England Results

World Cup & European Championship results from 1986 onwards

A summary of England's major football tournament results since 1986 - the first major summer tournament that I can remember.

World Cup 1986 (Mexico)

Gary Lineker with a hat-tricks rescues England in the qualify stage to put us through to the next round

England 3, Paraguay 0

England 1, Argentina 2

The infamous Maradonna 'Hand of god' goal (above) puts Argentina 1-0 up, before a genius solo goal put them 2-0 ahead. Lineker got one back, but we lose and go out.

World Cup 1990 (Italy -"Italia '90")

Mark Wright scored a 64th minute goal in fairly drab game - but a winning start for England.

England 1, Republic of Ireland 1

Gary Linekar put England ahead before Ireland equalised.

England 0, Netherlands 0

England 1, Belgium 0 (After extra time)

England 3, Cameroon 2 (After extra time) Quarter Finals

A David Platt swiveled volley just seconds from the end of time put England through with a win

England 1, West Germany 1 (Germany won 4-3 on penalties) Semi-Finals

The classic final where Gazza cried, and Stuart Pearce missed a penalty

Italy 2, England 1

We lost to Italy in the third/fourth place playoffs

The Songs:

EnglandNewOrder - "World in motion"
Luciano Pavaroti - "Nessun Dorma" - as used by the BBC as their theme coverage music

Euro '92

England 0, Denmark 0

World Cup 1994 (USA)

England did not qualify to go to the world cup of '94 after losing to Norway and Holland in the qualifying group.

Euro '96

Shearer popped up to score for us first - and his first international goal for several games. He'd been slated recently in the press before he re-discovered his goal scoring form in this tournament. However, the Swiss came back into the game, and won a penalty against us 7 minutes rome time, to make the full time score 1-1.

England 2, Scotland 0

An awesome game. Scotland were awarded a penalty in the second half (when England were already 1-0 ahead through a Shearer headed goal), and Gary McAllister missed it/Seaman saved it. Almost immediately Paul Gascoigne scored the goal of the tournament flicking the ball over Colin Hendry and volleyed home to win the game 2-0. The famous "Dentist Chair" celebration routine then followed.

England 4, Holland 1

We only needed a draw with the Dutch to go through, but instead England won the game in style - with two goals from Shearer, and two from Sheringham to put up four goals up! Holland got one back, ironically ensuring that they went through to the next stages with Scotland being knocked out on a worse goal difference. If we hadn't of let Holland get a goal back, Scotland would have gone through instead! Heh.

England 0, Spain 0

A scoreless draw was played out - and the game went to penalties - in which we won going through 4-2, with Seaman making good saves, and Stuart Pearce laying his World Cup of 1990 penalty agony to rest.

England 1, Germany 1 (Germany go through on penalties)

Shearer got his fifth goal of the tournament with an early header, before the Germans equalised late on. In extra time (golden goal), Anderton hit the post, and Gascoigne was an inch away from connecting with the ball to put it into an open goal. The Germans had a goal ruled out for pushing, before it went to the dreaded penalties, in which we lost 6-5, Gareth Southgate being the unfortunate soul to miss.

The whole tournament felt like no other since the World Cup of '66 as it was played in our country, and the anthem ic 'Three Lions' by Lightning Seeds/Skinner & Baddiel became the tune of the summer...

The Songs:

Lightning Seeds/Baddeil & Skinner - "Three Lions" was the defining hit of the tournament, and indeed the whole summer

World Cup '98

England beat Tunisia 2-0 in the first game (Scholes, and Shearer scoring).

England 1, Romania 2

In the next group game, we lost to Romania, with Owen coming on and scoring our late goal - and hitting the post and almost equalising in the final moments. This was the time when Glenn Hoddle was coach and had described Michael Owen as being 'Not a natural goal scorer'.

England 2, Columbia 0

We beat Columbia two goals to nil, with an Anderton strike, and a David Beckham free kick.

England 2, Argentina 2 (England lose to Argentina on penalties)

We then lost to Argentina in the next round, where Argentina went ahead quickly on a penalty, only for Shearer to equalise with penalty a few minutes later. Then Owen scored to make it 2-1 for England with a classic goal, before Beckham got sent off.

Argentina equalised to 2-2, but we played amazingly with 10 men, and Sol Campbell got a 'goal' only for it to be ruled out.

It therefore went to extra time, and then penalties which we lost after Paul Ince missed, and then David Batty missed and we were out.

The Songs

Fat Les - "Vindaloo"
Dario G - "Carnival de Paris"
England United "(How does it feel?) To be on top of the world"
Collapsed Lung - "Eat my goal"

"Three Lions '98" was also re-worked and re-released.

Euro 2000

We went 2-0 up (with even McManaman getting a goal!) before Portugal came back through the inspired Figo.

England 1, Germany 0

A classic Alan Shearer header dumped Germany out of the group.

England 2, Romania 3

We only needed a draw/point to go through when a reckless last minute tackle by Phil Neville gave Romania a penalty and we lost the game, and went out of Europe.

The Songs:

Fat Les - "Jerusalem"

World Cup 2002

A Sol Campbell headed goal put us ahead, but in an unconvincing display Sweden got a deserved equaliser.

England 1, Argentina 0

Beckham scored from the penalty spot to put to rest his demons from World Cup '98, and we got one over the old enemy... the argies!

England 0, Nigeria 0

A lack lustre display was enough to give us a point and put us through to the next round. I sat round watching this at 7am in the morning eating Breakfast.. most odd!

England 3, Denmark 0

Emile Heskey scored for England! And how many times can you write that? As we breezed past the Danes.

England 1, Brazil 2

It was touted that the winner of this game would probably go on to win the tournament.. Which is exactly what happened. A Brazilian mistake let in Owen to put us 1-0 before they equalised, before a Ronhaldino free kick completely caught out Seaman flapping in goal and we lost it.

The Songs:

Ant & Dec - "We're on the ball"

Euro 2004

England scored an early goal from Lampard, before Beckham then missed a penalty which would have put us 2-0 ahead, a win - surely? Instead, we were only 1-0 up, and France scored two goals in the last minutes for us to lose 2-1, a totally gutting result!

England 3, Switzerland 0

Wayne Rooney became the youngest player to score in a European Championship after dominating the match and leading the line to inspire England to victory. Steven Gerrard scored a third 8 minutes from time.

England 4, Croatia 2

Rooney scored two more, plus goals from Scholes and Lampard to give us 4 against the Croatians 2 efforts. We initially went behind, but went in a the break 2-1 up.

England 2, Portugal 2 (Portugal win 6-5 on penalties)

In this quarter final match England went ahead as early as the third minute with a deft flicked in goal from Owen. But then it all goes wrong as Rooney gets injured and having relied on him so heavily, can England win the game without him?

Portugal equalise on 83 minutes - 7 minutes away from normal time putting the game into extra time. Portugal go 2-1 up in extra time before Lampard heads in from a corner to make it 2-2. The game goes to penalties.

Beckham missed his and gets ridiculed - as the state of the pitch and penalty spot is discussed heavily.

Songs:

Twisted X - "Born in England"

World Cup 2006 (Germany)

Songs:

Embrace - "World at your feet"

Euro 2008 (Switzerland & Austria)

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