Bellingham, Trent see Real Madrid move level with Rangers for England caps abroad

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Real Madrid and Rangers are the clubs beyond the border possessing most England caps with 30 teams represented…

A total of 30 clubs have packed their players off on England duty, with the recent international break seeing Real earn a century of Three Lions caps.

Here are the clubs outside the English leagues with appearances for the Three Lions, listed in order of caps and, if level, recency…

- 1) Real Madrid – 101 caps Caps for Jude Bellingham and Trent Alexander-Arnold in the last Nations League break takes Real level with Rangers, and Bellingham level with David Beckham as Real’s most-capped England player. - 2) Rangers – 101 caps Paul Gascoigne is the most recent Ger to be capped but Terry Butcher has most appearances while Ibrox-based. - 3) Bayern Munich – 80 caps Bayern didn’t provide England with a player until 2001 but Owen Hargreaves and Harry Kane have seen the Germans since soar into third place here. - 4) AC Milan – 65 caps Ray Wilkins is responsible for most of the England caps out of Milan, with six others also representing England while playing for the Rossoneri. - 5) Borussia Dortmund – 46 caps Jude Bellingham has also moved above Jadon Sancho as Dortmund’s most-capped England international. Jobe next? - 6) Barcelona – 44 caps Thirty-six years passed between Gary Lineker’s last England cap as a Barcelona player and Marcus Rashford’s first. - 7) Sampdoria – 44 caps Before David Platt and Des Walker in the Football Italia era, Trevor Francis earned 20 caps while playing for Samp. - 8) Hamburg – 25 caps All Kevin Keegan, this. As well as 25 England caps, Mighty Mouse also won two Ballon d’Or awards by the Elbe. - 9) Marseille – 24 caps All OM’s England caps came between 1989 and 1992, won by Trevor Steven and Chris Waddle. - 10) Atletico Madrid – 23 caps Kieran Tripper was the first Atletico star to win an England cap followed by Conor Gallagher. - 11) Inter Milan – 21 caps Paul Ince accounts for 17 of Inter’s caps, with Gerry Hitchens the first to represent England while playing abroad. - 12) Monaco – 16 caps All Monaco’s England caps came in 1987/88 courtesy of Mark Hateley and Glenn Hoddle. - 13) Cologne – 15 caps Tony Woodcock is Cologne’s only England representative, with his caps also split between Arsenal and Nottingham Forest. - 14) Los Angeles Galaxy – 14 caps Fourteen of David Beckham’s 115 England caps came as a Galaxy star. - 15) Juventus – 14 caps All 14 here belong to David Platt, who managed one more cap at Juve than he did while at Sampdoria. - 16) Lazio – 12 caps A dozen for Gazza while in the Eternal City. - 17) Bayer Leverkusen – 9 caps Jarell Quansah was Leverkusen’s first-ever England international. - 18) Torino – 8 caps England kept faith with Joe Hart for a while after Pep Guardiola wrote off the then-No.1. - 19) Bari – 8 caps A big Villa connection here, with Bari buying Gordon Cowans and David Platt from the Villans. - 20) Roma – 5 caps The last five of Tammy Abraham’s 11 caps came while he was tearing up Serie A with Roma. - 21) Hibernian – 5 caps Joe Baker was capped five times from Hibs in 1959/60. But you already knew that, didn’t you? - 22) Al-Ahli – 4 caps Ivan Toney earned four caps after taking the Saudi coin. - 23) Lille – 4 caps Four caps for Angel Gomes here, which is at least three more than we remember. - 24) Al-Ettifaq – 4 caps Jordan Henderson remained England’s good egg despite whatever his Saudi move said about the midfielder. - 25) Werder Bremen – 4 caps Dave Watson played more games for England than he did for Bremen during a brief, ill-fated spell in Germany in 1979. - 26) Ajax – 3 caps Henderson again, as one of only four English players to represent Ajax. - 27) Celtic – 3 caps Alan Thomson was the first Bhoy to play for England, with his single cap added to by Fraser Forster. - 28) Como – 1 cap Trevoh Chalobah makes Como the most recent entry on to this list. - 29) DC United – 1 cap As a DC United player, Wayne Rooney won the last of his 120 caps in a farewell appearance two years after his 119th. - 30) Bursaspor – 1 cap Scott Carson returned from Turkey in 2011 for the last of his four caps.

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