List of England national football team captains

155 people have officially served as captains of the England national football teams.

Parker remained in her role for four years before being left out of the 1976 British Home Championship; her replacement, Carol Thomas (née McCune), was only 20 when she took the armband,[3] and retained it for nearly a decade.

Steph Houghton has the record for captaincies of the women's team, and outright fourth-most caps as captain (72) behind Wright and Moore, and Kane.

On 3 June 2003, Michael Owen started as captain before Emile Heskey took over at half time, Phil Neville replaced him in the sixty-first minute, and Jamie Carragher was handed the armband in the eighty-seventh.

[7][8] On 30 November 2021, Millie Bright started as captain before Ellen White took over at half time, Keira Walsh replaced her in the sixtieth minute, and Alex Greenwood took the armband in the seventy-first.

This or other amateur English teams also represented Great Britain at the Olympics, when known as "England" in certain early competitions.

Elizabeth II presents the Jules Rimet Trophy to England captain Bobby Moore , 1966; Moore is the only captain to lead England to a World Cup victory, and has the record for being the youngest men's captain (for a period he was, officially, the absolute youngest captain).
England captain Leah Williamson stands at the back of her team to be presented with the 2022 Women's Euro trophy by William, Duke of Cambridge ; Williamson, the incumbent permanent women's captain, is the only captain to lead England to a Euro victory and the only captain to lead the women's team to an international title.