Jude Bellingham, Gary Lineker & David Beckham.
Jude Bellingham, Gary Lineker & David Beckham
Real Madrid and Rangers are the clubs beyond the border to the provide most England players…
A total of 30 clubs have packed their players off on England duty, with the recent international break seeing Real earn a century of Three Lions caps.
Here are the clubs outside the English leagues with appearances for the Three Lions, listed in order of caps and, if level, recency…
1) Real Madrid – 101 caps
Caps for Jude Bellingham and Trent Alexander-Arnold in the last Nations League break takes Real level with Rangers, and Bellingham level with David Beckham as Real’s most-capped England player.
2) Rangers – 101 caps
Paul Gascoigne is the most recent Ger to be capped but Terry Butcher has most appearances while Ibrox-based.
3) Bayern Munich – 80 caps
Bayern didn’t provide England with a player until 2001 but Owen Hargreaves and Harry Kane have seen the Germans since soar into third place here.
4) AC Milan – 65 caps
Ray Wilkins is responsible for most of the England caps out of Milan, with six others also representing England while playing for the Rossoneri.
5) Borussia Dortmund – 46 caps
Jude Bellingham has also moved above Jadon Sancho as Dortmund’s most-capped England international. Jobe next?
6) Barcelona – 44 caps
Thirty-six years passed between Gary Lineker’s last England cap as a Barcelona player and Marcus Rashford’s first.
7) Sampdoria – 44 caps
Before David Platt and Des Walker in the Football Italia era, Trevor Francis earned 20 caps while playing for Samp.
8) Hamburg – 25 caps
All Kevin Keegan, this. As well as 25 England caps, Mighty Mouse also won two Ballon d’Or awards by the Elbe.
9) Marseille – 24 caps
All OM’s England caps came between 1989 and 1992, won by Trevor Steven and Chris Waddle.
10) Atletico Madrid – 23 caps
Kieran Tripper was the first Atletico star to win an England cap followed by Conor Gallagher.
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11) Inter Milan – 21 caps
Paul Ince accounts for 17 of Inter’s caps, with Gerry Hitchens the first to represent England while playing abroad.
12) Monaco – 16 caps
All Monaco’s England caps came in 1987/88 courtesy of Mark Hateley and Glenn Hoddle.
13) Cologne – 15 caps
Tony Woodcock is Cologne’s only England representative, with his caps also split between Arsenal and Nottingham Forest.
14) Los Angeles Galaxy – 14 caps
Fourteen of David Beckham’s 115 England caps came as a Galaxy star.
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15) Juventus – 14 caps
All 14 here belong to David Platt, who managed one more cap at Juve than he did while at Sampdoria.
16) Lazio – 12 caps
A dozen for Gazza while in the Eternal City.
17) Bayer Leverkusen – 9 caps
Jarell Quansah was Leverkusen’s first-ever England international.
18) Torino – 8 caps
England kept faith with Joe Hart for a while after Pep Guardiola wrote off the then-No.1.
19) Bari – 8 caps
A big Villa connection here, with Bari buying Gordon Cowans and David Platt from the Villans.
20) Roma – 5 caps
The last five of Tammy Abraham’s 11 caps came while he was tearing up Serie A with Roma.
21) Hibernian – 5 caps
Joe Baker was capped five times from Hibs in 1959/60. But you already knew that, didn’t you?
22) Al-Ahli – 4 caps
Ivan Toney earned four caps after taking the Saudi coin.
23) Lille – 4 caps
Four caps for Angel Gomes here, which is at least three more than we remember.
24) Al-Ettifaq – 4 caps
Jordan Henderson remained England’s good egg despite whatever his Saudi move said about the midfielder.
25) Werder Bremen – 4 caps
Dave Watson played more games for England than he did for Bremen during a brief, ill-fated spell in Germany in 1979.
26) Ajax – 3 caps
Henderson again, as one of only four English players to represent Ajax.
27) Celtic – 3 caps
Alan Thomson was the first Bhoy to play for England, with his single cap added to by Fraser Forster.
28) Como – 1 cap
Trevoh Chalobah makes Como the most recent entry on to this list.
29) DC United – 1 cap
As a DC United player, Wayne Rooney won the last of his 120 caps in a farewell appearance two years after his 119th.
30) Bursaspor – 1 cap
Scott Carson returned from Turkey in 2011 for the last of his four caps.