England have made it to the final of Euro 2024! Its been a tough journey to watch with last minute goals, extra time and penalties, but we’ve made it! Now on Sunday England will face Spain in the Euro 2024 Final with the whole of England behind the Three Lions team.

To get everyone in the spirit and ready to belt out England Anthems, we’ve looked back over England’s catalogue of Euros & World Cup anthems and we came up with the Ultimate Guide to England songs with our top 30!

No 30 – England is my home:

In at number 30, we kick off with ‘England is my home’ from the musical Witcher. Not your typical England football song, but great for getting you in the patriotic mood.

No 29: Rik Mayall’s – Noble England

Not what you would call a catchy England song to cheer the team on in the stadium, but the video is classic Rik Mayall humour and very worthy of making our list. First released on 26th April ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and to coincide with St George’s Day, the song peaked at Number 7 in the UK Singles Chart and Number 1 in the Independent Charts.

In 2014 following Mayall’s death, a campaign led by Jon Morter began with the aim to get “Noble England” to Number 1 during the 2014 FIFA World Cup and again reached Number 7 in the Official Charts.

Number 28: Come On England (The World Cup is waiting for you)

The Official 2022 England World Cup Song or should have been, by The Skatoon’s an eight piece Ska band formed in early 2004 based in Lanzarote. This song form the get go is catchy and worthy of being sung from the fans in the stadium watching the Three Lions battle.

Number 27: All The Way – England Football Team

England upped the anti with their Euros 88 song with producers Stock Aitken & Waterman. In 1988, you were never more than six minutes away from hearing a Stock Aitken & Waterman record, so teaming up with the England squad, they went into the studio with the confidence of the nation behind them. Sadly the England Euros 88 campaign didn’t go so well, the song ‘All The Way’ didnt do so well either.

You would have thought that the combination of patriotism and the most successful record producers in the country would have propelled All The Way high up the charts but, just like England’s Euro 88 campaign, it sadly didn’t realise it’s full potential. “If we do it right, we’re gonna get there,” stated the opening line of the song. Well, England had certainly qualified for the tournament in the right way – dropping a solitary point and conceding just one goal along the way – but from this point on, their fortunes plummeted.

Thirteen England players turned up to the PWL Studios in South London – 5-3-2: Seaman; Stevens, Adams, Fenwick, Mabbutt, Sansom; Robson (c), Reid, McMahon; Lineker, Beardsley. Subs (Anderson, Cottee) – with manager Bobby Robson also lucky enough to make the cut.

The video was standard stuff for a football song of the 1980s. Obligatory action shots – clips from the matches against Paraguay and Argentina at the 1986 World Cup repeated ad nauseam – were interspersed with footballers moving about awkwardly, and huddling together for a group shout for the chorus. Messrs Lineker, Beardsley and Mabbutt were obviously the most talented men in the group, the trio given headphones, a music stand, and a big microphone and sent off to a separate part of the studio.

The song reached #64 in May 1988.

Number 26: We’ll Do It Again – By Mr England

A simple and memorable chorus that like the Three Lions (“It’s coming home, football’s coming home”) line that you could easily hear the fans chanting. We’ll Do It Again by Mr English was the brainchild of Jo Tapper, 39 at the time, who grew up in Epping, was part of the ‘Buster Team’ who released the song and video just weeks before the World Cup in Brazil.

The song We’ll Do It Again featured a host of celebrities including Simon Cowell, Jonathan Ross, Jamie Oliver and Gary Lineker, all performing the Buster dance with mascot Buster, the English ‘Footbull Terrier’.

Mrs Tapper and her team came up with the idea four years prior, when, after losing so many family members to cancer, they decided to raise money for charity.

After targeting the world cup to promote their cause, the team decided to create a song and chase celebrities all over the country to get them to feature in the video.

Mrs Tapper said shortly after the release of the song: “We have been harassing and hounding celebrities, standing outside gates, shouting their name. It’s been very difficult, very time consuming and taken a lot of persuading.” The song over the years has become one of the cult classic England songs.

Number 25: Thats Alright – World Cup song by Joe Fagin

Singer Joe Fagin re-recorded his 1984 hit ‘That’s Livin Alright’ as an alternative World Cup football anthem.  That’s England Alright, a reworking of the theme tune to Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, was released on 22nd May 2006.  Fagin said at the time of its release “It’s a song that captures the spirit of the true England fan – whether they are over in Germany, or watching it in the pub back home”. 

Number 24: The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Neil Morrissey

Unlikely star to take up a microphone for an unofficial England song in 2010 was former Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey.

Morrissey reworked The Lion Sleeps Tonight – whose most famous version in the UK was Tight Fit’s chart-topper in 1982 was re-named England’s On The Way.

The video for the film, featured Morrissey on a London rooftop saw female dancers juggling footballs, surrounded the band as Morrissey croons: ‘Rio, Ashley and Big John Terry – three lions score tonight!’

Number 23: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Eric Idle

Who doesn’t know this song?! Famous as the closing scene song in Monty Pythons Life of Brian, the songs title just summed up England fans continued heartbreak tournament after tournament, close but no cigar! Always Look on the Bright Side has become the song England fans have been left with every two years, let’s hope the Euros 2024 will be our time and we won’t have to look on any bright side!

Number 22: Jerusalem – Fat Les

A solum sounding song more known for being sung by church choirs became the Euro 2000 England song again credited to Fat Les.

The rendition of the hymn fronted by Keith Allen with Michael Barrymore making an appearance was to be the Official England Anthem for the Euro 2000 held in Belgium & Netherlands.

According to Allen, in choosing the hymn he wanted to “crystallise some kind of English culture” and to reclaim it from the Right. The song was recorded at George Martin’s Air Lyndhurst Studios at a cost of £50,000 with a full orchestra and four choirs: the London Community Gospel Choir, New London Children’s Choir, Syncopeters and London Gay Men’s Chorus.

Number 21: Goldenballs – Bell & Spurling

This song was a tribute to David Beckham. It hit the UK charts in 2002 ahead of the World Cup hosted in Korea & Japan that year making it the first World Cup to be jointly hosted by two countries, it was also the first World Cup to be held outside of Europe & the Americas.

The song performed by Bell & Spurling had already recorded the top ten hit single ‘Sven, Sven, Sven’ which reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in October 2001. They sold over half a million singles and the tracks appeared on compilation albums totalling over 1 million sales.

Originally session singers, they were known for their soulful voices and were regular singers at celebrity parties for the likes of Rod Stewart and Simon Cowell. They signed to Warner Music and the football anthems have had various revamps each time the England team play in tournaments. More recently they appeared in Qatar and Dubai for the World Cup.

Number 20: England Crazy (World Cup Song) – Terry Venables

In an effort to inspire England to success at the 2002 World Cup, the former Tottenham and Barcelona boss played an unexpected role in the national team’s build-up to the tournament. That included singing and dancing around some of London’s most famous landmarks in a tuxedo, while flanked by two cabaret girls in red leotards.

England did impress somewhat that summer in Japan and South Korea, too, where they finished second to Sweden in their group before beating Denmark 3-0 in the last 16. They came off second-best against eventual champions Brazil in the quarter-finals, however.

Number 19: Is this the way to Amarillo – The British Army

The Tony Christie’s 1971 record ‘Is this the way to Amarillo’, became a number one hit in March 2005, released for Comic Relief by Christie & Peter Kay. It was troops from the British Army after its popularity crashed the MoD servers when a bunch of soldiers serving in Basra, Iraq produced a spoof video a few months later in May of that year of the Tony Christie song whilst stationed at Al Faw Base, Southern Iraq that gave the song cult status.

The three soldiers front and centre of the spoof video of the song were from the Royal Dragoon Guards who filmed the spoof video on a handheld camera came up with the idea as a morale booster to entertain the troops. But once emailed back home to their friends, the video crashed the MoD servers and gained legendary cult status immediately, going viral over the internet, showing the humour of British troops even when out on operations overseas.

The then Defence Secretary John Reid praised the soldiers initiative in his opening of the Queens Speech debate on defence in the House of Commons saying: “Her Majesty’s armed forces never cease to amaze me. To be able to carry out such acts of determination, sacrifice and heroism in so many spheres of the world and, at the same time, to be recording hit videos is a measure of the quality of the British Armed Forces”.

Number 18: Is this the way to the World Cup – Tony Christie

In 2002, British comedian Peter Kay brought the song new prominence when he featured it on his hit series Phoenix Nights. Three years later, Christie’s original version was chosen as a fundraiser for the Comic Relief charity. Propelled by a video with Kay, it shot straight to No.1, with first-week sales of 266,844.

On 1st May 2005, “Amarillo” started its seventh week at the UK chart summit, the longest run at No.1 since Cher’s “Believe” in 1998. Its sales to the end of that week stood at 932,982, including the recently-incorporated download format, which meant it had sold more than three times as many copies as any other single in 2005 to that point.

In 2006 the song lyrics were changed to ‘Is this the way to the World Cup and again sung by Tony Christie to support the England team and became a fan favourite to sing in the stadiums watching England that year and still today a big fan favourite.

Number 17: Meat Pie Sausage Roll – Grandad Roberts & his son Elvis

The ‘Meat Pie Sausage Roll’ England song ahead of the 1998 France World Cup was performed by Grandad Roberts & his son Elvis. Standup comedian Smug Roberts released the novelty anthem “Meat Pie, Sausage Roll (Come on England, Gi’s a Goal)” as “Grandad Roberts”.

Both the character and song stemming from his afternoon radio show on Key 103 and subsequent stand up comedy routine. Three years prior to that Smug was performing his first stand up gig when he was discovered by none other than Caroline Aherne (Mrs Merton Show and The Royle Family). Since then he’s went on to star in ‘That Peter Kay Thing’ Channel 4, ‘Cold Feet’  ITV, ‘Phoenix Nights’ Channel 4, Steve Coogan’s Film ’24 Hour Party People’ and Channel 4’s Bafta award winning Buried. His confidence as a performer is legendary in the comedy world and in terms of the funnies he is on a par with his contemporaries Peter Kay and Jonny Vegas.

Number 16: We’re England – The Talk Sport Team

For the 2006 World Cup, in association with Talk Sport came the single which aspired to be the World Cup single that year. The tune is as well known to football fans as that other well know football chant “the referee’s a w****”’, ‘Tom Hark’ by The Piranhas is a tune that every football fan knows.

The song with its revised 2006 World Cup lyrics with backing vocals by Talk Sport presenters including Rodney Marsh and James Whale came off the back of the last Talk Sport single ‘Come On England’ for Euro 2004 which was the biggest Football song in years and reached number two selling 100k copies.

Number 15: We Are Eng-Ger-Land – The Three Brians

Adapted with permission from “D.I.S.C.O.” by Ottowan and written by Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger. Song published by Chelsea Music in the UK. Filmed on location in Sunny Worthing, at the Vintners Parrot & Worthing FC.

Novelty songs go hand in hand with the World Cup & the Euros, its a very English thing. So when it was revealed that there would be no official song for the 2010 tournament, three men from Worthing decided to fill the void.

The tune, We are Eng-er-land, become an internet sensation.

Mortgage consultant Digory James, came up with the idea and roped in his newly-married music producer brother-in-law Rob Watson, and friend Mike Pailthorpe, who teaches music business at Northbrook College in Worthing.

Number 14: Back Home – The 1970 England Squad

The song that probably started it all off… In 1970, it certainly wasnt the norm to have a song for England as they went into international tournament. This was just 4yrs off the back England winning the 1966 World Cup. England was back to defend their legendary World Cup win that as we know far too much, led to decades of hurt.

“Back Home” was a popular song written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter. It was recorded by the 1970 England World Cup squad and released on the single Pye 7N 17920. It was produced by Martin and Coulter. The musical arrangements were made by Coulter.  The single, which began the tradition of the England squad recording songs to celebrate its involvement in the World Cup, reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in May 1970. England were the reigning world champions at the time, having won the 1966 World Cup, but were knocked out in the quarter finals after a 3-2 defeat by West Germany.

The England team failed to qualify for the next two World Cups and, although it did release records on qualification in 1982 and 1986, it did not reach number one again until 1990, when it topped the charts with the New Order collaboration “World in Motion”. The song is one of four singles supporting the England team to have topped the UK chart, along with the aforementioned “World in Motion”, “Three Lions” and “Shout for England”.

Number 13: Southgate you’re the one –

The Atomic Kittens inspired song by fans released for the Euro 2020 was the one. Fans reworked Atomic Kitten’s 2001 hit Whole Again to salute Southgate and it’s a catchy one to go alongside Three Lions and the ‘new’ anthem, Sweet Caroline.

Southgate was even seen at times to conduct supporters as they belted the words out.

An entire country held its breath again in the quarter-final encounter against Denmark at Euro 2020. It was a year that over all years there was so much positive belief in winning the tournament

Re-worded from the Atomic Kitten jumped up behind the song with full support, appearing at BoxPark in Croydon in South London to perform the Southgate remix of Whole Again. It went down as such a success, the band actually released it.

Number 12: ‘Sven Sven Sven’ England World Cup Song

The song by Bell & Spurling was inspired by the England football team’s 5–1 victory against Germany, and contained recordings of Jonathan Pearce’s commentary from that match. It mentions a number of contemporary England and German footballing figures and events, most notably Sven-Göran Eriksson, to whom the song title and refrain refer.

The English musical duo consisted of Martin Bell and Johnny Spurling, who formed in the 1990s, as well as being known for and are best known for “Sven, Sven, Sven”, also released Goldenballs and appeared on Top of the Pops on both occasions.

Number 11: This Time We Will Get it RIght – 1982 England World Cup Squad

For me, this is one of my favourite England songs, I was my first memories of England and the World Cup, it was 1982 and I was 8yrs old. The team had Kevin Keegan & Glenn Hoddle, my two favourite players along with two of Englands best keepers of all time in my oppinion Peter Shilton & Ray Clemence. And of course the best ever designed England shirt of all time!

A forty-man Provisional Squad was announced on 10th May 1982, five days before the deadline.  It included nine uncapped players, all of whom failed to make Ron Greenwood’s 22. The Final squad was announced on 4th June. 

England finished the group without scoring or conceding a single goal, the only time that has ever happened in any kind of group in FIFA World Cup history. Like Scotland in ’74 and Brazil in ’78, the England squad of ’82 stayed unbeaten but were eliminated before the semifinals.

Number 10: Eat my Goal – Collapsed Lung

In June 1996 Colapsed Lung released a double A-side “London Tonight” / “Eat My Goal” which reached number 31 in the UK Singles Chart. “Eat My Goal” was used as the soundtrack to Coca-Cola’s “Eat Football, Sleep Football, Drink Coca-Cola” advertising campaign that tied in with the Euro 96 football championships in England.

Despite their success, Collapsed Lung broke up in 1997.

“Eat My Goal” was re-released in May 1998 and reached number 18 on the same chart, and was subsequently used on many TV programmes, most notably SMTV Live in which the song was used for a segment of the same name. It also featured in the video game LMA Manager 2001.

Collapsed Lung was originally formed as a bedroom studio collaboration between Anthony Chapman and Steve Harcourt. The pair had met at Harlow music venue The Square, and despite coming from contrasting musical backgrounds (Harcourt had previously played guitar in metal band Bomberz, whereas Chapman had previously played bass in pseudo-C86 outfit Pregnant Neck) found they had a shared love of funk and the Amiga tracker software Med/Octamed. Eventually, the duo decided to perform a live show, using an Amiga computer on stage as well as live guitar from Harcourt.

Number 9: Shout for England – Featuring Dizzee Rascal & James Corden

“Shout” was the 2010 single by Shout for England, an ensemble featuring Dizzee Rascal and James Corden. It was an unofficial anthem of the England football team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

The song contains extracts from the Tears for Fears song of the same name and “No Diggity” by Blackstreet and features additional lyrics written by Rascal. It was published by Syco Music in association with the telecommunications company TalkTalk.

“Shout” debuted at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart on 13th June 2010, based on download sales alone, beating competition from “Frisky” by Tinie Tempah and fellow World Cup song “Wavin’ Flag (The Celebration Mix)” by K’naan. It sold well over 100,000 copies in its first chart week despite only being available for four days (its download was released on the Wednesday, and the UK chart surveys from Sunday to Saturday).

All royalties from the single went to Great Ormond Street Hospital. The song was knocked off the top spot by Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” on 27th June. A remix of the song was released on 20th June 2012 for the Euros 2012 and peaked at number 43 on the UK iTunes chart.

Number 8: Come On England – Performed by 442

A re-writing of the Dexys Midnight Runners “Come on Eileen”, ‘Come on England” by the band 442 was released on 7th June 2004 to coincide with the England squads appearance at the European Championships. Entering the charts at number 2, it was pipped to the number one spot by “I Dont Wanna Know” by Mario Winans.

442 consisted of Phil Doleman (banjo), Mark Knight (fiddle), Jimmy McCafferty (drums), Lucy Wills (trumpet), Neil Murray (vocals), former Coventry City player Micky Quinn (vocals) and Ian Murphy (vocals).

Number 7: We’re Coming Over – Mr Smash & Friends

We’re Coming Over was written and performed by Chas Smash, also known as Mr Smash who was an English song-writer and secondary vocalist/trumpet player for the legendary band Madness.

The song released ahead of the 2002 World Cup also included the England Supporters Band, reaching 67 in the UK Singles Charts.

Number 6: Greatest Day World Cup Song – Gary & Gary

Gary Lineker pulled together his celebrity friends with Gary Barlow ahead of the 2014 World Cup in hope to create the greatest world cup song ever made. To stand side by side with the success of Band Aid and even recorded the song in the same studio! The song which also released to raise money for that years Sport Relief, so on the 5th March 2014, heroes from the world of football and music came together to record the song including Alan Hansen, Glen Hoddle, a couple of the Spice Girls, Pixie Lott, Eliza Doolittle and Katy B, to name just a few.

The song is a great uplifting song, maybe not one to sing in the stadium like previous songs such as Three Lions, but was a popular song that would be sung by drunken fans in the pub when the song came on over the speakers.

Number 5: We are the England Fans – Black Lace ft DJ Neil Phillips

Neil Sullivan, a swimming teacher from Hayes wrote a song that he wanted to capture the hearts of the nation as the Baddiel & Skinner Three Lions song of 96.

His aspiration became reality when he was able to team up with the lead singer of Black Lace, Dene Michaels. Sullivan who gave himself the stage name DJ Neil Phillips for the England anthem also enlisted the celebrity assistance of Bruce Jone (Coronation Streets Les Battersby) to direct the video.

The song that shared the same tune as ‘Music Man’ by Black Lace is still heard in Clubs and bars as well as a popular song at weddings also had all its proceeds from the single go to Help for Heroes.

Number 4: Vindaloo – Fat Les

Vindaloo has to be one of the fan favourites when it comes to England song. The song was released by British band Fat Les in 1998 ahead of the World Cup and co-written by Blur bassist Alex James and bassist Guy Pratt and comedian Keith Allen. The song was originally written as a parody of football chants, but was adopted as one in its own right and became a classic.

The song’s name comes from the vindaloo, a type of very spicy Goan curry that is popular in the UK.  Much of the song consists of the phrase “nah nah nah” and the word “vindaloo” repeated over and over by a mixed group, occasionally interspersed with lines such as “And we all like vindaloo” and “We’re England; we’re gonna score one more than you”. The song has brief verses, spoken/sung by Keith Allen (in a voice sounding similar to that of Ian Dury) over a marching snare drum beat.

“Vindaloo” reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in June 1998; it was beaten to No. 1 by “3 Lions ’98” by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and Lightning Seeds, a re-recording of football anthem “Three Lions” from 1996 with slightly altered lyrics.

Number 3: New Order – World In Motion – England team & New Order

The FA press officer at the time, David Bloomfield, who had been a fan of Joy Division, contacted Tony Wilson, the head of New Order’s label Factory Records, with the suggestion that the band record a track for the forthcoming World Cup in Italy. Without any hesitation, Wilson agreed. Bloomfield had seen and heard England’s previous World Cup tunes and thought them uniformly dull, with the possible exception of the 1970 single, “Back Home”.

The song “World in Motion” would become the official England song with the team getting involved with the vocals, including the rap by John Barns. The song would become New Orders only number one hit in the UK Singles Charts.

The song was originally to be called E for England, but changed the Football Association vetoed the title, realising that it sounded suspiciously like a reference to the drug ecstasy.

Number 2: God Save the King (National Anthem) – London Symphony Orchestra

You cant talk about patriotism and singing for England without mentioning our National Anthem, yes the British National Anthem, but England is also seen as the National Anthem for England, there are exceptions to this rule, such as for cricket, where ‘Jerusalem’ is used.

There is nothing more patriotic as standing up and signing ‘God Save the King’. It was a hard choice to put in at number two, but I think you will agree, that Number One has to be for the most iconic of all England Football songs…

Number 1: Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds – Three Lions (Footballs Coming Home)

‘Three Lions’, often known as ‘Its Coming Home’ has to be our Number One! The second the track starts, it instantly makes the hairs on your back stand up and feel both the pain of decades of no trophy and hope of Football Coming Home!

A collaboration between comedians David Baddiel & Frank Skinner along with rock band the Lightening Seeds, the song was released on 20th May 1996 through Epic Records ahead of the Euro 1996 which was also being hosted by England on Home Ground, the Final would be at Wembley, hallowed turf of Football, there was real hope for England holding up the trophy

The song since its release in 96 has been recognised as the de facto “Anthem” of the England team and still chanted at games today, 28yrs later.

The songs intro is the crowd noise recorded at Anfield during the UAFA Cup tie in October 1995 between Liverpool & Brondby is what instantly gets you emotional, remembering the pain, but also a feeling full of hope that England will win through this year, the song just continues that ride of emotion all the way through the track with lines such as “Bobby belting the ball”.

The line “Bobby belting the ball” was originally penned as “Butcher ready for war” paying homage to defender Terry Butchers heroic performance on the pitch against Sweden in 1989, despite bleeding profusely for much of the match, but the FA requested the line be changed to avoid suggestions of hooliganism. The line “ready for ward was later used in the 1998 version of the song attributed to Paul Ince.

Terry Venables’ England side advanced to the semi-finals following a penalty shoot-out victory over Spain at Wembley after a goalless draw.

Both sides had chances to score, first Spain when Javier Manjarin went clean through but David Seaman was able to save with his legs, before Alan Shearer turned over from close range following neat work from Paul Gascoigne.

No goals after 90 minutes meant extra time was required and the ‘golden goal’ rule was in play for the first time, meaning any goal in the 30 additional minutes would seal progress. However, neither side could make the breakthrough so the tournament had its first penalty shoot-out.

Fernando Hierro struck the crossbar with Spain’s first attempt before Stuart Pearce earned redemption for his penalty miss in England’s World Cup loss to Germany six years earlier by dispatching emphatically and Seaman stopped Miguel Angel Nadal’s effort to send England through.

England’s 96 journey ended with their Semi-Final clash with Germany where they fell short losing 6-5 to Germany in penalties after Moller scored, followed by mimicking Gascoigne’s peacock celebration. Germany would go on to lift the trophy at Wembley.

The 1996 version and the re-released 1998 version with a slight change in words both reached Number One in the UK Singles Chart.