{"id":201,"date":"2026-03-29T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=201"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:05:05","slug":"man-utd-way-ahead-of-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd way ahead of Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United players may have been out of favour of late but the Red Devils have over 200 Three Lions caps more than any other Premier League club.<\/p>\n<p>Kobbie Mainoo and Harry Maguire are back in Thomas Tuchel\u2019s current squad, which is the manager\u2019s first to feature a United player not on loan elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Premier League sides ranked on how many England caps they have. Only caps earned while on the books at a club count towards the total\u2026<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1) Manchester United \u2013 1417 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 71<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Sir Bobby Charlton (106)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>United have plenty of players with bundles of caps but when Mainoo pulled out of England duty in October 2024, it represented the first time since 1976 that a Three Lions squad has not featured a single Red Devil.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2) Liverpool \u2013 1210 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 75<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Steven Gerrard (114)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Only one Liverpool player (Curtis Jones) capped since Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s debut in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>3) Tottenham \u2013 1056 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 80<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Harry Kane (84)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spurs are some way off United and Liverpool but no club has packed more players off for England duty.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>4) Arsenal \u2013 973 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 70<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Kenny Sansom (77)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bukayo Saka<\/strong>on 48 caps, looks well-placed in the future to become England\u2019s most capped Gunner. Saka has Tony Adams (66) and David Seaman (72) to get past first before he worries about Sansom\u2019s benchmark.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>5) Manchester City \u2013 778 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 55<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: John Stones (77)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>James Trafford is City\u2019s 16th capped player since since the Abu Dhabi takeover.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>6) Chelsea \u2013 733 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 58<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Frank Lampard (104)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trevoh Chalobah is the latest Chelsea player to be capped by England and the club\u2019s only new call-up under ex-Blues boss Tuchel.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1ffbae35d432d0d71911ca2a0b209fbb\" image-id=\"prsiroiGsuOi\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>7) Everton \u2013 616 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 72<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Jordan Pickford (81)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pickford was the first Toffee to hit 50 caps and seems certain to push on to become the second keeper to get a century.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>8) West Ham \u2013 491 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 44<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Bobby Moore (108)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Hammers have provided 16 goalscorers for England who totalled 77 goals. Including four not insignificant ones in 1966.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>9) Aston Villa \u2013 489 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 79<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Gareth Southgate (42)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plenty of England internationals in Villa\u2019s history \u2013 only Spurs have offered more \u2013 but 62 of them never reached double figures for caps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>10) Leeds United\u00a0 \u2013 342 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 34<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Jack Charlton (35)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leeds went 17 years without an England cap between Paul Robinson and Kalvin Phillips, and five years before Dominic Calvert-Lewin faced Uruguay. <strong>Which didn\u2019t go great.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>11) Newcastle \u2013 326 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 45<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Alan Shearer (35)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even if Newcastle sell Anthony Gordon after the World Cup, he still should crack the top five of players capped by England while playing for the Magpies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: <\/strong><strong>England player ratings vs Uruguay: Ben White booed as Tuchel\u2019s fringe stars fail to impress<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>12) Wolves \u2013 316 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 35<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Billy Wright (105<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Only two Wolves players have turned out for England in the Premier League era. Conor Coady is one; who is the other? Answer at the bottom\u2026<\/p>\n<p><meta\/><meta\/> <\/p>\n<h2><strong>13) Nottingham Forest \u2013 291 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 38<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Stuart Pearce (76)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Morgan Gibbs-White became the first Forest player to represent England since Pearce \u2013 a gap of 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>14) Fulham \u2013 110 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 12<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Johnny Haynes (56)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No Fulham caps since Bobby Zamora in 2011. Surprising, that, for reasons we\u2019re not entirely sure of.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>15) Sunderland \u2013 101 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 29<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Dave Watson (14)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plenty of Black Cats on parade for England but since the war, only Watson managed double figures.<\/p>\n<p><meta\/> <\/p>\n<h2><strong>16) Burnley \u2013 99 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 29<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: John Connelly (10)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just one more needed for a century for the Clarets. James Trafford looked good for it before City stitched him up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>17) Crystal Palace \u2013 97 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 21<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Marc Guehi (26)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guehi was the first Eagle to hit double figures for caps before Eberechi Eze followed.<\/p>\n<p><meta\/><meta\/> <\/p>\n<h2><strong>18) Brighton \u2013 13 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 5<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Lewis Dunk (6)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Danny Welbeck should be Seagull number six. <strong>He was very close in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>19) Brentford \u2013 13 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 4<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Ivan Toney (6)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two of the Brentford players to gain England honours were capped once in the pre-war period. Jordan Henderson is currently one behind Toney.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>20) Bournemouth \u2013 5 caps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Players capped \u2013 2<\/em><br \/><em>Most capped: Callum Wilson (4)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cherries are pinning their hopes on Alex Scott for the hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p><meta\/> <\/p>\n<p>*Matt Jarvis<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United players may have been out of favour of late but the Red Devils have over 200 Three Lions caps more than any other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}