Editing Wembley Stadium (1923) (section)

===International fixtures===
[[File:Scoreboard end in the old Wembley Stadium.jpg|left|thumb|[[England national football team|England]] v [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] in 1981]]
Prior to the 1923 Wembley stadium, international football games had been played by [[England national football team|England]] at various stadia. Most early internationals (including [[England v Scotland (1870)|the first ever international football match]] (1870)) were played at [[The Oval]], which opened in 1845 as the home ground of [[Surrey County Cricket Club]] and would in 1880 host the first [[Test cricket|Test match]] played in England. For the first 27 years, the only International England games played at Wembley were fixtures against Scotland, with other games played elsewhere until 1951. The first team other than Scotland to face England at the venue was Argentina.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamWembley/History.html|title=Wembley Stadium – History|website=www.englandfootballonline.com}}</ref> In 1956 and 1971, it was the venue of the home matches of the Great Britain national football team for the qualification matches to the [[Summer Olympic Games]] against [[Bulgaria at the Olympics|Bulgaria]].<ref>{{cite web | last =Barker | first =Philip | title =Wembley Stadium – An Olympic Chronology 1923–2003 | work =Journal of Olympic History | publisher =[[LA84 Foundation]] | date =June 2003 | url =http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv11n2/johv11n2i.pdf | format =[[Portable Document Format|PDF format]] | access-date =14 January 2010 | archive-date =17 July 2012 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120717121540/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv11n2/johv11n2i.pdf | url-status =dead }}</ref>

In 1966, it was the leading venue of the [[1966 FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup]]. It hosted nine matches, including the [[1966 FIFA World Cup final|final]], where tournament hosts England won 4–2 after extra time against [[Germany national football team|West Germany]].<ref>[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/1966england "Hurst the hero for England in the home of football"]. FIFA. Retrieved 11 November 2014</ref> Seven years later, Wembley was the venue for a specially arranged friendly between teams called "The Three" and "The Six" to celebrate the [[United Kingdom]] joining the [[European Economic Community]]. The match finished 2–0 to "The Three".

In 1996, it was the principal venue of [[UEFA Euro 1996]], hosting all of England's matches, as well as the tournament's final, where Germany won the [[UEFA European Championship]] for a third time after defeating the [[Czech Republic national football team|Czech Republic]] 2–1 with the first international [[golden goal]] in football history. Germany had earlier defeated England on penalties in the semi-final after a 1–1 draw, with [[Gareth Southgate]] having his penalty saved against England in the shoot-out.

England's final two competitive matches played at the stadium resulted in 0–1 defeats for England to Scotland and Germany respectively. The first defeat was in the play off for the [[UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying|Euro 2000 qualifiers]] in November 1999, but England still went through as they won the other leg 2–0 at [[Hampden Park]]. However, the final match at Wembley was the opening [[2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)|qualifier]] for the [[2002 FIFA World Cup|2002 World Cup]], and defeat prompted the resignation of England manager [[Kevin Keegan]] at the end of the match after 18 months in charge.

====[[1966 World Cup]]====
{{main|1966 FIFA World Cup}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; width:70%;"
|-
!Date
!Time<br>([[British Summer Time|BST]])
!Team #1
!Score
!Team #2
!Round
!Attendance
|-
|11 July 1966||19:30||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|0–0||{{fb|URU}} || rowspan="5" |[[1966 FIFA World Cup Group 1|Group 1]]||style="text-align:center;"|87,148
|-
|13 July 1966||19:30||{{fb|FRA|1958}} ||style="text-align:center;"|1–1|||{{fb|MEX|1934}} ||style="text-align:center;"|69,237
|-
|16 July 1966||19:30||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|2–0||{{fb|MEX|1934}} ||style="text-align:center;" |92,570
|-
|19 July 1966||16:30||{{fb|MEX|1934}} ||style="text-align:center;"|0–0||{{fb|URU}} || style="text-align:center;" |61,112
|-
|20 July 1966||19:30||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|2–0||{{fb|FRA|1958}} || style="text-align:center;" |98,370
|-
|23 July 1966||15:00||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|1–0||{{fb|ARG}} ||[[1966 FIFA World Cup#Knockout stage|Quarter-finals]]||style="text-align:center;"|90,584
|-
|25 July 1966||19:30||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|2–1||{{fb|POR}} ||[[1966 FIFA World Cup#Knockout stage|Semi-finals]]||style="text-align:center;"|94,493
|-
|28 July 1966||19:30||{{fb|POR}} ||style="text-align:center;"|2–1||{{fb|URS|1955}} ||[[1966 FIFA World Cup#Knockout stage|3rd place match]]||style="text-align:center;"|87,696
|-
|30 July 1966||15:00||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|4–2 {{aet}}||{{fb|FRG}} ||[[1966 FIFA World Cup final|Final]]||style="text-align:center;"|96,924
|}

====Euro 1996====
{{main|UEFA Euro 1996}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; width:70%;"
|-
!Date
!Time<br>([[British Summer Time|BST]])
!Team #1
!Score
!Team #2
!Round
!Attendance
|-
|8 June 1996||15:00||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|1–1||{{fb|SWI}} || rowspan="3" |[[UEFA Euro 1996 Group A|Group A]]||style="text-align:center;"|76,567
|-
|15 June 1996||15:00||{{fb|SCO}} ||style="text-align:center;"|0–2|||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;"|76,864
|-
|18 June 1996||19:30||{{fb|NED}} ||style="text-align:center;"|1–4||{{fb|ENG}} ||style="text-align:center;" |76,798
|-
|22 June 1996||15:00||{{fb|ESP}} ||style="text-align:center;"|0–0 {{aet}}<br/>(2–4 [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|pen.]])||{{fb|ENG}} ||[[UEFA Euro 1996 knockout stage#Quarter-finals|Quarter-finals]] || style="text-align:center;" |75,440
|-
|26 June 1996||19:30||{{fb|GER}} ||style="text-align:center;"|1–1 {{aet}}<br/>(6–5 [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|pen.]])||{{fb|ENG}} ||[[UEFA Euro 1996 knockout stage#Semi-finals|Semi-finals]]||style="text-align:center;"|75,862
|-
|30 June 1996||19:00||{{fb|CZE}} ||style="text-align:center;"|1–2 {{aet}}||{{fb|GER}} ||[[UEFA Euro 1996 Final|Final]]||style="text-align:center;"|73,611
|}