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28th March

England on
29th March

30th March
British Championship  
28 Monday, 29 March 1886 - Wales 1 England 3 [1-0]
The Racecourse, Wrexham (3,000)
Lewis
Amos, Brann, Dewhurst
AW

1890 Bert Bliss born in Willenhall 1890 England team chosen to play Scotland
1897 England's heaviest player, Billy Foulke, plays his only game
then the team chosen to face Scotland

British Championship  
60 Monday, 29 March 1897 - England 4 Wales 0 [2-0]
Bramall Lane, Sheffield (5,000)
Needham, Bloomer, Milward (2) HW








1937
Gordon Milne born in Preston
1938 Alec Leake dies in Birmingham aged 66
1941 Horace Barnet dies in Kensington aged 85



1956
Gerard Dewhurst dies in Ruthin aged 84


1959
Bill Richardson dies in Birmingham aged 49

1965
Eric Brook dies in Manchester aged 57
1969 Steve Guppy born in Winchester
1981 JLloyd Samuel (unused) born in San Fernando
1983 Tommy Graham dies in Rushcliffe aged 78
1898 Scotland team chosen to play England
1905 Harry Thickitt retires from playing
1906 Tip Foster's daughter, Joyce, is born
1909 Scotland team chosen to play England
1920 England team chosen to play Scotland
1922 Scotland team chosen to play England
1930 Harold Gough tears a knee ligament ending his career



1947 amateur Wales 1 England 4 in Newport
1948 amateur England 2 Netherlands 5 in Dulwich
1954 England team chosen to play Scotland

1957 England to play USSR in May 1958
1958 amateur England 2 Scotland 3 at Wembley
1959 youth Turkey 1 England 1 in Dimitrovo
1962 Jimmy Adamson appointed Winterbottom's assistant



1983 under 21 England 2 Greece 1 at Fratton Park
        under 17 USSR 0 England 0 in Cannes
1986 under 17 Brazil 0 England 0 in Cannes
        under 16 tournament in Annemass
      
 Algeria 0 England 2, Hungary 0 England 0 and
        Yugoslavia 1 England 2
1987 women Republic of Ireland 0 England 1 in Dublin
1995 England wear badge in middle of shirt for first time
youth Hungary 0 England 1 in Budapest

Friendly match  
710 Wednesday, 29 March 1995 -
England 0
Uruguay 0 [0-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley (34,849)
  HD

          
1997 Mexico come to England for first time since 1961
UEFA Group 2 Italy 3 Moldova 0

Friendly match  
731 Saturday, 29 March 1997 - England 2 Mexico 0 [1-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley (48,076)
Sheringham (pen), Fowler HW

  2000 under 21 Yugoslavia 0 England 3 in Barcelona
2003 England wear a gold star above their badge for the first time
UEFA Group 7 FYR Macedonia 0 Slovakia 2

European Championship Preliminary match
800 Saturday, 29 March 2003 -
Liechtenstein 0 England 2 [0-1]
Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz (3,548)
Owen, Beckham AW

   2010 under 17 England 5 Malta 0 at the Pirelli Stadium
 2011 England meet Ghana for the first time
under 19 Netherlands 3 England 0 at Putten

Friendly match
896 Tuesday, 29 March 2011 - England 1 Ghana 1 [1-0]
The National Stadium, Wembley
(80,102)
Carroll
Gyan
HD

  2015 under 21 England 2 Azerbaijan 0 at Riverside
        under 20 England 2 United States 1 at Home Park
2016 England wear different coloured sleeves for the first time
also, first successful penalty against England at the Wembley

under 19 England 2 Spain 0 at Ciudad de Lepe

under 17 England 1 Ukraine 1 in Burton-upon-Trent

Friendly match
952 Tuesday, 29 March 2016 -
England 1
Netherlands 2 [1-0]
The National Stadium, Wembley
(82,831)
Vardy
Janssen (pen), Narsingh
HW

     2018 under 16 Cameroon 0 England 2 in Venansault
2021
youth Wales 0 England 2 at Leckwith Stadium
2022 England play their 92nd different opposition
        under 21 Albania 0 England 3 in Elbasan
under 20 England 3 Germany 1 in Colchester
under 19 England 2 Portugal 0 in Chesterfield
under 17 Luxembourg 2 England 0 in Wiltz

Friendly match
1030 Tuesday, 29 March 2022 -
England 3
Côte d'Ivoire 0 [2-0]
The National Stadium, Wembley (73,405)
Watkins, Sterling, Mings HW
Serge Aurier

   
 

Opposition On This Day
1878 Bobby Rea (Ireland) born
1904 Jacques Canthelou (France) born
1921 Viggo Jensen (Denmark) born
1934 official Avraham Klein (Israel) born
1954 Gérard Soler (France) born in Morocco
1956 official Dick Jol (Netherlands) born in Scheveningen

1972 Rui Costa (Portugal) born
1973 Marc Overmars (Netherlands) born
1974 Iulian Filipescu (Romania) born
1983 Gareth Sciberras (Malta)
& Roman Kienast (Austria) born
1984 Chavdav Yankov (Bulgaria) born
1987 Dimitri Payet (France) born
1989 goalkeeper Tomáš Vaclík (Czech Republic) born
1990 Teemu Pukki (Finland) born
1991 N'Golo Kantè (France) born
& Marten de Roon (Netherlands) born
1993 Thorgan Hazard (Belgium) born
1994 Dušan Lagator (Montenegro) born
1996 Ronan Curtis (Republic of Ireland) born in London






1966
Krasimir Balakov (Bulgaria manager) born

England's Record on 29th March
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 6 3 2 1 11 3 +8 1 4 1.833 0.50 66.7 +2
Away 2 2 0 0 5 1 +4 0 1 2.50 0.50 100.0 +2
Total 8 5 2 1 16 4 +12 1 5 2.00 0.50 75.0 +4

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