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The Three Lions |
- The England national football team has represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.
- It is controlled by The Football Association (FA), the governing body for football in England, which is affiliated with UEFA and comes under the global jurisdiction of world football's governing body FIFA.
- England competes in the three major international tournaments contested by European nations: the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, and the UEFA Nations League.
- England is the joint oldest national team in football.
- It played in the world's first international football match in 1872, against Scotland.
- England's home ground is Wembley Stadium, London, and its training headquarters is St George's Park, Burton upon Trent.
- The team's manager is Gareth Southgate.
- England is one of eight nations to have won the World Cup.
- England has qualified for the World Cup 16 times.
- It won the 1966 World Cup Final, a tournament it also hosted, and finished fourth in both 1990 and 2018.
- England has never won the European Championship, with its best performance to date being runners-up in 2020.
- As a constituent country of the United Kingdom, England is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and so does not compete at the Olympic Games.
- England is currently the only team to have won the World Cup at senior level, but not their major continental title, and the only non-sovereign entity to have won the World Cup.
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