Famous Matches
Relive iconic England football matches that shaped the nation's sporting history and defined unforgettable moments on the pitch.
1920 England: Spain
In the Twenties there were only a few friendly international matches played by England, usually on a summer tour at the end of the season. It was on one such...
1934 England: Italy
On November the 14th 1934 Italy played England at Highbury, Arsenal’s ground, in a ‘friendly’. So inappropriate was that title that the match became kn...
1937 England: Czechoslovakia
No one not even Stanley Matthews, was quite ready for what was in store for the England team when they met Czechoslovakia at White Hart Lane on 1st December...
1947 England: Portugal
Only two years after the end of the Second World War international teams were still rebuilding with new and younger players. The Home Championship had restar...
1948 England: Italy
This match was one of England’s finest performances away from home. The Italian team were the current World Cup holders, Olympic champions and Central Euro...
1953 England: Hungary
In the 21st century it is difficult to understand how much this match damaged the national psyche. Generations have passed since 1953 and indeed since 1966 a...
1966 World Cup: England vs Germany
Late in the afternoon of Saturday 30th July 1966 the captain of the English football team Bobby Moore took the Jules Rimet trophy from the Queen of England a...
1970 England: Brazil
Going into the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, England and Brazil were generally accepted to be the two strongest teams in the world and the fact that they had to...
1973 England: Poland
In 1973 the illusion that England were a great footballing super power still held sway. Of course they had won the World Cup in 1966 and reached the quarter...
1986: England: Argentina
The lead up to the 1986 World Cup quarter-final match between England and Argentina was one that any England fan would recognise. Not really considered a sid...
1990 England: Cameroon
England were to come good at the right time in the later stages of the 1990 World Cup. The team were beginning to gel, but then they ran into the “Indomita...
1996 England: Scotland
In 1996 Scotland met the ‘Auld Enemy’ in a competitive match for the first time since the end of the Home Championship in 1984. The occasion was the firs...
2000 England: Germany
In the second match against Germany of the year, England were confident of repeating their win in the group stages of Euro 2000 only four months earlier. The...
2001 England: Germany
Few people in England and even fewer in Germany, were ready for what was in store on a warm September night in Munich, 2001. For the third time in little ove...
Euro 2000 England: Germany
The footballing rivalry between England and Germany has always loomed larger in England than in Germany, where they see the Netherlands as their most intense...
World Cup 1950 England: USA
The shock of the 1950 World Cup if not the century, was this defeat of mighty England by a scratch team from the USA. It is widely believed to be the lowest...