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ENGLAND RECORDS
RECORD WIN
England 13 Ireland 0 - Belfast Feb 18 1882
RECORD WIN AT WEMBLEY
England 9 Luxembourg 0 - Wembley Dec 15 1982
RECORD DEFEAT
England 1 Hungary 7 - Budapest May 23 1954
MOST GOALS BY PLAYER IN ONE
GAME
(5) Oliver Vaughton v Ireland - Belfast Feb 18 1882
(5) Steve Bloomer v Wales - Cardiff Mar 16 1896
(5) Willie Hall v Ireland - Old Trafford Nov 16
1938
(5) Malcolm McDonald v Cyprus - Wembley Apr 16 1975
MOST GOALS BY PLAYER IN A SEASON
Jimmy Greaves (13) - 1960-61
MOST GOALS BY PLAYER IN A CALENDAR YEAR
11 goals
Peter Crouch 2006
9 goals
Stan Mortensen 1947
Tommy Lawton 1947
Nat Lofthouse 1952
Jimmy Greaves 1960
Gary Lineker 1987 and 1991
8 goals
Jimmy Greaves 1963
Gary Lineker 1986, 1990
Alan Shearer 1996
7 goals
Tommy Taylor 1957
Geoff Hurst 1966
Roger Hunt 1966, 1969
Martin Chivers 1971
Michael Owen 2005
CONSECUTIVE APPEARANCES FOR
ENGLAND
Billy Wright made 70 consecutive appearances between
3 Oct 1951 v France and 28 May 1959 v USA
CONSECUTIVE GOALS FOR ENGLAND
Steve Bloomer scored in 10 consecutive appearances
(19 goals) between
March 1895 and March 1899
FASTEST INTERNATIONAL HAT-TRICK
3.5 minutes by Willie Hall v Ireland - Old Trafford
Nov 16 1938
FASTEST ENGLAND GOALS
27 seconds by Bryan Robson v France - Bilbao June
16 1982
36 seconds by Gareth Southgate v South Africa - Durban May 22nd 2003
38 seconds by Bryan Robson v Yugoslavia - Dec 13 1989
42 seconds by Gary Lineker v Malaysia - Kuala Lumpar June 12 1991
FASTEST GOAL BY ENGLAND SUBSTITUTE
10 seconds by Teddy Sheringham v Greece - Old Trafford October 6 2001
FASTEST ENGLAND GOALS AT WEMBLEY
38 seconds by Bryan Robson v Yugoslavia - Dec 13
1989
44 seconds by Bryan Robson v N.Ireland - Feb 23 1982
RECORD ATTENDANCES
HOME
100,000 England v Austria - Wembley Nov 28 1951
100,000 England v Hungary - Wembley Nov 23 1953
100,000 England v West Germany - Wembley Dec 1 1954
100,000 England v USSR - Wembley Oct 22 1958
100,000 England v Portugal - Wembley Oct 25 1961
100,000 England v Rest of the World - Wembley Oct 23 1963
100,000 England v Spain - Wembley Apr 3 1968
100,000 England v Portugal - Wembley Dec 10 1969
100,000 England v Northern Ireland - Wembley Apr 21 1970
100,000 England v West Germany - Wembley Apr 29 1972
100,000 England v Poland - Wembley Oct 17 1973
100,000 England v West Germany - Wembley Mar 12 1975
100,000 England v Scotland - Wembley May 26 1979
AWAY
160,000 Brazil v England - Maracana, Rio May 13 1959
149,547 England v Scotland - Hampden Park Apr 17
1937
LOWEST ATTENDANCE
HOME
15,628 England v Chile - Wembley May 23 1989 (affected by Tube strike)
AWAY
2,378 England v San Marino - Bologna Nov 17 1993
RECORD MATCH RECEIPTS
£4,100,000 v Germany (Euro 96 s/f - Wembley June
26 1996
MOST CAPS IN A ROW
(70) by Billy Wright from Oct 1951 - May 1959
LONGEST RUNNING CAPTAIN
(90) Billy Wright
(90) Bobby Moore
MOST PLAYERS FROM ONE CLUB IN
ENGLAND SIDES
7 Arsenal - England v Italy - Highbury November 14 1934
7 Manchester United - England v Albania - Tirana March 28 2001
FIRST BLACK PLAYER TO PLAY FOR
ENGLAND
Viv Anderson v Czechoslovakia - Wembley November 29 1978
FIRST BLACK PLAYER TO CAPTAIN
ENGLAND
Ugo Ehiogu for England U21's v Holland - Portsmouth April 27 1993
Paul Ince was the first black player to captain England in a full international
v
USA - Boston June 9 1993
ENGLAND SENDINGS OFF
Alan Mullery v Yogoslavia - Florence June 5 1968
Alan Ball v Poland - Chorzow June 6 1973
Trevor Cherry v Argentina - Buenos Aires Jine 15
1977
Ray Wilkins v Morocco - Monterrey June 6 1986
David Beckham v Argentina - St Etienne June 30 1998
*
Paul Ince v Sweden - Stockholm September 5th 1998
*
Paul Scholes v Sweden - Wembley June 5th 1999#
David Batty v Poland - Warsaw September 8th 1999
Alan Smith v Macedonia - Southampton October 16th 2002
David Beckham v Austria - Old Trafford October 8th 2005$
Wayne Rooney v Portugal - Gelsenkirchen July 1st 2006
* first time players sent
off in consecutive internationals for England
# first England player sent-off on English soil
$Beckham first player to be sent off twice playing for England
YOUNGEST ENGLAND PLAYERS
1. Theo Walcott v Hungary (17 years 75 days) May 30 2006
2. Wayne Rooney v Australia (17 years 111 days) Feb 12 2003
3. James Prinsep v Scotland (17 years 252 days) Apr
5 1879
4. Thurston Rostron v Wales (17 years 311 days) February 26 1881
5. Clement Mitchell v Wales (18 years 23 days) 15 March 1880
6. Michael Owen v Chile (18 years 59 days) 11 Feb 1998
7. Micah Richards v Holland (18 years 144 days) 15 Nov 2006
YOUNGEST ENGLAND SCORER
Wayne Rooney v Macedonia - Skopje (17 years 317 days) September 6 2003
Michael Owen v Morocco - Casablanca
(18 years 147 days) May 27 1998
YOUNGEST ENGLAND CAPTAIN
1. Bobby Moore - 22 years 48 days - Czechoslovakia 2 England 4, May 29, 1963
2. Michael Owen - 22 years 124 days - England 4 Paraguay
0, 17th April 2002
3. Sol Campbell - 23 years 248 days - Belgium 0 England 0, May 24, 1998
4. Gerry Francis - 23 years 271 days - Switzerland 1 England 2, Sept 3,
1975
5. Billy Wright - 24 years 245 days - Northern Ireland 2 England 6, October
9, 1948
OLDEST ENGLAND PLAYERS
Stanley Matthews v Denmark - Copenhagen (42 years
104 days) May 15 1957
OLDEST ENGLAND SCORER
Stanley Matthews v N.Ireland - Belfast (41 years
248 days) Oct 6 1956
OLDEST DEBUTANT
Leslie Compton v Wales - Roker Park (38 years 2 months) Nov 15 1950
FIRST SUBSTITUTE
Jimmy Mullen replaced Jackie Milburn after 10 minutes v Belgium in May
18 1950
TALLEST PLAYER
Peter Crouch (Southampton & Liverpool) 6ft 7ins
SHORTEST PLAYER
Frederick Walden (Tottenham Hotspur) 5ft 2ins
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