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However, an exhibition UK team has played a small number of friendly matches. [8] The UK has also been represented in the Summer Olympic and Summer Universiade football competitions by its own national teams. Two UN member states (the Marshall Islands and Nauru), have never fielded a national association-organised football team. [9] [10]
The national team spent the mid-to-late 20th century in near complete irrelevance in both the international game and the domestic sporting scene. CONCACAF had only one World Cup berth until 1982. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Playing only two matches from 1981 to 1983, U.S. Soccer targeted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1986 World Cup to ...
Friendly club matches are generally not eligible for the records. The article includes comprehensive statistics on official football leagues worldwide in general, without taking league rankings or coefficients into account. These records are divided based on whether they relate to players, coaches, clubs, or stadiums.
Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894.
The team has the record number of consecutive participations in the European Cup (before it became the Champions League) with 15, from 1955–56 to 1969–70. [228] Among the club's on-field records is a 22-game winning streak in all competitions during the 2014–15 season, a Spanish record.
She currently plays for Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. Solo is regarded as one of the top goalkeepers in the world. She was the starting goalkeeper for the majority of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and helped lead the U.S. national team to the semifinals having ...
The team also reached the quarter-final stage in 1954, 1962, 1970, 1986, 2002, 2006 and 2022. [168] England failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1974, 1978 and 1994. [169] The team's earliest exit in the finals tournament was elimination in the first round in 1950, 1958 and, most recently, 2014.
Following the 1–1 draw, he scored his team's first attempt in the penalty shootout victory that sent them to the quarter-finals for the first time. [277] In the 100th second of the quarter-final against Portugal at the Stade Vélodrome , he finished Kamil Grosicki 's cross to open another 1–1 draw, and again scored in the shootout although ...