Soccer World Cup 1986 / England

The English national football team at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico :

qualification

England dominated Group 3 in Europe and won the group without defeat ahead of the Northern Irish who also qualified.

English games in qualification

Europe - Group 3

	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	England	8th	4th	4th	-	21: 2	12: 4
2.	Northern Ireland	8th	4th	2	2	8: 5	10: 6
3.	Romania	8th	3	3	2	12: 7	9: 7
4th	Finland	8th	3	2	3	7:12	8: 8
5.	Turkey	8th	-	1	7th	2:24	1:15

England	-	Finland	5-0
Turkey	-	England	0: 8
Northern Ireland	-	England	0: 1
Romania	-	England	0-0
Finland	-	England	1: 1
England	-	Romania	1: 1
England	-	Turkey	5-0
England	-	Northern Ireland	0-0

Squad

No.	player	former club	Date of birth	World Cup 1986 games / goals
goalkeeper
1	Peter Shilton	Southampton FC	September 18, 1949	5	-	-	-
13	Chris Woods	Norwich City	November 14, 1959	-	-	-	-
22nd	Gary Bailey	Manchester United	August 9, 1958	-	-	-	-
Defense
2	Gary Stevens	Everton FC	March 27, 1963	5	-	-	-
3	Kenny Sansom	Arsenal FC	September 26, 1958	5	-	-	-
5	Alvin Martin	West Ham United	July 29, 1958	1	-	1	-
6th	Terry Butcher	Ipswich Town	December 28, 1958	5	-	1	-
12	Viv Anderson	Arsenal FC	July 29, 1956	-	-	-	-
14th	Terry Fenwick	Queens Park Rangers	17th November 1959	4th	-	3	-
15th	Gary A. Stevens	Tottenham Hotspur	March 30, 1962	2	-	-	-
midfield
4th	Glenn Hoddle	Tottenham Hotspur	October 27, 1957	5	-	-	-
7th	Bryan Robson	Manchester United	January 11, 1957	2	-	-	-
8th	Ray Wilkins	AC Milan	September 14, 1956	2	-	-	1
16	Peter Reid	Everton FC	June 20, 1956	3	-	-	-
17th	Trevor Steven	Everton FC	September 21, 1963	3	-	-	-
18th	Steve Hodge	Aston Villa	October 25, 1962	5	-	1	-
19th	John Barnes	Watford FC	November 7, 1963	1	-	-	-
attack
9	Mark Hateley	AC Milan	November 7, 1961	3	-	1	-
10	Gary Lineker	Everton FC	November 30, 1960	5	6th	-	-
11	Chris Waddle	Tottenham Hotspur	December 14, 1960	4th	-	-	-
21st	Kerry Dixon	Chelsea FC	July 24, 1961	1	-	-	-
20th	Peter Beardsley	Newcastle United	January 18, 1961	4th	1	-	-
Trainer
	Bobby Robson		February 18, 1933

English games at the 1986 World Cup

Preliminary round ( Group F )

• England 0-1 Portugal (Goal: Carlos Manuel (76th min.))
• England 0-0 Morocco
• England 3-0 Poland (Goals: Gary Lineker (3) - (9th, 14th, 34th min.))

England reached the round of 16 as runners-up behind Morocco .

Round of 16

England 3-0 Paraguay (goals: 1-0 lineker (31st min.), 2-0 Beardsley (56th min.), 3-0 lineker (73rd min.))

Quarter finals

England 1-2 Argentina (goals: 0-1 Maradona (51st min.), 0-2 Maradona (54th min.), 1-2 lineker (80th min.))

swell

• Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia. 1930-2006. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-205-X .
• FUWO: Born 1986, Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8407
• Soccer World Cup Mexico 1986, Sportverlag Berlin, ISBN 3-328-00099-2