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England's Home Losses

 
England's Home Losses
Loss Match Date Opposition Venue Type F A Result H-T
1 6 03-Mar-1877 Scotland Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London F 1 3 HL [0-1]
2 12 26-Feb-1881 Wales Alexandra Meadows, Blackburn F 0 1 HL [0-0]
3 13 12-Mar-1881 Scotland Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London F 1 6 HL [0-1]
4 19 10-Mar-1883 Scotland Bramall Lane, Sheffield F 2 3 HL [2-2]
5 31 19-Mar-1887 Scotland Leamington Road, Blackburn BC 2 3 HL [1-1]
6 37 13-Apr-1889 Scotland Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London BC 2 3 HL [2-0]
7 61 03-Apr-1897 Scotland The Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, London BC 1 2 HL [1-1]
8 79 04-Apr-1903 Scotland Bramall Lane, Sheffield BC 1 2 HL [1-0]
9 117 14-Feb-1914 Ireland Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough BC 0 3 HL [0-2]
10 121 15-Mar-1920 Wales Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, London BC 1 2 HL [1-2]
11 129 08-Apr-1922 Scotland Villa Park, Birmingham BC 0 1 HL [0-0]
12 139 03-Mar-1924 Wales Ewood Park, Blackburn BC 1 2 HL [0-0]
13 148 01-Mar-1926 Wales Selhurst Park, London BC 1 3 HL [0-1]
14 149 17-Apr-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-Mar-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-Feb-1936 Wales Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton BC 1 2 HL [1-0]
19 215 09-Apr-1938 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC 0 1 HL [0-1]
20 245 09-Apr-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-Apr-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-Apr-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-Apr-1967 Scotland Empire Stadium, Wembley, London BC/ ECP 2 3 HL [0-1]
29 459 29-Apr-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-Feb-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-Mar-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-Feb-1997 Italy Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London WCP 0 1 HL [0-1]
45 741 11-Feb-1998 Chile Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London F 0 2 HL [0-1]
46 755 10-Feb-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-Mar-2002 Italy Elland Road, Leeds F 1 2 HL [0-0]
51 799 12-Feb-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-Feb-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]

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 55 times in 379 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 57 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 55 national sides.  They thus remain unbeaten at home by 35 of the 55 national sides they have played on English soil, approximately two-thirds of the teams they have met at home.

England have lost only six preliminary matches on home soil in major tournament play, four 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 and Denmark 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

03-Mar-1877

17-Nov-1999
Wales 50 33 9 8 26-Feb-1881 31-May-1977

West Germany

6 4 0 2 29-Apr-1972 13-Oct-1982

Germany

5 1 1 3 11-Sep-1991 22-Aug-2007
West Germany /Germany 11 5 1 5 29-Apr-1972 22-Aug-2007
Italy 8 3 2 3 14-Nov-1973 27-Mar-2002

Ireland

17 15 1 1 14-Feb-1914 14-Feb-1914

Northern Ireland

33 26 5 2 06-Nov-1957 23-May-1972
Ireland
/Northern Ireland
50 41 6 3 14-Feb-1914 23-May-1972
Spain 9 6 1 2 25-Mar-1981 07-Feb-2007
Team HP HW HD HL First HL Last HL
Denmark 7 5 0 2 21-Sep-1983 16-Nov-2003
Netherlands 9 3 4 2 09-Feb-1977 15-Aug-2001
Brazil 10 2 6 2 12-May-1981 11-Jun-1995
Australia 1 0 0 1 12-Feb-2003 12-Feb-2003
Chile 2 0 1 1 11-Feb-1998 11-Feb-1998
Croatia 3 1 1 1 21-Nov-2007 21-Nov-2007
Uruguay 4 1 2 1 22-May-1990 22-May-1990
U.S.S.R. 4 2 1 1 02-Jun-1984 02-Jun-1984
Austria 5 3 1 1 20-Oct-1965 20-Oct-1965
Republic of Ireland 6 3 2 1 21-Sep-1949 21-Sep-1949
Team HP HW HD HL First HL Last HL
Sweden 7 2 4 1 28-Oct-1959 28-Oct-1959
France 9 6 2 1 10-Feb-1999 10-Feb-1999
Hungary 9 8 0 1 25-Nov-1953 25-Nov-1953
All Home Matches 379 237 87 55 03-Mar-1877 21-Nov-2007

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