Sophus 'Krølben' Nielsen- 10 goals v France .
Gottfried Fuchs- 10 goals v Russia
Poul 'Tist' Nielsen - featured in 2 double figure wins.
'Påsket' Bengtsson- conceded double figures on 2 occasions.
18.02.82 | Ireland | 0 | 13 | England |
Ireland’s first foray into international football and an inauspicious start. Aston Villa’s Vaughton (5) and Digger Brown (4) did the bulk of the damage. James Hamilton was the goalkeeper to suffer. | ||||
03.03.88 | Wales | 11 | 0 | Ireland |
This remains Wales’ record score. John Clugston on the receiving end. | ||||
24.03.88 | Ireland | 2 | 10 | Scotland |
6 Scots players got on the scoresheet as a miserable month saw Ireland concede 21 goals in 2 matches. On this occasion Ralph Lawther was the unfortunate custodian. | ||||
18.02.99 | England | 13 | 2 | Ireland |
The Times reported that ‘The play might well be described as one long series of attacks on the Irish goal…’ There were 4 goals from G.O Smith and a debut hattrick from Jimmy Settle, Steve Bloomer chipped in with 2. A debut to forget for James Lewis. | ||||
23.02.01 | Scotland | 11 | 0 | Ireland |
4 apiece for Hamilton and McMahon. Irish goalkeeper Sam McAlpine’s only international appearance. | ||||
01.11.06 | France | 0 | 15 | England Amateurs |
The 1900s saw the development of international football in mainland Europe and the establishment of FIFA. England’s full international team was becoming an almost exclusively professional set up. The introduction of the England Amateur XI led to a series of mismatches in which emerging continental teams were thrashed on a regular basis. Zacharie Baton was the goalkeeper. Stanley Harris scored 7, Vivian Woodward 4. | ||||
21.12.07 | England Amateurs | 12 | 2 | Netherlands |
West Ham's Harold Stapely got 5. Lo la Chapelle’s only experience of international football in Netherlands’ goal. | ||||
23.03.08 | England Amateurs | 12 | 0 | France |
André Renaux never got a second call up. | ||||
08.06.08 | Austria | 1 | 11 | England |
Rudolf Donhardt’s only international appearance. | ||||
12.07.08 | Sweden | 11 | 3 | Norway |
Sweden were a goal down in the first minute of this match (a first international for both countries). Erik Bergström and Erik Börjesson scored 4 goals each. After this spectacular start Sweden then had the misfortune to face England Amateurs in their next 2 matches… Sverre Lie became another goalkeeper whose international career lasted only 90 minutes. | ||||
20.10.08 | England Amateurs | 12 | 1 | Sweden |
The Olympic Games. Sweden’s record after this match: p 3 w1 d 0 l 2 f 13 a 21. Påsket Bengtsson on the receiving end of Woodward &Co. | ||||
22.10.08 | Denmark | 17 | 1 | France |
TEN goals for Sophus Nielsen and the end of Maurice Tillette’s international career (2 matches, 21 goals conceded). | ||||
17.04.09 | England Amateurs | 11 | 2 | Belgium |
Godefroid Van Melderen was the goalkeeper here as England Amateurs maintained their impressive goals to games ratio. | ||||
22.05.09 | France | 0 | 11 | England Amateurs |
6 Englishmen got on the scoresheet here… | ||||
16.04.10 | England Amateurs | 10 | 1 | France |
France goalkeeper Tessier conceded 36 goals in his 5-game international career, 21 of them in 2 games v England Amateurs. | ||||
01.07.12 | Germany | 16 | 0 | Russia |
Gottfried Fuchs put TEN past Lev Favorskiy. | ||||
14.07.12 | Russia | 0 | 12 | Hungary |
Russia’s first home game. Schlosser-Lakatos Imre scored 5 goals. Dmitriy Matrin had a memorable day on his debut. | ||||
05.10.13 | Sweden | 0 | 10 | Denmark |
Tist Nielsen scored 6 goals as Påsket Bengtsson conceded double figures for the second time in his international career. | ||||
10.05.17 | Japan | 2 | 15 | Philippines |
The Japanese team was represented by a selection from the Tokyo Higher Normal School. Genya Tomita was Japan’s goalkeeper. Paulino Alcantara was among the Philippines’ scorers. | ||||
07.10.17 | Denmark | 12 | 0 | Norway |
Tist Nielsen scored 5 goals, Ingolf Pedersen the unlucky goalkeeper. | ||||
11.08.22 | Finland | 10 | 2 | Estonia |
Lali Öhman led the scoring with 6 goals, August Lass the ‘keeper. | ||||
27.05.24 | Lithuania | 0 | 10 | Egypt |
Lithuania’s 3 first internationals saw them suffering progressively heavier defeats, 5-0, 9-0 and then this. A warm up match for the Olympics, played at the Pershing Stadium in Paris. Valerijonas Balčiūnas was the ‘keeper. | ||||
29.05.27 | Sweden | 12 | 0 | Latvia |
6 goals for Albin Hallbäck. Latvian goalie Arvīds Jurgens went off in the 79th with the score at 9-0. He was replaced for 6 minutes by Ādolfs Greble , who was beaten 3 times during this brief period of deputization. | ||||
12.06.27 | Hungary | 13 | 1 | France |
Takács József scored 6. The last of Maurice Cottenet’s 18 international games. | ||||
29.05.28 | Argentina | 11 | 2 | USA |
First round match of the 1928 Olympic games at Amsterdam. Cooper in goal for the United Sates. | ||||
09.06.28 | Italy | 11 | 3 | Egypt |
Abdel Hamid Hamdi was in goal. For Italy Schiavio, Banchero & Magnozzi got 3 apiece and Baloncieri scored twice. | ||||
28.07.29 | Sweden | 10 | 0 | Latvia |
Harijs Lazdiņš’ international debut, 3 days after his 19th birthday. He represented Latvia 18 times in all. | ||||
10.04.32 | Italy | 12 | 0 | Luxembourg |
The Italians did not consider this a full international. Robert Dupont kept goal for Luxembourg (the last of his 10 appearances). Giovanni, Serantoni & Bisigato all got hattricks. | ||||
21.05.33 | Spain | 13 | 0 | Bulgaria |
Eduardo González Valiño (known as Chacho) 6 goals on debut. Todor Dermonski started the match in goal for Bulgaria but went off in the 30th minute with the score at 4-0. His place was taken by Radi Maznikov. | ||||
11.07.36 | Australia | 10 | 0 | New Zealand |
George Smith got 5 goals, Alf Smith was the goalkeeper. | ||||
05.06.37 | New Zealand | 0 | 12 | England Amateurs |
26.06.37 | New Zealand | 1 | 12 | England Amateurs |
Frank Cameron kept goal for New Zealand in both matches (and another which ended 6-0) | ||||