Quiz! Can you name every nation to have beaten England at the World Cup?

England are one of a handful of teams who’ve won the World Cup, but more often than not they taste defeat at the end of the journey, along the way, or both. They added another loss at World Cup 2026 but some of these defeats on the global stage aren’t so fresh in the memory.
This FourFourTwo quiz simply asks you to identify every team England have ever been beaten by in a World Cup match. The great ones and the not-so-great ones, and no, England themselves don’t count.
There are 24 World Cup losses to account for in England’s history and we’re enforcing a time limit of 5 minutes to tap out all the teams responsible for them.
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