List of England national football team captains
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This article lists all the captains of the England national football team.

The first ever England
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

 captain was Cuthbert Ottaway
Cuthbert Ottaway
Cuthbert John Ottaway , one of the most talented and versatile sportsmen of the 1870s, was the first captain of the England football team and led his side in the first official international football match....

, he captained England in the first ever international match, against Scotland
Scotland national football team
The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Scotland are the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872...

 on 30 November 1872. He went on to captain England on just one further occasion, the third international match, 7 March 1874, against the same opposition. Alexander Morten
Alexander Morten
Alexander Morten was an English footballer who captained the England team in its second official international, played against Scotland on 8 March 1873....

 captained England in their first international on home soil, 8 March 1873 vs Scotland, and was the first international captain to win a match. This was his only international appearance.

Since then, Billy Wright went on to set the record for most captaincies of his country, with 90. Bobby Moore
Bobby Moore
Robert Frederick Chelsea "Bobby" Moore, OBE was an English footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years and was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup...

, who remains the only England captain to have lifted the World Cup
FIFA World Cup
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, reached 90 captaincies in 1973, and shares the record with Wright.

List of Captains

Figures include all recognised matches up to and including vs Switzerland
Switzerland national football team
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 in June 2011. The default order for this list is by most appearances as captain, then chronological order of first captaincy. Only confirmed captaincies are counted.
# Player England career Caps as captain Total caps First captaincy
1 1946–1959 90 105 1948-10-09
1 1962–1973 90 108 1963-05-29
3 1980–1991 65 90 1982-11-17
4 1996–2009 59 115 2000-11-15
5 1992–2000 34 63 1996-09-01
6 1972–1982 31 63 1976-03-24
7 2003–present 30 68 2006-08-16
8 1969–1980 23 62 1974-03-11
9 1902–1914 22 41 1903-03-02
10 1954–1962 22 56 1960-05-15
11 1933–1939 21 30 1934-11-14
12 1989–1996 19 62 1993-02-17
13 1984–1992 18 80 1990-09-12
14 1878–1887 15 19 1881-03-12
14 1959–1966 15 43 1961-09-28
14 1970–1990 15 125 1982-05-25
14 1987–2000 15 66 1994-10-12
14 2000–present 15 89 2004-03-31
19 1903–1911 14 23 1908-02-15
20 1893–1901 13 or 14 or 15 20 1896-04-04
20 1946–1948 13 13 1946-09-28
22 1926–1933 12 25 1928-03-31
23 1976–1986 10 84 1982-09-22
23 1987–1999 10 78 1991-06-08
25 1998–2008 9 89 2002-04-17
26 1925–1929 8 11 1927-04-02
26 1972–1982 8 42 1978-05-13
26 1976-1976 8 12 1975-09-03
29 1921–1924 7 12 1921-10-22
29 1980–1990 7 77 1986-11-12
29 1992–2000 7 53 1993-06-09
29 1997–present 7 81 2008-03-26
33 1934–1939 6 19 1936-11-18
33 1965–1975 6 72 1975-03-12
33 1976–1982 6 42 1979-11-22
36 1885–1890 5 13 1886-03-13
36 1926–1929 5 16 1928-10-22
36 1955–1960 5 35 1959-10-17
39 1886–1891 4 13 1888-02-04
39 1904–1906 4 6 1905-02-25
39 1922–1926 4 9 1924-10-22
39 1924–1932 4 9 1930-04-05
39 1928–1933 4 26 1931-12-09
39 1927–1934 4 15 1934-04-14
39 1966–1974 4 67 1971-05-19
45 1888–1895 3 7 1893-03-13
45 1897–1905 3 6 1903-02-14
45 1920–1923 3 6 1921-04-09
45 1923–1927 3 5 1924-12-08
45 1920–1932 3 18 1925-05-21
45 1930–1933 3 20 1931-05-14
45 1936–1937 3 18 1937-10-23
45 1948–1953 3 32 1950-11-15
45 1955–1966 3 49 1964-05-27
45 1958–1970 3 106 1969-01-15
45 1974–1982 3 65 1981-04-24
45 1996–2007 3 70 1998-05-24
57 1872–1874 2 2 1872-11-30
57 1879–1887 2 18 1882-02-18
57 1888–1898 2 14 1891-03-07
57 1883–1892 2 4 1892-03-15
57 1891–1893 2 4 1893-02-25
57 1889–1898 2 or 3 4 1895-03-18
57 1907–1920 2 25 1920-03-15
57 1913–1924 2 6 1921-03-14
57 1923 2 2 1923-05-21
57 1946–1949 2 19 1948-05-16
57 1972–1977 2 46 1976-05-28
68 1873 1 1 1873-03-08
68 1875 1 1 1875-03-06
68 1873–1878 1 5 1876-03-04
68 1875–1877 1 2 1877-03-03
68 1880–1884 1 or 2 6 1878-03-02
68 1878–1879 1 or 2 3 1879-04-05
68 1874–1880 1 4 1880-03-13
68 1879–1880 1 3 1880-03-15
68 1878–1882 1 7 1881-02-26
68 1883 1 1 1883-02-24
68 1889–1891 1 3 1889-03-02
68 1888-1885 1 7 1891-04-06
68 1892–1895 1 or 2 5 1895-04-06
68 1895–1901 1 16 1901-03-09
68 1894–1902 1 16 1901-03-18
68 1900–1902 1 5 1902-03-03
68 1898–1903 1 9 1902-03-22
68 1895–1907 1 23 1902-05-03
68 1919 1 1 1919-10-25
68 1913–1920 1 5 1920-10-23
68 1920–1923 1 5 1921-05-21
68 1922 1 1 1922-03-13
68 1923 1 1 1923-11-01
68 1924 1 5 1924-04-12
68 1925 1 1 1925-10-24
68 1921–1926 1 3 1926-05-24
68 1923–1929 1 9 1927-05-21
68 1934–1936 1 11 1936-10-17
68 1937–1939 1 12 1939-05-24
68 1964–1971 1 35 1971-02-03
68 1968–1975 1 48 1972-05-23
68 1976–1980 1 27 1980-05-31
68 1972–1983 1 61 1981-05-12
68 1976–1983 1 50 1982-06-02
68 1986–1996 1 59 1988-02-13
68 1984–1996 1 43 1991-05-21
68 1988–2003 1 75 1997-09-10
68 1992–2002 1 43 2000-10-11
68 2003–present 1 70 2009-11-14
68 1999–present 1 86 2011-02-09
68 2000–present 1 46 2011-03-29

Disputed captaincies

Player England career Caps as captain Total caps
1889–1892 1 or 0 5
1894–1896 0 or 1 5
1895–1896 0 or 1 4

Post-War Captains

Tenure Incumbent Others used when incumbent unavailable
1946–1948
1948–1959
1959–1960
1960–1962
1962–1964
1964–1973 , , , , ,
1974
1975
1975–1976
1976–1977 ,
1977–1979 , ,
1979–1982 , , , , ,
1982
1982–1991 , , ,
1990–1992 Mark Wright,
1992–1993 ,
1993–1995 ,
1996
1996–2000 , , , , , ,
2000–2006 ,
2006–2007
2008 Rotation , , ,
2008-2010 , ,
2010-2011 ,
2011-present

Unofficial captaincies

Players who have received the captain's armband during the course of a game are not considered by the Football Association
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 as being official England captains. However, the following players - who have never officially captained England - have worn the captain's armband during the course of a match when the official captain and vice-captain have been sent off or substituted
Substitute (football)
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