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In association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international football to a player making an official appearance for their national team. This article lists all men's football players who have played in 100 or more official international matches for a national football team according to association football's world governing body FIFA.
It is fielded by The Football Association, the governing body of football in England, and competes as a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which encompasses the countries of Europe. England competed in the first official international football match on 30 November 1872, a 0–0 draw with Scotland at Hamilton Crescent. [1]
List of England international footballers capped while playing for a lower division club; List of England international footballers with one cap; List of England national football team captains; List of England national football team hat-tricks; List of England national football team World Cup and European Championship squads
List of women's footballers with 100 or more international caps Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of footballers with 100 or more caps .
In total, he made 70 consecutive full international appearances with 105 in all, scoring three times. He was also the first footballer in the world to earn 100 caps, [7] reaching the landmark in a 1–0 victory over Scotland at Wembley on 11 April 1959. [9] It was more than a decade before his record was broken by another player, Bobby Charlton.
Maik Taylor, the club's most capped international player Birmingham City Football Club, an English association football club based in the city of Birmingham, was founded in 1875 under the name of Small Heath Alliance. They first entered the FA Cup in the 1881–82 season. When nationally organised league football in England began, the club, by then called simply Small Heath F.C., was a founder ...
After 1977, many sources, including FIFA [3] [4] and the Guinness Book of Records, [5] reported later European cap records as world records. Subsequent validation of the caps claimed by Cha Bum-Kun , Hussein Saeed , Majed Abdullah , and Adnan Al Talyani has shown that, even stripping out ineligible matches, these players exceeded the ...
This is a progressive list of men's association footballers who have held or co-held the European record for international caps since 1976. The progression up to 1976 is derivable from the world record progression because the world record holder was always European, except when Ángel Romano narrowly overtook Imre Schlosser in 1924–27.