Remark: different sources use different denominations for teams: Europe, Europe XI, Rest of Europe, Great Britain, Rest of United Kingdom, FIFA, Rest of the World, FIFA World Stars, UEFA team, World XI, etc. Below, common sense has been used as the main criterium for selecting the names.
See also the list of FIFA XI matches.
The matches for which full details are provided in this file:
20- 6-1937 Amsterdam Central Europe 3-1 Western Europe 26-10-1938 London England 3-0 Rest of Europe 10- 5-1947 Glasgow Great Britain 6-1 Rest of Europe 5-12-1951 Cardiff Wales 3-2 Rest of United Kingdom 21-10-1953 London England 4-4 Rest of Europe 13-08-1955 Belfast United Kingdom 1-4 Rest of Europe 23-10-1963 London England 2-1 FIFA Rest of the World 20- 5-1964 København Nordic Countries 2-4 Rest of Europe 23- 9-1964 Beograd Yugoslavia 2-7 Rest of Europe 28- 4-1965 Stoke Great Britain 4-6 Rest of Europe 20- 6-1967 Helsinki Nordic Countries 2-2 Soviet Union 27- 9-1967 Madrid Spain 0-3 Rest of the World 6-11-1968 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2-1 FIFA Rest of the World 28- 7-1969 Cardiff Wales 0-1 Rest of United Kingdom 8-12-1970 Lisboa Benfica (Lisboa) 3-2 Rest of Europe 10-12-1970 Buenos Aires Boca Juniors 1-1 South America
Amsterdam, 20- 6-1937
Stadium: Olympisch Stadion (50,000)
Referee: Arthur James Jewell (England)
Central Europe:
Aldo OLIVIERI Italy / Lucchese Libertas
Karl SESTA Austria / FK Austria Wien
Willibald SCHMAUS > Austria / First Vienna FC 1894
Belgium / Royal Antwerp
Olympic Day".
London, 26-10-1938 Stadium: Highbury Stadium (40,185) Referee: Arthur James Jewell (England) England: Victor WOODLEY Chelsea Bert SPROSTON Tottenham Hotspur Edris HAPGOOD © Arsenal Kenneth WILLINGHAM Huddersfield Town Stanley CULLIS Wolverhampton Wanderers Wilfred COPPING Arsenal Stanley MATTHEWS Stoke City Willie HALL Birmingham City Tommy LAWTON Everton Leonard GOULDEN West Ham United Walter BOYES Everton Coach: Thomas WHITTAKER Rest of Europe: Aldo OLIVIERI Italy / FC Torino Alfredo FONI Italy / Juventus FC Pietro RAVA Italy / Juventus FC Andreas KUPFER Germany / FC Schweinfurt 05 Michele ANDREOLO Italy / FC Bologna Albin KITZINGER Germany / FC Schweinfurt 05 Alfred ASTON France / Racing Club Paris Raymond BRAINE © Belgium / Beerschot VAC Silvio PIOLA Italy / SS Lazio Gyula ZSENGELLÉR Hungary / Újpest Dózsa FC Arne BRUSTAD Norway / Lyn Oslo Coach: Vittorio POZZO Italy Goals: (1-0) Willie Hall 20' (2-0) Tommy Lawton 39' (3-0) Leonard Goulden 73' Match to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the FA. The match was declared full A official by the FA and caps were awarded. FIFA took a different stance in 2001 when they retrospectively declared the match unofficial on the grounds that only individual countries can play international matches. However, FIFA allowed caps to still stand, confusing the issue further. The FA still maintain that the match is official and we believe this makes more sense despite FIFA's retro-downgrading. Vittorio Pozzo coached for the second time a Continental Team. Pozzo is considered one of the best managers of all time and won the FIFA World Cup (1934 and 1938) at the same time, consecutively. In addition to winning both tournaments, during his time as coach of Italy, he remained unbeaten between 1930 and 1934, won two editions of the Dr. Gerö Cup (1930 and 1935) and won the gold medal at the Olympic Games (1936) and the bronze medal (1928). To this day, he has been the only coach to have won twice the World Cup.
Glasgow, 10- 5-1947 Stadium: Hampden Park (137,000) Referee: George Reader (England) Great Britain: Frank Victor SWIFT England / Manchester City George HARDWICK England / Middlesbrough William HUGHES England / Birmingham City Archibald MacAULAY Scotland / Brentford Jack VERNON Northern Ireland / West Bromwich Albion Ron BURGESS Wales / Tottenham Hotspur Stanley MATTHEWS © England / Stoke City Wilfred MANNION England / Middlesbrough Tommy LAWTON England / Chelsea William STEEL Scotland / Greenock Morton William LIDDELL Scotland / Liverpool Coach: Walter WINTERBOTTOM Rest of Europe: Julien DA RUI France / CO Roubaix-Tourcoing Poul PETERSEN Denmark / Akademisk Boldklub Willy STEFEN Switzerland / Chelsea John CAREY © Ireland / Manchester United Carlo PAROLA Italy / Juventus FC Josef LUDL Czechoslovakia / Sparta Praha Victor LEMBERECHTS Belgium / KV Mechelen Gunnar GREN Sweden / IFK Göteborg Gunnar NORDAHL Sweden / IFK Norrköping Faas WILKES Netherlands / Xerxes Rotterdam Carl Aage PRAEST Denmark / Østerbros BK Coach: Karl RAPPAN Austria Goals: (1-0) Wilfred Mannion 22’ (1-1) Gunnar Nordahl 24’ (2-1) Wilfred Mannion 33’ pen (3-1) William Steel 35’ (4-1) Tommy Lawton 37’ (5-1) Carlos Parola own goal 74’ (6-1) Tommy Lawton 82’ Match to celebrate the readmission of Great Britain into the FIFA. "In 1946, the first post-war FIFA Congress saw the four UK associations welcomed back after an absence of almost 20 years. To help celebrate this momentous occasion, a match between a Team XI from the UK and a team from the Rest of Europe was arranged for the following year. Many fans packed into the stadium to watch what the press had dubbed the "Match of the Century". The Great Britain side, playing in blue in honour of their hosts, was selected by new England manager Walter Winterbottom. The Daily Telegraph patriotically declared that the Brits had given their opponents a "lesson in football" and "outplayed the cream of Europe", while Pathé News simply stated that "British soccer is still the World's best". The football correspondent of the Glasgow Herald, however, offered a more cautious tone and felt the hosts had been flattered by the result..." Comment source: Neil Andrews.
Cardiff, 5-12-1951 Stadium: Ninian Park (26,454) Referee: Mervyn Griffiths (Wales) Wales: William "Bill" SHORTT Plymouth Argyle Walley BARNES © Arsenal Alfred SHERWOOD Cardiff City Roy PAUL Manchester City Raymond DANIEL Arsenal Ron BURGESS Tottenham Hotspur William FOULKES Newcastle United William MORRIS Burnley Trevor FORD Sunderland Ivor ALLCHURCH Swansea Town Roy CLARKE Manchester City Coach: Officials of the WFA Rest of United Kingdom: James COWAN Scotland / Greenock Morton George YOUNG Scotland / Rangers Alfred McMICHAEL Northern Ireland / Newcastle United Peter DOHERTY Northern Ireland / Doncaster Rovers Jack VERNON © Northern Ireland / West Bromwich Albion Billy WRIGHT England / Wolverhampton Wanderers Gordon SMITH Scotland / Hibernian Charles FLEMING Scotland / East Fife Nat LOFTHOUSE England / Bolton Wanderers Edward BAILY England / Tottenham Hotspur Leslie MEDLEY England / Tottenham Hotspur Coach: Walter WINTERBOTTOM England Goals: (1-0) Ivor Allchurch 15’ (2-0) Trevor Ford 23’ (3-0) Ivor Allchurch 62’ (3-1) Charles Fleming 64’ (3-2) Leslie Medley 83’ Match to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Football Association of Wales. The match is full A for Wales.
London, 21-10-1953 Stadium: Wembley (97,000) Referee: Mervyn Griffiths (Wales) England: Gilbert MERRICK Birmingham City Alf RAMSEY Tottenham Hotspur William ECKERSLEY Blackburn Rovers Billy WRIGHT © Wolverhampton Wanderers Derek UFTON Charlton Athletic Jimmy DICKINSON Portsmouth Stanley MATTHEWS Blackpool Stanley MORTENSEN Blackpool Nat LOFTHOUSE Bolton Wanderers Albert QUIXALL Sheffield Wednesday James MULLEN Wolverhampton Wanderers Coach: Walter WINTERBOTTOM England Rest of Europe: Walter ZEMAN > Austria / SK Rapid Wien
UNITED KINGDOM - REST OF EUROPE 1-4
Belfast, 13- 8-1955 Stadium: Windsor Park (35,000) Referee: Jan Bronkhorst (Netherlands) United Kingdom: Jack KELSEY Wales / Arsenal Richard SILLETT England / Chelsea Joseph McDONALD Scotland / Sunderland Danny BLANCHFLOWER Northern Ireland / Tottenham Hotspur John CHARLES Wales / Leeds United Bertie PEACOCK Northern Ireland / Belfast Celtic Stanley MATTHEWS © England / Blackpool Robert JOHNSTONE Scotland / Hibernian Thomas Roy BENTLEY England / Chelsea James McILROY Northern Ireland / Burnley William LIDDELL Scotland / Liverpool Coach: Walter WINTERBOTTOM England Rest of Europe: Lorenzo BUFFON Italy / AC Milan Bengt GUSTAVSSON Sweden / IFK Norrköping Alfons VAN BRANDT Belgium / Lierse SK Ernst OCWIRK © Austria / FK Austria Wien Robert JONQUET France / Stade Reims Vujadin BOSKOV Yugoslavia / FK Vojvodina Novi Sad Raymond KOPA France / Stade Reims Jørgen SØRENSEN Denmark / AC Milan Bernard VUKAS Yugoslavia / Hajduk Split José António Barreto TRAVASSOS Portugal / Sporting Lisboa Jean VINCENT France / Lille OSC Coach: Johan CRAHAY Belgium Goals: (1-0) Robert Johnstone 25’ (1-1) Jean Vincent 27’ (1-2) Bernard Vukas 77’ (1-3) Bernard Vukas 87’ (1-4) Bernard Vukas 88’ pen Match commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Irish Football Association. "Despite the presence of the great Stanley Matthews, the GB team were soundly beaten, Bernard Vukas scoring an 11-minute hat-trick as the Rest of Europe won 4-1. The home crowd would have been especially delighted to note the presence of local boys Danny Blanchflower and Jimmy McIlroy. Representing Scotland was Liverpool legend Billy Liddell, whilst the formidable all-rounder John Charles was foremost amongst the Welsh contingent" Comment source: BFI Player.
ENGLAND - FIFA 2-1
London, 23-10-1963 Stadium: Wembley (100,000) Referee: Robert Davidson (Scotland) England: Gordon BANKS Leicester City James ARMFIELD © Blackpool Ray WILSON Huddersfield Town Gordon MILNE Liverpool Maurice NORMAN Tottenham Hotspur Bobby MOORE West Ham United Terry PAINE Southampton Jimmy GREAVES Tottenham Hotspur Bobby SMITH Tottenham Hotspur George EASTHAM Arsenal Bobby CHARLTON Manchester United Coach: Alf RAMSEY England FIFA: Lev YASHIN > Soviet Union / Dynamo Moskva Brazil / Palmeiras SE São Paulo Czechoslovakia / Dukla Praha France / Stade Reims Portugal / Benfica Lisboa
NORDIC COUNTRIES - REST OF EUROPE 2-4
København, 20- 5-1964 Stadium: Idraetspark (45,000) Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands) Nordic Countries: Sverre ANDERSEN Norway / Viking Stavanger FK Jens HANSEN Denmark / Esbjerg fB Hans ROSANDER > Sweden / IFK Norrköping Soviet Union / Dynamo Moskva Czechoslovakia / 1.FC Tatran Presov Belgium / RSC Anderlecht
YUGOSLAVIA - REST OF EUROPE 2-7
Beograd, 23- 9-1964 Stadium: Stadion Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija (20,000) Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland) Yugoslavia: Milutin SOSKIC © > FK Partizan Beograd OFK Beograd Portugal / Benfica Lisboa
GREAT BRITAIN - REST OF EUROPE 4-6
Stoke, 28- 4-1965 Stadium: Victoria Ground (35,000) Referee: Arthur Ellis (England) Great Britain: Anthony WAITERS England / Blackpool George COHEN England / Fulham Ronald FLOWERS England / Wolverhampton Wanderers Robert THOMPSON England / Wolverhampton Wanderers John HAYNES England / Fulham Jim BAXTER Scotland / Rangers Stanley MATTHEWS © England / Stoke City Jimmy GREAVES England / Tottenham Hotspur Alan GILZEAN > Scotland / Tottenham Hotspur Spain / Real Madrid
NORDIC COUNTRIES - SOVIET UNION 2-2
Helsinki, 20- 6-1967 Stadium: Olympia-Stadion (20,000) Referee: Magnus Petursson (Iceland) Nordic Countries: Lars NÄSMAN © Finland / FC Kuusysi Pertti MÄKIPÄÄ > Finland / FC Reipas Lahti Norway / Viking Stavanger Dynamo Moskva Neftchi Baku
SPAIN - REST OF THE WORLD 0-3
Madrid, 27- 9-1967 Stadium: Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (35,000) Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendibil (Spain) Spain: José Ángel IRIBAR © > Athletic Bilbao Real Madrid RCD Español Italy / FC Internazionale Portugal / Benfica Lisboa Sweden / AC Milan Portugal / Benfica Lisboa
BRAZIL - FIFA 2-1
Río de Janeiro, 6-11-1968 Stadium: Maracanã (93,000) Referee: Diego De Leo (Italy) Brazil: Ronei Pablo PICASSO FC São Paulo CARLOS ALBERTO Torres > Santos FC Cruzeiro EC Botafogo FR GÉRSON Nunes de Oliveira Botafogo FR Roberto RIVELLINO SC Corinthians Paulista Soviet Union / Dynamo Moskva > (46’ Ladislao MAZURKIEWICZ) Uruguay / CA Peñarol Dezsö NOVÁK Hungary / Ferencváros TC Budapest Silvio MARZOLINI > Argentina / Boca Juniors Spain / Real Madrid Hungary / Ferencváros TC Budapest Yugoslavia / FK Crvena zvezda
WALES - REST OF UNITED KINGDOM 0-1
Cardiff, 28- 7-1969 Stadium: Ninian Park (13,600) Referee: Leo Callaghan (Wales) Wales: Gary (Gareth) SPRAKE Leeds United Peter RODRIGUES Leicester City Rod (Roderick) THOMAS Swindon Town Terry (Terrence) HENNESSY Nottingham Forest Mike ENGLAND © Tottenham Hotspur Graham MOORE Charlton Athletic Barrie JONES Cardiff City Cliff JONES Fulham Ron DAVIES Southampton John TOSHACK Cardiff City Ronald REES > Nottingham Forest England / Leeds United England / Manchester City
BENFICA - REST OF EUROPE 3-2
Lisboa, 8-12-1970 Stadium: Estádio Nacional (46,387) Referee: Joaquim Campos (Portugal) Benfica Lisboa: JOSÉ HENRIQUE Rodrigues Marques > Spain / Athletic Bilbao Spain / Real Madrid Netherlands / Ajax Amsterdam England / West Ham United Yugoslavia / FK Crvena zvezda
BOCA JUNIORS - SOUTH AMERICA 1-1
Buenos Aires, 10-12-1970 Stadium: Estadio "La Bombonera" (35,000) Referee: Ángel Coerezza (Argentina) Boca Juniors: Antonio ROMA Julio MELÉNDEZ Silvio MARZOLINI Rubén SUÑÉ > Uruguay / CA Peñarol
Additional Matches
Other matches (until 1970) involving supranational representative sides include the following:
1891 a combined Canada & USA team toured the UK 26-11-1899 Praha Bohemia-Austria XI 0-8 England FA XI 14- 7-1925 Tallinn Estonia 1-2 Austria-Finland combined 27- 4-1932 Bridgetown Barbados-Trinidad comb. 2-1 British Guiana 29- 4-1932 St George's Grenada 0-1 Trinidad-British Guiana combined 1933-34 a combined Chile & Peru team toured Europe 11- 5-1935 Liverpool English Football League 10-1 Wales-Ireland combined 4- 9-1947 Groningen V.V. Voorwaarts (Aruba) 2-1 Combined Suriname(SVB)-British Guiana 20- 8-1950 Belgian Congo 0-4 Combined Southern Rhodesia & Northern Rhodesia 18- 7-1951 Port Louis Port Louis XI 8-2 Madagascar-Reunion combined - 2-1952 a combined Caribbean XI toured Jamaica -12-1952 a combined Caribbean XI toured Surinam 20-12-1953 Dakar Sélection A.O.F. 2-0 Sélection Dakar 27-12-1953 Dakar Sélection A.O.F. 1-3 Sélection Maroc 28-12-1954 Calcutta India 5-3 Burma-Ceylon-Pakistan combined 9- 5-1955 Dublin All-Ireland XI 5-6 England XI 7- 5-1956 Dublin All-Ireland XI 3-5 England XI 14- 5-1956 Dublin Ireland-Wales XI 3-3 England-Scotland XI 24-11-1956 Melbourne USSR 2-1 United Germany (Olympic Games) 28-11-1956 Heidelberg Australia 3-3 United Germany (unofficial friendly) 15-10-1957 Curepipe Mauritius B 2-0 Madagascar-Reunion combined (1st selection) 15-10-1957 Curepipe Port Louis XI 0-0 Madagascar-Reunion combined (2nd selection) 5- 9-1958 Kuala Lumpur Malaya 3-2 The Rest (other teams in the Merdeka tournament) 5- 4-1959 Manila Hong Kong-Philippines XI 5-1 Taiwan 14- 5-1959 Singapore Malaya-Singapore XI 0-2 South Vietnam 1959 a combined British Caribbean team toured England 31- 1-1960 Kumasi Ghana 6-1 West Africa XI 15- 8-1960 Kuala Lumpur AFC Central Zone 5-3 AFC Eastern/Western Zones Combined 21- 1-1962 Kingstown Windward Islands 0-2 The Rest (teams in the Windward tournament) 22- 2-1963 Basseterre St Kitts bt Saint-Martin & Sint-Maarten combined 24- 2-1963 Basseterre Henderson XI (St Kitts) 2-0 Saint-Martin & Sint-Maarten combined - -1963 Guadeloupe - Saint-Martin & Sint-Maarten combined 21-10-1963 London Chelsea 1-0 World XI 14- 3-1964 Charlotte Amalie St Thomas 0-1 Saint-Martin & Sint-Maarten combined 15- 3-1964 Charlotte Amalie St Thomas 2-2 Saint-Martin & Sint-Maarten combined 24-10-1964 Mufulira Zambia 1-4 Ghana-Kenya-Uganda combined 13- 1-1965 Castries Windward Islands 0-1 Martinique XI (reportedly Club Colonial) 20- 7-1965 Ismaily 1-5 Pan-Arab XI 25- 7-1965 Tersana 2-1 Pan-Arab XI 29- 7-1965 Zamalek 2-2 Pan-Arab XI 1- 8-1965 Al-Ittihad 1-1 Pan-Arab XI 15- 1-1966 St George's Windward Islands 2-5 Southern Amateur Football League (Trinidad) 2- 6-1966 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 1-1 Asian All-Stars 5- 6-1966 Kuala Lumpur Asian All-Stars 1-5 Sheffield Wednesday 7- 6-1966 Penang Asian All-Stars 0-1 Fulham 9- 6-1966 Ipoh Asian All-Stars 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday 13-11-1966 St George's Windward Islands 1-1 The Rest (teams in the Windward tournament) 19- 5-1967 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 1-4 Asian All-Stars 25- 5-1967 Penang Asian All-Stars 0-7 Leicester City 28- 5-1967 Ipoh Asian All-Stars 0-3 Southampton 30- 5-1967 Kuala Lumpur Asian All-Stars 0-3 Leicester City 3- 6-1967 Singapore Asian All-Stars 0-3 Leicester City 28- 8-1967 Alor Star Kedah Invitational XI 1-6 Taiwan-Hong Kong combined 29- 8-1967 Penang Malaysian Malays 1-6 Taiwan-Hong Kong combined 5- 6-1968 Kampala East Africa XI 2-2 West Bromwich Albion
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