending with the game against Scotland in 1967, England wore a font with a slight typographical difference, in that the number one appeared with a flick at the top and a base at the bottom. On the right hip of the shirts worn in the 1966 World Cup there was an ink stamp of the SPORTSWEAR by UMBRO THE CHOICE OF CHAMPIONS logo in navy blue. This may have been worn on all of the subsequent shirts, but often faded. Geoff Hurst wore a shirt without a number on the back when he appeared as a substitute against Sweden.
Most Appearances	56 - Bobby Moore 51- Martin Peters (2 sub) 46 - Alan Ball (2 sub) 49 players were capped for the first time in this shirt, with four going on to win over sixty caps; Peters (with 67), Dave Watson (with 65), Kevin Keegan (with 63) and Emlyn Hughes (with 62). Forty players made their last England appearance in the shirt, including Moore's 108th, Peters' 67th and Ray Wilson's 63rd. 15 England internationals wore only this shirt at full level, with David Nish making all five of his appearances in it.
Top Scorers	18 - Sir Geoff Hurst (4 pens.) 16 - Martin Peters 14 - Sir Bobby Charlton 18 players netted their first England goals in the shirt, with Sir Geoff going on to hit 24 in his international career. Twenty players scored their last England goal in the shirt, including Jimmy Greaves' 44th, against Spain, in 1967. Francis Lee scored ten England goals, all of which were netted whilst wearing this shirt. Eight other players also scored all of their international goals in this shirt, including Jack Charlton, who scored six.
Captains	55 - Bobby Moore 4 - Emlyn Hughes, Martin Peters 3 - Sir Bobby Charlton 2 - Jimmy Armfield 1 - Colin Bell, Alan Mullery
	England's World Cup-winning captain, Bobby Moore won 56 of his 108 caps in this shirt, more than any other player. In all but one of the games, he was captain, relinquishing the role temporarily on the occasion of Sir Bobby Charlton's hundredth cap in 1970. Moore captained his country ninety times overall. Bell, Sir Bobby, Hughes, Mullery and Peters all led out England for the first time, in this shirt, with Hughes going on to be skipper on 19 other occasions. For all but Armfield, Hughes and Moore, this was the only shirt in which they captained England. Armfield returned to the England team to make his last two appearances as captain on the pre-World Cup tour of 1966, having previously led England out on 13 occasions.
This classic plain white, rounded-neck jersey, made by Umbro, was worn with navy blue shorts and white socks from 1965 to the end of the 1973-74 season, through all but the evolution of Alf Ramsey's managerial reign. The player numbers appearing on the shirt's back were red, whilst the socks that accompanied the uniform were a plain white, making the strip simple, yet elegant, and that elegance befitted the players it adorned. Umbro's return to its role as the national team's supplier after a five-year gap, began with them supplying long sleeves for all games, regardless of the conditions. All previous Umbro England shirts had been short-sleeved. Whether it was the thought that the summer weather at the 1966 World Cup would inevitably be very British, or whether there was some other scientific reason, England stuck with long sleeves for the historic tournament, which began in mid-July. This was the furthest into a summer that any World Cup has ever been held. The climate obviously held no problems for England as they went on to lift the Jules Rimet Trophy (although the white shirt yielded to the red in the final match victory against West Germany), and they did not wear short sleeves again until 1970. By 1968, however, Sir Alf Ramsey was raising concerns about the heat and altitude in the next World Cup, and England experimented with a lightweight long-sleeved shirt. The two photos to the right at the top of the page depict the number nine Airtex shirt worn by Sir Bobby Charlton on the 1969 tour of Mexico and South America (from the Neville Evans National Football Shirt Collection, kindly supplied by curator, Simon Shakeshaft). A short-sleeved version of the Airtex shirt was worn with plain white shorts and socks in the first round group matches against Romania and Brazil at the World Cup 1970 final tournament in Mexico, and the Airtex shirts were worn again in 1973 and 1974 on foreign tours. These were England's primary colours during the most successful period in the national side's history, but, regrettably, the strip's last years were marked by a drastic decline in England's fortunes, the failures to qualify for the final tournaments of the European Championship of 1972 and World Cup 1974. This shirt was last worn during Joe Mercer's stint as caretaker-manager in May 1974. With new manager, Don Revie came a brand new strip made by a new manufacturer as the 1974-75 season began. The two shirts top left are (left to right): Bobby Moore's v. Northern Ireland in 1970 (Neville Evans National Football Shirt Collection) and Martin Peters' v. Wales in 1973 (Richard Clarke's Facebook Collection - 'Three Lions - England Match Worn Shirts').

Matches in which England wore the 1965 Home White Uniform Season 1965-66 x Alf Ramsey Friendly match
393	20 October 1965 - England 2 Austria 3 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (65,000)	R.Charlton, Connelly Flögel, Fritsch (2)	HL
Home International Championship
394	10 November 1965 - England 2 Northern Ireland 1 [1-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (71,000)	Baker, Peacock Irvine	HW
Friendly match
397	23 February 1966 - England 1 West Germany 0 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (75,000)	Stiles	HW
	England wore the white home shirt and blue shorts with the 1966 red away socks, against West Germany.
Home International Championship
398	2 April 1966 - Scotland 3 England 4 [1-2] Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow (123,052)	Law, Johnstone (2) Hurst, Hunt (2), R.Charlton	AW
Friendly match
399	4 May 1966 - England 2 Yugoslavia 0 [2-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (54,000)	Greaves, R.Charlton	HW
Pre-World Cup Tour of Scandinavia
400	26 June 1966 - Finland 0 England 3 [0-2] Olympiastadion, Töölö, Helsinki (12,899)	Peters, Hunt, J.Charlton	AW
401	29 June 1966 - Norway 1 England 6 [1-5] Ullevål Stadion, Ullevål, Oslo (29,534)	Sunde Greaves (4), Connelly, Moore	AW
402	3 July 1966 - Denmark 0 England 2 [0-1] Idrætsparken, Inner Østerbro, København (32,000)	J.Charlton, Eastham	AW
World Cup Finals in England
404	11 July 1966 - England 0 Uruguay 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (87,148)		HD
405	16 July 1966 - Mexico 0 England 2 [0-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (92,570)	R.Charlton, Hunt	HW
406	20 July 1966 - France 0 England 2 [0-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (98,270)	Hunt (2)	HW
407	23 July 1966 - England 1 Argentina 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (90,584)	Hurst	HW
	England wore all white; the white home shirt and socks, with the 1966 white away shorts, against Argentina.
408	26 July 1966 - England 2 Portugal 1 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (94,493)	R.Charlton (2) Eusébio (pen)	HW
Season 1966-67
Home International Championship and European Championship preliminary match
410	22 October 1966 - Northern Ireland 0 England 2 [0-1] Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast (47,897)	Hunt, Peters	AW
Friendly match
411	2 November 1966 - England 0 Czechoslovakia 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (75,000)		HD
Home International Championship and European Championship Preliminaries
412	16 November 1966 - England 5 Wales 1 [3-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (75,380)	Hurst (2), R.Charlton, Hennessey OG, J.Charlton W.Davies	HW
		Sir Alf Ramsey
413	15 April 1967 - England 2 Scotland 3 [0-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (99,063)	J.Charlton, Hurst Law, Lennox, McCalliog	HL
Friendly match
414	24 May 1967 - England 2 Spain 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (97,500)	Greaves, Hunt	HW
Season 1967-68
Home International Championship and European Championship Preliminaries
416	21 October 1967 - Wales 0 England 3 [0-1] Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff (44,960)	Peters, R.Charlton, Ball (pen)	AW
417	22 November 1967 - England 2 Northern Ireland 0 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (83,969)	Hurst, R.Charlton	HW
Friendly match
418	6 December 1967 - England 2 USSR 2 [1-2] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (93,000)	Ball, Peters Chislenko (2)	HD
Home International Championship and European Championship preliminary match
419	24 February 1968 - Scotland 1 England 1 [1-1] Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow (134,461)	Hughes Peters	AD
European Championship Quarter-Finals
420	3 April 1968 - England 1 Spain 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (94,586)	R.Charlton	HW
	England wore all white; the white home shirt and socks, with the 1966 white away shorts, against Spain.
421	8 May 1968 - Spain 1 England 2 [0-0] Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Chamartín, Madrid (66,994)	Amancio Peters, Hunter	AW
	England wore all white; a white Airtex home shirt and socks, with the 1966 white away shorts, against Spain.
Friendly match
422	22 May 1968 -  England 3 Sweden 1 [2-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (72,500)	Peters, R.Charlton, Hunt R.Andersson	HW
European Championship Finals in Italy
Notes		England wore Airtex shirts in the following two games.
424	5 June 1968 - Yugoslavia 1 England 0 [0-0] Stadio Comunale di Firenze, Campo di Marte, Firenze (21,834)	Džajić	NL
425	8 June 1968 - England 2 USSR 0 [1-0] Stadio Olimpico, Municipio XV, Roma (68,817)	R.Charlton, Hurst	NW
Season 1968-69
Friendly matches
427	11 December 1968 - England 1 Bulgaria 1 [1-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (80,000)	Hurst Asparuhov	HD
428	15 January 1969 - England 1 Romania 1 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (77,000)	J.Charlton Dumitrache (pen)	HD
429	12 March 1969 - England 5 France 0 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (83,000)	O'Grady, Hurst (3 (2 pens)), Lee	HW
Home International Championship
430	3 May 1969 - Northern Ireland 1 England 3 [0-1] Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast (23,000)	McMordie Peters, Lee, Hurst (pen)	AW
431	7 May 1969 - England 2 Wales 1 [0-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (72,000)	R.Charlton, Lee R.Davies	HW
432	10 May 1969 - England 4 Scotland 1 [2-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (89,902)	Peters (2), Hurst (2 (1 pen)) Stein	HW
Tour of Mexico and South America
Notes		England wore an all-white kit with an Airtex shirt and the 1966 white away shorts in the following three games.
433	1 June 1969 - Mexico 0 England 0 [0-0] Estadio Azteca, Santa Úrsula, ciudad de México (105,000)		AD
434	8 June 1969 - Uruguay 1 England 2 [0-1] Estadio Centenario, Parque Batlle, Montevideo (54,161)	Cubilla Lee, Hurst	AW
435	12 June 1969 - Brazil 2 England 1 [0-1] Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro (135,000)	Tostáo, Jairzinho Bell	AL
Season 1969-70
Friendly matches
436	5 November 1969 - Netherlands 0 England 1 [0-0] Olympisch Stadion, Stadionbuurt, Amsterdam (35,000)	Bell	AW
437	10 December 1969 -  England 1 Portugal 0 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (100,000)	J.Charlton	HW
438	14 January 1970 -  England 0 Netherlands 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (75,000)		HD
Home International Championship
440	18 April 1970 - Wales 1 England 1 [1-0] Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff (50,000)	Krzywicki Lee	AD
441	21 April 1970 - England 3 Northern Ireland 1 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (80,000)	Peters, Hurst, R.Charlton Best	HW
442	25 April 1970 - Scotland 0 England 0 [0-0] Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow (137,438)		AD
Season 1970-71
Friendly match
449	25 November 1970 - England 3 GDR 1 [2-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (93,000)	Lee, Peters, Clarke Vogel	HW
European Championship Preliminaries
450	3 February 1971 - Malta 0 England 1 [0-1] The Stadium, Triq D'Argens, Il-Gzira (29,751)	Peters	AW
451	21 April 1971 - England 3 Greece 0 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (55,123)	Chivers, Hurst, Lee	HW
452	12 May 1971 - England 5 Malta 0 [2-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (41,534)	Chivers (2), Lee, Clarke (pen), Lawler	HW
British Championship
453	15 May 1971 - Northern Ireland 0 England 1 [0-0] Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast (33,000)	Clarke	AW
454	19 May 1971 - England 0 Wales 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (70,000)		HD
455	22 May 1971 - England 3 Scotland 1 [3-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (91,469)	Peters, Chivers (2) Ball OG	HW
Season 1971-72
European Championship Preliminaries
456	13 October 1971 - Switzerland 2 England 3 [2-2] Sankt Jakob Stadium, Sankt Jakob, Basel (47,877)	Jeandupeux, Kunzli Hurst, Chivers, Weibel OG	AW
457	10 November 1971 -  England 1 Switzerland 1 [1-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (90,423)	Summerbee Odermatt	HD
European Championship Quarter-Finals
459	29 April 1972 - England 1 West Germany 3 [0-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (95,000)	Lee Hoeneß, Netzer (pen), Müller	HL
British Championship
461	20 May 1972 - Wales 0 England 3 [0-1] Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff (34,000)	Hughes, Marsh, Bell	AW
462	23 May 1972 - England 0 Northern Ireland 1 [0-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (43,000)	Neill	HL
463	27 May 1972 - Scotland 0 England 1 [0-1] Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow (119,325)	Ball	AW
Season 1972-73
Friendly match
464	11 October 1972 - England 1 Yugoslavia 1 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (50,000)	Royle Vladić	HD
World Cup Preliminaries
465	15 November 1972 - Wales 0 England 1 [0-1] Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff (36,384)	Bell	AW
466	24 January 1973 - England 1 Wales 1 [1-1] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (62,273)	Hunter Toshack	HD
Scottish F.A. Centenary match
467	14 February 1973 - Scotland 0 England 5 [0-3] Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow (48,470)	Lorimer OG, Clarke (2), Channon, Chivers	AW
British Championship
468	12 May 1973 - Northern Ireland 1 England 2 [1-1] Goodison Park, Walton, Liverpool (29,865)	Clements (pen) Chivers (2)	AW
469	15 May 1973 - England 3 Wales 0 [2-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (38,000)	Chivers, Channon, Peters	HW
470	19 May 1973 - England 1 Scotland 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (95,950)	Peters	HW
Season 1973-74
Friendly match
475	26 September 1973 - England 7 Austria 0 [3-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (48,000)	Channon (2), Clarke (2), Chivers, Currie, Bell	HW
World Cup Preliminary match
476	17 October 1973 - England 1 Poland 1 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (100,000)	Clarke (pen) Domarski	HD
Friendly matches
477	14 November 1973 - England 0 Italy 1 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (88,000)	Capello	HL
478	3 April 1974 - Portugal 0 England 0 [0-0] Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Bairro Dona Leonor, Lisboa (12,000)		AD

x	Joe Mercer
British Championship

479	11 May 1974 - Wales 0 England 2 [0-1] Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff (25,734)	Bowles, Keegan	AW
480	15 May 1974 - England 1 Northern Ireland 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (45,500)	Weller	HW
481	18 May 1974 - Scotland 2 England 0 [2-0] Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow (94,487)	Pejic OG, Todd OG	AL
Friendly match
482	22 May 1974 - England 2 Argentina 2 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley, London (68,000)	Channon, Worthington Kempes (2 (1 pen))	HD

 

Other matches in which England wore the 1965 Home Blue Shorts and/or White Socks Season 1968-69 x Sir Alf Ramsey Friendly match
426	6 November 1968 - Romania 0 England 0 [0-0] Stadionul 23 August, Sector 2, Bucureşti (65,000)		AD
	England wore the 1966 red away shirts with the white away shorts, but wore the white home socks, against Romania.

Season 1969-70
Pre-World Cup Tour of South America
443	20 May 1970 - Colombia 0 England 4 [0-2] Estadio Nemesio Camacho, Cundinamarca, Bogotá (35,000)	Peters (2), R.Charlton, Ball	AW
	England wore the 1970 white home shirts and socks, but wore the blue home shorts, against Colombia.

Season 1972-73

Tour of Europe
473	10 June 1973 - USSR 1 England 2 [0-1] Central V.I. Lenin Stadium, Luzhniki, Moskva (80,000)	Muntian (pen) Chivers, Khurtsilava OG	AW
	England wore the 1970 white home shirts and socks, but wore the blue home shorts, against USSR.

Season 1973-74

x	Joe Mercer
Tour of eastern Europe

484	1 June 1974 - Bulgaria 0 England 1 [0-1] Stadion Vasil Levski, Sredets, Sofija (64,000)	Worthington	AW
	England wore the 1970 red away shirt with the white away shorts, but wore the white home socks, against Bulgaria.

485	5 June 1974 - Yugoslavia 2 England 2 [1-1] Stadion Crvena zvezda, Dedinje, Beograd (85,000)	Petković, Oblak Channon, Keegan	AD
	England wore the 1970 white home shirts and socks, but wore the blue home shorts, against Yugoslavia.

The Amateur, Under-23 and Youth (Under-18) teams wore the same design, except that each wore an embroidered scroll below the emblem, within which was displayed, in navy blue, either AMATEUR, INTERMEDIATE (for the Under-23s) or YOUTH (for the Under-18s).

An Under-23 shirt worn by Kevin Keegan in 1972. Note the ink-stamped Umbro marque on the right hip (pictures kindly supplied by Richard Becheley).

Worn by 77 Players
Jimmy Armfield	Jeff Astle	Joe Baker	Alan Ball
Colin Bell	Jeff Blockley	Stan Bowles	Barry Bridges
Sir Trevor Brooking	Tony Brown	Gerry Byrne	Ian Callaghan
Mick Channon	Jack Charlton	Sir Bobby Charlton	Martin Chivers
Allan Clarke	Ralph Coates	George Cohen	John Connelly
Terry Cooper	Tony Currie	Martin Dobson	George Eastham
Ron Flowers	Jimmy Greaves	Colin Harvey	Kevin Hector
John Hollins	Emlyn Hughes	Roger Hunt	Norman Hunter
Sir Geoff Hurst	Mick Jones	Kevin Keegan	Brian Kidd
Cyril Knowles	Brian Labone	Frank Lampard	Chris Lawler
Francis Lee	Alec Lindsay	Larry Lloyd	Malcolm Macdonald
Paul Madeley	Rodney Marsh	Roy McFarland	Bob McNab
Mick Mills	Bobby Moore	Alan Mullery	Keith Newton
David Nish	Mike O'Grady	Peter Osgood	Terry Paine
Alan Peacock	Mike Pejic	Martin Peters	John Radford
Paul Reaney	John Richards	Joe Royle	David Sadler
Tommy Smith	Nobby Stiles	Peter Storey	Ian Storey-Moore
Mike Summerbee	Bobby Tambling	Peter Thompson	Colin Todd
Dave Watson	Keith Weller	Ray Wilson	Frank Worthington
Tommy Wright

England's Record wearing the 1965 Home Shirt
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts %	W/L
Home	42	25	12	5	80	30	+50	6	20	1.905	0.714	73.8	+20
Away	26	19	5	2	51	16	+35	4	15	1.962	0.615	82.7	+17
Neutral	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1	1	1	1.00	0.50	50.0	+1
Total	70	45	17	8	133	47	+86	11	36	1.90	0.671	76.4	+37

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