Further amateur matches were played in England in March 1909 (9-0 to England), April 1911 (2-2) in Germany and on 21.3.1913 England won in Germany 3-0. England did tour Europe but only as amateurs.
Obviously the War prevented further matches for a considerable time, so on 10th May 1930 Germany hosted us to a 3-3 draw. It took another 8 years for the two countries to come together and it was controversial. The venue on May 14th 1938 was the Olympiastadion, Berlin and England won 6-3.But I think the team that included Stanley Matthews, Eddie Hapgood and Cliff Bastin was probably motivated by having to give the Nazi salute in front of Hitler and 120,000 Germans! Old Carthusian, Charles Wreford-Brown was the FA Official who conveyed the news that the team should carry this out otherwise there would be an international incident! The players were furious. WAR HAPPENED!
The next game was against West Germany in December 1954, a friendly at Wembley, England beating the World Champions, 3-2 in a friendly. In 1956 England beat them again 3-1 in Berlin.
In 1963, an East Germany team was beaten 2-1 in Leipzig with further matches against the "new country" in 1970 (3-1), 1974 (1-1) and 1984 (1-0). The country was later unified.
in 1965, West Germany lost 1-0 in Nuremberg (Terry Paine scored) and before the World Cup West Germany and England met in a friendly at Wembley (Feb 23rd 1966), Nobby Stiles scoring the only goal. I won't mention the match in July 1966. The last game against West Germany was on September 1987 (a), a 1-3 defeat.
There was the 1990 World Cup Semi in Turin 1-1: loss on pens.
Matches against the "new" unified Germany started on September 11th 1990, a 0-1 loss.
Remember 1996 Euros Semis: 1-1 loss on pens. Gascoigne should have scored!
There have been some other games,like the Mexico City tournament or the US Cup BUT surprisingly only 30 matches.
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