The England national football team has represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872. It is controlled by The Football Association (FA), the governing body for football in England, which is affiliated with UEFA and comes under the global jurisdiction of world football's governing body FIFA. England competes in the three major international tournaments contested by European nations: the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, and the UEFA Nations League.
England is the joint oldest national team in football. It played in the world's first international football match in 1872, against Scotland. England's home ground is Wembley Stadium, London, and its training headquarters is St George's Park, Burton upon Trent. The team's manager is Gareth Southgate.
England is one of eight nations to have won the World Cup. England has qualified for the World Cup 16 times. It won the 1966 World Cup Final, a tournament it also hosted, and finished fourth in both 1990 and 2018. England has never won the European Championship, with its best performance to date being runners-up in 2020. As a constituent country of the United Kingdom, England is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and so does not compete at the Olympic Games. England is currently the only team to have won the World Cup at senior level, but not their major continental title, and the only non-sovereign entity to have won the World Cup.<\/P>","76505AA7FEAE524629F3119E5AE1B881":"25 Soho Square ,LONDON W1D 4FA","5B70C105C09228B419825F9D2D3BB765":"
Gareth Southgate OBE (born 3 September 1970) is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a defender and midfielder. He has been the manager of the England national team since 2016.
Southgate won the League Cup with both Aston Villa (in 1995–96) and Middlesbrough (in 2003–04) and captained Crystal Palace to win the First Division championship in 1993–94. He also played in the 2000 FA Cup Final for Villa and the 2006 UEFA Cup Final for Middlesbrough. Internationally, Southgate made 57 appearances for the England team between 1995 and 2004. He played every game of England's campaign in the 1996 European Championships, but his penalty miss sent England out in the semi-final. He also featured in both the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2000 European Championships. His playing career ended in May 2006 at the age of 35, after more than 500 league appearances.
Southgate was manager of Middlesbrough from June 2006 until October 2009. He also managed the England under-21 team from 2013 to 2016, before becoming the England national team manager in 2016, succeeding Sam Allardyce. In his first tournament as England manager, the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Southgate became the third manager (after Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson) to reach a World Cup semi-final with the England team, which won him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award. At UEFA Euro 2020, he became the first England manager to reach the final of a European Championship and to reach any major tournament final since 1966; England eventually lost to Italy in a penalty shootout.<\/P>","473E4F49EDE372FCCD98814B96C64159":"Wembley Stadium","784C7E93CE11DD2A5DB4877325546098":"1970-9-3","989AD94B51E25F0B":"74","CC482DEE81E43A3D":"http:\/\/www.thefa.com","5D5D4DE02E331F86809BABE1DE910881":"England","798114606EDBEE4E25243C6C8C1B5714":"Middlesbrough,Crystal Palace","406113B88EA1E6CB":"1","0108B3B67855A673":"13","64A2290C09C50CF35B7DBD9C8F3A2F5E":"","94A63A88C13097EB":"London","A98A68DC04206563":"
First international:<\/STRONG> Player<\/U><\/STRONG> Premier League Player of the Month:<\/STRONG> FIFA World Cup<\/STRONG> UEFA European Championship
Scotland 0-0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872)
Most caps:<\/STRONG>
Peter Shilton (125)
Top scorer:<\/STRONG>
Wayne Rooney (53)
Biggest win:
<\/STRONG>England 13-0 Republic of Ireland (Belfast, Ireland; 31 July 1882)
Biggest defeat:
<\/STRONG>Hungary 7–1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954)<\/P>","A20449E387E65FAD0B1A86B77F820411":"2016-11-30","5BAF7C8A60756B540D834B0A0F0B7C9C":"0","AB7F89FECD1635E88F612521E9058068":"90,000","9B2CF1B8E224CFD097332B024E65EDED":"18","E917916C02D12AF6D7EA48F7303A1362":"
Crystal Palace<\/STRONG>
Football League First Division:
1993–94
Aston Villa
<\/STRONG>Football League Cup: 1995–96
Middlesbrough<\/STRONG>
Football League Cup: 2003–04
UEFA Cup runner-up: 2005–06
INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG><\/P>
January 2000
Manager<\/U><\/STRONG>
England U21
<\/STRONG>Toulon Tournament: 2016
England<\/STRONG>
UEFA European Championship runner-up: 2020
UEFA Nations League third place: 2018–19
INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG>
Premier League Manager of the Month:
<\/STRONG>August 2008
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award:<\/STRONG>
2018 and 2021
FWA Tribute Award:
<\/STRONG>2019<\/P>","02EB7DF46653B329":"England","F3825434658EC407":"","5F7B7520852B84068F743240139E0997":"
Winners: 1966
Fourth place: 1990, 2018<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Runners-up: 2020
Third place: 1968
Semi-finalists: 1996
UEFA Nations League<\/STRONG>
Third place: 2018–19
British Home Championship<\/STRONG>
Winners (54): (including 20 shared)
Rous Cup:<\/STRONG>
Winners: 1986, 1988, 1989
FA Summer Tournament<\/STRONG>
Winners: 2004
Tournament of France<\/STRONG>
Winners: 1997
England Challenge Cup<\/STRONG>
Winners: 1991
FIFA World Cup Fair Play Trophy:<\/STRONG>
Winners: 1990, 1998, 2022
England Challenge Cup:<\/STRONG>
1991
Tournament of France:<\/STRONG>
1997
FA Summer Tournament:<\/STRONG>
2004<\/P>","e_index":8};