James Peter "Jimmy" Greaves - Goals in International Matches (original) (raw)

The outstanding English player, who scored 44 international goals for his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with Two Score Goals for his national team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.

Caps Goals Date Venue Opponent Score Competition 1 1 1 17/ 5/59 Lima Peru 1-4 2 1 24/ 5/59 Cd. de México Mexico 1-2 3 1 28/ 5/59 Los Angeles United States 8-1 4 1 2 17/10/59 Cardiff Wales 1-0 British Championship 5 2 28/10/59 London Sweden 2-3 6 1 3 11/ 5/60 London Yugoslavia 3-3 7 3 15/ 5/60 Madrid Spain 0-3 8 2 5 8/10/60 Belfast N. Ireland 5-2 British Championship 9 3 8 19/10/60 Luxembourg Luxembourg 9-0 World Cup Qualifier 10 1 9 26/10/60 London Spain 4-2 11 2 11 23/11/60 London Wales 5-1 British Championship 12 3 14 15/ 4/61 London Scotland 9-3 British Championship 13 14 21/ 5/61 Lisboa Portugal 1-1 World Cup Qualifier 14 1 15 24/ 5/61 Roma Italy 3-2 15 1 16 27/ 5/61 Wien Austria 1-3 16 16 14/ 4/62 Glasgow Scotland 0-2 British Championship 17 16 9/ 5/62 London Switzerland 3-1 18 3 19 20/ 5/62 Lima Peru 4-0 19 19 31/ 5/62 Rancagua Hungary 1-2 World Cup 20 1 20 2/ 6/62 Rancagua Argentina 3-1 World Cup 21 20 7/ 6/62 Rancagua Bulgaria 0-0 World Cup 22 20 10/ 6/62 Viña del Mar Brazil 1-3 World Cup 23 20 3/10/62 Sheffield France 1-1 European Champ. Qual. 24 1 21 20/10/62 Belfast N. Ireland 3-1 British Championship 25 1 22 21/11/62 London Wales 4-0 British Championship 26 22 27/ 2/63 Paris France 2-5 European Champ. Qual. 27 22 6/ 4/63 London Scotland 1-2 British Championship 28 22 8/ 5/63 London Brazil 1-1 29 2 24 29/ 5/63 Bratislava Czechoslovakia 4-2 30 24 5/ 6/63 Basel Switzerland 8-1 31 1 25 12/10/63 Cardiff Wales 4-0 British Championship 32 1 26 23/10/63 London FIFA 2-1 33 4 30 20/11/63 London N. Ireland 8-3 British Championship 34 30 6/ 5/64 London Uruguay 2-1 35 30 17/ 5/64 Lisboa Portugal 4-3 36 1 31 24/ 5/64 Dublin Ireland 3-1 37 1 32 30/ 5/64 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1-5 Nations Cup 38 32 4/ 6/64 São Paulo Portugal 1-1 Nations Cup 39 32 6/ 6/64 Rio de Janeiro Argentina 0-1 Nations Cup 40 3 35 3/10/64 Belfast N. Ireland 4-3 British Championship 41 35 21/10/64 London Belgium 2-2 42 1 36 9/12/64 Amsterdam Netherlands 1-1 43 1 37 10/ 4/65 London Scotland 2-2 British Championship 44 1 38 5/ 5/65 London Hungary 1-0 45 38 9/ 5/65 Beograd Yugoslavia 1-1 46 38 2/10/65 Cardiff Wales 0-0 British Championship 47 38 20/10/65 London Austria 2-3 48 1 39 4/ 5/66 London Yugoslavia 2-0 49 4 43 29/ 6/66 Oslo Norway 6-1 50 43 3/ 7/66 København Denmark 2-0 51 43 5/ 7/66 Chorzów Poland 1-0 52 43 11/ 7/66 London Uruguay 0-0 World Cup 53 43 16/ 7/66 London Mexico 2-0 World Cup 54 43 20/ 7/66 London France 2-0 World Cup 55 43 15/ 4/67 London Scotland 2-3 European Champ. Qual. 56 1 44 24/ 5/67 London Spain 2-0 57 44 27/ 5/67 Wien Austria 1-0

NB: in January 2001 (!) FIFA decided not to recognize the match on 23/10/1963 as full international, but the English FA kept it in the records.

Total Record

Matches Won Draw Lost For Against Points Percentage 57 31 12 14 147- 84 74 64.91

44 Goals in 57 Matches (0.77 per match)

Types of Goals

Friendlies 20 British Championship 19 World Cup Qualifiers 3 World Cup 1 Other Tournaments 1

Total 44

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Prepared and maintained by _Roberto Mamrud_for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Roberto Mamrud (robert@elsitio.net) Last updated: 23 May 2004