Some of this may not be completely up to date!
Kieran Richardson-Fulham: Scored 2 goals on debut v USA May 2005: 8 caps 2 goals.
Sean Wright Phillips-Man City, Chelsea: v Ukraine 2004-10: 36 caps 6 goals.
Alan Shearer-Newcastle: v France 1992: 63 caps 30 goals.
Steven Caulker-Swansea City: v Sweden 2012: 1 cap 1 goal.
Andros Townsend -QPR: v Montenegro 2013: 13 caps 3 goals.
Harry Kane-Tottenham H: v Lithuania 4-1 2015: 30 caps 19 goals.
Ricky Lambert-Southampton: v Scotland 2013: 11 caps 3 goals- scored with first touch
Marcus Rashford MBE-Manchester Utd: scored debut goals in Europa League game, England Under 21s, Premier League, Senior International, League Cup, Champions League and he cecame the youngest to achieve a debut goal for England v Australia 27th May 2016.
The previous youngest was Tommy Lawton (at 5'11"), just past his 19th birthday, who on October 22nd 1938 played centre-forward v Wales at Ninian Pk. He scored a penalty, Stanley Matthews scored the other and England lost 2-4! Lawton took the number 9 shirt from Dixie Dean and scored in his next 5 internationals v Rest of Europe, Norway, Ireland, Scotland and Italy. Lawton played 420 times for a variety of clubs: Burnley 25/16: Everton 98/74: Chelsea 53/35: Notts C 166/103: Brentford 50/17: Arsenal 38/1. Overall he made 420 apps/246 goals.
For England he played 23 peace time games: 90 goals and 23 war time games: scoring 24. In management he looked after Brentford, Kettering and Notts County between 1953-64.
OTHER FIRST TIMERS include:
Callum Wilson-Bournemouth: v USA 3-0 h 2018: 4 caps 1 goal: the first Bournemouth player to score for England.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin-Everton: 4-0 v Wales h: 2020: 1 cap goal.
David Nugent-Preston:3-0 v Andorra 2007:1 sub 1 goal.
Darius Vassell-Aston Villa: 2002: 1-1 v Netherlands: 16 apps 6 goals.
Francis Jeffers-Everton: 2003: loss 1-3 v Australia . (Same game as Wayne Rooney debuted.)
Lawton's retirement turned out to be an unhappy one with various illnesses, relationship and debt issues haunting him. His clubs helped him with testimonials and he appeared in TV programmes, famously in "What's My Line" with Thora Hird and Diana Dors and in a film when he played the cameo role in "The Great Game". He published four books about his life. He died at 77 years old
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