England's record at the U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup
Tournament in 1976 includes one unofficial match, the 3-1 victory
against Team America, which consisted of
players of various nationalities drawn from North American Soccer League clubs and
included players who had performed for other
national teams.
England's 1-0
loss to México was part of both the Cidudad de México and the Azteca
2000 tournaments in 1985 and is counted in England's record for both
tournaments.
To and including
the U.S. Cup Tournament of 1993, two points were awarded for a win and one
for a draw. In the later tournaments, a win earned three points and
a draw one. In the King Hassan II International Cup Tournament of
1998, each team played only two of the other three teams, and special
rules were adopted to ensure there would be a winning team in the
tournament. As usual three points were awarded for a win and one
point for a draw. But penalty kicks contests were conducted at the
end of regulation time when the teams were drawn, and an extra point was
given to the team winning that contest. Moreover, the penalty kick
goals were included in the goals for and goals against columns in the
tournament table for purpose of breaking deadlocks in the team
standings. As
it turned out, the team standings would have been the same even had they
been determined by the usual method without resort to the penalty kicks
tie-breakers. We have therefore disregarded in the rankings table
what one Reuters story aptly called "an idiosyncratic points-scoring system."
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