Home International Championship
149	Saturday, 17 April 1926 - England 0 Scotland 1 [0-1] Old Trafford, Manchester (49,429)	Jackson	HL

1928 Charley Chenery dies in Mansfield, Australia aged 78	1929 Tony Leach's son, Leo, born 1930 England team chosen to play Austria & Germany 1931 Arthur Chadwick resigns as Southampton manager
1937 The Scots refuse to be numbererd

Home International Championship
208	Saturday, 17 April 1937 - Scotland 3 England 1 [0-1] Hampden Park, Glasgow (149,547)	O'Donnell, McPhail (2) Steele	AL

1970 Len Barry dies in Basford aged 68 1983 Harry Holdcroft dies in Preston aged 74

1943 unofficial Scotland 0 England 4 at Hampden Park 1948 youth England 3 Netherlands 2 at White Hart Lane 1952 youth Austria 5 England 5 in Barcelona 1954 youth Luxembourg 2 England 0 in Neuenahr 1963 youth England 2 USSR 0 at White Hart Lane 1965 youth Spain 0 England 0 at Frankenstadion 1967 Gordon Banks signs for Stoke City FC for £52,500 1983 UEFA Group 3 Hungary 6 Luxembourg 2 1988 exhibition women England 2 Ireland 0 at Wembley 1991 UEFA Group 7 Poland 3 Turkey 0 1994 women England 10 Slovenia 0 at Griffin Park

2002 Michael Owen becomes the youngest captain since Bobby Moore in 1963 England up to eleventh in rankings under 19 Lithuania 1 England 1 in Kaunus

Friendly match
788	Wednesday, 17 April 2002 - England 4 Paraguay 0 [1-0] Anfield Road, Liverpool (42,713)	Owen, Murphy, Vassell, Ayala OG	HW

2020 Norman Hunter dies in Leeds aged 77 years

2003 under 16 Gabon 0 England 2 in Boufféré 2006 youth England 2 Slovenia 1 in Bournemouth         under 16 Japan 1 England 1 in Boufféré 2007 funeral of Brian Miller in Worsthorne 2014 under 16 Korean Republic 1 England 1 in Mareuil 2017 under 16 Belgium 4 England 0 in Mouilleron

Opposition On This Day

1885 official Evan Sambrooke (Wales) born 1945 Pavel Stratil (Czechoslovakia) born 1960 official Charles Schaack (Luxembourg) born 1968 Bela Illis (Hungary) born 1972 Jarko Wiss (Finland) born 1974 official Markus Häcker (Germany) born in Pentz 1975 Stefano Fiore (Italy) born 1980 Fabián Vargas (Colombia) born 1981 Michael Mifsud (Malta) & goalkeeper Yuri Zhevnov (Belarus) born 1983 Gal Alberman (Israel) born

1898 Benito Díaz (Spain manager) born 1954 Ján Kozák (Slovakia manager) born 2019 Edoardo Reja (Albania manager) appointed

England's Record on 17th April
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts %	W/L
Home	2	1	0	1	4	1	+3	1	1	2.00	0.50	50.0	=0
Away	1	0	0	1	1	3	-2	0	0	1.00	3.00	0.00	-1
Total	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1	1	1	1.667	1.333	33.3	-1