England Players

Man of the Match World Cup Final 1966 England Caps: 72 Goals: 8 Player: 1965 - 1975 Football is in Alan Ball’s blood; his father was a well-known footballer ...

England's first choice left-back since his début in 2001, Ashley Cole has got better since his move to Chelsea and could well hit the hundred cap mark if he can remain injury-free for the next few ...

World Cup Winning Player 1966 England Caps : 106 Goals : 49 Player : 1958 - 1970 One of the measures of Bobby Charlton’s universally accepted greatness a...

The man with the ridiculous hair, David Seaman stood tall between the sticks for England for nearly fifteen years, fighting off many pretenders to his crown and saving England while at the height of ...

One of the most consistently picked defenders of both Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor's managerial reigns, Nottingham Forest's Des Walker was an incredibly quick defender with great awareness and a ...

Dixie Dean was one of the true legends of football, with an astonishing record of 349 goals in 399 appearances. He was capped for England 16 times, scoring 18 goals, during a five-year period in the ...

England Caps : 18 Goals : 5 Player : 1955 - 1958 As there’s little surviving footage of Duncan Edwards playing it’s difficult to assess him objectively but if ...

Word Cup Winning Goal Scorer in 1966 England Caps : 49 Goals : 24 Player : 1966-1972 Geoff Hurst’s achievement at the Word Cup in 1966 is ...

England Caps: 60 Goals: 14 Player: 1999 - It’s a measure of the success of Frank Lampard that the ‘Junior’ has quietly been dropped from his name over the last few ...

England Caps : 80 Goals : 48 Player : 1984 - 1992 Now known as a television presenter Gary Lineker was indisputably England’s most successful forward from the mid-eigh...

Gary Neville's presence, almost uninterrupted, as England's full back on the right hand side for over ten years, five major tournaments and five managers says volumes about his skill as the ...

England Caps : 53 Goals : 8 Player : 1979-1988 Manager: 1996-1999 Glenn Hoddle played for Tottenham Monaco and England from the mid-seventies throug...

England's Number One Shirt in World Cup Win 1966 England Caps: 73 Goals: 0 Player: 1963 - 1972 One of the key mainstays of the 1966 World Cup winning team ...

World Cup Winner 1966 England Caps : 35 Goals : 6 Player : 1965-1970 Jack Charlton was the taller of the two brothers, who played in and won the 1966 World ...

The mercurial Jimmy Greaves’ goals for England were legendary, as was the disappointment of losing his World Cup place to Geoff Hurst and the decline into alcoholism that started then and gained pace ...

Feted as a schoolboy and predicted to be the new Paul Gascoigne, Joe Cole has struggled to find a consistent place for club and country since leaving West Ham in 2003, but the signs are there that he ...

John Barnes was blessed with blistering pace, great control and a fierce shot and gained worldwide respect, gaining 79 caps in a distinguished twelve year England career, but was always criticised ...

England Caps : 86 Goals : 1 Player : 1979-88 Kenny Sansom or ‘King Kenny’ to the Arsenal fans, was a long serving left full-back for both Arsenal and Englan...

Famously described by Sir Alf Ramsey as being ten years ahead of his time, Martin Peters was the perfect left-sided midfielder for his ‘Wingless Wonders’ who stormed the 1966 World Cup and came away ...

England Caps : 89 Goals : 40 Player : 1998 - It's almost unbelievable that despite recent injuries that kept him out for a year and a half, Michael Owen ...

England Caps : 33 Goals : 30 Player : 1950-1958 Nat (short for Nathaniel) Lofthouse was a classic English centre-forward who nearly averaged a goal a game ...

England Caps : 57 Goals : 10 Player : 1988 - 1998 The most enigmatic football star of the eighties and nineties Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne was a footballing genius who ...

A tough tackling midfielder with vision, sublime passing skills and the ability to come in the box to score, Paul Scholes was a regular in the England side until his premature decision to end his ...

England Caps : 59 Goals : 9 Player : 1986 - 1996 Peter Beardsley had his fair share of false starts to his career but his reputation as a real footballing thinker ...

England Caps : 125 Player : 1970-1990 So who is England’s greatest ever keeper? It’s an argument that is impossible to conclude because it’s so subjective. Popular opinion holds ...

Player at the World Cup 1966 Final!! England Caps: 63 Goals: 0 Player: 1960 - 1968 Ray Wilson the unassuming and cultured left back, who won the World Cup with Engla...

England Caps: 84 Goals: 3 Player: 1976 - 1986 Ray Wilkins started as a prodigious teenage talent at Chelsea and matured into the backbone of the Manchester United and England ...

A giant of the game in more than just size, Sol Campbell's performances at the heart of the England defence made him one of the most sought after defenders in Europe and the rock on which England's ...

England Caps : 25 Goals : 23 Player : 1947-1953 As names fade into the memory there are still a few players from after the Second World War who linger and ...

England Caps : 54 Goals : 11 Player : 1934 - 1957 The ‘Wizard of Dribble’ Stanley Matthews is probably one of the best known names in English football. An ...

England Caps: 23 Goals: 28 Player: 1895 - 1907 Steve Bloomer’s twelve year England career saw many records set and quite a few of them never broken. Eight times out of ...

England Caps: 65 Goals: 12 Player: 2000 - Steven Gerrard is a member of that increasingly rare breed-in these days of multi-million pound global transfers-a one-club man. Although at one ...

England Caps : 75 Goals : 5 Player : 1987-1999 Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce was a popular hard tackling, powerful left-back whose England debut, in a friendly ...

England Caps : 76 Goals : 30 Player : 1946-1958 Tom Finney one of the greatest post-war players England saw, had an inauspicious start, initially being rejected by ...

The international career of Tony Adams, the strident leader, defender and captain for Arsenal and England, who gained 66 caps over a thirteen year period despite not always being first choice and ...

England Caps : 52 Goals : 12 Player : 1976-1986 Trevor Francis, who was a regular in the England side from 1977 to 1986, will be forever remembered as the first ...

England Caps: 42 Goals: 14 Player: 2003 - “The best young player this country has seen for the past thirty years” were Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson’s words on ...

Wilf Mannion achieved 26 caps for England being the perfect foil for England’s two supreme wing wizards, Stanley Matthews and Tom Finney, and so well-regarded that Pele invited him to Brazil to teach ...