List of England national football team World Cup and European Championship squads
The World Cup and European Championship, are the primary competitive tournaments the England national football team enters. The finals of both tournaments held every four years in alternate even numbered years. Excluding the tournament years in which England either did not enter or failed to qualify for the finals, the England national team has nominated the following squads of players to compete in the finals:
1950 World Cup
Head coach: Walter Winterbottom
1954 World Cup
Head coach: Walter Winterbottom
- Only 17 of the 22 official squad members actually travelled to Switzerland for the 1954 tournament. Five players—Ken Armstrong, Allenby Chilton, Johnny Haynes, Harry Hooper and Bedford Jezzard—were put on reserve status and remained at home awaiting a call if the need arose. It did not.[1]
1958 World Cup
Head coach: Walter Winterbottom
- Some sources state that England took only 20 squad members to the 1958 tournament in Sweden, and their squad lists do not include Alan Hodgkinson or Maurice Setters. Other sources, including FIFA's official World Cup records, list 22 players on the squad and include both Hodgkinson and Setters. The likelihood is that these two players were included on the squad list submitted to FIFA but did not travel to the tournament. [1]
1962 World Cup
Head coach: Walter Winterbottom
- Some sources state that only 20 of the 22 squad members travelled to the 1962 tournament in Chile, that Gordon Banks and Derek Kevan were stay-at-home reserves who were never called. [2]
1966 World Cup
Manager: Alf Ramsey
1968 European Championship
Main article:
UEFA Euro 1968
Head coach: Alf Ramsey
1970 World Cup
Head coach: Alf Ramsey
1980 European Championship
Main article:
UEFA Euro 1980
Head coach: Ron Greenwood
1982 World Cup
Head coach: Ron Greenwood
Note that this squad is numbered alphabetically by surname, unlike traditional numbering systems. Despite this the goalkeepers are given the usual England goalkeepers' shirts 1, 13 & 22 (again alphabetically) and Kevin Keegan is given his favoured 7.
1986 World Cup
Head coach: Bobby Robson
1988 European Championship
Main article:
UEFA Euro 1988
Head coach: Bobby Robson
1990 World Cup
Head coach: Bobby Robson
* David Seaman was originally selected, but after arriving in Italy, he had to pull out of the squad due to a thumb injury and was replaced by Dave Beasant.
1992 European Championship
Main article:
UEFA Euro 1992
Head coach: Graham Taylor
1996 European Championship
Main article:
UEFA Euro 1996
Head coach: Terry Venables
1998 World Cup
Head coach: Glenn Hoddle
2000 European Championship
Main article:
UEFA Euro 2000
Head coach: Kevin Keegan
2002 World Cup
Head coach: Sven-Göran Eriksson
2004 European Championship
Main article:
UEFA Euro 2004
Head coach: Sven-Göran Eriksson
2006 World Cup
Head coach: Sven-Göran Eriksson
2010 World Cup
Head coach: Fabio Capello
A provisional 30 man England squad for the 2010 World Cup was announced on 11 May 2010.[4] This was then reduced to the official 23-man squad, announced on 1 June 2010.[5] The seven players dropped from the provisional squad were Leighton Baines, Darren Bent, Michael Dawson, Tom Huddlestone, Adam Johnson, Scott Parker and Theo Walcott.[5] Dawson was subsequently called up after a knee injury to captain Rio Ferdinand.
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