This list
contains the results of matches not accorded status as official internationals.
It includes wartime and victory internationals as well as other matches regarded
as less than full internationals for a variety of reasons, among them the status
of the team representing England and of the opposing team. We will add
more matches to this list when we finish our research.
|
Pre-1872 |
|
Pre-1872 |
|
1 |
5 March 1870
-
England 1 Scotland 1
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(n/k) |
Baker
Crawford |
Fr |
HD |
|
2 |
19 November 1870 -
England 1 Scotland 0
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval,
Kennington
(650) |
Walker |
Fr |
HW |
|
3 |
25 February 1871
-
England 1 Scotland 1
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(500+) |
Walker
Nepean |
Fr |
HD |
|
4 |
5 March 1870
-
England 1 Scotland 1
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(n/k) |
Baker
Crawford |
Fr |
HD |
|
5 |
5 March 1870
-
England 1 Scotland 1
The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington
(n/k) |
Baker
Crawford |
Fr |
HD |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18-Nov-1871 |
Scotland |
Surrey Cricket Ground, The
Oval, Kennington, London |
N.K. |
F |
2 |
1 |
HW |
N/A |
|
24-Feb-1872 |
Scotland |
Surrey Cricket Ground, The
Oval, Kennington, London |
N.K. |
F |
1 |
0 |
HW |
N/A |
|
Season
1891-92 |
|
19-Dec-1891 |
Canada |
Surrey Cricket Ground, The
Oval, Kennington, London |
N.K. |
F |
6 |
1 |
HW |
[3-0] |
|
Season 1901-02 |
|
05-Apr-1902 |
Scotland |
Ibrox
Park, Glasgow |
100,000 |
F |
1 |
1 |
AD |
[1-1] |
|
This match was
long and widely regarded as unofficial because, after the collapse of an Ibrox Park stand killed 25
spectators and injured hundreds more, it was replayed at Villa Park in Birmingham on 3 May
1902. E.g., Jack Rollin, Rothmans Book of Football Records,
p. 313 (1998); Chris Nawrat & Steve Hutchings, The Sunday Times Illustrated History
of Football, p. 13 (1998 ed.); Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of Europe,
vol. 1, p. 177. That view was proper not only because, in
the absence of match abandonment, it was the only fitting response to a tragedy
of such dimension, but also because the disaster and the resulting crowd
displacement severely disrupted play and extinguished the players’ enthusiasm
for the match. Brian James, England
v Scotland, pp. 74-76, 87-88 (1969). Yet the Football Association’s most
recent official England team history notes the Ibrox Park match was played to
its conclusion, claims it was merely downgraded to a friendly match and replayed
only as a British [Home International] Championship match, and includes it in a
chronological list of official England matches, although inconsistently omitting
it from a separate list of England’s matches against Scotland. Niall Edworthy, England: The Official
F.A. History, pp. 16, 18, 176-77, 187 (1997). The most recent
F.A. yearbook, which does not have a chronological list of matches played before World War
II, does not include the Ibrox Park match in its list of matches against Scotland. The
Football Association, The Official FA and England Yearbook 1998-99, pp.
91-92 (1998). Hence the match’s status remains
uncertain. While it may be true that the F.A. has never declared the match
unofficial, public opinion cured the default, and it became custom to regard it
as unofficial. Farror & Lamming, A
Century of English International Football 1872-1972, pp. 13-14, 24 (stating
"the match was played to a finish as a friendly match," but not
including it in list of "full international results"). This custom has
carried considerable historical force, and the F.A. has previously appeared to
accept it. Indeed, if the F.A. now regards the match as official, it has
rewritten history. When England played Scotland on 29 May 1982 at Hampden Park,
the match was celebrated as the 100th official international between the two
countries. Mike Payne, England: The Complete Post-War Record, p. 240
(1993). Yet if the 1902 Ibrox Park match was official, the 1982 match was
actually the 101st official meeting, and all the celebratory hooplah came a
match and a year too late. Such are the perils revisionist historians encounter.
The F.A. had it right the first time and should continue to observe custom. |
|
First World War
Internationals |
|
26-Apr-1919 |
Scotland |
Goodison Park, Liverpool |
45,000 |
VI |
2 |
2 |
HD |
[1-2] |
|
03-May-1919 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
80,000 |
VI |
4 |
3 |
AW |
[3-0] |
|
11-Oct-1919 |
Wales |
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff |
20,000 |
VI |
1 |
2 |
AL |
[0-1] |
|
18-Oct-1919 |
Wales |
Victoria
Ground, Stoke-on-Trent |
16,000 |
VI |
2 |
0 |
HW |
[N.K.] |
|
Season 1933-34 |
|
21-Mar-1934 |
The
Rest of England |
Roker
Park, Sunderland |
NK |
Trial |
1 |
7 |
|
|
|
Season 1934-35 |
|
27-Mar-1935 |
The
Rest of England |
Hawthorns, West Bromwich |
12,846 |
Trial |
2 |
2 |
HD |
[2-1] |
|
Season 1935-36 |
|
21-Aug-1935 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
56,316 |
F |
2 |
4 |
AL |
[0-3] |
|
This match was
organized to raise funds for Glasgow’s contribution to the King George V
Jubilee Fund. James, England v. Scotland, pp. 154-55;
Rollin, Rothmans
Book of Football Records, p. 313; Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of Europe,
vol. 1, p. 181. |
|
Second World War
Internationals |
|
11-Nov-1939 |
Wales |
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff |
28,000 |
WI |
1 |
1 |
AD |
[0-1] |
|
18-Nov-1939 |
Wales |
Racecourse Ground, Mold Road, Wrexham |
17,000 |
WI |
3 |
2 |
AW |
[0-0] |
|
02-Dec-1939 |
Scotland |
St.
James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
15,000 |
WI |
2 |
1 |
HW |
[1-1] |
|
13-Apr-1940 |
Wales |
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
40,000 |
WI |
0 |
1 |
HL |
[0-1] |
|
11-May-1940 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
75,000 |
WI |
1 |
1 |
AD |
[0-0] |
|
08-Feb-1941 |
Scotland |
St. James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
25,000 |
WI |
2 |
3 |
HL |
[2-2] |
|
26-Apr-1941 |
Wales |
City
Ground, Nottingham |
13,016 |
WI |
4 |
1 |
HW |
[2-0] |
|
Bryan
Horsnell & Douglas Lamming, Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World
Wars, pp. 32, 48 (1995), has this match played 26 April 1941, a
Saturday, and reproduces a programme cover for the match bearing that date. Unless the
programme's date was a typographical error, this must be regarded as authoritative.
However, other sources, perhaps themselves reproducing a typographical error, put the date
as 16 April 1941, a Wednesday. Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of Europe, vol.
1, p. 183; Rollin, Rothmans Book of Football Records, p. 282; Michael
Robinson & Gareth Davies, Soccer: The International Line-ups &
Statistics Series—Wales 1876-1960, p. 36 (1995). |
|
03-May-1941 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
78,000 |
WI |
3 |
1 |
AW |
[1-1] |
|
07-Jun-1941 |
Wales |
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff |
20,000 |
WI |
3 |
2 |
AW |
[2-1] |
|
04-Oct-1941 |
Scotland |
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
65,000 |
WI |
2 |
0 |
HW |
[2-0] |
|
25-Oct-1941 |
Wales |
St.
Andrew's Ground, Birmingham |
25,000 |
WI |
2 |
1 |
HW |
[2-0] |
|
17-Jan-1942 |
Scotland |
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
64,000 |
WI |
3 |
0 |
HW |
[1-0] |
|
18-Apr-1942 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
91,000 |
WI |
4 |
5 |
AL |
[1-2] |
|
Horsnell &
Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars,
p. 48, has the attendance as 75,000, but Hockings & Radnedge,
Nations of Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, puts it at 91,000. |
|
09-May-1942 |
Wales |
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff |
30,000 |
WI |
0 |
1 |
AL |
[0-1] |
|
10-Oct-1942 |
Scotland |
Empire
Stadium, Wembley, London |
75,000 |
WI |
0 |
0 |
HD |
[0-0] |
|
24-Oct-1942 |
Wales |
Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton |
25,097 |
WI |
1 |
2 |
HL |
[1-1] |
|
27-Feb-1943 |
Wales |
Empire
Stadium, Wembley, London |
75,000 |
WI |
5 |
3 |
HW |
[3-2] |
|
17-Apr-1943 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
105,000 |
WI |
4 |
0 |
AW |
[2-0] |
|
08-May-1943 |
Wales |
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff |
25,000 |
WI |
1 |
1 |
AD |
[0-1] |
|
25-Sep-1943 |
Wales |
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
80,000 |
WI |
8 |
3 |
HW |
[4-1] |
|
16-Oct-1943 |
Scotland |
Maine
Road, Manchester |
60,000 |
WI |
8 |
0 |
HW |
[5-0] |
|
19-Feb-1944 |
Scotland |
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
80,000 |
WI |
6 |
2 |
HW |
[1-1] |
|
22-Apr-1944 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
133,000 |
WI |
3 |
2 |
AW |
[3-1] |
|
06-May-1944 |
Wales |
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff |
50,000 |
WI |
2 |
0 |
AW |
[1-0] |
|
16-Sep-1944 |
Wales |
Anfield
Road, Liverpool |
38,483 |
WI |
2 |
2 |
HD |
[2-2] |
|
14-Oct-1944 |
Scotland |
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
90,000 |
WI |
6 |
2 |
HW |
[0-1] |
|
03-Feb-1945 |
Scotland |
Villa
Park, Birmingham |
65,780 |
WI |
3 |
2 |
HW |
[1-1] |
|
Horsnell & Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, p. 49, puts the attendance at 64,000, but Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of
Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, states it was 65,780. |
|
14-Apr-1945 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
133,000 |
WI |
6 |
1 |
AW |
[1-1] |
|
05-May-1945 |
Wales |
Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff |
25,000 |
WI |
3 |
2 |
AW |
[1-1] |
|
26-May-1945 |
France |
Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
65,000 |
VI |
2 |
2 |
HD |
[1-1] |
|
Horsnell & Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, p. 49, states the attendance as 60,000, while Hockings & Radnedge, Nations
of Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, has it as 65,000. |
|
15-Sep-1945 |
Northern
Ireland |
Windsor
Park, Belfast |
45,061 |
VI |
1 |
0 |
AW |
[0-0] |
|
20-Oct-19458 |
Wales |
The Hawthorns, West Bromwich |
54,611 |
VI |
0 |
1 |
HL |
[0-1] |
|
Horsnell & Lamming,
Forgotten Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, p. 49, puts the attendance at 56,000, but Hockings & Radnedge, Nations of
Europe, vol. 1, p. 183, states it as 54,611. |
|
19-Jan-1946 |
Belgium |
Empire
Stadium, Wembley, London |
85,000 |
VI |
2 |
0 |
HW |
[2-0] |
|
13-Apr-1946 |
Scotland |
Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow |
139,468 |
VI |
0 |
1 |
AL |
[0-0] |
|
24-Apr-19469 |
Scotland |
Maine
Road, Manchester |
70,000 |
F |
2 |
2 |
HD |
[2-1] |
|
This match was
organized to raise relief funds for the victims of the Burnden Park disaster of March 9,
1946, in which 33 died and more than 500 were injured when crush barriers collapsed at a
second round F.A. Cup match between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City. Rollin, Rothmans Book of Football Records, p. 313; Hockings &
Radnedge, Nations of Europe, vol. 1, p. 184; see Nawrat &
Hutchings, The Sunday Times Illustrated History of Football, p. 70. |
|
11-May-1946 |
Switzerland |
Stamford Bridge, London |
75,000 |
VI |
4 |
1 |
HW |
[0-0] |
|
19-May-1946 |
France |
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir,
Colombes, Paris |
58,481 |
VI |
1 |
2 |
AL |
[0-0] |
|
Season 1950-51 |
|
20-Sep-1950 |
Canada |
Stamford Bridge, London |
- |
CS |
4 |
2 |
HW |
[NK] |
|
Season 1950-51 |
|
20-Sep-1950 |
Canada |
Stamford Bridge, London |
- |
CS |
4 |
2 |
HW |
[NK] |
|
Season 1968-69 |
|
12-Aug-1961 |
Tottenham Hotspur |
White Hart Lane, London |
- |
CS |
2 |
3 |
AL |
[NK] |
|
Season 1975-76 |
|
1976 |
Uxbridge |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
- |
F |
8 |
0 |
HW |
[NK] |
|
31-May-1976 |
Team
America |
John F.
Kennedy Stadium,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
16,239 |
T |
3 |
1 |
AW |
[2-0] |
|
This was a
U.S.A. Bicentennial Tournament match, commemorating the 200th anniversary of
the U.S.A.’s Declaration of Independence. Team America’s players were drawn
from North American Soccer League clubs and included players, like Pele, Mike England
and Bobby Moore, who had performed for other national teams. Consequently, Team
America’s tournament matches were not regarded as official internationals.
A photograph caption we ran across has cleared up our uncertainty about the
stadium where the match was played; it was the 102,000-capacity John F. Kennedy
Stadium in Philadelphia. |
|
Season 1985-86 |
|
14-May-1986 |
Korean Republic |
Fountain Valley School Field, Denver, USA |
- |
F |
4 |
1 |
NW |
[2-0] |
|
28-May-1986 |
Monterrey |
- |
- |
F |
4 |
1 |
AW |
[NK] |
|
Season 1986-87 |
|
14-Dec-1986 |
Bradford City |
Valley Parade, Bradford |
- |
F |
1 |
2 |
AL |
[NK] |
|
Season 1987-88 |
|
04-Jun-1988 |
Aylesbury United |
The Stadium, Buckingham Road, Aylesbury |
6,031 |
F |
4 |
0 |
AW |
[NK] |
|
Season 1995-96 |
|
26-May-1996 |
Hong Kong XI |
Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong |
26,000 |
F |
1 |
0 |
AW |
[1-0] |
|
Season 1997-98 |
|
09-Jun-1998 |
Caen
XI |
Stade
Michel d'Ornano, Caen |
200 |
F |
1 |
0 |
AW |
[0-0] |
|
This World Cup
1998 warm-up match was held behind closed doors. The Football Association
and the small French second division club which summoned a local selection
to serve as England’s opposition invited 200 local dignitaries to attend. |
Notes
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Farror, Morley & Douglas Lamming, A
Century of English International Football 1872-1972, pp. 9-11, 13-14, 24, 238-40
(Robert Hale & Company, London, 1972)
The Football Association, The Official FA
and England Yearbook 1998-99, pp. 91-92 (Pan Books, Macmillan Publishers Limited,
London, 1998)
Hockings, Ron & Keir Radnedge, Nations
of Europe, vol. 1, pp. 174-201 (Articulate, Ernsworth, Hampshire, U.K., 1993)
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Caps: England Football Internationals of Two World Wars, pp. 11, 48-49 (Yore
Publications, Harefield, Middlesex, 1995)
James, Brian, England v Scotland, pp.
74-76, 87-89, 113-15, 154-55, 160-87 (Sportsmans Book Club edition, Readers Union Limited,
London, 1970, originally published by Pelham Books, 1969)
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Sunday Times Illustrated History of Football, pp. 13, 70 (1998 ed., Hamlyn, Octopus
Publishing Group Ltd., London, 1998)
Oliver, Guy, The Guinness Book of World
Soccer: The History of the Game in Over 150 Countries, pp. 275-86 (2nd ed., Guinness
Publishing Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1995)
Payne, Mike, England: The Complete Post-War
Record, p. 240 (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Robinson, Michael & Gareth Davies, Soccer:
The International Line-ups & Statistics Series—Wales 1876-1960, pp.
36-39 (Soccer Book Publishing Ltd., Cleethorpes, South Humberside, England,
1995)
Rollin, Jack, Rothmans Book of Football
Records, pp. 275-76, 281-83, 313 (Headline Book Publishing, London, 1998)
Reports from the London Daily Telegraph and
London Times of May 27, 1996
Reports from Agence France Presse and Reuters
datelined June 9, 1998
Reports from The Independent, London Daily
Telegraph and London Times of June 10, 1998
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