England Tickets

You can get hold of England Football Tickets with a membership if you’re going through official channels. The free My England Football Membership will get you into a priority window, while the paid England Supporters Travel Club (ESTC) has an earlier window for home games, and allows you to buy England away tickets.

Ticket Compare offers England national football team tickets for every game, from Euro 2024 tickets to the road to the 2026 World Cup, and beyond.

Yes, but only rarely. England Members always have priority, but some of the less popular England friendlies do go on general sale. We should point out that ESTC Members can buy up to eight tickets per match, which explains why so few England matches go on general sale.

Of course, you don’t need a membership to buy England football match tickets via Ticket Compare.

ESTC Members are entitled to discounted tickets and reduced prices in the ‘Home End’ at Wembley Stadium. Going through official channels, the cheapest England football tickets for friendlies and qualifiers cost between £25 and £35.

Things are different for oversubscribed international matches, when ESTC Members who attend the most matches get first dibs on the cheapest Fans First or Category 3 Tickets.

On the secondary market, the price of England football fixtures tickets depends on demand, but Ticket Compare will display the cheapest price for every game.

Primary Market England international football tickets have different sale dates, depending on the competition. England friendlies and qualifiers go on sale around four months before the match. For tournaments, the window to buy England football tickets opens about eight months beforehand.

You can buy England national football team tickets at any time on the secondary market, as soon as the fixture is announced.

With a free My England Football Membership you’ll be notified by email when England matches go on sale. There’s an advanced sales window for ESCTC Members, followed by a window for My England Football Members.

Again, the only reliable way to secure England international football tickets without a membership is on the secondary market.

Primary market tickets for England national team away matches are sold by ballot for members. You register your interest in advance, and will learn if you have qualified for a ticket depending on how many England matches you have attended in recent years.

Almost all England national football team tickets are now e-tickets, that you can scan from your phone or print at home. All that matters is that you can scan the barcode on the ticket.

There are two main kinds of England Membership: My England Football and the England Supporters Travel Club (ESTC). The first one is free, and gives fans a priority window for England International Football Tickets, while the second is paid and requires a subscription fee.

ESTC Membership allows fans to build up Caps, which count towards tickets for England international away matches and tournaments. We’ll explain everything in our guide to England Membership.

The main benefit of My England Football Membership is access to the second sales window, before England football tickets go on general sale.

For England Supporters Travel Club Members there are a raft of perks. These range from discounted tickets to access to the Caps system, discounted travel and opportunities to meet the players or win exclusive signed gear.

Never for tournament matches or away games of any kind. Still, some England football match tickets for Nations League, qualifiers and friendlies are sold to the public after the members’ windows.

When this does happen the tickets are gone within a few hours, and all England matches sell out these days. When England played Brazil in a friendly at Wembley in March 2024, the tickets were sold out before reaching general sale.

The best way to guarantee England international football tickets is on the secondary market.

If you want to get England international football tickets with an upscale twist, you can book a matchday hospitality package at one of Club Wembley’s premium lounges. Seating for these spaces can be found in Wembley’s middle tier, with the best views of the pitch. Here are the main lounges at Wembley Stadium:

• Inner Circle
• Centre Circle
• Number Nine
• Bobby Moore Lounge
• One Twenty

Smart-casual. The dress code at Club Wembley is pretty loose, but there are strict restrictions on replica shirts, most of all at club competitions like the FA Cup.

Club Wembley, for the premium hospitality experience and best views. We should say that Wembley Stadium has exceptional views throughout. For a livelier atmosphere you could get a seat in the ‘Home End’ (Blocks 105-118), in the lower tier of the east stand. For more detail check out our guide to the Wembley seating plan.

Without doubt the climactic moment in the history of the England national football team came in 1966 when they won the World Cup on home soil. Managed by Alf Ramsey and captained by Bobby Moore, the team played with a unique narrow 4-4-2 formation that earned them the nickname, the Wingless Wonders.

After breezing through the Group Stage, England edged a couple of narrow wins against Argentina and Portugal, with crucial goals from striker Geoff Hurst and inside-forward Bobby Charlton. Hurst was the hero in the final against West Germany with a controversial hat-trick, as one shot appeared not to cross the goal line. Hurst wrapped up the 4-2 win in injury time, as the Wembley crowd poured onto the pitch.

After a Quarter-Final exit in Euro 1972, England would not taste major tournament football until the Euro 1980. A string of managers arrived with big reputations, including Don Revie, who had an exceptional career with Leeds United, but couldn’t get much out of a squad that lacked talent in defence and central midfield.

Ron Greenwood led England to their first World Cup in 12 years in Spain, and England performed well, but eventually exited undefeated in the Second Group Stage after 0-0 draws against West Germany and Spain.

Fresh from success with Ipswich Town, Bobby Robson took over, and England started to look dangerous once more. Maradona’s solo wonder-goal and Hand of God halted a creditable run at the 1986 World Cup in the quarters.

Robson was at the helm when England produced their best tournament performance since 1966, with a fourth-place finish at Italy 1990. Playing cautious football with spectacular individual moments, England gained steady momentum, sneaking past Belgium and Cameroon after extra time before falling to West Germany on penalties in the semi-final.

The next four years were grim, as Graham Taylor was unable to build on Robson’s tenure. England were embarrassed at Euro 1992 and failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. Terry Venables stepped in, and England played their best collective football for decades at Euro 1996, getting through to the semis where they fell to Germany yet again on penalties.

Venables’ private finances came under scrutiny and he was replaced by Glenn Hoddle, who took England to the Round of 16 at the 1998 World Cup, before losing his job in controversial circumstances due to his curious personal views.

Swedish manager Sven-Göran Eriksson arrived in England from the Serie A, and was in charge of an extremely strong group of players. The drawback to having stars like Steven Gerrard, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Ashley Cole, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and Joe Cole was club loyalty.

Despite their talent, the players were divided off the pitch, which is reflected in sub-par performances at tournaments. England lost to winners Brazil in the World Cup quarters in 2002, fell to France at the quarter-final of Euro 2004, and then to Portugal on penalties in the quarters of the World Cup in 2006. Later experiments failed under Steve McClaren, Fabio Capello and Roy Hogson, as the quality of players waned once more

Off the pitch, England introduced the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) in the early 2010s, which has resulted in a steady flow of talented young players coming through. But when Gareth Southgate took over in 2016, the squad was limited. Southgate’s main task was to bring some unity back to the team, amid the lowest expectations in years.

Almost out of nowhere, he steered England to a semi-final place at World Cup 2018, falling to Croatia. Then came another impressive performance, as England reached the final of Euro 2020, losing on penalties to Italy. With each improved showing, the quality of players available to Southgate went up a level. By World Cup 2022 England were among the favourites, but went out with a narrow defeat to France.

Later, England reached the semis of the Euros on home soil in 1996, aided by strong performances by Alan Shearer, David Seaman, Tony Adams, Paul Ince, and 1990 stars Gascoigne and Pearce.

The “Golden Generation” of the 2000s had several players considered among the best in the world for their positions.

A few of the big names from that period were David Beckham, Michael Owen, Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, and Wayne Rooney who burst onto the scene as a teenager at Euro 2004.

Tournament success eluded that team as it has done for every England side since 1966, but things perked up under Gareth Southdate. England’s recent revival, in which they qualified for the World Cup Semi-Final in 2018 and the Euro 2020 Final, was powered by several key players.

You have to start with striker and all-time England top-scorer Harry Kane, heading a roll-call of accomplished footballers, some who have since dropped out, and others who have burst onto the scene. Some notables are Raheem Sterling, Jordan Henderson, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, and Jude Bellingham.

Let’s look no further than the oldest international football fixture in the world, kicking off with a 0-0 in a friendly in 1872. Representative football teams from England and Scotland had also played in five unofficial international matches over the two previous years.

This is a long way of saying that the rivalry goes back to the earliest days of the game that we know today. England and Scotland have played against each other 116 times, with 49 England wins, 41 victories for Scotland, and 26 draws. One reason for this high number of games is because from 1872 to 1989 England vs Scotland was an annual fixture, played every spring.

A landmark match from this rivalry was England’s 1-2 defeat at Wembley in 1977. Goals from Gordon McQueen and Kenny Dalglish secured the win and ended Don Revie’s reign as England manager. Also memorable was England’s 2-0 win at Euro 1996, when Paul Gascoigne scored an astonishing solo goal.

The two teams later met in a play-off to get to Euro 2000, won by England, while Scotland put in an impressive performance in an otherwise bland goalless draw in the group stage at Euro 2020.

More of a one-way rivalry, this match means a little more to England than it does to Germany. Still, for England, matches against Germany are etched in history.

It was against West Germany that England won the World Cup in 1966. The opponents levelled late in the game to take it to extra time at 2-2. Then came a controversial Geoff Hurst goal that may not have crossed the line, but was given by a linesman from the USSR. Hurst sealed the victory with a thumping strike in the last seconds of the game. West Germany took revenge four years later with a Round of 16 win after extra-time in Mexico.

Ever since that match, Germany have mostly had the upper hand against England. They triumphed on penalties in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup and Euro ‘96, going on to win both tournaments. One resounding victory came in the round of 16 of the 2010 World Cup, with a 4-1 win. Despite being comprehensively beaten, England did have an effort from Frank Lampardl that crossed the line but was ruled out, in an echo of the 1966 World Cup Final.

In between, England earned minor respectability with a win in the Euro 2000 group stage and in the round of 16 at Euro 2020, on the way to the final.

England and Germany rarely meet in qualifiers, but did face each other before the 2002 World Cup. Germany won the last ever game at the old Wembley Stadium, while England thrashed Germany 5-1 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

By a quirk of international football, two of the world’s biggest rivals have not played a match against each other since 2005.

The England-Argentina matchup first gained intensity in the quarter-finals of the 1966 World Cup. In a bitter encounter, Argentina’s captain, ​​Antonio Rattín was sent off, supposedly for dissent, but refused to leave the field. England eventually won 1-0 through a Geoff Hurst goal that was claimed to be offside by the Argentine players.

Such was the ill-feeling that manager Alf Ramsey refused to let his players swap shirts with the Argentines, while the match became known as “el robo del siglo” ("the theft of the century") in Argentina.

In the 1980s the Falklands War (1982) injected a new level of intensity, and it came to pass that four years later, England and Argentina would meet on the pitch at the 1986 World Cup.

The match was highly dramatic, with Maradona taking centre-stage. He scored what was arguably the greatest goal in World Cup history with a solo run, and followed it up with the “Hand of God”, a cleverly disguised handball. Argentina went on to lift the World Cup.

The ferocity of the rivalry had not subsided 12 years later when the two teams met in the round of 16 at France ‘98. England lost in a penalty shoot-out, but not before Michael Owen scored a special solo goal and David Beckham received a red card for a petulant kick at Diego Simeone.

The last competitive encounter took place in the group stage at the 2002 World Cup, and resulted in an England 1-0 win. Owen again earned a penalty, dispatched by David Beckham in redemption for his red card four years earlier.