Friendly match
13	Saturday, 12 March 1881 - England 1 Scotland 6 [0-1] Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington (4,000 to 5,000)	C.Bambridge Smith (2), Hill, Kerr (2), Field OG	HL

	1887 Home Championship Ireland 4 Wales 1
1894 England beat Wales for a ninth time in a row

Home International Championship
51	Monday, 12 March 1894 - Wales 1 England 5 [1-2] The Racecourse, Wrexham (5,500)	Bowdler Veitch (3), Parry OG, Gosling	AW

1904 England remain unbeaten against Ireland for the 23rd time Home Championship Scotland 1 Wales 1

Home International Championship
81	Saturday, 12 March 1904 - Ireland 1 England 3 [0-2] Cliftonville Gardens, Belfast (9,000)	Kirwan Bache, Common (2)	AW

 

1905 Tommy Graham born in Consett 1912 Willie Hall born in Newark 1917 Jack Reynolds dies in Sheffield aged 47 1920 Edmund Currey dies in Hounslow aged 53 1922 Frank Lock (B team) born in Whitechapel 1924 Stan Rickaby born in Stockton-on-Tees 1926 Les Shannon (B team) born in Liverpool 1963 Arthur Grimsdell dies in Watford aged 68

1906 England team chosen for Wales 1923 England team chosen for Belgium  George Wilson's transfer to Blackburn Rovers FC called off 1924 Bob Kelly marries May Ogden in Lytham 1938 amateur Scotland 2 England 5 at Hampden Park 1946 Jackie Bestall now Doncaster Rovers FC manager 1949 amateur Wales 1 England 3 at Llanelli 1952 Bill Ridding appointed manager of the B Team 1958 youth England 1 West Germany 2 at Burnden Park 1961 youth West Germany 2 England 0 in Flensburg

1969 England beat France in their first friendly for 12 years

Friendly match
429	Wednesday, 12 March 1969 - England 5 France 0 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley (85,000)	O'Grady, Hurst (3 (2 pens)), Lee	HW

1975 England beat West Germany in their 100th match at Wembley

Friendly match
488	Wednesday, 12 March 1975 - England 2 West Germany 0 [1-0] Wembley Stadium, Wembley (100,000)	Bell, Macdonald	HW

1979 Seth Johnson born in Birmingham 1983 Dicky Spence dies in Ealing aged 74 1997 Dean Henderson born in Whitehaven 1998 Peter Sillett dies in Ashford aged 65

1986 Peter Davenport joins Manchester United FC for £½m         under 21 Denmark 0 England 1 at Idrætsparken 1987 Les Ferdinand signs for QPR for £15,000 1992 Andrew Cole joins Bristol City FC for £½m 1993 Andrew Cole joins Manchester United FC for £1.75m 1999 youth England 2 Israel 1 in Rota-Cádiz 2003 youth Switzerland 0 England 0 in Lugano         under 17 England 2 Czech Republic 0 at Haig Ave 2008 England remain eleventh in rankings 2009 women England 3 Canada 1 in Nicosia 2014 women England 0 France 2 in Nicosia 2015 England drop two to 17th in rankings  England to play Spain in November  Zat Knight signs for Reading FC on short-term contract 2017 Chris Powell sacked as Derby County FC assistant  Roy McFarland leaves as Chesterfield FC manager 2019 Czech Republic name squad for England & Brazil

Opposition On This Day

1866 goalkeeper John McLeod (Scotland) born 1898 Jack Mahood (Ireland) born 1913 Teobaldo Depetrini (Italy) born 1924 goalkeeper Valerio Bacigalupo (Italy) born 1928 Gerhard Harpers (West Germany) born 1957 Patrick Battiston (France) born 1962 goalkeeper Andrea Kopke (Germany) born 1965 Arpad Hahn (Hungary) born 1974 Walid Badir (Israel) born 1977 official Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain) born in Valencia 1989 Siim Luts (Estonia) born 1993 Abdullahi Shehu (Nigeria) born

1950 Javier Clemente (Spain manager) born 1975 Edgaras Jankauskas (Lithuania manager) born

   

England's Record on 12th March
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts %	W/L
Home	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	0	2	2.667	2.00	66.7	+1
Away	2	2	0	0	8	2	+6	0	0	4.00	1.00	100.0	+2
Total	5	4	0	1	16	8	+8	0	2	3.20	1.60	80.0	+3