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P 7 W 4 D 2 L 1
F 8:A 4
71% successful
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Description |
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Red shirt, with recurring
bands of ten thin shadow hoops, and navy-blue winged collar and cuffs.
Navy-blue rectangular insert beneath the neck, with two navy-blue
buttons fastening to an overlapping navy-blue rectangular insert, via a
white underlining. Embroidered emblem on left breast, with 'ENGLAND' in
capitalised white lettering inside a navy-blue panel above the emblem.
Two embroidered navy-blue concentric diamonds on right breast, with 'UMBRO'
in capitalised navy-blue lettering underneath and a registered trademark
placed above the gap between the 'R' and the 'O' in navy blue. White
number on back and in centre of chest in the same font as on the
white shirt.
White shorts, with white
drawstring. Two embroidered navy-blue concentric diamonds on left thigh,
with 'UMBRO' in capitalised navy-blue lettering underneath and a registered
trademark placed above the gap between the 'R' and the 'O' in navy blue.
Navy-blue number, in the same font as on the shirt, above the Umbro logo on
left thigh. Embroidered emblem on right thigh, with 'ENGLAND' in
capitalised white lettering inside a navy-blue panel above the emblem.
Red socks, with 'UMBRO' in large capitalised navy-blue lettering
across turnovers and along right side of
footing.
Against Finland, captain,
David Beckham wore a white armband featuring the Three Lions emblem. |
Variations |
- A long-sleeved
version of the shirt was also worn. The cuffs were navy blue, and the
shadow hoops on the main body also continued down the sleeves. It was worn by the majority of the team in the
games against Argentina and Finland. For
each of the other games, the short-sleeved version was worn by the most
players.
- Against Germany in
Charleroi, the player's
surname was worn above the number on the back, in capitalised plain white
lettering in the same font as on the white shirt (pink characters were
unused, with the letters, F, T and U only appearing on the shirts of Robbie
Fowler and Gareth Southgate, who were both unused substitutes). The shirts worn by the Neville
brothers also included their first initial i.e. G . NEVILLE and P . NEVILLE
(with a space either side of the full stop).
- England had logos
sewn onto the upper sleeves for the 2000 European Championship tournament
fixtures. The 'Euro 2000' tournament logo was on the right arm and the UEFA
Fair Play logo was on the left arm.
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Most Appearances |
6 - David Beckham, Paul
Scholes
5 - Sol Campbell, Martin
Keown, Philip Neville (2 sub), Michael Owen (1 sub), Alan Shearer
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Beckham spent ten more
minutes on the pitch than Scholes (not including added time).
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Four players won their first
cap in the shirt, including two centurions; Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard.
Each won their last cap in England's last match of the 2014 World Cup.
It was Gerrard's 114th and Lampard's 106th cap.
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Steve Guppy won his one and
only international cap on this shirt's first appearance, against
Belgium.
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Four players also won their
last cap in the shirt. Tony Adams, on his 66th appearance and Graeme Le
Saux, on his 36th, both ended their international careers as both Kevin
Keegan and the old Wembley Stadium also made their final bows, against
Germany.
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Jason Wilcox won his last
cap against Argentina. Each of his three appearances was in a different
kit and under a different coach (Venables, Wilkinson and Keegan).
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Top Scorers |
2 - Michael Owen, Alan
Shearer
1 - Tony Adams, David
Beckham, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Redknapp
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Shearer's second goal in
this shirt gave England their first victory against Germany in a major
tournament since 1966.
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Redknapp's strike, against
Belgium, was his only international goal.
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Adams' goal was his fifth
and last for his country.
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Captains |
5 - Alan
Shearer
1 - Tony
Adams, David Beckham
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Shearer was an ever-present
captain throughout Kevin Keegan's time in charge, both in this shirt and
in the 1999 white kit. He retired
from international football at the end of the 2000 European Championship
finals tournament.
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Adams captained England
against Germany in Wembley's last match. It was his 60th appearance at
the old stadium for club and country, more than any other player and it
proved to be his last game for England.
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Beckham celebrated his first
competitive game as captain and his first home fixture with the armband,
by firing home England's winner against Finland at Anfield on the last
appearance for this shirt.
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England returned to plain red, relatively unadorned yet
extremely attractive, with this
Umbro jersey, which was even devoid of
the non-contrasting diamond patterns that had been sneaked onto the
white uniform.
With Kevin Keegan desperately trying to restore
confidence to a team that stumbled into qualification for the 2000 European
Championship final tournament, he used the nostalgia of England's only
world-beating eleven by dressing the current team in the same colours as the
heroes of 1966, at every opportunity. This, of course, was also exploited by
Umbro in their replica sales marketing.
It meant that England wore the shirt almost
exclusively in home games, apart from one celebrated tournament victory against
the Germans in Belgium, and it appeared to be a lucky kit, despite England's
first round exit with two defeats in their white shirts.
So, when it came to giving the old Wembley Stadium
its final performance, a World Cup qualifier against Germany, it was only
fitting that the teams should be wearing the same colours as in their most
memorable encounter, at least within these shores. Then, it all went sour. It
was a miserable wet day, England didn't perform, Germany stole the points and
Keegan resigned.
It couldn't get any worse and, fortunately, it
didn't. The kit was worn one last time, as England rose from the ashes and
dispatched the Finns to get their ultimately successful World Cup qualifying
campaign back on track, under their new Swedish coach.
The number-six shirt (top right) was issued to
Sol Campbell for the game against Finland and it is reproduced here by kind
permission from Richard Clarke's
'Three Lions - England Match Worn Shirts' Facebook Collection.
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Matches in which England wore the
1999 Away Red Uniform |
It was also worn on the bench by
unused substitutes,
Trevor Sinclair against Argentina, and Wes Brown and Teddy
Sheringham against Finland.
1/2/3/4/5/6
indicates the players that wore the long-sleeved version and the
number of matches in which they wore it (Beckham,
Butt, Gerrard, Heskey, Ince, Le Saux, Phil Neville, Powell, Redknapp
and Wilcox only wore
the long-sleeved version of this shirt).
England's Under-21 and youth teams, and the women's teams also wore the same design.
The tournament logo was worn on the
right sleeve against Russia in the 2001 UEFA Women's
Championship finals in Germany, and the players' surnames
were worn on the back in the same font as the men's team had
worn in the previous year, at Euro 2000.
The last
UEFA Under-16 Championship finals were held in England in
2001 and the teams wore the tournament logo on the right
sleeve.
England's Record wearing the 1999 Away
Shirt |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts % |
W/L |
Home |
6 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
4 |
+3 |
2 |
2 |
1.167 |
0.667 |
66.7 |
+2 |
Neutral |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
+1 |
0 |
1 |
1.00 |
0.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
Total |
7 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
8 |
4 |
+4 |
2 |
3 |
1.143 |
0.571 |
71.4 |
+3 |
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JB/PY/CG/GI
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