What year did England win the FIFA World Cup?

England won their one and only FIFA World cup in 1966, when the World Cup finals were held in England. England beat West Germany 4-2 in the final, with Geoff Hurst scoring a hat-trick and Martin Peters scoring the other goal.

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Oystein Wergeland

I was inLondon on that day and the city and people in pubs went wild with celebration. Sadly, in the pub that I was in, near Earls Court, the celebration was interrupted by a German who disliked the celebration, got up to leave, turned in the door, raised his arm and yelled "Heil Hitler". I don't know what happened to him, but he was followed out by a number of locals.

Denise Currie

Every English person knows this, whether or not they are interested in football. It is ingrained into our psyche

Chris Braid

Fed up (still) hearing about it!

Anita Clark Morton

purvisfamily, Actually, while it may LOOK like soccer, in Europe it's called football.

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Denise Currie, every Brit, English or not, knows this because the English keep going on about it

Carol Rae

And will we ever be allowed to forget it?

Andy the educated troglodyte

No comment....

Alan Waites

England won the Jules Rimet Trophy. The first country to win the FIFA World Cup was West Germany in 1974.

Mike Reidy

Missed that one , never heard anything about it! Lol

Fred Keogh

Laurie Bowman, Federation of International Football Associations. FIFA has 211 members worldwide. (which is more than the UN)

Carmel Herbert

Actually we call it soccer in Australia, but are respectful enough to understand what it is almost universally called! Wilson-Smith,

Keith Richard Mears

A true world sport, unlike the American ones that just call themselves that.

Steve Kemp

DannyBoy, I guess you think it's boring because you know nothing about football (and I'm talking proper football, not that garbage that's played in the States). Knows you know how the rest of the world feels when we get bombarded with questions on American TV, American geography, American newspapers and the rest of the American bollocks question that get posted on here

Ken Jackson

Sergey Boev, Not so - the first World Cup coverage on TV was in 1954 from Switzerland.

Ken Jackson

Ian Swindale, He wasn't a touch-judge, he was a linesman; he wasn't Russian, he was from Azerbaijan; linesmen can't award goals, the referee awarded it after consulting with him.