Arranged by Time of Goal

Notes

These goal times are mostly taken from official Football Association records, except Lawton's twelve second goal, which was taken directly from Clifford Webb's original match report.

Those for Jack Cock in 1919 and Edgar Chadwick in 1892 are estimates.

Tommy Lawton and Bryan Robson each share the distinction of scoring two of the 10 fastest England goals in history.  Lawton's two came in consecutive matches, in the last match of one season and the first match of the next..  Robson's effort against Yugoslavia in 1989 is the fastest England goal scored at Wembley.  His goal against France in 1982 is the fastest scored by England and the third fastest scored by any team in World Cup final tournament play.

Both Jack Cock and Bill Nicholson scored inside the first minute of their international debuts.  Nicholson's strike came on his first touch of the ball in an England shirt, but he was never again capped.

No England player has matched the fastest goal ever scored against England, by Davide Gualtieri for San Marino at 8.3 seconds of the final match of the ill-fated World Cup 1994 qualifying campaign in Bologna, Italy on 17 November 1993.  Here is Jonathon Pearce's radio commentary as the match kicked off: 
"Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down."

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