England's Home Uniform 1984 to 1987

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Notes

In a £1m, five-year agreement with Umbro, England reverted to predominantly white shirts from 1984 to 1987, with a slight but obvious difference through the 1986 World Cup.  This plain white shirt came with shadow stripes, with a navy pinline across the top of the shoulder, coupled with a navy collar and cuffs, with a red and white stripe going through the middle.

The Three Lions emblem appeared on the shorts for the first time,  as shown in the photo above, worn by Ray Wilkins against Scotland on May 26^th, 1984.

The numbers on the back of the shirt were red, with a white border, outlined in red, except for the games in ciudad de México in 1985.  On those occasions, England reverted back to plain red numbers in the old Umbro style.  One more curious fact about the numbers was that when Gary Lineker scored four goals against Spain in Madrid in 1987, a white Umbro diamond was worn at the base of each digit of the red number 10 he wore on his back.  No other players appear to have done the same and there does not appear to have been any other instance of Umbro logos ever being worn at the base of the numbers on any England shirt before or since.

What we can confirm is there appears to be three different type shirts that have been produced:- The White 1984 shirt, as seen above, that was worn from 1984 to 1987, except when the following two shirts were produced:- The White 1985, airtex, worn in Mexico against Italy and in the USA (but not, curiously, against Mexico) in the summer of 1985, and then the White 1986 World Cup shirt, also airtex, but without cuffs.

 

Matches in Which England Wore the 1984 Home White Uniform
1983-84
585	29-Feb-1984	0-2 vs. France	Parc des Princes, Paris	Fr	AL
586	04-Apr-1984	1-0 vs. Northern Ireland	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	BC	HW
587	02-May-1984	0-1 vs. Wales	Y Cae Ras, Mold Road, Wrecsam	BC	AL
588	26-May-1984	1-1 vs. Scotland	Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow	BC	AD
589	02-Jun-1984	0-2 vs. USSR	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	Fr	HL
590	10-Jun-1984	2-0 vs. Brazil	Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro	Fr	AW
Notes		England wore the white home shirt with white away change shorts, and red stockings against Brazil.
592	17-Jun-1984	0-0 vs. Chile	Estadio Nacional de Chile, Ñuñoa, Santiago	Fr	AD
Notes		England wore the white home shirt with white away change shorts, and red stockings against Chile.
1984-85
593	12-Sep-1984	1-0 vs. GDR	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	Fr	HW
595	14-Nov-1984	8-0 vs. Turkey	Inönü Stadyumu, İstanbul	WCP	AW
596	27-Feb-1985	1-0 vs. Northern Ireland	Windsor Park, Belfast	WCP	AW
597	26-Mar-1985	2-1 vs. Republic of Ireland	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	Fr	HW
598	01-May-1985	0-0 vs. Romania	Stadionul 23 August, Bucureşti	WCP	AD
599	22-May-1985	1-1 vs. Finland	Olympiastadion, Helsinki	WCP	AD
600	25-May-1985	0-1 vs. Scotland	Hampden Park, Mount Florida, Glasgow	TC	AL
601	06-Jun-1985	1-2 vs. Italy	Estadio Azteca, Santa Úrsula, ciudad de México, Mexico	TC	NL
602	09-Jun-1985	0-1 vs. Mexico	Estadio Azteca, Santa Úrsula, ciudad de México	TC	AL
604	16-Jun-1985	5-0 vs. USA	The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles	Fr	AW
Notes		England wore all white, the white home shirt with white away change shorts, and white stockings against USA.
1985-86
605	11-Sep-1985	1-1 vs. Romania	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	WCP	HD
607	13-Nov-1985	0-0 vs. Northern Ireland	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	WCP	HD
608	29-Jan-1986	4-0 vs. Egypt	Nasser Stadium, Cairo	Fr	AW
610	26-Mar-1986	1-0 vs. USSR	Dinamo Stadion, Tbilisi, Georgia	Fr	AW
611	23-Apr-1986	2-1 vs. Scotland	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	TC	HW
1986-87
620	15-Oct-1986	3-0 vs. Northern Ireland	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	ECP	HW
621	12-Nov-1986	2-0 vs. Yugoslavia	Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London	ECP	HW
622	18-Feb-1987	4-2 vs. Spain	El Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid	Fr	AW
Notes		England wore all white, the white home shirt with white away change shorts, and white stockings against Spain.
623	01-Apr-1987	2-0 vs. Northern Ireland	Windsor Park	ECP	AW
624	29-Apr-1987	0-0 vs. Turkey	Atatürk Stadyumu, İzmir	ECP	AD

This shirt was commercially available from it's outset.  Available from The Mail Order Department at Wembley Stadium.  For some unknown reason, the prices were not available in 1984.

Uniforms Index

47 England internationals appeared in this shirt. Kenny Sansom, who had also worn the previous white shirt (1980) the most, made 25 appearances in this one, ahead of Bryan Robson and Ray Wilkins, with 20 each.

19 players won their first cap in the shirt, including Gary Lineker, who went on to win 80 caps, Tony Adams, who won 66, and Chris Waddle, who won 62.

19 players made their last international appearance in this shirt, including Ray Wilkins’ 84^th cap, Trevor Francis’ 52^nd and Paul Mariner’s 35^th.

Of the 5 players that won all their caps in this shirt, only two (Steve Hunt and Alan Kennedy) appeared more than once, but their international careers were over after their second game. Hunt had been substitute in both his appearances.

Top scorer in this shirt was Gary Lineker, with 11 goals, followed by Bryan Robson, with 5.

7 players scored their first international goal in the shirt, with Gary Lineker going on to hit 48 for England.

Tony Woodcock was one of 8 players to score his last goal for England in this shirt, when he netted for the 16^th time at international level.

Only 3 players scored all their international goals in this shirt, and of them, only Viv Anderson scored twice.

All of Bryan Robson’s appearances in this shirt (20) were as captain. Only two other players skippered their country in the shirt; Ray Wilkins, on 6 occasions and Terry Butcher, who led the team out for the first of 7 games as captain.

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