England Players

Discover profiles and achievements of legendary England players who've represented their country with skill and pride.

England Caps: 77 Goals: 0 Player: 2001 - Still in his twenties, Ashley Cole is fast on the way to becoming England's most capped full back. He has been the f...

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

Dave Watson: England Footballer

England Caps: 61 Goals: 4 Player: 1974 - 1982 Dave Watson's England career did not follow the usual pattern. His first fourteen caps were gained while he was...

England Caps : 75 Player : 1988 - 2002 Despite question marks over his ability in certain areas David Seaman was the Number One England goalkeeper for over a...

England Caps: 59 Goals: 0 Player: 1988-1993 "You'll Never Beat Des Walker!" That was the chant that so often rang from the terraces, whether it was at an Eng...

England Caps: 16 Goals: 18 Player: 1927 – 1932 Dixie Dean was capped 16 times for England before the Second World War and is one of the few players with a...

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 b...

England Goal Scorer: Geoff Hurst

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 well known and he...

England Caps: 76 Goals: 20 Player: 1999 - It's a measure of the success of Frank Lampard that 'Junior' was quietly dropped from his name soon after his move...

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

England Caps: 85 Goals: 0 Player: 1995 - Manchester United's Gary Neville is now England's most successful right full back, with 85 caps to his credit. He wa...

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

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 al...

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 C...

England Caps: 57 Goals: 44 Player: 1959 - 1967 Jimmy Greaves it seems will be remembered more for the match he didn’t play in, the 1966 Word Cup final, tha...

England Caps: 53 Goals: 10 Player: 2001 - One of a group of young players who emerged from the impressive West Ham United youth development process in the mi...

England Caps: 79 Goals: 11 Player: 1983 – 1995 John Barnes was an electric left-sided midfielder and attacker who had a superb career with Liverpool but wa...

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 Eng...

Scorer at the 1966 World Cup Final England Caps: 67 Goals: 20 Player: 1966 - 1974 World Cup winner Martin Peters was one of three players who came into the E...

England Caps : 89 Goals : 40 Player : 1998 - It's almost unbelievable that Michael Owen has appeared for England over eighty times, is the fourth most prolif...

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 du...

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

England Caps: 66 Goals: 14 Player: 1997 - 2004 Paul Scholes was the last of the famous batch of young Manchester United 1992 academy players to gain an Engla...

Peter Beardsley

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 th...

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 subject...

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 wi...

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 U...

England Caps: 73 Goals: 1 Player: 1996 - 2007 A Tottenham Hotspur fan and player from a young age, who also attended the FA's School of Excellence, Sulzeer "...

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 St...

Stanley Matthews

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. A...

Steve Bloomer: England Football Player

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...

England Caps: 77 Goals: 16 Player: 2000 Steven Gerrard is a member of that increasingly rare breed-in these days of multi-million pound global transfers-a on...

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...

The Career of Alan Ball

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 footballe...

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 rejec...

England Caps: 66 Goals: 5 Player: 1987 - 2000 Tony Adams had an eventful England career sometimes the rock in the centre of a parsimonious defence, at other...

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 fi...

Viv Anderson: England Football Player

England Caps: 30 Goals: 2 Player: 1978 - 1988 Although Viv Anderson will be forever remembered as the first black player to represent England in a full footb...

England Caps: 56 Goals: 25 Player: 2003 - “The best young player this country has seen for the past thirty years” were Manchester United manager Alex Fer...

England Caps: 26 Goals: 11 Player: 1946 - 1951 Wilf Mannion achieved 26 caps for England in the immediate post-war period playing as an inside right or insid...

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