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England reached the semi-finals in 1968 and 1996 with the latter held on home soil. England's most capped player is Peter Shilton with 125 caps and its top goalscorer is Harry Kane with 68 goals. England compete in the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and UEFA Nations League.
The top tier in English football today is the Premier League, replacing the Football League First Division for the 1992–93 inaugural season. Since the 1888–89 season, the first year of top flight football, three players have scored over 300 goals with a further 25 players scoring over 200 goals.
Harry Kane became England's all-time record goalscorer as Gareth Southgate's side put their World Cup frustration behind them and kicked off Euro 2024 qualification with a win at reigning European ...
Due to the close connections between English and Scottish football, several players have played for clubs in England and in the Scottish Football League and its successors and amassed over 200 goals across the two systems, including David McLean (over 160 goals in both), Joe Baker (over 140 in both), Neil Martin (over 110 in both) and Kenny ...
List of all-time top scorers Rank Player Goals Apps Ratio Years Club(s) 1 Ian Rush: 49 83 0.58 1980–1998: Liverpool, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Wrexham: 2 Geoff Hurst: 48 60 0.82 1961–1975: West Ham United, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion: 3 John Aldridge: 44 62 0.73 1978–1998: Newport County, Oxford United, Liverpool, Tranmere ...
England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. [37] At Euro 96, the song " Three Lions " by Baddiel , Skinner and the Lightning Seeds became the definitive anthem for fans on the terraces, [ 38 ] and popularised the chant "it's coming home". [ 39 ]
Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
This list is not an all-time top international goalscorers list, as several countries have two or more players with more goals than another country's top scorer. It simply lists only the top scorer for each country. Since January 2020, Canadian forward Christine Sinclair is the leading all-time international goalscorer. [1] She overtook Abby ...