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In a sequel to Old Football Grounds how many of these old nations have you seen England play (on TV). I reckon I have seen at least five.

Aden
British Guiana
British Honduras
British India
Bohemia
Burma
Central African Republic
Ceylon
Commonwealth of Independent States
Congo-Kinshasa
Congo-Brazzaville
Czechoslovakia
Dahomey
Dutch East Indies
East Germany
Gold Coast
Ireland (not ROI)
Netherlands Antilles
New Hebrides
North Borneo
North Vietnam
North Yemen
Northern Rhodesia
Palestine, British Mandate
Romania
Rhodesia
Saar
Serbia and Montenegro
Siam
Southern Rhodesia
South Vietnam
South Yemen
Soviet Union
Sudan
Suriname
Tanganyika
Taiwan
United Arab Republic
Upper Volta
West Germany
Western Samoa
Yugoslavia

Christ Rob,

The England v North Borneo game would have been a sell out...

BTW Why is Romania in there?

Pretty sure we have played only a handful of those so I doubt anyone could beat your five Rob!

Quoted from barralad

Christ Rob,

The England v North Borneo game would have been a sell out...

BTW Why is Romania in there?

Because we used to spell it Rumania? ;)

Anyone we played in the World Cup or Euros will have been on TV so my list would include

W Germany
USSR
E Germany
Czechoslovakia
Serbia&Montenego
Romania?
Yugoslavia

There was also a Rest Of The World international that I think was broadcast in 1963 as part of the FA Centenary.

Quoted from barralad

Christ Rob,

The England v North Borneo game would have been a sell out...

BTW Why is Romania in there?

Why are Sudan and Central African republic in there also?

As an avid viewer of Pointless I can confirm Central African Republic is definitely an existing nation!

Quoted from Abdul19

As an avid viewer of Pointless I can confirm Central African Republic is definitely an existing nation!

I would hazard a guess that it was supposed to be Central African empire, a nation that no longer exists

The list came from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIFA_country_codes

It says:

"The following codes are obsolete because a country has ceased to exist, changed its name, changed its code, or has become part of another country."

I guess some of them have changed their code

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Anyone we played in the World Cup or Euros will have been on TV so my list would include

W Germany
USSR
E Germany
Czechoslovakia
Serbia&Montenego
Romania?
Yugoslavia

There was also a Rest Of The World international that I think was broadcast in 1963 as part of the FA Centenary.

Also being an old git, I have seen all of the above,

I might have seen more but can not remember,

BUT

I do watch a lot of football.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Anyone we played in the World Cup or Euros will have been on TV so my list would include

W Germany
USSR
E Germany
Czechoslovakia
Serbia&Montenego
Romania?
Yugoslavia

There was also a Rest Of The World international that I think was broadcast in 1963 as part of the FA Centenary.

I don't remember us ever playing East Germany???

Quoted from pizzzza

I don't remember us ever playing East Germany???

We beat them 3-1 in 1970 and 1-0 in 1984.

I have just checked and we also played them in East Germany in 1963 winning 2-1,

AND

In 1974 drawing 1-1

I think I watched them all.

Quoted from pizzzza

I don't remember us ever playing East Germany???

We never played them in a competition but I seem to think we did have friendlies as warm ups for the Euros & World Cup. I can remember the 1970 and 1984 games being shown, probably only as highlights though.

Didnt Nigel Martyn make his debut against the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in about 1992?

Quoted from biggles9999

Didnt Nigel Martyn make his debut against the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in about 1992?

Possibly, it was the ex Soviet states wasnt it.

England have definitely played both Southern and Northern Rhodesia, albeit whether they are classed as full internationals for the purpose of earning a cap I'm not 100% sure.

The list you have there Rob misses out many teams that England, or more commonly the Football Association on tour, have played - especially in Africa / South Africa like Griqualand West, Natal Province and the orange Free State. I used to have a number of programmes involving "England" in Africa in the 1950's, and they can still be picked up relatively cheaply, usually for between £15 to £20 each.

Quoted from jock dock tower

England have definitely played both Southern and Northern Rhodesia, albeit whether they are classed as full internationals for the purpose of earning a cap I'm not 100% sure.

The list you have there Rob misses out many teams that England, or more commonly the Football Association on tour, have played - especially in Africa / South Africa like Griqualand West, Natal Province and the orange Free State. I used to have a number of programmes involving "England" in Africa in the 1950's, and they can still be picked up relatively cheaply, usually for between £15 to £20 each.

I can hear it now. Give us a Geeeeeee.

I bet Pete listened to the game against Saar on the wireless. Shortly before the Hun took it back again.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

I bet Pete listened to the game against Saar on the wireless. Shortly before the Hun took it back again.

Now then :P

I extracted the full list of games we have played from EnglandStats.com. Unfortunately they are only in country codes, but here are the 87 different countries we have played, and the number of times for each one

SCO 112
WAL 101
IRE 61
NIR 37
FRA 29
BRA 25
ITA 25
SWE 24
ESP 23
SUI 23
HUN 22
POR 22
BEL 21
DEN 19
NED 19
POL 19
AUT 18
FRG 16
IRL 15
ARG 14
YUG 14
GER 13
NOR 12
TCH 12
FIN 11
ROU 11
URS 11
URU 11
BUL 10
TUR 10
USA 10
GRE 9
LUX 9
MEX 9
CRO 7
UKR 7
AUS 6
CHI 6
COL 5
SMR 5
ALB 4
AND 4
CMR 4
GDR 4
ISR 4
MDA 4
MKD 4
MNE 4
ECU 3
EGY 3
EST 3
FIFA 3
JPN 3
MLT 3
PAR 3
PER 3
SVK 3
SVN 3
AZE 2
BLR 2
CYP 2
CZE 2
GEO 2
ISL 2
KAZ 2
KSA 2
LIE 2
MAR 2
NGA 2
NZL 2
RSA 2
RUS 2
TRI 2
TUN 2
ALG 1
BOH 1
CAN 1
CHN 1
CIS 1
CRC 1
GHA 1
HON 1
JAM 1
KOR 1
KUW 1
MAS 1
SCG 1