The Umbro Cup was a minor international football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 competition, which took place in the summer of 1995 in England

England

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. The trophy was sponsored by the sports brand Umbro

Umbro

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, and two of the participating teams had their kits manufactured by them.

Host nation England

England national football team

The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

, Sweden

Sweden national football team

The Swedish national football team represents Sweden in association football and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association, the governing body for Football in Sweden. Sweden's home ground is Råsunda Stadium in Stockholms län and their head coach is Erik Hamrén. Sweden made their first...

, Japan

Japan national football team

The Japan national football team represents Japan in association football and is operated by the Japan Football Association, the governing body for association football in Japan...

 and Brazil

Brazil national football team

The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation , the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football since 1923 and also a member of the...

 participated in the tournament, and matches took place at Wembley, Elland Road

Elland Road

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, Goodison Park

Goodison Park

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, Villa Park and City Ground

City Ground

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.

From an England perspective, highlights of the tournament included a stunning equaliser by Darren Anderton

Darren Anderton

Darren Robert Anderton is a retired English footballer who spent most of his career with Tottenham Hotspur as a midfielder. He played 30 times for the England national football team, scoring 7 goals.-Career:...

 in the final minutes of their match with Sweden - which hit both posts before going in - and an equally superb goal by Graeme Le Saux

Graeme Le Saux

Graeme Pierre Le Saux is a retired English footballer of French ancestry who played for the Premier League clubs Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers and Southampton, and for the England national football team. Primarily a left back, he was sometimes also played in midfield or on the left wing.After...

 against Brazil at Wembley. England's other match, against Japan, saw an England debut for Gary Neville

Gary Neville

Gary Alexander Neville is a former English footballer. He is England's most capped right-back and was Manchester United's club captain for five years....

. The game against Sweden was the first time England had played a home game away from Wembley since 1966.

Results

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Table

6

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1		3	3	0	0	7	1
9
2		3	1	1	1	6	7
4
3		3	0	2	1	5	6
2
4		3	0	1	2	3	7
1

External links

• Umbro Cup 1995 at RSSSF
  Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation is an international amateur organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football...