The joint-oldest international football team in the world, it is hard to understate the importance that the English national side has had on the sport over the years. Having been playing games for over 150 years now, the Three Lions spent much of their early history playing in the British Home Championship, exclusively facing off with Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

England joined FIFA in 1906 and from there, the team started to broaden their horizons in terms of potential opponents. The relationship between country and organisation began to strain over the years and in 1928, they actually departed FIFA, though the parties would eventually reconcile.

In 1953, England hosted Hungary at Wembley in what was dubbed the Match of the Century, falling to a 6-3 defeat in a result that led to a major overhaul in tactics domestically, four years after Ireland became the first foreign country to beat England at home. 13 years after that loss to Hungary, England ascended to the very top of world football, beating West Germany and lifting the World Cup.

England are, to date, the only country to have won the World Cup without winning their continental competition, the Euros. Regardless, they are a country with a rich and storied footballing history and in all of that, they have spent most of their lifetime at Wembley Stadium.