England at the FIFA World Cup

For the women's team, see England at the FIFA Women's World Cup.

Elizabeth II presents England captain Bobby Moore with the Jules Rimet Cup after winning the 1966 FIFA World Cup on home soil.

The England national football team did not enter the first three FIFA World Cup tournaments but have entered all 19 subsequent ones, beginning with that of 1950.[a] They have failed to qualify for the finals on three occasions – 1974 (West Germany), 1978 (Argentina) and 1994 (United States) – and have failed to advance from the group stage on three occasions: in 1950, 1958 and 2014. Their best performance is winning the cup as the host nation in 1966; they also finished in fourth place in 1990 in Italy, and in 2018 in Russia. Other than these, the team have also reached the quarter-finals on seven other occasions, the latest of which was in 2022 in Qatar.[b]
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