England striker Harry Kane seems set to earn his one centesimal cap towards Finland on Tuesday night.
Kane is about to turn into simply the tenth man ever to convey up a century of caps for England, becoming a member of Peter Shilton, Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Bobby Moore, Ashley Cole, Sir Bobby Charlton, Frank Lampard and Billy Wright.
Shilton holds England males’s all-time caps report, with the goalkeeper enjoying for his nation 125 instances from 1970 to 1990 – giving Kane nonetheless some strategy to go to set a brand new report. So how lengthy would he have to hold enjoying to take it?
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Harry Kane can break England males’s caps report in subsequent two years
England will play one other 4 video games after Tuesday, with Nations League video games towards Greece and Finland in October earlier than they full the set towards Greece and Eire in November. That might take Kane to 104 if he seems in all of them.
The qualifying teams for the 2026 World Cup are but to be drawn, however England can have both six or ten video games as a part of that, relying what dimension group they’re drawn in. They may in all probability prepare friendlies to make up the numbers if they’re in a smaller group, nevertheless, so let’s name it one other 10 video games via 2025. That might be 114.
There’s one other worldwide window in March 2026, which is one other two friendlies…assuming England do not want two play-off video games, anyway. There’s one other alternative two friendlies in June 2026 simply earlier than the World Cup kicks off. That is 118.
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Peter Shilton gained 125 England caps (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
That signifies that if he had performed in each different potential recreation earlier than the match, Harry Kane would want to characteristic in seven video games on the World Cup 2026 to equal Shilton’s report, or eight to interrupt it.
The enlargement from 32 groups to 48 means there are nonetheless three group stage video games however an extra spherical of 32 within the knockouts, for a complete of a most of 5 knockout video games (with the third-place playoff guaranteeing a fifth for all 4 semi-finalists).
So, if Kane performed each single recreation England might probably play, the earliest he might break Shilton’s report can be on the World Cup ultimate or third-place play-off in 2026.
Wayne Rooney holds the lads’s report for many caps for an outfielder (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Kane can be lower than a few weeks shy of his thirty third birthday by that time, so it is not unthinkable – and even when he missed as much as 5 England video games, he might nonetheless beat Rooney’s report of 120 caps for a male outfielder.
Six girls have already surpassed 125 caps: Rachel Yankey, Casey Stoney, Alex Scott, Karen Carney, Jill Scott, and all-time report holder Fara Williams, who performed 172 video games for England from 2001-2019. Lucy Bronze is presently on 124 caps.
