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List of football matches between British national teams The UK teams have played each other more times than any other footballing nations in the world. International matches between the home nations[ edit ] Main article: He is credited with being one of the game's first modernisers, introducing new tactics and training regime; Chapman is also credited with the introduction of shirt numbers in the sport. From then on, all four teams started playing regular friendlies against each other. In management he transformed Leeds United from Second Division also-rans into one of the most feared club sides in Europe, in the late s and early s. The competition continued under this format until it was discontinued in

Some people, such as politician Tony Banks , have argued for the UK having just one team to represent it but all four football associations are very much against such an idea. The Great Britain team is retained for some competitions, such as with Australia and New Zealand in the recently founded Tri-Nations competition, and in test series such as the Ashes against Australia and the Baskerville Shield against New Zealand. Media support for ice hockey has improved on a national level, although the majority of news is still found on the internet. Wembley has hosted multiple games in each season since , and the series has since expanded to include other locations in London. Subsequent to this, three more qualification tournaments saw UK teams drawn together while the British Championship was being played. The Championship was discontinued in , partly due to problems of crowd trouble, and partly due to the desire of England and to a lesser extent Scotland to contest international fixtures against larger and more powerful nations.

Australian rules football[ edit ] Australian rules football is a growing amateur sport in the United Kingdom. Previously, many of these teams competed in the BAFL which entered administration in List of football matches between British national teams The UK teams have played each other more times than any other footballing nations in the world. All four teams are among the top ten in global rugby union. However British hockey has struggled at time, partly because of conflicts between the need to foster a combined team to compete in the Olympics[ dubious — discuss ], and the commitment of the hockey associations of each of the home nations to the retention of separate national teams[ dubious — discuss ] to compete in other international competitions.