Football World Cup 1970 / England

The English national football team at the 1970 World Cup :

qualification

England won the World Cup in 1966 and was automatically qualified as the title holder.

English contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Gordon Banks	Stoke City	12/30/1937	3	0	0	0
12	Peter Bonetti	Chelsea FC	09/27/1941	1	0	0	0
13	Alex Stepney	Manchester United	September 18, 1942	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Keith Newton	Everton FC	06/23/1941	3	0	0	0
3	Terry Cooper	Leeds United	07/12/1944	4th	0	0	0
5	Brian Labone	Everton FC	01/23/1940	3	0	0	0
6th	Bobby Moore	West Ham United	04/12/1941	4th	0	0	0
14th	Tommy Wright	Everton FC	10/21/1944	2	0	0	0
16	Emlyn Hughes	Liverpool FC	08/28/1947	0	0	0	0
17th	Jack Charlton	Leeds United	05/08/1935	1	0	0	0
midfield player
4th	Alan Mullery	Tottenham Hotspur	11/23/1941	4th	1	0	0
8th	Alan Ball	Everton FC	05/12/1945	4th	0	0	0
9	Bobby Charlton	Manchester United	10/11/1937	4th	0	0	0
11	Martin Peters	Tottenham Hotspur	11/08/1943	4th	1	0	0
15th	Nobby Stiles	Manchester United	May 18, 1942	0	0	0	0
18th	Norman Hunter	Leeds United	October 29, 1943	1	0	0	0
19th	Colin Bell	Manchester City	02/26/1946	3	0	0	0
striker
7th	Francis Lee	Manchester City	04/29/1944	3	0	2	0
10	Geoff Hurst	West Ham United	December 8, 1941	3	1	0	0
20th	Peter Osgood	Chelsea FC	02/20/1947	2	0	0	0
21st	Allan Clarke	Leeds United	07/31/1946	1	1	0	0
22nd	Jeff Astle	West Bromwich Albion	05/13/1942	2	0	0	0
Trainer
	Alf Ramsey		01/22/1920

England's games at the 1970 World Cup

Title holder England played in group C together with two-time world champions Brazil .

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	8: 3	6th
2	England	2: 1	4th
3	Romania	4: 5	2
4th	Czechoslovakia	2: 7	0

• England 1-0 Romania (Tue 2nd June 1970)

Goal: Hurst (65th min.)

• England 0-1 Brazil (Sun 7 June 1970)

Goal: Jairzinho (59th min.)

• England 1-0 Czechoslovakia (Thursday 11 June 1970)

Goal: Clarke (50th minute penalty)

Quarter finals

• England 2-3 Germany after extra time (Sun 14 June 1970)

Goals: 1-0 Mullery (31st min.), 2-0 Peters (49th min.), 2: 1 Beckenbauer (68th min.), 2: 2 Seeler (76th min.), 2: 3 Müller (108th min.)