1982–83 British Home Championship

1982–83 British Home Championship
Tournament details
Dates	23 February – 1 June, 1983
Teams	4
Final positions
Champions	File:Flag of England.svg England (54th title)
Runners-up	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	8 (1.33 per match)
Top scorer(s)	8 players (1 each)
	← 1981–82 1983–84 →

The 1982–83 British Home Championship was the penultimate in the series of football tournaments between the British Home Nations which stretched back 99 years to 1884. In 1983 England and then Scotland announced their withdrawal from future competition after the 1984 competition with the arrangement of the Rous Cup between the two nations to eliminate Wales and Northern Ireland,^[1] who were seen as weaker opposition. The 1983 tournament was a tight contest, which England won with a final victory at home over Scotland following an opening victory over Wales and a draw in Belfast. The game at Wembley was played in midweek in an attempt to curb the large number of travelling Scottish supporters. The Scots came second with a win over Wales and a draw with Northern Ireland off-setting their final day defeat.^[2] The Welsh succumbed to goal difference as the points system then in use meant that the Irish, who had drawn twice and lost once without scoring themselves gained the same number of points for a smaller goal difference despite Wales' victory over them in their final game.

Table

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
File:Flag of England.svg England (C)	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	5
File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
File:Ulster Banner.svg Northern Ireland	3	0	2	1	0	1	−1	2
File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points 2) goal difference. The points system worked as follows: 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw.
(C) Champions

Results

23 February 1983

England File:Flag of England.svg	2–1	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales
Butcher File:Soccerball shade.svg 39' Neal File:Soccerball shade.svg 78' (pen.)		Rush File:Soccerball shade.svg 14'

Wembley Stadium, London

Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

24 May 1983

Scotland File:Flag of Scotland.svg	0–0	File:Ulster Banner.svg Northern Ireland

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Referee: Keith Hackett (England)

28 May 1983

Northern Ireland File:Ulster Banner.svg	0–0	File:Flag of England.svg England

Windsor Park, Belfast

Referee: Howard King (Wales)

28 May 1983

Wales File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg	0–2	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
		Gray File:Soccerball shade.svg 11' Brazil File:Soccerball shade.svg 67'

Ninian Park, Cardiff

Referee: Malcolm Moffatt (Northern Ireland)

31 May 1983

Northern Ireland File:Ulster Banner.svg	0–1	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales
		Davies File:Soccerball shade.svg 64'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Referee: Hugh Alexander (Scotland)

1 June 1983

England File:Flag of England.svg	2–0	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
Robson File:Soccerball shade.svg 13' Cowans File:Soccerball shade.svg 54'

Wembley Stadium, London

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

Note

Guy Oliver (1992). The Guinness Record of World Soccer. Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-954-4.

External links

Full Results and Line-ups

References

↑ "When Northern Ireland won the last ever British Home Championship". The Guardian. 15 June 2022. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
↑ "When Northern Ireland and Wales outperformed England and Scotland at the World Cup". The Guardian. 24 March 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 April 2024.

[1] "When Northern Ireland won the last ever British Home Championship". The Guardian. 15 June 2022. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 April 2024.

[2] "When Northern Ireland and Wales outperformed England and Scotland at the World Cup". The Guardian. 24 March 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 April 2024.

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