England Football Players Appearances & Goals 1872 to 2023
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The 196 football players who have appeared 20 times or more for England, together with goals scored and first and last matches played.
View players who scored the Most Goals for England and players with the Most Caps for England.
Updated to 19th June 2023.
| Player | Pos | Apps | Goals | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Shilton | GK | 125 | 0 | 25 November 1970 | 7 July 1990 |
| Wayne Rooney | FW | 120 | 53 | 12 February 2003 | 15 November 2018 |
| David Beckham | MF | 115 | 17 | 1 September 1996 | 14 October 2009 |
| Steven Gerrard | MF | 114 | 21 | 31 May 2000 | 24 June 2014 |
| Bobby Moore † | DF | 108 | 2 | 20 May 1962 | 14 November 1973 |
| Ashley Cole | DF | 107 | 0 | 28 March 2001 | 5 March 2014 |
| Bobby Charlton † | FW / MF | 106 | 49 | 19 April 1958 | 14 June 1970 |
| Frank Lampard | MF | 106 | 29 | 10 October 1999 | 24 June 2014 |
| Billy Wright | HB | 105 | 3 | 28 September 1946 | 28 May 1959 |
| Bryan Robson | MF | 90 | 26 | 6 February 1980 | 16 October 1991 |
| Michael Owen | FW | 89 | 40 | 11 February 1998 | 26 March 2008 |
| Kenny Sansom | DF | 86 | 1 | 23 May 1979 | 18 June 1988 |
| Gary Neville | DF | 85 | 0 | 3 June 1995 | 7 February 2007 |
| Ray Wilkins | MF | 84 | 3 | 28 May 1976 | 12 November 1986 |
| Harry Kane * | FW | 84 | 58 | 27 March 2015 | 19 June 2023 |
| Raheem Sterling * | MF / FW | 82 | 20 | 14 November 2012 | 10 December 2022 |
| Rio Ferdinand | DF | 81 | 3 | 15 November 1997 | 4 June 2011 |
| Gary Lineker | FW | 80 | 48 | 26 May 1984 | 17 June 1992 |
| John Barnes | MF | 79 | 11 | 28 May 1983 | 6 September 1995 |
| Stuart Pearce | DF | 78 | 5 | 19 May 1987 | 8 September 1999 |
| John Terry | DF | 78 | 6 | 3 June 2003 | 7 September 2012 |
| Terry Butcher | DF | 77 | 3 | 31 May 1980 | 4 July 1990 |
| Jordan Henderson * | MF | 77 | 3 | 17 November 2010 | 19 June 2023 |
| Tom Finney | FW | 76 | 30 | 28 September 1946 | 22 October 1958 |
| Kyle Walker * | DF | 76 | 0 | 12 November 2011 | 19 June 2023 |
| David Seaman | GK | 75 | 0 | 16 November 1988 | 16 October 2002 |
| Joe Hart | GK | 75 | 0 | 1 June 2008 | 14 November 2017 |
| Gordon Banks | GK | 73 | 0 | 6 April 1963 | 27 May 1972 |
| Sol Campbell | DF | 73 | 1 | 18 May 1996 | 21 November 2007 |
| Alan Ball † | FW | 72 | 8 | 9 May 1965 | 24 May 1975 |
| Martin Peters † | MF | 67 | 20 | 4 May 1966 | 18 May 1974 |
| John Stones * | DF | 67 | 3 | 30 May 2014 | 19 June 2023 |
| Tony Adams | DF | 66 | 5 | 18 February 1987 | 7 October 2000 |
| Paul Scholes | MF | 66 | 14 | 24 May 1997 | 24 June 2004 |
| David Watson | DF | 65 | 4 | 3 April 1974 | 2 June 1982 |
| Ray Wilson † | DF | 63 | 0 | 9 April 1960 | 8 June 1968 |
| Kevin Keegan | MF / FW | 63 | 21 | 15 November 1972 | 5 July 1982 |
| Alan Shearer | FW | 63 | 30 | 19 February 1992 | 20 June 2000 |
| Emlyn Hughes | DF / MF | 62 | 1 | 5 November 1969 | 24 May 1980 |
| Chris Waddle | MF | 62 | 6 | 26 March 1985 | 16 October 1991 |
| David Platt | MF | 62 | 27 | 15 November 1989 | 26 June 1996 |
| Emile Heskey | FW | 62 | 7 | 28 April 1999 | 27 June 2010 |
| Ray Clemence | GK | 61 | 0 | 15 November 1972 | 16 November 1983 |
| James Milner | MF / DF | 61 | 1 | 12 August 2009 | 11 June 2016 |
| Gary Cahill | DF | 61 | 5 | 3 September 2010 | 28 June 2018 |
| Peter Beardsley | FW | 59 | 9 | 29 January 1986 | 23 May 1996 |
| Des Walker | DF | 59 | 0 | 14 September 1988 | 17 November 1993 |
| Phil Neville | DF | 59 | 0 | 23 May 1996 | 13 October 2007 |
| Jimmy Greaves † | FW | 57 | 44 | 17 May 1959 | 27 May 1967 |
| Paul Gascoigne | MF | 57 | 10 | 14 September 1988 | 29 May 1998 |
| Gareth Southgate | DF | 57 | 2 | 12 December 1995 | 31 March 2004 |
| Jermain Defoe | FW | 57 | 20 | 31 March 2004 | 10 June 2017 |
| Harry Maguire * | DF | 57 | 7 | 8 October 2017 | 19 June 2023 |
| Johnny Haynes | FW | 56 | 18 | 2 October 1954 | 10 June 1962 |
| Joe Cole | MF | 56 | 10 | 25 May 2001 | 27 June 2010 |
| Stanley Matthews | FW | 54 | 11 | 29 September 1934 | 15 May 1957 |
| Glen Johnson | DF | 54 | 1 | 16 November 2003 | 19 June 2014 |
| Jordan Pickford * | GK | 54 | 0 | 10 November 2017 | 19 June 2023 |
| Glenn Hoddle | MF | 53 | 8 | 22 November 1979 | 18 June 1988 |
| Paul Ince | MF | 53 | 2 | 9 September 1992 | 20 June 2000 |
| David James | GK | 53 | 0 | 29 March 1997 | 27 June 2010 |
| Gareth Barry | DF / MF | 53 | 3 | 31 May 2000 | 26 May 2012 |
| Marcus Rashford * | FW | 53 | 16 | 27 May 2016 | 19 June 2023 |
| Trevor Francis | FW | 52 | 12 | 9 February 1977 | 23 April 1986 |
| Teddy Sheringham | FW | 51 | 11 | 29 May 1993 | 21 June 2002 |
| Phil Neal | DF | 50 | 5 | 24 March 1976 | 21 September 1983 |
| Ron Flowers † | HB | 49 | 10 | 15 May 1955 | 29 June 1966 |
| Geoff Hurst † | FW | 49 | 24 | 23 February 1966 | 29 April 1972 |
| Eric Dier * | MF / DF | 49 | 3 | 13 November 2015 | 4 December 2022 |
| Jimmy Dickinson | HB | 48 | 0 | 18 May 1949 | 5 December 1956 |
| Colin Bell | MF | 48 | 9 | 22 May 1968 | 30 October 1975 |
| Trevor Brooking | MF | 47 | 5 | 3 April 1974 | 5 July 1982 |
| Theo Walcott | FW / MF | 47 | 8 | 30 May 2006 | 15 November 2016 |
| Mick Channon | FW | 46 | 21 | 11 October 1972 | 7 September 1977 |
| Gary Stevens | DF | 46 | 0 | 6 June 1985 | 3 June 1992 |
| Mark Wright | DF | 45 | 1 | 2 May 1984 | 18 May 1996 |
| Jimmy Armfield † | DF | 43 | 0 | 13 May 1959 | 26 June 1966 |
| Chris Woods | GK | 43 | 0 | 16 June 1985 | 9 June 1993 |
| Martin Keown | DF | 43 | 2 | 19 February 1992 | 26 May 2002 |
| Declan Rice * | MF | 43 | 3 | 22 March 2019 | 19 June 2023 |
| Mick Mills | DF / MF | 42 | 0 | 11 October 1972 | 5 July 1982 |
| Phil Thompson | DF | 42 | 1 | 24 March 1976 | 17 November 1982 |
| Steve Coppell | MF | 42 | 7 | 16 November 1977 | 30 March 1983 |
| Tony Woodcock | FW | 42 | 16 | 16 May 1978 | 26 February 1986 |
| David Batty | MF | 42 | 0 | 21 May 1991 | 8 September 1999 |
| Owen Hargreaves | MF / DF | 42 | 0 | 15 August 2001 | 28 May 2008 |
| Peter Crouch | FW | 42 | 22 | 31 May 2005 | 17 November 2010 |
| Danny Welbeck | FW | 42 | 16 | 29 March 2011 | 11 September 2018 |
| Kieran Trippier * | DF | 42 | 1 | 13 June 2017 | 16 June 2023 |
| Bob Crompton | FB | 41 | 0 | 3 March 1902 | 4 April 1914 |
| Paul Robinson | GK | 41 | 0 | 12 February 2003 | 17 October 2007 |
| Phil Jagielka | DF | 40 | 3 | 1 June 2008 | 15 November 2016 |
| Nicky Butt | MF | 39 | 0 | 29 March 1997 | 17 November 2004 |
| Ashley Young | MF / DF | 39 | 7 | 16 November 2007 | 11 July 2018 |
| Jamie Carragher | DF | 38 | 0 | 28 April 1999 | 18 June 2010 |
| George Cohen † | DF | 37 | 0 | 6 May 1964 | 22 November 1967 |
| Steve McManaman | MF / FW | 37 | 3 | 16 November 1994 | 6 October 2001 |
| Dele Alli | MF | 37 | 3 | 9 October 2015 | 9 June 2019 |
| Bryan Douglas | FW | 36 | 11 | 19 October 1957 | 5 June 1963 |
| Trevor Steven | MF | 36 | 4 | 27 February 1985 | 14 June 1992 |
| Graeme Le Saux | DF | 36 | 1 | 9 March 1994 | 7 October 2000 |
| Wayne Bridge | DF | 36 | 1 | 13 February 2002 | 14 November 2009 |
| Shaun Wright-Phillips | MF / FW | 36 | 6 | 18 August 2004 | 12 October 2010 |
| Mason Mount * | MF | 36 | 5 | 7 September 2019 | 10 December 2022 |
| Ronnie Clayton | HB | 35 | 0 | 2 November 1955 | 11 May 1960 |
| Alan Mullery | MF | 35 | 1 | 9 December 1964 | 13 October 1971 |
| Jack Charlton † | DF | 35 | 6 | 10 April 1965 | 11 June 1970 |
| Paul Mariner | FW | 35 | 13 | 30 March 1977 | 1 May 1985 |
| Stewart Downing | MF | 35 | 0 | 9 February 2005 | 18 November 2014 |
| Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain | MF | 35 | 7 | 26 May 2012 | 17 November 2019 |
| Roger Hunt † | FW | 34 | 18 | 4 April 1962 | 15 January 1969 |
| Michael Carrick | MF | 34 | 0 | 25 May 2001 | 13 November 2015 |
| Jack Wilshere | MF | 34 | 2 | 11 August 2010 | 27 June 2016 |
| Adam Lallana | MF | 34 | 3 | 15 November 2013 | 27 March 2018 |
| Nat Lofthouse | FW | 33 | 30 | 22 November 1950 | 26 November 1958 |
| Roger Byrne | FB | 33 | 0 | 3 April 1954 | 27 November 1957 |
| Ron Springett † | GK | 33 | 0 | 18 November 1959 | 29 June 1966 |
| Ian Wright | FW | 33 | 9 | 6 February 1991 | 18 November 1998 |
| Kieron Dyer | MF / DF | 33 | 0 | 4 September 1999 | 22 August 2007 |
| Ross Barkley | MF | 33 | 6 | 6 September 2013 | 14 October 2019 |
| FB | 32 | 3 | 2 December 1948 | 25 November 1953 | |
| Mark Hateley | FW | 32 | 9 | 2 June 1984 | 25 March 1992 |
| Jesse Lingard | MF | 32 | 6 | 8 October 2016 | 9 October 2021 |
| FW | 32 | 2 | 8 September 2020 | 19 June 2023 | |
| Chris Smalling | DF | 31 | 1 | 2 September 2011 | 10 June 2017 |
| Luke Shaw * | DF | 31 | 3 | 5 March 2014 | 19 June 2023 |
| Eddie Hapgood | FB | 30 | 0 | 13 May 1933 | 18 May 1939 |
| Viv Anderson | DF | 30 | 2 | 29 November 1978 | 24 May 1988 |
| Darren Anderton | MF / DF | 30 | 7 | 9 March 1994 | 10 November 2001 |
| Leighton Baines | DF | 30 | 1 | 3 March 2010 | 27 March 2015 |
| Danny Rose | DF | 29 | 0 | 26 March 2016 | 11 October 2019 |
| Nobby Stiles † | MF | 28 | 1 | 10 April 1965 | 25 April 1970 |
| Norman Hunter † | DF | 28 | 2 | 8 December 1965 | 30 October 1974 |
| Roy McFarland | DF | 28 | 0 | 3 February 1971 | 17 November 1976 |
| Bukayo Saka * | FW | 28 | 11 | 8 October 2020 | 19 June 2023 |
| Neil Franklin | HB | 27 | 0 | 28 September 1946 | 15 April 1950 |
| Keith Newton | DF | 27 | 0 | 23 February 1966 | 14 June 1970 |
| Francis Lee | FW | 27 | 10 | 11 December 1968 | 29 April 1972 |
| Colin Todd | DF | 27 | 0 | 23 May 1972 | 28 May 1977 |
| Trevor Cherry | DF / MF | 27 | 0 | 24 March 1976 | 18 June 1980 |
| Phil Jones | DF | 27 | 0 | 7 October 2011 | 14 July 2018 |
| Kalvin Phillips * | MF | 27 | 1 | 8 September 2020 | 19 June 2023 |
| Billy Wedlock | HB | 26 | 2 | 16 February 1907 | 16 March 1914 |
| Ernie Blenkinsop | FB | 26 | 0 | 17 May 1928 | 1 April 1933 |
| Sammy Crooks | FW | 26 | 7 | 5 April 1930 | 2 December 1936 |
| Wilf Mannion | FW | 26 | 11 | 28 September 1946 | 3 October 1951 |
| Brian Labone | DF | 26 | 0 | 20 October 1962 | 14 June 1970 |
| Neil Webb | MF | 26 | 4 | 9 September 1987 | 17 June 1992 |
| Robbie Fowler | FW | 26 | 7 | 27 March 1996 | 15 June 2002 |
| Joleon Lescott | DF | 26 | 1 | 13 October 2007 | 26 March 2013 |
| Daniel Sturridge | FW | 26 | 8 | 15 November 2011 | 8 October 2017 |
| Jamie Vardy | FW | 26 | 7 | 7 June 2015 | 11 July 2018 |
| Jesse Pennington | FB | 25 | 0 | 18 March 1907 | 10 April 1920 |
| Roy Goodall | FB | 25 | 0 | 17 April 1926 | 6 December 1933 |
| Harry Hibbs | GK | 25 | 0 | 20 November 1929 | 5 February 1936 |
| Stan Mortensen | FW | 25 | 23 | 25 May 1947 | 25 November 1953 |
| Terry McDermott | MF | 25 | 3 | 7 September 1977 | 2 June 1982 |
| Phil Foden * | MF | 25 | 3 | 5 September 2020 | 19 June 2023 |
| Bert Williams | GK | 24 | 0 | 22 May 1949 | 22 October 1955 |
| Martin Chivers | FW | 24 | 13 | 3 February 1971 | 17 October 1973 |
| Paul Madeley | DF / MF | 24 | 0 | 15 May 1971 | 9 February 1977 |
| Steve Hodge | MF | 24 | 0 | 26 March 1986 | 1 May 1991 |
| Jude Bellingham * | MF | 24 | 1 | 12 November 2020 | 26 March 2023 |
| Steve Bloomer | FW | 23 | 28 | 9 March 1895 | 6 April 1907 |
| Vivian Woodward | FW | 23 | 29 | 14 February 1903 | 13 March 1911 |
| Tommy Lawton | FW | 23 | 22 | 22 October 1938 | 26 September 1948 |
| Gil Merrick | GK | 23 | 0 | 14 November 1951 | 26 June 1954 |
| Don Howe | FB | 23 | 0 | 19 October 1957 | 18 November 1959 |
| Maurice Norman | DF | 23 | 0 | 20 May 1962 | 9 December 1964 |
| Nigel Martyn | GK | 23 | 0 | 29 April 1992 | 26 May 2002 |
| Nick Barmby | MF | 23 | 4 | 29 March 1995 | 6 October 2001 |
| Wes Brown | DF | 23 | 1 | 28 April 1999 | 3 March 2010 |
| Jadon Sancho | FW | 23 | 3 | 12 October 2018 | 9 October 2021 |
| Ben Warren | HB | 22 | 2 | 17 February 1906 | 1 April 1911 |
| Peter Barnes | MF | 22 | 4 | 16 November 1977 | 25 May 1982 |
| Gary Pallister | DF | 22 | 0 | 27 April 1988 | 9 October 1996 |
| Lee Dixon | DF | 22 | 1 | 25 April 1990 | 10 February 1999 |
| Darius Vassell | FW | 22 | 6 | 13 February 2002 | 24 June 2004 |
| Sam Hardy | GK | 21 | 0 | 16 February 1907 | 10 April 1920 |
| Cliff Bastin | FW | 21 | 12 | 18 November 1931 | 26 May 1938 |
| Dennis Wise | MF | 21 | 1 | 1 May 1991 | 11 October 2000 |
| Paul Merson | MF | 21 | 3 | 11 September 1991 | 18 November 1998 |
| Rob Lee | MF / DF | 21 | 2 | 12 October 1994 | 14 October 1998 |
| Ledley King | DF | 21 | 2 | 27 March 2002 | 12 June 2010 |
| Jermaine Jenas | MF | 21 | 1 | 12 February 2003 | 14 November 2009 |
| Matthew Upson | DF | 21 | 2 | 22 May 2003 | 27 June 2010 |
| Aaron Lennon | MF / FW | 21 | 0 | 3 June 2006 | 6 February 2013 |
| G. O. Smith | FW | 20 | 11 | 25 February 1893 | 30 March 1901 |
| Alfred Strange | HB | 20 | 0 | 5 April 1930 | 6 December 1933 |
| Wilf Copping | HB | 20 | 0 | 13 May 1933 | 24 May 1939 |
| Bobby Robson | FW / HB | 20 | 4 | 27 November 1957 | 9 May 1962 |
| John Connelly † | FW | 20 | 7 | 17 October 1959 | 11 July 1966 |
| Terry Cooper | DF | 20 | 0 | 12 March 1969 | 20 November 1974 |
| Terry Fenwick | DF | 20 | 0 | 2 May 1984 | 17 February 1988 |
| Fabian Delph | MF | 20 | 0 | 3 September 2014 | 9 June 2019 |
| Trent Alexander-Arnold * | DF | 20 | 2 | 7 June 2018 | 19 June 2023 |
List of England’s Captains
Bobby Moore (90), Billy Wright (90), Bryan Robson (65), Harry Kane (59), David Beckham (59),
Steven Gerrard (38), Alan Shearer (34), John Terry (34) and Kevin Keegan (31).
