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Season 1876-77

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International Selection Committee (The F.A.)
Friendlies
6 3 March 1877 - England 1 Scotland 3 [0-1]
Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London (2,000 to 3,000)		 Lyttelton
Ferguson (2), Richmond		 1
Season 1880-81
12 26 February 1881 - England 0 Wales 1 [0-0]
East Lancashire Cricket Club, Alexandra Meadows, Dukes Brow, Blackburn (3,000)		 Vaughan 2
13 12 March 1881 - England 1 Scotland 6 [0-1]
Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London (8,500)		 Bambridge
 Smith (2), Hill, Ker, Field OG		 3
Season 1882-83
19 10 March 1883 - England 2 Scotland 3 [2-2]
 Bramall Lane, Highfield, Sheffield (7,000)		 Smith (2), Fraser
Mitchell, Cobbold		 4
Season 1886-87
British Championship  
31 19 March 1887 - England 2 Scotland 3 [1-1]
Leamington Street, Blackburn (12,000)		 McCall, Kier, Allan
Lindley, Dewhurst		 5
Season 1888-89
37 13 April 1889 - England 2 Scotland 3 [2-0]
Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London (10,000)		 not known
Munro, Allan OG, McLaren		 6
 
7 61 3 Apr-1897 Scotland The Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, London BC 1 2 HL [1-1]
8 79 04 April 1903 Scotland Bramall Lane, Sheffield BC 1 2 HL [1-0]
9 117 14 February 1914 Ireland Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough BC 0 3 HL [0-2]
10 121 15-March 1920 Wales Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, London BC 1 2 HL [1-2]
11 129 08 April 1922 Scotland Villa Park, Birmingham BC 0 1 HL [0-0]
12 139 3 March 1924 Wales Ewood Park, Blackburn BC 1 2 HL [0-0]
13 148 01-March 1926 Wales Selhurst Park, London BC 1 3 HL [0-1]
14 149 17 April 1926 Scotland Old Trafford, Manchester BC 0 1 HL [0-1]
15 158 28-Nov-1927 Wales Turf Moor, Burnley BC 1 2 HL [0-2]
16 159 31-March 1928 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 1 5 HL [0-2]
17 189 15-Nov-1933 Wales St. James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne BC 1 2 HL [0-1]
18 201 05 February 1936 Wales Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton BC 1 2 HL [1-0]
19 215 09 April 1938 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 0 1 HL [0-1]
20 245 09 April 1949 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 1 3 HL [0-1]
21 249 21-Sep-1949 Republic of Ireland Goodison Park, Liverpool F 0 2 HL [0-1]
22 262 14 April 1951 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 2 3 HL [1-1]
23 284 25-Nov-1953 Hungary Empire Stadium, Wembley, London F 3 6 HL [2-4]
24 316 06-Nov-1957 Northern Ireland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 2 3 HL [0-1]
25 336 28-Oct-1959 Sweden Empire Stadium, Wembley, London F 2 3 HL [1-0]
26 367 06 April 1963 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 1 2 HL [0-2]
27 393 20-Oct-1965 Austria Empire Stadium, Wembley, London F 2 3 HL [1-0]
28 413 15 April 1967 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC/ ECP 2 3 HL [0-1]
29 459 29 April 1972 West Germany Empire Stadium, Wembley, London ECP 1 3 HL [0-1]
30 462 23 May 1972 Northern Ireland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 0 1 HL [0-1]
31 477 14-Nov-1973 Italy Empire Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 1 HL [0-0]
32 507 09 February 1977 Netherlands Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 2 HL [0-2]
33 510 31 May 1977 Wales Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London BC 0 1 HL [0-1]
34 511 04-Jun-1977 Scotland Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London BC 1 2 HL [0-1]
35 550 25-March 1981 Spain Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 1 2 HL [1-2]
36 552 12 May 1981 Brazil Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 1 HL [0-1]
37 554 23 May 1981 Scotland Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London BC 0 1 HL [0-0]
38 571 13-Oct-1982 West Germany Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 1 2 HL [0-0]
39 582 21-Sep-1983 Denmark Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London ECP 0 1 HL [0-1]
40 589 02-Jun-1984 U.S.S.R. Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 2 HL [0-0]
41 656 22 May 1990 Uruguay Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 1 2 HL [0-1]
42 677 11-Sep-1991 Germany Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 1 HL [0-1]
43 713 11-Jun-1995 Brazil Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London T/C 1 3 HL [1-0]
44 730 12 February 1997 Italy Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London WCP 0 1 HL [0-1]
45 741 11 February 1998 Chile Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 2 HL [0-1]
46 755 10 February 1999 France Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 2 HL [0-0]
47 764 17-Nov-1999 Scotland Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London ECP 0 1 HL [0-1]
48 773 07-Oct-2000 Germany Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London WCP 0 1 HL [0-1]
49 781 15-Aug-2001 Netherlands White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London F 0 2 HL [0-2]
50 787 27-March 2002 Italy Elland Road, Leeds F 1 2 HL [0-0]
51 799 12 February 2003 Australia Boleyn Ground, Upton Park, London F 1 3 HL [0-2]
52 809 16-Nov-2003 Denmark Old Trafford, Manchester F 2 3 HL [2-2]
53 849 07 February 2007 Spain Old Trafford, Manchester F 0 1 HL [0-0]
54 854 22-Aug-2007 Germany The National Stadium, Wembley, London F 1 2 HL [1-0]
55 860 21-Nov-2007 Croatia The National Stadium, Wembley, London ECP 2 3 HL [0-2]
56 893 17 November 2010, 1-2 vs. France, The National Stadium, Wembley, London
57 903 29 February 2012 - 2-3 vs Netherlands, The National Stadium, Wembley, London

Notes

England's most celebrated home loss is the shattering 6-3 defeat by Hungary at Wembley Stadium in 1953.  But by then England already had suffered 22 home losses, 13 to Scotland, seven to Wales, one to united Ireland and one to the Republic of Ireland.  Hungary were not even the first side to beat England at Wembley; Scotland already had done that four times.  Nor were they the first side from outside the United Kingdom to beat England at home; the Republic of Ireland did that in 1949. They were, however, the first foreign side to beat England at Wembley, no mean feat.

England have now lost 56 times in 395 home matches, roughly a 1 in 7 ratio.  The list of opponents who have accomplished the feat remains fairly exclusive, 18 teams if predecessor and successor nations are lumped together (Ireland and Northern Ireland, West Germany and Germany).  Croatia are the latest team to join the list, on 21 November 2007 when they sent England crashing out of the 2008 European Championship qualification.

England have played at home against 58 teams, again counting predecessor and successor nations as one (Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic and Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro as well as the Irish and German teams already mentioned).  However, two of those teams, the Rest of Europe and the Rest of the World, were not national selections, but representative sides consisting of players drawn from several nations, and so England have played at home against 56 national sides.  They thus remain unbeaten at home by 35 of the 56 national sides they have played on English soil, approximately two-thirds of the teams they have met at home.

England have lost only seven preliminary matches on home soil in major tournament play, five European Championship matches and two World Cup matches.  In European Championship play, Scotland accomplished that feat twice--once in a qualification group match and once in an intergroup playoff match--and West Germany, Denmark and Croatia did it once each.  In World Cup qualification play, Italy and Germany each beat England once on English soil.

England have hosted one World Cup final tournament, in 1966, and one European Championship final tournament, in 1996, and they have yet to be beaten on home soil in major final tournament play.  They won World Cup 1966, going undefeated in six matches.  While they failed to advance from the semi-finals at European Championship 1996, they went out of the tournament only on penalty kicks after drawing 1-1 with Germany after extra time. 

Home Losses by Opponents
Team HP HW HD HL First HL Last HL
Scotland 55 26 11 18

3 March 1877

 17 November 1999
Wales 50 33 9 8 26 February 1881 31 May 1977

West Germany

 6 4 0 2 29 April 1972 13 October 1982

Germany

 5 1 1 3 11 September 1991 22 August 2007
West Germany/Germany 11 5 1 5 29 April 1972 22 August 2007
Italy 8 3 2 3 14 November 1973 27 March 2002

Ireland

 17 15 1 1 14 February 1914 14 February 1914

Northern Ireland

 33 26 5 2 6 November 1957 23 May 1972
Ireland/Northern Ireland 50 41 6 3 14 February 1914 23 May 1972
Netherlands       3 9 February 1977 29 February 2012
France       2 10 February 1999 17 November 2010
Spain       2 25 March 1981 7 February 2007
Denmark 7 5 0 2 21 September 1983 16 November 2003
Brazil       2 12 May 1981 11 June 1995
Australia       1 12 February 2003 12 February 2003
Chile 2 0 1 1 11 February 1998 11 February 1998
Croatia 3 1 1 1 21 November 2007 21 November 2007
Uruguay 4 1 2 1 22 May 1990 22 May 1990
USSR 4 2 1 1 2 June 1984 2 June 1984
Austria 5 3 1 1 20 October 1965 20 October 1965
Republic of Ireland 6 3 2 1 21 September 1949 21 September 1949
Sweden       1 28 October 1959 28 October 1959
Hungary 9 8 0 1 25 November 1953 25 November 1953
Team HP HW HD HL First HL Last HL
All Home Matches 400 252 91 57 3 March 1877 29 February 2012

 

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