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31st March

England on
1st April

2nd April
British Championship  
49 Easter Saturday, 1 April 1893 -
England 5 Scotland 2
[1-1]
Athletic Ground, Richmond (10,000 to 15,000)
Gosling, Cotterill, Spiksley (3)
Waddell, Sellar
HW

  1898 Alf Milward's youngest daughter, Edina, born
1899
Scotland team chosen to play England
1905 Steve Bloomer becomes England's record appearance holder

British Championship  
85 Saturday, 1 April 1905 - England 1 Scotland 0 [0-0]
Sports Arena, Crystal Palace (27,599)
Bache HW

  1907 amateur Netherlands 1 England 8 at Den Haag
1911 England draw in front of a record home attendance

British Championship  
110 Saturday, 1 April 1911 - England 1 Scotland 1 [1-0]
Goodison Park, Liverpool (38,000)
Stewart
Higgins
HD

  1918 Harry Makepeace & Wally Hardinge join the RAF
 Bert Bliss is transferred to the RAF
1922 Home Championship Ireland 1 Wales 1
1933 England lose in front of a world record crowd

British Championship  
185 Saturday, 1 April 1933 - Scotland 2 England 1 [1-1]
Hampden Park, Glasgow
(136,259)
McGrory (2)
Hunt
AL




1954
Gordon Hill born in Sunbury-on-Thames
1955 Alf Baker dies in Bromley aged 56








1984
Tom Smalley dies in Wolverhampton aged 72
1935 teams chosen for the England-Scotland match
1939 Warney Cresswell secretary at Northampton Town FC
1948 England team chosen to face Scotland


1956 youth West Germany 1 England 2 in Sztálinváros
 Scotland team chosen to face England
 Ray Crawford plays for Malaysia
1959 Scotland team chosen to face England
1964 youth Austria 1 England 2 in Rotterdam
 teams chosen for the England-Scotland match
1965 teams chosen for the England-Scotland match
1981 Peter Beardsley joins Vancouver Whitecaps
1987 Terry Butcher makes his fiftieth appearance

European Championship Preliminary match
623 Wednesday, 1 April 1987 -
Northern Ireland 0 England 2 [0-2]
Windsor Park, Belfast (20,578)
Robson, Waddle AW

1995 Johnny Nicholls dies in Wolverhampton aged 63
1997
under 21 England 0 Switzerland 0 at County Ground
2002 under 16 Portugal 0 England 2 in Montaigu
2003
under 21 England 1 Turkey 1 at St. James' Park
2006 under 17 England 1 Russia 2 at Glanford Park
2009 Wayne Rooney becomes the youngest player to reach fifty appearances
UEFA Group 6 Kazakhstan 1 Belarus 5 & Andorra 0 Croatia 2
Dennis Wise leaves Newcastle United FC

World Cup Preliminary match  
873 Wednesday, 1 April 2009 - England 2 Ukraine 1 [1-0]
The National Stadium, Wembley (87,548)
Crouch, Terry
Shevchenko
HW

  2010 under 17 England 2 Slovakia 0 at Sixfields Stadium
        under 16
Gabon 0 England 6 in Venansault
        women England 1 Spain 0 at the New Den
2011 S
am Johnstone signs pro with Manchester United
2013
under 16 Turkey 2 England 2 in Montaigu
2016
Gabby Agbonlahor suspended by Aston Villa FC
2019 Steve McClaren sacked as QPR FC manager
2022 World Cup Finals draw held for Qatar 22

Opposition On This Day
1858 George Gillespie (Scotland) born
1908 Tommy Law (Scotland) born
1927 Ferenc Puskás (Hungary) & Walter Bahr (US) born
1928 Tom O'Connor (Éire) born
1933 Frank Coyle (Ireland) born
1935 Billy Whelan (Éire) born
1949 Sammy Nelson (Northern Ireland) born
1954 Giancarlo Antognoni (Italy) born
1973 official Siniša Premuzaj (Croatia)
& Cristiano Doni (Italy) born
1976 goalkeeper Gábor Király (Hungary)
& Clarence Seedorf (Netherlands) born
1978 official Tom Harald Hagen (Norway) born in Grue
& Antonio de Nigris (Mexico) born
1981 official Steven McClean (Scotland) born
1982 Róbert Vittek (Slovakia) born
1983 Amr Zaki (Egypt) born

1996 Adrian Păun (Romania) born


















2005 Leo Beenhakker (Trinidad & Tobago) appointed


England's Record on 1st April
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 4 3 1 0 9 4 +5 0 1 2.25 1.00 87.5 +3
Away 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 0 1 1.50 1.00 50.0 =0
Total 6 4 1 1 12 6 +6 0 2 2.00 1.00 75.0 +3

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