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England coach Roy Hodgson has resigned after a 2-1 defeat by Iceland saw his team knocked out of Euro 2016.
The result in the last-16 clash on Monday (Tuesday AEST) was one of the biggest shocks in European Championship history.
“My contract was always going to be up after this tournament. I would have loved to have stayed on another two years, but now it is time for someone else to take over this group of players,” Hodgson said.
Iceland looked the better team in just about every aspect of the game and fully deserved to extend their dream run on their first tournament appearance.
After falling behind to a fourth-minute Wayne Rooney penalty, Iceland levelled almost immediately through Ragnar Sigurdsson and struck again in the 18th with a shot by Kolbeinn Sigthorsson.
They then survived without great distress as England struggled to build any sustained pressure and barely tested goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson.
Iceland has a population of just over 330,000, are the smallest country ever to appear in a major tournament and their reward is a quarter-final against hosts France in Paris on Sunday, with the prize for the winner being a semi-final against European heavyweights Germany or Italy.
England will be watching from home – again – after a defeat that extends their miserable run in the Euros where they have won one knockout match, on penalties at home to Spain in 1996.
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