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White short-sleeved shirt,
with striped shadow pattern on front; each stripe split into five
lighter stripes. Remainder of shirt, excluding sleeves, consists of very
thin shadow stripes. Navy-blue winged collar, edged with thin turquoise
stripe and adjacent slightly-thicker white stripe. Small turquoise
inserts on either side of neck, edged with a thin white stripe. Large
navy-blue v-shape beneath neck, split on right-hand side by white stripe
continuing from left, underneath turquoise insert. Embroidered emblem,
with white margin, in centre of chest, with 'UMBRO' in large capitalised
navy-blue lettering above it. Navy-blue number on back in the same
font as previous England shirts, except with a turquoise border.
Navy-blue shorts,
with white drawstring. Large triangle at base of seams, bottom third of
which is a smaller turquoise triangle and the remainder, white. 'UMBRO'
in capitalised white lettering on left thigh. Embroidered emblem on
right thigh.
White socks. Sets
of two concentric navy-blue diamonds across tops, edged with two
turquoise hoops. |
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Variations |
- A long-sleeved
version of the shirt was also worn.
The cuffs were navy blue, with
a thin turquoise stripe near the edge.
- For the games
against Colombia and Norway, the number on the back of the shirt was plain
navy-blue, without a border.
- For the last six
games in which the shirt was worn, a navy-blue number, with a turquoise
border, was worn in the centre of the chest, beneath the emblem, in the same
font as on the back of the shirt.
- For the four games
in the 1996 European Championship final tournament, the player's surname was
printed in capitalised navy-blue lettering, with a turquoise border, above the number on the
back of the shirt (turquoise characters were unused).
- Against Switzerland,
Steve McManaman became the first England international to
have a lower-case character (c) in his name on the shirt.
- In the games against
Scotland, Netherlands and Spain, Gary Neville's shirt also included his first initial
i.e. G. NEVILLE, but not against Switzerland.
- With the exception
of the game with the Netherlands, England had logos sewn onto the upper
sleeves for the 1996 European Championship fixtures. The 'Euro '96'
tournament logo was on the right arm and the UEFA Fair Play logo was on the
left arm.
- A white number, with
a turquoise border, in the same font as on the shirt, was worn on the right
thigh of the shorts, above the emblem, for the last six games in which the
kit was worn.
- For the last six
games in which the kit was worn, there was only a single diamond logo on the
socks.
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Most Appearances |
14 -
Gary Neville, Alan Shearer (1 sub)
13 - Paul Gascoigne
(2 sub), Steve McManaman (3 sub)
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Forty players made at least one
appearance in this shirt.
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16 of them won their first
cap in the shirt, an average of one for each match.
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This was the first England
shirt worn by David Beckham, who went on to become his country's most
capped outfield player, with 115 appearances.
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Gary Neville went on to make
85 international appearances and Sol Campbell notched up 73.
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For nine players, this shirt
was the last that they wore at international level. These included John
Barnes winning his 79th cap, Peter Beardsley's 59th and Mark Wright's
45th.
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David Unsworth won his one
and only cap against Japan in this shirt.
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Top Scorers |
7 -
Alan Shearer (1 Pen.)
4 - Darren Anderton, Teddy
Sheringham
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Shearer's goals were all
scored at Wembley and five of them made him top scorer at the 1996
European Championship final tournament.
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Sheringham scored his first
England goal in this shirt (as did Nick Barmby and Steve Stone) before
going on to net eleven.
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David Platt's 27th and last
England goal was scored in this shirt. Stuart Pearce and Stone also
scored their last international goals in it.
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Captains |
9 - Tony
Adams
5 -
David Platt
2 - Alan
Shearer
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As Platt's international
career came to an end, he relinquished the captaincy to Adams, who led
the team out at Euro '96.
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When Glenn Hoddle took over
as coach, he handed the role to Shearer.
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  England sported this
generally attractive
Umbro
shirt--unusual because
of the absence of red from all but the three-lions emblem--in their first four matches at the European Championship finals
in 1996, all but the semi-final match against Germany which led to their
elimination on penalty kicks. For the first time, the
three-lions emblem appeared in the middle of the shirt instead of on its left
side. Also for the first time, the manufacturer's name appeared on the
jersey in large capitalised letters, above the three-lions emblem, and an
observer new to football might well have concluded that it was the Umbro team's
shirt. On previous jerseys, the name had first been confined to tiny letters
under the company's diamond insignia, which appeared only inside the neckband
on this shirt.
Following a succession of friendly
games in preparation for Euro '96, England hosted the tournament with
numbers on their chests for the first time since Euro '92 and logos were sewn onto the
upper outer arms of the shirt. Strangely enough for the host nation
though, neither logo was worn in the famous 4-1 victory against Netherlands,
at Wembley. It was a hugely
successful tournament for England, who finally succumbed in the
semi-finals which saw the end of Terry Venables' brief two-year reign as
coach. The opening match of the following season not only saw the
beginning of Glenn Hoddle's tenure, but it was also the birth of the
international career of David Beckham, the first player to make a hundred
England appearances entirely in Umbro kit. All of the previous
centurions had worn other kit manufacturers' sportswear. Billy Wright had worn
St Blaize and Hope Brothers outfits, before Umbro began to supply the majority
of shirts for the national
team. Sir Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore both wore Bukta kits in the early 1960s
and Peter Shilton sported Admiral colours throughout the middle part of his
international career. Beckham
wore 15 different Umbro shirt designs for England. |
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Matches in which England wore the
1995 Home White Uniform |
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710 |
29 March 1995 -
England
0
Uruguay 0 [0-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (34,849) |
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HD |
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Umbro Cup |
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711 |
3 June 1995 -
England 2
Japan 1 [0-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London
(21,142) |
Anderton, Platt (pen)
Ihara |
HW |
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712 |
8 June 1995 -
England 3
Sweden 3 [1-2]
Elland Road, Beeston, Leeds
(32,008) |
Sheringham, Platt, Anderton
Mild (2), K.Andersson |
HD |
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Friendly matches |
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714 |
6 September 1995 -
England 0
Colombia 0 [0-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (20,038) |
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HD |
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715 |
11 October 1995 -
Norway 0 England 0
[0-0]
Ullevål Stadion, Ullevål, Oslo (21,006) |
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AD |
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716 |
15
November 1995 -
England 3
Switzerland 1 [1-1]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (29,874) |
Pearce,
Sheringham, Stone
Knup |
HW |
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717 |
12
December 1995 -
England
1
Portugal 1 [1-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (28,592) |
Stone
P.Alves |
HD |
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719 |
24 April 1996 -
England 0
Croatia 0 [0-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (33,650) |
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HD |
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720 |
18
May 1996 -
England 3
Hungary 0 [1-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (34,184) |
Anderton
(2),
Platt |
HW |
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721 |
23 May 1996 -
China 0 England 3
[0-1]
Workers' Stadium, Chaoyang
District,
Beijing (65,000) |
Barmby (2), Gascoigne |
AW |
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European Championship Finals in England |
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722 |
8
June 1996 -
England 1
Switzerland 1
[[1-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (76,567) |
Shearer
Türkyilmaz (pen) |
HD |
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723 |
15
June 1996 -
Scotland 0
England
2 [0-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (76,864) |
Shearer, Gascoigne |
HW |
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724 |
18
June 1996 -
Netherlands 1
England
4 [0-1]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (76,798) |
Kluivert
Shearer (2 (1
pen)), Sheringham (2) |
HW |
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725 |
22 June 1996 -
Spain 0
England 0
[0-0]ᴭᵀ
2-4 on penalty-kicks
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London (75,440) |
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HD |
It was also worn on the bench by
unused substitutes, Steve Bould, Mark Draper and Neil Ruddock.
1/2/3/6/7
indicates the players that wore the long-sleeved version and the
number of matches in which they wore it (Barton,
Batty, Beckham, Collymore, Cooper, Ince and Phil Neville only wore
the long-sleeved version of this shirt).
 The Youth teams (Under-16s and
Under-18s) wore the same design, except that each wore an embroidered scroll below
the emblem, within which YOUTH was displayed, in navy blue. England's
Under-21, Semi-Professional and women's teams also wore the same design, without
the scrolls, but only the Under-21s' kit included numbers on the front of the shirt and on the
shorts, in the 1996-97 season.
When England took part in the
UEFA Under-16
Championship finals in 1996, instead of the 'YOUTH' scroll, the following was displayed below the emblem on the
chest (not
actual font):
UEFA CHAMPIONSHIP
AUSTRIA 1996
As England also took part in
the UEFA Under-18 Championship finals, three months later,
in France (with games also played in Luxembourg), it seems
likely that they wore a similar match detail (though we
have yet to confirm this).
At the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden, England's
players wore their surnames on the back of their shirts
for the first time, in the same style as for Euro '96, a
year later. This also included smaller numbers on the
chest, below the emblem, and on the right thigh of the
shorts, but no sleeve logos.
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England's Record wearing the 1995 Home
Shirt |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts % |
W/L |
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Home |
13 |
6 |
7 |
0 |
21 |
9 |
+12 |
4 |
6 |
1.615 |
0.692 |
73.1 |
+6 |
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Away |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
+6 |
1 |
3 |
2.00 |
0.00 |
75.0 |
+2 |
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Total |
16 |
8 |
8 |
0 |
27 |
9 |
+18 |
5 |
9 |
1.688 |
0.563 |
75.0 |
+8 |
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