Friendly match
6	Saturday, 3 March 1877 - England 1 Scotland 3 [0-1] Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington (2,000 to 3,000)	Lyttelton Ferguson (2), Richmond	HL

1886 Jimmy Raine (tourist) born	1883 Scotland team chosen for England 1888 Home Championship Wales 11 Ireland 0 1890 Wales team chosen for England 1893 Wales team chosen for England
1894 Willie Gibson is the youngest player to score against England

Home International Championship
50	Saturday, 3 March 1894 - Ireland 2 England 2 [0-1] Cliftonville Gardens, Belfast (8,000)	Stanfield, Gibson Devey, Spiksley	AD

	1896 Ireland team chosen to play England 1898 George Molyneux joins Stoke FC 1900 Home Championship Ireland 0 Scotland 3 1901 Jackie Hegan baptised in Coventry
1902 England fail to score for the first time in 52 matches then the England team is named for Ireland

Home International Championship
74	Monday, 3 March 1902 - Wales 0 England 0 [0-0] The Racecourse, Wrexham (10,000)		AD

1906 Home Championship Scotland 0 Wales 2  Ireland vs. England originally scheduled 1907 Ellis Rimmer baptised in St. Peter's, Birkenhead  Billy Dean also baptised in St. James', Birkenhead 1911 Guest sentenced for stealing Dennis Hodgett's medals 1913 Home Championship Wales 0 Scotland 0  Then the Welsh team is named for England 1920 Dicky Downs joins Everton FC for £2500 1921 Arthur Rigby joins Bradford City FC for £1200 1922 Warney Cresswell joins Sunderland AFC for £5500 1923 Home Championship Ireland 0 Scotland 1

1924 England lose to Wales at home for the second time since 1920

Home International Championship
139	Monday, 3 March 1924 - England 1 Wales 2 [0-0] Ewood Park, Blackburn (30,000)	W.Roberts W.Davies, Vizard	HL

1930 Nat Walton dies in Blackburn aged 62 1972 Darren Anderton born in Southampton 1989 Jackie Hegan dies in Coventry aged 88 years

1926 Tom Parker joins Arsenal FC 1928 Ronnie Dix scores for Bristol Rovers FC aged 15 1934 Tosh Johnson leaves Everton FC for Liverpool FC 1937 Frank Moss appointed manager at Hearts aged 28 1939 Wilf Copping returns to Leeds United AFC 1947 Ken Willingham joins Leeds United AFC 1952 England B team selected to play Netherlands 1954 B England 1 Scotland 1 at Roker Park 1956 youth England 2 Scotland 2 at Deepdale 1976 youth England 2 Wales 3 at Maine Road         college FA 0 BCSA 1 at Cheltenham 1978 under 21 England 2 Italy 1 at Maine Road 1984 Keith Curle joins Bristol City FC for £10,000 1989 Chris Armstrong joins Wrexham AFC for free 1990 under 16 Scotland 4 England 1 in Airdrie 1992 Semi-Pro Wales 0 England 1 in Aberystwyth 1993 under 16 England 4 Netherlands 0 at Fratton Park 1997 Tony Cottee signs for Selangor 1998 under 16 England 3 Bosnia & Herz. 1 at Nene Park         Semi-Pro England 2 Netherlands 1 in Crawley 2000 Stan Matthews cremated in Stoke 2002 women United States 2 England 0 in Ferreiras 2006 Euro 2008 preliminary Group E fixtures finalised

2010 Egypt come to England for the first time under 21 England 1 Greece 2 at Doncaster women England 3 Italy 2 in Nicosia England to play Japan and Mexico in May England up one to eighth in rankings

Friendly match
882	Wednesday, 3 March 2010 - England 3 Egypt 1 [0-1] The National Stadium, Wembley (80,602)	Crouch (2), Wright-Phillips Zidan	HW

2014 Stan Rickaby dies in Perth, Australia aged 89

2016 women United States 1 England 0 in Tampa  England remain ninth in rankings

Opposition On This Day

1908 Constant Joacim (Belgium) born 1911 Kristian Henriksen (Norway) born 1912 Lauro Amadò (Switzerland) born 1920 Bill Thornton (Scotland) born 1922 Nándor Hidegkuti (Hungary) born 1951 Trevor Anderson (Northern Ireland) born 1965 Dragan Stojković (Yugoslavia) born 1968 goalkeeper Jörg Stiel (Switzerland) born 1978 official Eitan Shemeulevitch (Israel) born 1984 Daniel Gygax (Switzerland) & Ángel Arizmendi (Spain) born 1985 Femi Opabunmi (Nigeria) born 1986 Mehmet Topal (Turkey) born 1992 Fernando (Brazil) born 1993 Antonio Rüdiger (Germany) born 1994 Jonny (Spain) born 1995 Bryan Cristante (Italy) born

1893 Karel Lotsij (FIFA selector) born 1947 Óscar Tábarez (Uruguay manager) born 1948 Enrique Meza (Mexico Manager) born 1953 Zico (Japan manager & Brazil player) born 1958 Bob Bradley (United States manager) born

   

England's Record on 3rd March
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts %	W/L
Home	3	1	0	2	5	6	-1	0	0	1.667	2.00	33.3	-1
Away	2	0	2	0	2	2	=0	1	1	1.00	1.00	50.0	=0
Total	5	1	2	2	7	8	-1	1	1	1.40	1.60	40.0	-1