United Kingdom national football team

United Kingdom
Shirt badge/Association crest
Head coach None
Captain None
Most capsBilly Liddell
Stanley Matthews (2)
Top scorerWilf Mannion
Tommy Lawton
Bryan Douglas (2)
Home stadiumVarious
FIFA codeUK
GBR
FIFA ranking
CurrentN/A
First international
 United Kingdom 6–1 Rest of Europe
(Glasgow, United Kingdom; 10 May 1947)
Biggest win
 United Kingdom 6–1 Rest of Europe
(Glasgow, United Kingdom; 10 May 1947)
Biggest defeat
 United Kingdom 1–4 Rest of Europe
(Belfast, United Kingdom; 13 August 1955)

The United Kingdom national football team are a football team that represents the United Kingdom. Despite football being the most popular sport in the country, the team has not played since 1965, as separate teams represent each home nation (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) in all major international football tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship, as well as various friendlies. It is the home nations which are FIFA affiliated and not the United Kingdom as a whole.

The United Kingdom national team has only played in friendlies and other ceremonial games. The one place where the United Kingdom has competed in a major football tournament as a whole is at the Summer Olympic Games, where it is represented by the Great Britain Olympic football team, which despite the name can also include Northern Ireland players, who can choose to represent either the British or Irish teams.

A United Kingdom football team participates regularly at the Summer Universiade football tournament.


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