History of the England national football team substitutions. England played Belgium for a second time in the third place play-off, on 14 July and lost 2-0. History of the England national football team The history of the England national football team begins with the first ever international football match in 1870. They have won one World Cup, in 1966 on home soil, and qualified fourteen times for the tournament onwards from 1950. England staged Euro 1996 (European Championship). However, the team has never made it to the final of the competition; their best performances being a semi final in Euro 1968 and Euro 1996. England's first ever
History of the Serbia national football team History of the Serbia national football team The history of the Serbia national football team began in 1920, when Serbia played its first international match. The first national team was in the kingdom that existed between the two world wars. The Football Federation of what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was founded in Zagreb in 1919 under the name "Jugoslovenski nogometni savez" (and admitted into FIFA), and the national team played its first international game at the Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920. The opponent was Czechoslovakia, and the historic starting eleven that represented Kingdom of