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Long navy blue shorts, with navy blue drawstring. An inner red shard and an outer white shard running down lower front side of each seam, separated by a thin navy blue stripe. 'UMBRO' in large capitalised white lettering on left thigh. Embroidered emblem on right thigh, with white registered trademark underneath left-hand side of emblem and 'ENGLAND' in capitalised white lettering below it. White number, with red border in the same font as on the shirt, above the emblem on right thigh.

White socks, with navy blue turnover, two red hoops across each. Navy blue emblem on front of each sock, with 'ENGLAND' in capitalised navy blue lettering below it and 'UMBRO' in large capitalised navy blue lettering beneath.

• A long-sleeved version of the shirt was also worn. The cuffs were navy blue, with a white stripe near the edge and there were no panels on the sleeves.
• For the two games played in the 1997 Tournoi de France and the three games in the 1998 World Cup tournament, the player's surname was printed in an arc in capitalised red lettering, with a navy blue border, above the number on the reverse of the shirt.
• For the games played in the Tournoi de France, the shirts worn by the Neville brothers also included their first initial i.e. G. NEVILLE and P. NEVILLE.
• Against Moldova, England wore black ribbons on the left breast, in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, who had been killed in a car crash, ten days previously.
• For the games played in the 1998 World Cup tournament, 'FIFA WORLD CUP FRANCE 1998' was displayed in navy blue directly above the number on the chest.

17 - David Beckham (3 sub), Sol Campbell (1 sub), Graeme Le Saux (1 sub)

• 36 players appeared in this uniform.

• 7 players made their international debut in this shirt.

• Michael Owen, England's youngest debutant of the 20th century, went on to win 89 caps.

• Rio Ferdinand, who won his first cap at 19 years old, went on to make 81 appearances, whilst Paul Scholes picked up 66 caps in his international career.

• All four of Dion Dublin's international appearances were in this shirt.

• 9 players signed off their international careers in this uniform. For Paul Gascoigne, it was a big surprise as he was left out of the 1998 World Cup squad, having just won his 57th cap, and he was never selected again.

• Ian Wright, who was 27 when he won his first cap, won his 33rd and last cap at the age of 35 in Glenn Hoddle's last match as England's coach.

• Howard Wilkinson was in charge for England's last match in this uniform, and he recalled Lee Dixon for his 22nd and last cap, after the full-back had been overlooked throughout the tenures of both Terry Venables and Hoddle.

8 - Alan Shearer (1 Pen.)

4 - Michael Owen, Paul Scholes, Teddy Sheringham, Ian Wright

• Shearer had also been top scorer in the 1995 white shirt, again including a penalty.

• Four players scored their first England goal in this shirt.

• Michael Owen became England's youngest ever goalscorer when he notched the only goal of the game against Morocco in Casablanca. He followed this up by becoming his country's youngest World Cup scorer with a very timely equaliser as a substitute against Romania.

• Paul Scholes went on to hit 14 goals for England, whilst Robbie Fowler hit seven.

• Paul Gascoigne was one of five players to score his last England goal in this shirt. In Gascoigne's case, it was his tenth, with Ian Wright getting his ninth, and Darren Anderton, his seventh.

12 - Alan Shearer

4 - Paul Ince

2 - Tony Adams, Sol Campbell

1 - Stuart Pearce

• Campbell, Ince and Pearce all captained England for the last time.

• Goalkeeper, David Seaman was captain for the remaining game, against Moldova.

England wore this Umbro strip, as singularly unattractive as the companion away uniform, in three of their four matches at the World Cup 1998 final tournament in France, although in the last of those three matches, the round of 16 clash with Argentina, they wore all white, substituting the white shorts from the away uniform for the navy blue shorts of the home uniform.

The colour of the three lions in the emblem was changed from the traditional navy blue to a light blue.  The navy blue lions, however, reappeared on the next home white shirt in 1999.

Like the 1995 home white and 1996 away blue shirts, this jersey sported the manufacturer's name in large, capitalised letters above the three-lions emblem in the middle of the shirt, although, as on the 1996 away blue shirt, the team name also appeared in smaller capitalised letters below the emblem. Still, a stranger to football might conclude it was the Umbro team's jersey.

The uniform was launched in a massive qualification match against Italy, a game which provided Glenn Hoddle's England with its first real test, a test that was failed when England crashed to a first ever World Cup home defeat. Nonetheless, England buckled down and picked up the points against the minnows of the group, whilst Italy lost their advantage. On a dramatic evening in Rome's Stadio Olimpico, a brave England performance saw them hold the Italians to a goalless draw and secure their passage to France.

England's defeat on penalties to Argentina was a frustratingly early exit and things went from bad to worse when they dropped crucial European Championship points at the start of the following season. By the time England met the World Champions in the uniform's last appearance, Hoddle had been replaced at the helm.

Two months after this kit was worn by the full international team for the last time, the Under-18 squad wore it in the World Youth Championships in Nigeria. The game against Japan on 11 April 1999 was the last time that an intermediate squad wore scrolls bearing the word 'YOUTH' underneath the emblem. Thanks to Simon Shakeshaft for sharing his research into this.