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Black Players Used by the Managers/Coaches

This is a list to show how often black players feature in each of the England manager's tenure.  It gives a detailed list of each manager with their time in charge of the national side, and how many games they managed.  This is followed by the number of players used by each manager and how many of those players where winning a cap for the first time.  In comparison, the number of black players used and making debuts from the same period is noted.  A percentage is derived from these tallies to provide an accurate comparison between the managers.
 

England's Coaches/Managers by Black Players Used
Coach/
Manager		 Term P Players
Used		 Debut
Players		 Blck Plyrs
Used		 Debut Blck
Players		 P inc.
Blck		 P % Debut
%		 Usage
%
Eriksson, Sven-Göran 2001-2006 67 1064 40 337 16 67 100.0 40.00 31.67
Robson, Robert W. 1982-1990 95 1237 64 160 12 86 90.53 18.75 12.93
Taylor, Graham 1990-1993 38 486 29 136 12 38 100.0 41.38 27.98
McClaren, Steven 2006-2007 18 265 10 90 3 18 100.0 30.00 33.96
Hoddle, Glenn 1996-1999 28 380 10 75 3 28 100.0 30.00 19.74
Keegan, J. Kevin 1999-2000 18 256 13 47 3 18 100.0 23.08 18.36
Capello, Fabio 2008 5 85 4 32 0 5 100.0 00.00 37.65
Venables, Terence F. 1994-1996 24 326 27 32 4 21 87.50 14.81 9.82
Greenwood, Ronald 1978*-1982 44 547 22 19 3 16 36.36 13.64 3.47
Wilkinson, Howard 1999, 2000 2 29 0 6 0 2 100.0 00.00 20.69
Taylor, Peter J. 2000-2001 1 16 0 4 0 1 100.0 00.00 25.00
Total 1978-2008 340 4692 219 938 56 300 88.24 25.57 19.99

Greenwood's record begins with Match No. 526, 29 November 1978, the first game a black player appeared.  We have only counted his record from this match in fairness to Ron Greenwood and for comparative purposes only.

Venables' record includes Match No. 709, 15 February 1995,  abandoned because of crowd violence after 27 minutes at Lansdowne Road, Dublin with the Republic of Ireland leading 1-0, because caps were awarded, despite no official result being reached.

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