Football World Cup 1954 / England

This article covers the English national football team at the 1954 World Cup .

qualification

The group was also the British Home Championship in 1953–54 .

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	England	11: 4	6th
2	Scotland	8: 8	3
3	Northern Ireland	4: 7	2
3	Wales	5: 9	1

Wales	-	England	1: 4
England	-	Northern Ireland	3: 1
Scotland	-	England	2: 4

English contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates	References
goalkeeper
1	Gil Merrick	Birmingham City	01/26/1922	3	0	0
12	Ted Burgin	Sheffield United	04/29/1927	0	0	0
Defender
2	Ron Staniforth	Huddersfield Town	04/13/1924	3	0	0
3	Roger Byrne	Manchester United	02/08/1929	3	0	0
4th	Billy Wright	Wolverhampton Wanderers	02/06/1924	3	0	0
13	Ken Green	Birmingham City	04/27/1924	0	0	0
18th	Allenby Chilton	Manchester United	09/16/1918	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Syd Owen	Luton Town	09/29/1922	1	0	0
6th	Jimmy Dickinson	Portsmouth FC	04/24/1925	3	0	0
14th	Bill McGarry	Huddersfield Town	06/10/1927	2	0	0
16	Albert Quixall	Sheffield Wednesday	08/09/1933	0	0	0
19th	Ken Armstrong	Chelsea FC	06/03/1924	0	0	0
21st	Johnny Haynes	Fulham FC	10/17/1934	0	0	0
striker
7th	Stanley Matthews	Blackpool FC	02/01/1915	2	0	0
8th	Ivor Broadis	Newcastle United	December 18, 1922	3	2	0
9	Nat Lofthouse	Bolton Wanderers	08/27/1925	2	3	0
10	Tommy Taylor	Manchester United	01/29/1932	2	0	0
11	Tom Finney	Preston North End	04/05/1922	3	1	0
15th	Dennis Wilshaw	Wolverhampton Wanderers	03/11/1926	2	1	0
17th	Jimmy Mullen	Wolverhampton Wanderers	01/06/1923	1	1	0
20th	Bedford Jezzard	Fulham FC	October 19, 1927	0	0	0
22nd	Harry Hooper	West Ham United	06/14/1933	0	0	0
Trainer
	Walter Winterbottom		March 31, 1913

* Only 17 players from the 22-man squad traveled to Switzerland, with Ken Armstrong , Allenby Chilton , Johnny Haynes , Harry Hooper and Bedford Jezzard staying at home on call. There were no subsequent nominations.

English team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	England	6: 4	3
2	Switzerland	2: 3	2
3	Italy	5: 3	2
4th	Belgium	5: 8	1

• England - Belgium 4: 4 aet (3: 3, 2: 1)

Stadium: St. Jakob Stadium ( Basel )

Spectators: 40,000

Referee: Schmetzer ( BR Germany )

Goals: 0: 1 Anoul (5th), 1: 1 Broadis (26th), 2: 1 Lofthouse (36th), 3: 1 Broadis (63rd), 3: 2 Coppens (67th), 3: 3 Anoul (73rd), 4: 3 Lofthouse (91st), 4: 4 Dickinson (94th) ET

• England - Switzerland 2: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Wankdorfstadion ( Bern )

Spectators: 50,000

Referee: Zsolt ( Hungary )

Goals: 1-0 Mullen (43rd), 2-0 Wilshaw (69th)

It was exciting in Group IV. England achieved a 4: 4 n.V. against Belgium and the 2: 0 over Switzerland, which in turn defeated Italy 2: 1. But since Italy knocked out the Belgians 4-1, the Confederates and the Azzurri had to go into the playoff. The hosts won a convincing 4-1 victory over their southern neighbors in Basel.

Quarter finals

35,000

St. Jakob Stadium ( Basel )

Uruguay

England

Steiner ( Austria )

4: 2 (2: 1)

1: 0 Borges (5th) 1: 1 Lofthouse (16th) 2: 1 Varela (39th) 3: 1 Schiaffino (46th) 3: 2 Finney (67th) 4: 2 Ambrois (78th)

World champions Uruguay met England in the next game, who with their old-fashioned style of play lost 4-2 to the tech-savvy Urus. Despite players like Matthews, Wright, and Lofthouse, it turned out that the motherland of football was not up to date.