Chronography of Football

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27 August 2019, Bury Football Club, facing severe financial difficulties, was ejected from the English football league. Its problems, akin to those of nearby Bolton Wanderers (which was rescued at the last minute) were typical of smaller lower league clubs, in a sport where the vast majority of TV broadcasting, sponsorship and advertising revenues were hoovered up by the top league clubs.

2 July 2003. Russian oil tycoon Roman Abramovitch bought Chelsea Football Club.

2002, Airdrie United football club was formed, after Airdrieonians FC went bankrupt and Clydebank FC relocated to Airdrie.

2001, Southampton football club moved to their new St Marys Stadium.

22 August 1998, Madjeski Stadium, home of Reading Football Club, opened. It was named after the Club�s Chairman, John Madjeski.

6 June 1996, British Premier League Clubs and BskyB and the BBC signed a �743 million deal for four years� coverage of League matches.

1995, Middlesborough FC moved to a new ground on the edge of town. Many football clubs were doing the same, capitalising on the sale of former inner city grounds as the UK property market boomed, and getting new state of the art racilities at the same time. Sometimes the club could obtain a sponsorship deal at the same time.

1994, Inverness Caldeonian Thistle football club was formed, from a merger of Caledonian FC and Inverness Thistle FC.

1992, Chester City FC moved to a new ground, known as the Deva Stadium until 2004 when it was renamed the Saunders Honda Stadium.

1998, Havant and Waterlooville football team (Hampshire) was formed.

1995, Livingston football club was formed when Meadowbank Thistle FC moved from Edinburgh to Livingston.

2 July 1994, Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer, whose own-goal in the USA eliminated his country form the World Cup, was shot on his return to Medellin.

13 February 1994. Liverpool FC signed a record �4m shirt sponsorship deal with Danish brewers Carlsberg.

1992, The League of Wales was formed.

1992, Rushden and Diamonds football club was formed, from the merger of Rushden FC (formed 1889) and Irtthlingborough Diamonds FC (formed 1946).

1992, New Cefn Druids football club was formed, from a merger of Celtic Albion FC and Druids United FC.

15 August 1992, The new Premier League, of elite English football clubs, was launched.

8 July 1990, One billion people watched Germany defeat Argentina to win the World Cup.

1988, Scunthorpe United moved from the Old Show ground to a new premises at Glanford Park.

15 February 1981, British Football league matches were played on a Sunday for the first time.

1980, Eastliegh football team (Hampshire) was formed.

1976, Stevenage Borough football club was formed.

14 January 1969, Matt Busby resigned as head of the very successful football club Manchester United.

30 July 1966. England beat West Germany 4 � 2 in extra time (towards the end of normal time England were 2-1 ahead, but Germany secured a last-minute equaliser) to win the World Cup at Wembley Stadium, London.

27 March 1966, The football World Cup, which had been stolen a few days earlier, was discovered in a south London garden by a sniffer dog.

22 August 1964, BBC2 first broadcast Match of the Day, presented by Kenneth Wolstenholme; Arsenal played Liverpool at their Anfield ground, watched by a TV audience of 20,000 in black and white. Football clubs initially worried that the TV show would discourage fans from actually attending games, Over 40,000 actually attended the ground. TV audience numbers rose sharply after England won the 1966 World Cup and the show moved to BBC1. In 2014 BBC1�s Match of the Day has a TV audience of 3.6 million. In 1964 each of the Football League Clubs made �136 from the TV programme; in 2014 each Club made �3 million from the show. The famous theme tune, by Barry Stoller, was first broadcast in 1970.

1963, Welling United football club, Kent, was formed.

1960, The FA now recognised Sunday football.

1959, New Saints football club was founded, as Llantsaintffraid FC. In 1996 they change dtheir name tomTotal Network Solutions FC, under a sponsorship agreement. Under this name, they merged with Oswestry Town FC (formed 1860). In 2006 Total Network Solutions was taken over by BT and the club took its present name.

1958, Everton used electric under-pitch heating for the first time, to combat frost.

30 November 1955, Floodlights were used for the first time at Wembley Stadium, London, towards the end of an international match against Spain.

1955, The European Cup began.

4 August 1955, The 1955 Mitropa Cup football competition was won by V�r�s Lobogo.

1954, Finn Harps football club, Ireland, was formed.

1951, Cwmbran Town football club was formed.

30 June 1951, England beat Australia 17 � 0 at Sydney, attaining the highest score ever in a football international.

16 July 1950, 199,850 people watched the Brazil vs. Uruguay World Cup Final in Rio; a world record for a football match.

1948, Carmarthen Town football club was formed.

1947, Connahs Quay Nomads football club was formed; originally known as Connahs Quay Juniors until 1951.

1946, Gretna football club was formed.

1946, Airbus Vickers football club was formed. They were promoted to the League of Wales in 2004.

1946, Ebbsfleet football club was formed; known as Gravesend and Northfleet FC until 2007.

1945, Stirling Albion football club was formed, replacing the earlier team Kings Park FC.

1945, Merthyr Tydfil football club was formed.

1942, Bray Wanderers football club, Ireland, was formed.

1937, Galway United football club, Ireland, was formed; known as Galway Rovers FC until 1981.

1937, Colchester United football club was formed.

16 September 1937, The first TV broadcast in the world of a football match. The match itself was minor; Arsenal first team were playing Arsenal reserves � but it was a harbinger of things to come.

17 April 1937, A record attendance at a UK football match was set when England played Scotland at Hampden Park, Glasgow; 149,547 were present.

1934, Peterborough United football club was founded after a predecessor club, Peterborough and Fletton, was disbanded.

1933, Boston United football club was formed.

1932, Wigan Athletic football club was formed.

1930, Waterford United football club, Ireland, was formed; known as Waterford FC until 1982.

13 July 1930. The first World Cup football tournament kicked off in Uruguay.

1929, Balkans Cup began.

1929, St Patricks Athletic football club, Ireland, was formed.

1928, Sligo Rovers football club, Ireland, was formed.

1928, Ballymena United football club was formed.

1928, Derry City football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

25 August 1928, Anfield�s famous Kop terrace at Liverpool football ground opened.Originally standing on a mound of ash and cinders, it was probably named after the Battle of Spion Kop in the Boer War (1899-1902); �kopje� means �small hill�.

1924, Hereford United football club was formed.

1923, Newry City football club, Northern Ireland, was formed, as Newry Town. They changed their name in 2002 when Newry gained city status.

28 April 1923. The first major sporting event was held at Wembley Stadium; the FA Cup Final. Bolton defeated West Ham 2-0. The first Wembley International match was played at Wembley in 1924, when England and Scotland drew 1-1.

1922, York City football club was formed.

1920, Morecambe football club was formed.

1919, As English football resumed after World War One, the Football League was increased to 44 clubs.

1919, Queen of the South football club, Dumfries, Scotland, were formed.

1919, Leeds United football club was formed, from the former Leeds City FC (founded 1904)

1913, Arsenal football club moved from Woolwich to Highbury, north London.

1912, Newport County football cliub, Wales, was formed.

1912, Swansea City football club was formed. Originally Swansea Town FC, they changed their name in 1971 when Swansea gained city status.

1912, Cambridge United football club was founded, as Abbey United; changed name in 1951.

1912, Barry Town football club was formed as Barry AFC. It took its current name in 1923.

1910, Ayr United football club was formed.

19 February 1910. Manchester United played their first Football League match at their new stadium, Old Trafford.

11/1909, Football players became legally entitled to compensation for injuries.

1909, Dundee United football club was formed,as Dundee Hibernian; name changed in 1923.

1908, St Albans City football club was formed.

1908, Hudddersfield Town football club was formed.

1908, Britain beat Denmark at Shepherd�s Bush, London, in the first Olympic football match.

1907, Rochdale football club was formed.

1906, Brechin City football club was formed.

1906, Southend United football club was formed.

1905, Charlton Athletic football club, London, was founded.

1905, Crystal Palace football club, London, was founded.

1905, East Fife football club was formed.

14 March 1905, Chelsea football club, London, was founded.

1904, Exeter football club was formed from the merger of two local clubs, Exeter United FC and St Sidwells FC.

1904, Hull football club was formed.

1903, Bradford City football club was formed.

1903, Aberdeen football club was formed. It joined the Scottish Leauge in 1905.

1903, Dundalk football club, Ireland, was formed.

1903, Carlisle football club was formed by the merger of two local teams.

31 October 1903, Hampden Park, home of Glasgow�s Queen�s Park football ground, was opened.

1902, Norwich City football club was formed.

1901, Barrow football club, Cumbria, was founded.

1901, Brighton and Hove Albion football club was founded.

1901, Port Talbot Town football club was formed as Port Talbot Athletic FC, changing their name in 2001 to mark the club;s centenary.

1901, The first 100,000+ match attendance was achieved, when 110,802 watched the FA Cup Final at Crstal palace, London.

1899, Torquay United football club was formed from amerger of two clubs, Torquay and Babbacombe.

1899, Bournemouth football club was formed.

1899, Cardiff City football club was formed as Riverside FC, taking its present name in 1908.

1899, Haverdfordwest County football cliub was formed, originally known as Haverfordwest FC

1899, Scunthorpe United football club was formed.

16 October 1899, Milwall beat Tottenham 2 to 1 at the Tottenham ground.

1898, Promotion and relegation were introduced.

1898, Portsmouth football club was founded.

1897, Northampton Town football club was formed.

1897, Mansfield Town football club was formed.

1896, Crawley Town football club was formed.

1896, Llanelli football club was formed.

1895, Shelbourne football club, Ireland, was formed.

1895, Oldham Athletic football club was formed.

1895, West Ham United football club, London, was founded, as Thames Ironworks. It was reformed with its present name in 1900.

1894, Bristol City football club was formed.

1893, Dundee football club was formed.

1893, Oxford United football club was formed, then known as Headington FC.

5/1893, Gillingham football club, Kent, was formed. They were known as New Brompton FC until 1913.

1892, Liverpool football club was founded.

1892, The Football League second division was formed,

24 August 1892, Goodison Park, the home of Everton Football Club, Liverpool, opened.

1891, Linesmen (now �assistant referees�) replaced umpires. The FA adopted the �penalty kick�.

1890, Goal nets were first used. They solved the question of whether the ball had really been kicked into the goal mouth

26 August 1890, Weymouth football club, Dorset, was founded.

1889, Woking football club was formed.

1889, Sheffield United football club was formed.

1889, Brentford football club, London, was formed.

1888, Barnet football club was formed..

1888, Walsall football club was formed.

1888, Celtic football club was formed by the Irish community in Glasgow.

17 April 1888, The first formal meeting of the UK Football league took place in the Royal Hotel, Manchester.

22 March 1888. The English Football League was founded by 12 clubs meeting in Anderton�s Hotel, Fleet Street, London. The football industry was greatly helped by the spread of the railways as this enabled many more fands to access the ground.

1887, Wycombe Wanderers football team was founded, in High Wycombe.

1887, Athlone Town football club, Ireland, was formed.

1887, Caersws football club was founded, as Caersws Amateurs.

1887, Cheltenham Town football club was formed.

6 November 1887, Celtic Football Club, Glasgow, was founded by Catholic Irish immigrants, to help the poor of Glasgow�s East End.

1886, Arsenal football club was founded, by workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Oroiginally known as Dial Square, the club became Royal Arsenal, and went professional in 1891. It became Woolwich Arsenal in 1896, and adopted its current name when it moved from Plumstead, south London, to its current ground at Highbury, north London.

1886, Shrewsbury Town football club was formed.

1886, Motherwell football club was formed.

1886, Linfield football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

1886, Kidderminster Harriers football club was formed.

1886, Plymouth Argyle football club was founded.

1885, Luton Town Football Club was formed.

1885, Southampton football club was formed.

1885, St Johnstone football club, Perth, Scotland, was formed.

1885, Millwall football cliub, London, was founded.

1885, Forfar Athletic football club was formed.

1885, Dumfermline Athletic football club was formed.

1885, Tranmere Rovers football club was founded as Belmont FC

1885, Bury football club was formed.

20 July 1885, Professional football was legalised in England.

1884, Derby County football club was formed by members of the Derbyshore County Cricket Club, partly to raise funds to keep the cricket club going over the winter.

1884, Leicester City football club was founded,as Leicester Fosse FC.

1884, Stenhousemuir football club was formed.

1884, Limavady football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

1884, Porthmadog football club was formed.

1884, Lincoln City football club was formed.

1884, Aberystwyth Town football club was formed.

1884, Chester City football club was founded (formerly Kings School Old Boys). See 1992.

28 January 1884, The first Ireland versus Scotland football international took place at Belfast; Scotland won 5 � 0.

1883, Darlington football club was founded.

1883, Bristol Rovers football club was formed.

1883, Stockport County football club was formed.

1883, Rhyl football club was formed.

1883, Raith Rovers football club was formed.

1882, Cowdenbeath football clib, Scotland, was formed from the merger of Cowdenbeath Rangers FC and Cowdenbeath Thistke FC.

1882, Queens Park Rangers football club, London, was founded; initially known as St Judes.

1882, Albion Rovers football club, Scotland, was formed.

1882, Burnley football club was formed.

1882, Tottenham Hotspur football club, London, was founded.

25 February 1882, The first Wales-Ireland international football match took place at Wrexham. Wales won 7 to 1.

1881, Hartlepool football club was founded.

1881, Swindon Town football club was formed.

1881, East Stirlingshire football club was formed, as Bainsford Britannia.

1881, Berwick Rangers football club, Northumberland, was formed.

1881, Newcastle United football club was formed, as Newcastle East End, from the amalgamation of Stanley and Rosewood clubs. In 1893 it amalgamated woith Newcastle west End and adopted its present name.

1881, Leyton Orient football club, London, was founded.

1881, Watford football club was founded, as West Hertfordshire FC.

1880, Manchester City football club was formed, as Gorton St Marks FC. They became Manchester City in 1894.

1880, Lisburn Distillery football club was formed.

1880, The regional balance of British football was changing. Before this year the Southern teams were strongest, but from 1880 on the Northern clubs, financed by gate money from a growing industrial working class, became pre-eminent

1879, Fulham football club, London, was formed.

1879, Montrose football club was formed.

1879, Doncaster Rovers football club was formed.

1879, Sunderland football club was formed.

1879, The sports club KB Copenhagen (Kobenhavn Boldclub or Copenhagen Ball Club) adopted football.

18 January 1879. The first England v Wales football international was played at The Oval, Kennington, London.England won 2 � 1.

1878, Welshpool Town football club, Powys, Wales, was formed.

1878, Alloa Athletic football club was formed, then known as Clackmannan County FC.

1878, Ipswich Town football club was formed.

1878, West Bromwich Albion football club was formed.

1878, Everton football club, Liverpool, was founded as St Domingo FC.

1878, Arbroath football club was formed.

1878, Manchester United football club was formed, as Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorhire Railway FC. In 1890 they became Newton Heath FC, distancing themselves from the railway company. Newton Heath went bankrupt in 1902 and Manchester United was founded from this former enterprise.

1878, Grimsby Town football club was formed.

14 October 1878, The first football match played under floodlights took place at Bramall Lane, Sheffield.

1877, Blackpool football club was founded. They were known as Blackpool St Johns FC until 1887.

1877, Wolverhampton Wanderers football club was formed; originally known as St Lukes; it merged with another Club to form Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1879.

1877, Crewe Alexandra football club was founded.

1877, St Mirren football club, Scotland, weas formed.

1877, Clyde football club, Glasgow, were formed.

1876, Accrington football club was formed.

1876, Middlesbrough United football club was formed.

1876, Falkirk football club was formed.

1876, Caernarfon Town football club wasd formed. Originally known as Caernarvon Athletic, then Caernarvon ironopolis and Caernarvon United, they acquired the current name in 1937.

1876, Bangor City football club was formed.

1876, Partick Thistle football club was formed.

1876, Port Vale football club, Burslem, was formed.

25 March 1876, The first international football match between Scotland and Wales at Glasgow, was won by Scotland, four-nil.

1875, Birmingham City football club was formed (originally Small Heath).

1875, Newtown football club, Powys, Wales, was formed as Newtown White Stars.

1875, Hibernian football club was formed.

5 November 1875, Blackburn Rovers football club was formed.

11 September 1875, Bournemouth Rovers football club was formed.

1874, Macclesfield Town football club was formed.

1874, Hamilton Academical football club was formed.

1874, Greenock Morton football club were formed.

1874, Heart of Midlothian football club was formed.

1874, Bishops Stortford football club was formed.

7/1874, Bolton Wanderers football club was formed. They were originally called Christ Church FC.

3/1874, Aston Villa football club was formed. It joined the Football League in 1888 as a founding member.

1873, the Scottish Football Association, and the Scottish FA Cup, were launched at a meeting in Glasgow

1873, Rangers football club, Scotland, was formed.

1873, Wrexham football club was formed.

1872, Dumbarton football club were formed.

1872, Wrexham football club was formed.

1872, Kettering Town football club was formed.

30 November 1872, The first football international took place at Partick, Glasgow; Scotland and England drew 0 � 0.

16 March 1872, The first English FA Cup Final took place at the Oval. 15 teams competed in all. Wanderers, made up of ex public school and university men, beat the Royal Engineers 1-0. The audience numbered just 2,000. Since 1923 the FA Cup Final has been held at Wembley.

1871, Reading football club was formed.

1870, Stranraer football club, Dumfries, Scotland, were formed.

1870, Rotherham United football club was formed.

1869, Kilmarnock football club was formed.

1868, Preston North End football club was formed, originally as a criket club, switching to football in 1878.

1867, Sheffield Wednesday football club was formed. It was an offshoot of a cricket club whose memers took Wednesday off to play football.

1867, Queens Park football club, Scotland, was formed.

1867, Barnsley football club was formed.

19 October 1866, Chesterfield football club was formed.

22 March 1866, First official match played by Nottingham Forest football club; the match was against Nottingham County FC.

1865, Nottingham Forest football club was formed.

1863, Stoke City football club was formed.

8 December 1863, The newly-formed Football Association issued an agreed code of 14 game rules. These included banning tripping, shin-kicking and ball-hamdling.

1862, Notts County football club was formed, originally known as Nottingham.

1860, Oswestry Town football club was formed. In 2003 they merged with Total Network Solutions football club (see New Saints football club, 1959).

24 October 1857, A group of Cambridge University Old Boys formed the first Football Club, in Sheffield. This is the date its first rulebook was published, although the Club probably existed as early as 1854.

 

Early anarchic football

1810, Each public school in Britain was developing a different version of football, which made inter-school competitions impossible.

1800, In Britain, football was in decline as the Industrial Revolution progressed. Formerly, rural farm labourers had played the game during their leisure time; now, urbanised industrial workers laboured for longer hours and were more tired after work. They lacked the energy to play football. However the game was revived by the upper educated classes.

1530, 26-a-side football was being played in Florence, Italy. The rules for this game were codified in the Discorsa Calcio (calcio was an early name for football) in 1580.

1526, King Henry VIII ordered the first known pair of football boots.

1497, A football was boiught for King James IV of Scotland. It cost 2 shillings (10p), or about �70 in 2020 prices.

 

Football as an illegal game

1457, The Parliament of Scotland banned football, and golf, because they interfered with the sport of archery, which was important for national defence. The ban was lifted in 1491.

1349, In England, King Edward III banned �mob football� (the earliest mention of the word �football�) because it was too rowdy and encouraged brawling. Not only did football take up time that could have been spent practising militarily valuable skills such as archery, but the unruly nature of football could cause injuries rendering the player unfit for military service. Early �football� sides were unlimited in number, and the distance between the goals could be from a few hundred yatrds to a mile or more.

13 April 1314, The Lord Mayor of London banned �hustling over large balls� within the city because of the noise and riots it caused.

 

Original forms of football

1175, London schoolboys recorded as playing football.

100AD, Roman soldiers in London played a game called Harpastrum, where two teams tried to force an inflated animal bladder over their opponent�s line.

200 BCE, A Chinese military manual described the game of Tsu Chu, in which a leather ball filled with feathers had to be kicked into a net fixed on bamboo canes. This sport may have been played in China as early as 500 BCE.

 

Rule changes

1951, The white ball came into use.

1932, FIFA formally agreed the principle of substitutes.

1928, Player�s numbers were introduced.

1921, Goalkeepers were ordered to wear yellow jerseys at future Olympic football matches to distinguish them form the other players.

1912, Goalkeepers were now only allowed to handle the ball in in the penalty area, rather then in theoir own half of the fiueld

1906, Major reform of football rules.

1905, Goal keepers to stay on the goal line at penalty kicks.

1891, Goal nets and penalties introduced.

1878, The referee�s whistle was first used.

1875, The crossbar replaced a tape or string across the top of the goal.

1874, Umpires were introduced.

1872, The corner kick was introduced to football. The ball size was fixed.

1870, 11-a-side became the standard in football. Goal keepers were introduced, playing under a different set of rules from the other players. Only the goalkeeper could handle the ball.

1869, Goal kicks were introduced.

1848, 14 Cambridge University students began to draw up the first unified rules of football. The goal was defined as two posts woith a string above joining them. Kicking or grabbing an opponent was illegal. The ball coulkd be passed so long as the recipient has 3 opponents between him and the goal.

 

Transfer fees and wages

8/2017, Brazilian footballer Neymar was transferred from Barcelona to Paris St Germain for a record 222 million Euro (ca, �200 million) transfer fee.

The 222 million euro transfer of Brazilian player Neymar from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in August 2017 is the all-time highest fee for a soccer transfer.

2006, Chelsea paid a record British transfer fee of �31 million for Andriy Shevchenko from Milan.

29 July 1996, England striker Alan Shearer was transferred from Blackburn to Newcastle United for a record �15 million transfer fee.

7/1992, AC Milan acquired Gianluigi Lentini from Torini for a record �13 million transfer fee.

1992, A record �3.6 million transfer fee was paid to Southampton when Alan Shearer (born 1970) was transferered to Blackburn Rovers.

7 July 1988, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club paid a record �2 million transfer fee to Newcastle United for Paul Gascoigne.

1 July 1984. Argentina�s football star, Diego Maradonna, was signed by Naples for �1million.

14 February 1979, The first �1 million transfer deal in British football. Trevor Francis moved from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest. Later in 1979 this record was broken when Steve Dudley moved from Wolverhampton Wanderers to Manchester United for �1.45 million, and then Andy Gray moved from Aston Villa to Wolverhampton for �1.47 million.

14 March 1974, Bobby Moore, former England Football Captain, was transferred from West Ham United to Fulham for �25,000.

1973, Barcelona paid a world record �922,000 transfer fee for Johan Cruyff from Ajax.

1971, A record British transfer fee was set when Arsenal paid �220,000 for Alan Ball from Everton

1961, The first �100,000 transfer fee in English football. Denis Law moved from Manchester City to Torino.

1961, The maximum �20 wage for footballers in England was abolished. Johnny Haynes of Fulham became the first player to earn �100 a week (approximately �4,400 a week in 2016 salaries).

1957, A record �70,000 transfer fee was paid by Juventus of Italy for the transfer of John Charles of Leeds United.

1947, The first �20,000 transfer fee in English football, Tommy Lawton moved from Chelsea to Notts County.

4 August 1938, Arsenal paid a record �14,000 transfer feefor Wolverhampton�s Bryn Jones.

1928, The first �10,000 transfer fee in English football. David Jack moved from Bolton Wanderers to Arsenal.

1922, The first �5,000 transfer fee in English football. Syd Puddefoot moved from West Ham United to Falkirk.

1/1908, A transfer fee limit of �350 was introduced; this limit was rescinded in 4/1908.

1905, The first �1,000 transfer fee in English football. Alf Common moved from Sunderland to Middlesborough.

1902, The first �500 transfer fee in UK football. Alf Common moved from Sheffield United to Sunderland.

7/1885, In the face of growing payments to players, James Alcock, a progressive member of the FA, proposed that player salaries were legalised. This was seconded by Dr Morley. There was considerable resoistance to this move but in this month the professional footballer wage was finally legalised.

1884, Upton Park Club complained that Preston North End were paying their players. Preston�s manager admitted this but replied that nearly every Club in the North and Miudlands did likewise. Preston were disqualified from that season;s FA Cup, but see 7/1885.

1882, Amidst concern that many northern English clubs were paying men to play for them, destroying the amateur nature of the game in unsportsmanlike fashion, a rule was introduced debarring any remuneration �apart from expenses and lost wages�. Some such compensation was essential, when a Lancashiure craftsman earned just �2 for a full 6-day week, and a labourer was paid just 15 shillings (75p), to enable working men to practise football and build their fitrness and skills. However the �lost wages� provision was abused.

 

Non-GB-general (individual nations listed alphabetically below)

13 July 2014, Germany beat Argentina to win the World Cup in Brazil. There had been unrest amongst Brazil�s poor over the money spent on the Games.

1969, The Football War between El Salvador and Honduras.

1964, The first African Champions Club Cup. Oryx Doula of Cameroon defeated Stade Malien of Mali 2-1.

1961, The European Cup Winner�s Cup began.

1957, The first African Nations Cup Final. Egypt beat Ethiopia 4-1.

1956, The Asian Cup began.

1956, The European Cup began.

1953, The Mediterranean Cup began.

18 November 1927. The head of the International Football Association announced the creation of a World Cup.

 

Albania

22 September 1993. The Albanian national football team were banned from swapping shirts with their opponents, because the authorities couldn�t afford replacements.

 

Argentina,

25 June 1978, Argentina won the World Cup.

1914, First international match between Argentina and Brazil.

1910, Argentina won the first (unofficial) South American Championship.

3 April 1905, Boca Juniors football club was founded in Buenos Aires, by an Irishman, Patrick MacCarthy. It went professional in 1931.

1905, Independiente Football Club, Buenos Airies, was founded. It went proifessional in 1931.

1905, The first South American official international football match, Argentina vs Uruguay, in Buenos Aires.

1901, First international match between South American nations. Argentina beat Uruguay 3-2..

1901, River Plate football club, Buenos Aires, was founded.

 

Austria,

1908, First Austria-Hungary international match.

1908, England defeated Austria 6-1 in England�s first international match played outside the UK.

1899, Rapid football club, Vienna, was founded.

1894, FK Austria football club, Vienna, was founded as the Vienna crocket and Football Club. It became Wiener Amater Sportsverein in 1911, and Fussball Klub Austria in 1925

 

Belgium, Netherlands,

1913, PSV Eindhovem football club, Netherlands, was founded.

1908, Anderlecht football club, Belgium., was founded.

1908, Feijenoord football club, Rotterdam, Netherlands, was founded.

1905, The first Belgian-Holland international match.

1 May 1904, France and Belgium played their first international football match.

1900, Ajax football club, Rotterdam, Netherlands, was founded.

1880, Antwerp football club was founded, with British backing.

 

Brazil,

1950, Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, was opened for the World Cup. Its official capacity is 175,000 but when Brazil played Uruguay, 1950, it held 199,584.

1935, Sao Paulo football club was founded.

1914, First international match between Argentina and Brazil.

1912, Santos football club, Sao Paulo, was founded.

1904, Botofago football club was fpounded in Rio de Janiero.

1902, Fluminense football cliub was founded, by Englishman Arthur Cox.

1895, Flamengo football club, Rio de Janeiro, was founded as a sailing club; became a football club in 1911.

 

Canada,

1886, The first international football match between Canada and the USA was played, in New York.

 

Bulgaria

17 March 1915, Yambol association football club was formed in Yambol, Bulgaria.

 

Chile,

1925, Colo Colo football cliub, Santiago, was founded.

 

China

1913, China played The Philippines in the first international match in Asia.

 

Colombia,

1938, Atletico nacional football club, Medellin, was founded.

1938, Millenarios football club, Bogota, was founded.

 

Egypt,

1925, Zamalek football club, Cairo, was founded.

1907, Al Ahly football cliub, Cairo, was founded.

 

France, Monaco

5/1993, Marseille became the first French club to win the European Cup, beating Milan 1-0. However it emerged soon after that bribes had been paid to three players from Valenciennes club to hold back against Marseilles in a league fixtiure a week earlier. Marseills had their championship revoked and they were further penailsed with enforced relegation. They went bankrupt soon afterwards.

1970, Paris St Germain football club was founded.

1950, Lyon Olympique football club, France, was founded.

1919, Monaco football club was founded.

1 May 1904, France and Belgium played their first international football match.

1898, Marseille football club, France, was founded. See 1993.

1872, The first football club outside the UK was formed; le Havre, France.

 

Germany,

1907, Borussia Dortmund football club was founded.

1900, Bayern Munich football club was founded.

1899, Werder Bremen football club was founded.

1887, SV (Sport Verein)Hamburg football club was founded.

 

Ghana,

1935, Asante Kotoko football club, Kumasi, was founded.

1911, Hearts of Oak football club, Accra, was founded.

 

Hungary,

1908, First Austria-Hungary international match.

1899, Ferencvaros Associatrion Football Club, Budapest, was founded.

 

Ireland (inc. Northern Ireland)

2007, Limerick 37 football club, Ireland, was formed, after Limerick FC were refused admission to the reconstituted League of Ireland. Their name commemorates Limerick FC�s first League participation in 1937.

2007, Wexford Youths football club, Ireland, was formed.

2002, Kildare County football club, Ireland, was formed.

1984, Cork City football club, Ireland, was formed (there was an earlier Cork City FC in the 1930s).

1979, Monaghan United football club, Ireland, was formed.

1966, Kilkenny City football club, Ireland, was formed.

1949, Dungannon Swifts football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

1927, Coleraine football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

1924, Longford Town football club, Ireland, was formed.

1922, Cobh Ramblers football club, Ireland, was formed.

1919, Drogheda United football club, Ireland, was formed. In 1975 they merged with Drogheda FC (formed 1962).

1905, Institute football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

1901, Shamrock Rovers football club, Ireland, was formed.

1902, Ards football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

1895, University College Dublin football club, Ireland, was formed.

1890, Larne football club, Northern Ireand, was formed.

1890, Bohemian football club, Ireland, was formed.

1886, Linfield football club, Belfast, was founded.

1882, Glentoran football club, Northern Ireland, was formed.

1881, Belfast Celtic Association Footbvall Club was founded.

1879, Cliftonville football cliub, Northern Ireland, was formed.

 

Italy,

1946, Sampdoria football club, Genoa, was founded.

1927, Roma football club was founded.

1926, Florentina football club., Florence, Italy, was founded.

1913, Parma football club was founded.

1909, Bologna football club was founded.

1908, Internazionale football cliub, Milan, Italy, was founded.

3 December 1906, AC Torino football club was founded.

1904, Napoli football club, Naples, was fpunded.

9 January 1900, Italian football club Lazio was founded in Rome.

1899, Milan football club was founded. It became Milano during the Fascist era, reverting to Milan again in 1945.

1897, Juventus football club, Turin, was funded.

1893, Genoa, the oldest Italian League club, was formed.

 

Japan,

1991, Verdy footnall club, Tokyo, was founded.

1991, Kashima Antlers football club, Kashiuma, was founded.

 

Kenya,

1968, Gor Mahia football club, Nairobi, was founded.

 

Mexico,

1902, The Mexican Leauge Championship was formed.

 

Monaco � see France

 

Netherlands � see Belgium

 

Norway,

1908, First Scandinavian international match, Sweden vs. Norway.

 

Philippines

1913, China played the Philippines in the first international match in Asia.

1910, The first Asian national championship was launched, in The Philippines.

 

Portugal,

1906, Sporting Clube football club, Lisbon, was founded.

1904, Benfica football club, Lisbon, was founded.

1903, Boavista football club, Oporto, was founded.

1893, FC Porto football club, Oporto, was founded.

 

Romania,

1947, Steaua (Star) Bucharest football cliub was founded; originally known as CCA Bucharest.

 

Russia,

1923, Moscow Dynamo football club was founded.

18 April 1922, Moscow Spartak football club was founded.

 

South Africa,

1970, Kaizer Chefs football club, Naturena, was founded.

 

Spain,

1932, Zaragoza football club was founded.

18 March 1919, Association football club Valencia was established in Spain.

1906, Deportivo la Coruna football club was founded.

1903, Atletico Madrid football club was founded.

1902, Real Madrid Football Club was formed.

1899, Barcelona football club was founded, by a Swiss man, Hans Gamper.

1898, Athletic Bilbao football club was founded. In the years before the Spanish Civil war the club would only employ Britrish coaches, emphasising the longstanding industrial and maritime links between the Basque province of Vizcaya and Britain; hence the English name form.

 

Sweden,

1904, IFK Gothenburg football club was founded.

1908, First Scandinavian international match, Sweden vs. Norway.

 

Tunisia,

1918, Esperance football club, Tunis, was founded.

 

Ukraine,

1927, Kiev Dynamo football club was founded.

 

Uruguay,

1905, The first South American official international football match, Argentina vs Uruguay, in Buenos Aires.

1901, First international match between South American nations. Argentina beat Uruguay 3-2..

1899, Nacional football club, Montevideo, was founded.

1891, Penarol football club, Montevfideo, was founded by British employees of the Central railways.

 

USA,

1996, DC United football club, Washington, was founded.

1995, Galaxy football club, Los Angeles, was founded.

1960, The American Football League was founded.

3 September 1895, The first American professional football game was played, at laitrobe., Pennsylvania. John Brallier, the first player to turn pro, accepted 10$ and expenses to play for the Latrobe YMCA, who won 12-0.

1886, The first international football match between Canada and the USA was played, in New York.

 

Former Yugoslavia,

1945, Red Star Belgrade football club was founded.

 

Disasters

15 April 1989. Football fans were crushed at Hillsborough stadium, Sheffield. 95 Liverpool fans were crushed against steel fences designed to prevent a pitch invasion after police opened gates to let more fans in, to see the semi final of the FA cup. 200 were injured.

29 May 1985. Europe�s worst football riot saw 41 Italian and Belgian football fans dead at the Liverpool versus Juventas match at the Heysel stadium, Belgium. Spectators were crushed when a wall collapsed under the weight of fans trying to escape rampaging British supporters. On 2 June 1985 FIFA imposed a worldwide ban on British football fans.

11 May 1985. Fire broke out in the main stand of Bradford City football ground, killing 56 spectators and injuring over 170.A cigarette or match ignited accumulated rubbish under the stands.

1982, 340 fans crushed to death at the Lenin Stadium, USSR, during the Spartak Moscow vs. Haarlem match.

2 January 1971. 66 people were crushed to death and 100 injured when a barrier collapsed at Glasgow Ranger�s Ibrox Park ground.

1968, 74 died at Nunez Stadium, Buenos Aires, when the crowd panicked.

24 May 1964, Football stadium riot in Lima, Peru, as Peru played Argentina; 300 died.

6 February 1958, 7 Manchester United players died when the plane bringing the team home from Belgrade crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. Three club officials and 8 sports journalists were also killed.An eighth team member died of his injuries two weeks later.

9 March 1946, 33 football fans were crushed to death at Bolton Wanderer�s Football Ground when a barrier collapsed.

5 April 1902, 25 died when a stand collapsed at the Scotland vs England match, Ibrox Park.

 

FIFA

 

2007, Montenegro joined FIFA.

1999, The Turks and Caicos joined FIFA.

1998, The United States Virgin Islands joined FIFA.

1998, Eritrea joined FIFA.

1998, Palestine joined FIFA.

1996, Andorra joined FIFA

1996, Montserrat joined FIFA.

1996, Anguilla joined FIFA.

1996, The British Virgin Islands joined FIFA.

1994, Azerbaijan joined FIFA.

1994, Tajikistan joined FIFA.

1994, Turkmenistan joined FIFA.

1994, Uzbekistan joined FIFA.

1994, The Cook Islands joined FIFA.

1994, Tonga joined FIFA.

1994, The Czech Rupblic joined FIFA.

1994, Slovakia joined FIFA.

1994, Djibouti joined FIFA.

1994, Dominica joined FIFA.

1994, Kyrgyzstan joined FIFA.

1994, Kazakhstan joined FIFA.

1994, Moldova joined FIFA.

1994, Macedonia (FYROM) joined FIFA

1992, Namibia joined FIFA.

1992, The Cayman Islands joined FIFA.

1992, St Kitts and Nevis joined FIFA.

1992, Ukraine joined FIFA.

1992, Bosnia Hercegovina joined FIFA.

1992, Slovenia joined FIFA.

1992, Belarus joined FIFA.

1992, Georgia joined FIFA.

1992, Armenia joined FIFA

1992, Croatia joined FIFA.

1990, Tahiti joined FIFA.

1989, Angola joined FIFA.

1988, Chad joined FIFA

1988, The Solomon Islands joined FIFA.

1988, Aruba joined FIFA.

1988, Vanuatu joined FIFA.

1988, St Lucia joined FIFA.

1988, St Vincent and the Grenadines joined FIFA.

1988, The Faroe Islands joined FIFA.

1988, San Marino joined FIFA.

1986, Cape Verde Islands joined FIFA.

1986, The Maldives joined FIFA.

1986, Belize joined FIFA.

1986, Samoa joined FIFA.

1986, Sao Tome and Principe joined FIFA.

1986, Guinea-Bissau joined FIFA.

1986, Seychelles joined FIFA.

1986, Equatorial Guinea joined FIFA.

1980, Oman joined FIFA.

1980, Yemen joined FIFA.

1978, Mozambique joined FIFA.

1976, Grenada joined FIFA.

1976, Botswana joined FIFA.

1976, Macao joined FIFA.

1976, Swaziland joined FIFA.

1976, Rwanda joined FIFA.

1974, Bangladesh joined FIFA.

1974, Liechtenstein joined FIFA.

1972, The United Arab Emirates joined FIFA

1972, Burundi joined FIFA.

1970, Nepal joined FIFA.

1970, Qatar joined FIFA.

1970, Antigua amd Barbuda joined FIFA.

1969, Benin joined FIFA.

1969, Brunei joined FIFA.

1968, The Bahamas joined FIFA.

1968, Guatemala joined FIFA

1968, Barbados joined FIFA

1967, Niger joined FIFA.

1967, Sierra Leone joined FIFA.

1967, Malawi joined FIFA.

1966, Gambia joined FIFA.

1966, Bahrain joined FIFA.

1965, Zimbabwe joined FIFA.

1964, Burkina Faso joined FIFA.

1964, Vietnam joined FIFA

1964, Tanzania joined FIFA.

1964, Zambia joined FIFA.

1964, Mauritania joined FIFA.

1964, Lesotho joined FIFA.

1964, Liberia joined FIFA.

1963, Trinidad and Tobago joined FIFA.

1963, Gabon joined FIFA.

1963, Libya joined FIFA.

1963, Australia joined FIFA.

1963, New Zealand joined FIFA.

1963, Fiji joined FIFA.

1963, Papua New Guinea joined FIFA

1963, Algeria joined FIFA

1963, The Central African Republic joined FIFA

1962, Senegal joined FIFA.

1962, Togo joined FIFA,

1962, Congo (Republic) joined FIFA.

1962, Congo (Democratic Republic) joined FIFA.

1962, Mauritius joined FIFA.

1962, Cameroon joined FIFA.

1962, Mali joined FIFA.

1962, Jamaica joined FIFA

1962, Bermuda joined FIFA.

1962, Kuwait joined FIFA

1961, Madagascar joined FIFA.

1961, Somalia joined FIFA.

1961 Guinea joined FIFA.

1960, Kenya joined FIFA.

1960, Tunisia joined FIFA.

1960, Cote d�Ivoire joined FIFA.

1960, Puerto Rico joined FIFA.

1959, Malta joined FIFA.

1959, Uganda joined FIFA.

1959, Nigeria joined FIFA.

1959, Saudi Arabia joined FIFA.

1958, North Korea joined FIFA.

1958, Jordan joined FIFA.

1958, Ghana joined FIFA.

1958, The Dominican Republic joined FIFA.

1956, Malaysia joined FIFA.

1956, Morocco joined FIFA.

1954, Albania joined FIFA

1954, Hong Kong joined FIFA.

1954, Taiwan joined FIFA.

1953, Ethiopia joined FIFA.

1953, Cambodia joined FIFA.

1952, Venezuela joined FIFA.

1952, Laos joined FIFA.

1952, Singapore joined FIFA.

1952, Indonesia joined FIFA.

1952, South Africa first joined FIFA; suspended from 1964. Rejoined 1992.

1951, Iraq joined FIFA.

1950, West Germany was re-admitted this year; Germany had been excluded in 1946.

1950, Sri Lanka joined FIFA.

1950, Nicaragua joined FIFA.

1948, Cyprus joined FIFA.

1948, India joined FIFA.

1948, Pakistan joined FIFA.

1948, Afghanistan joined FIFA.

1948, Iran joined FIFA.

1948, Sudan joined FIFA.

1948, South Korea joined FIFA.

1947, Myanmar joined FIFA.

1946, Honduras joined FIFA.

1946, FIFA reconvened after World War Two, now with 57 members; Britain rejoined in 1946 (see 1905). It also had no money.

1938, El Salvador joined FIFA.

1938, Panama joined FIFA.

1937, Syria joined FIFA.

1936, Colombia joined FIFA

1935, Lebanon joined FIFA

1933, Haiti joined FIFA

1933, Turkey joined FIFA

1933, Guatemala joined FIFA.

1932, The Netherlands Antilles joined FIFA.

1932, Cuba joined FIFA.

1931, China first joined FiFA; left 1958, rejoined 1979

1930, Romania joined FIFA

1929, Iceland joined FIFA.

1929, Mexico joined FIFA.

1929, Surinam joined FIFA.

1929, Israel (then British Mandated Palestine) joined FIFA

1928, The Philippines joined FIFA.

1927, Greece joined FIFA.

1926, Portugal joined FIFA.

1926, Bolivia joined FIFA

1926, Ecuador joined FIFA

1925, Thailand joined FIFA.

1924, Bulgaria joined FIFA.

1924, Peru joined FIFA

1923, Estonia joined FIFA.

1923, Lithuania joined FIFA.

1923, Poland joined FIFA.

1923, Egypt joined FIFA.

1923, Brazil joined FIFA.

1923, Uruguay joined FIFA,

1923, Latvia joined FIFA.

1922, Russia (USSR) joined FIFA.

1921, Costa Rica joined FIFA.

1912, Argentina joined FIFA.

1921, Ireland joined FIFA.

1921, Paraguay joined FIFA

1919, Serbia (Yugoslavia) joined FIFA.

1912, Chile joined FIFA.

1912, Canada joined FIFA.

1910, Luxembourg joined FIFA.

1908, Norway joined FIFA.

1908, Finland joined FIFA.

1907, FIFA initially admitted Bohemia � then excluded it as it was only a region within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1906, Hungary joined FIFA

1905, Austria joined FIFA.

1905, England joined FIFA. However on 23 April 1920 England withdtrew from FIFA as an international football dispute intensified over whether the First World War aggressors Germany, Hungary and Austria should be expelled, as demanded by the Allied nations, whilst the Scandinavian teams, also the Italians, demanded to be allowed to play whom they chose. England rejoined FIFA in 1924, but left again in 1928 due to a row over �broken-time� payments to amateurs. These were payments to compensate for lost earnings at work, but the concept could be abused in order to �pay� amateurs. In 1938 England had the opportunity to rejoin FIFA when it lost Austria, because Germany had invaded that country. FIFA fell from 16 to 15 members, and England was offered the spare place, but turned it down. See 1946.

21 May 1904, The Football Federation (FIFA, F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association) was founded in Paris, to obtain greater control of the game at international level. It initially had 7 members; Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

 

National Football Associations

 

2006, The Football Association of Montenegro was formed.

1996, The Andorran Football Association (Federacio Andorrana de Futbol) was formed.

1996, The Anguilla Football Association was formed

1996, The Eritrean National Football Association was formed.

1995, The Montserrat Football Association was formed.

1993, The Moldovian Football Federation was formed.

1993, The Azerbaijan Football Association (Azarbaycan Futbol Federasiyalari Assosiasiyasi) was formed.

1993, The Czech Football Association (Cesko Moravsky Fotbalovy Svaz) was formed.

1993, The Slovak Football Association was formed.

1992, The Namibia Football Federation was formed.

1992, The Cayman Islands Football Association was formed.

1992, The St Kitts and Nevis Football Association was formed.

1992, The United States Virgin Islands Soccer Federation was formed.

1992, The Football Federation of Turkmenistan was formed.

1992, The Football Association of Kyrgyzstan was formed.

1992, The Football Federation of Ukraine was formed

1992, The Belarus Football Association was formed.

1992, The Georgian Football Association was formed.

1991, The Slovenian Football Association was formed.

1991, The Football Federation of Tajikistan was formed.

1991, The Bosnia-Hercegovina Football Association (Nogometni Savez Bosne I Hercegovine) was formed.

1991, The Croatian Football Association was formed.

1988, The St Lucia Football Association was formed.

1988, The St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation was formed.

1985, The Reunion Football Association (Ligue de Reunion) was formed.

1983, The Football Association of Maldives was formed

1988, The Solomon Islands Football Federation was formed.

1982, The Cape Verde Islands Football Association (Federacao Cabo Verdiana de Futebol) was formed.

1980, The Belize National Football Association was formed.

1979, The Faroe Islands Football Association (Fotboltssamband Foroya) was formed.

1978, The Oman Football Asosciation was formed.

1977, The Djibouti Football Association (Federation Djiboutienne de Football) was formed.

1977, The Angolan Football Association (Federacao Angolana de Futebol) was formed.

1976, The Equatorial Guinea Football Association (Federacion Equatoguineana de Futbol) was formed.

1976, The Seychelles Football Federation was founded.

1975, The Comoros Islands Football Association (Federation Comorienne de Football) was formed.

1975, The American Samoa Football Association was formed.

1975, The Guam Soccer Association was formed.

1975, The Sao Tome and Principe Football Association (Federacion Santomense de Futebol) was formed.

1975, The Mozambique Football Association (Federacao Mocambicana de Futebol) was formed.

1974, The Guinea-Bissau Football Association (Federacao de Football de Guinea-Bissau) was formed.

1974, The British Virgin Islands Football Association was formed.

1972, The Rwanda Football Association (Federation Rwandaise de Football Amateur) was formed.

1972, The Bangladesh Football Federation was formed.

1971, The United Arab Emirates Football Association was formed.

1970, The Botswana Football Association was formed.

1971, The Cook Islands Football Federation was formed.

1970, The Dominica Football Association was formed.

1970, The Tonga Football Association was formed.

1968, The Benin Football Association (Federation Beninoise de Football) was formed.

1968, The Samoa Football (Soccer) Federation was formed.

1967, The Niger Football Association (Federation Nigerienne de Football) was formed.

1967, The Bahamas Football Association was formed.

1966, The Football Association of Malawi was formed.

1964, The National Football Association of Swaziland was formed.

1962, The Algerian Football Association (Federation Algerienne de Football) was formed.

1962, The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Football Federation was formed.

1962, The Republic of Yemen Football Association was formed.

1962, The Palestine Football Federation was formed (see 1928).

1962, The Vietnam Football Association (Association de Football de la Republique du Vietnam) was formed

1962, The Gabon Football Association (Federation Gaboniase de Football) was formed.

1962, The Congo (Republic) Foootball Association (Federation Congolaise de Football) was formed.

1962, The Chad Football Association (Federation Tchadienne de Football) was formed.

1962, The Papua New Gunea Football Association was formed.

1961, The Madagascar Football Association (Federation Malagasy de Football) was formed.

1961, The Australia Soccer Federation was founded.

1961, The Mauritania Football Association (Federation de Football de la Republique de Mauritanie) was formed.

1961, The Turks and Caicos Football Association was formed.

1960, The Togo Football Association (Federation Togolaise de Football) was formed.

1960, The Bhutan Football Federation was formed.

1960, The Qatar Football Federation was formed.

1960, The Mali Football Association (Federation Malienne de Football) was formed.

1960, The Cote d�Ivoire Football Association (Federation Ivorienne de Football) was formed.

1960, The Burkina Faso Football Association (Federation Burkinabe de Football) was formed.

1960, The Cameroon Football Association (Federation Camerounaise de Football) was formed.

1960, The Senegal Football Association (Federation Senegalaise de Footballs) was formed.

1960, The New Caledonia Football Association (Federation Neo-Caledonienne de Football) was formed.

1959, The Guinea Football Association (Federation Guineenne de Football) was formed.

1959, The Saudi Arabian Football Federation was formed.

1959, The Brunei Amateur Football Association was formed.

1957, The Ghana Football Association was formed.

1956, The Tunisia Football Association (Federation Tunisienne de Football) was formed.

1955, The Morocco Football Association (Federation Royale Marocaine de Football) was formed.

1953, The Dominican Republic Football Association (Federacion Dominicana de Futbol) was formed.

1952, The Gambia Football Association was formed.

1952, The Kuwait Football Association was formed.

1952, The Mauritius Football Association was formed.

1951, The Laos Football Association (Federacion de FootBall Lao) was formed.

1951, The Bahrain Football Association was formed.

1951, The All Nepal Football Federation was formed.

1951, The Somalia Football Federation was formed.

1950, The Zimbabwe Football Association was formed.

1949, The Jordan Football Association was formed.

1948, The Pakistan Football Federation was formed.

1948, The Iraqi Football Federation was formed.

1948, The Burundi Football Association (Federation de Football du Burundi) was formed.

1947, The Myanmar Football Association was formed.

1947, The Icelandic Football Association (Knattspyrnusamband Island) was formed.

1946, The Football Federation of Uzbekistan was formed.

1945, The Nigeria Football Association was formed.

1945, The Football Association of the Democratic People�s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was formed.

1943, The Ethiopian Football Association (Yeithiopia Football Federechin) was formed.

1940, The Puerto Rico Football Association(Federacion Puertorriquena de Futbol) was formed.

1939, The Football Federation of Sri Lanka was formed.

1939, The Macao Football Association (Associaciao de Futebol de Macau) was formed.

1938, The New Zealand Football Association was formed.

1938, The Fiji Football Association was formed.

1938, The Tahiti Football Assoication (Federation Tahitienne de Football) was formed

1937, The All India Football Federation was formed.

1937, The Central African Republic Football Association (Federation Centrafricaine de Football) was formed.

1937, The Panama Football Association (Federacion Nacional de Futbol de Panama) was formed.

1936, The Liberia Football Association was formed.

1936, The Taiwan Football Association (Chinese Taipei Football Association) was formed.

1936, The Syrian Football Association (Association Arabe Syrienne de Football) was formed.

1936, The Sudan Football Federation was formed.

1935, The Honduras Football Association (Federacion Nacional Automana de Futbol) was formed.

1935, The El Salvador Football Association (Federacion Salvadorena de Futbol) was formed.

1934, The Vanuatu Football Federation was formed.

1934, The Cyprus Football Association was formed.

1933, The Football Association of Liechtenstein (Liechetnsteiner Fussball Verband) was formed.

1933, The Lebanese Football Association (Federation Libanaise de Football) was formed.

1933, The Malaysian Football Association (Persuatuan Bolasepak Malaysia) was formed.

1933, The Cambodian Football Association (Federation Khmere De Football Association) was formed.

1932, The Aruba Football Association (Arubaanse Voetbal Bond) was formed.

1932, The Lesotho Sports Council (Football) was formed.

1932, The Kenya Football Association was formed.

1931, The Nicaragua Football Association (Federacion Nicaraguense de Futbol) was formed.

1931, The San Marino Football Association (Federazione Sammarinese Giuoco Calcio) was formed.

1930, The All Indonesia Football Federation was formed.

1930, The Football Association of Tanzania was founded.

1930, The Albanian Football Association (Federata Shqiptare Futbolit) was formed.

1928, The Antigua Football Association was formed.

1928, The Bermuda Football Association was formed.

1929, The Football Association of Zambia was formed.

1928, The Korea Football Association (South Korea) was formed.

1928, The Israel (Palestine) Football Association was formed, in what was then British Mandated Palestine. See 1962.

1927, The Mexico Football Association (Federacion Mexicana de Futbol Asociacion) was formed.

1926, The Venezuelan Football Association (Federacion Venezolana de Futbol) was formed.

1926, The Guatemalan Football Association (Federacion Nacional de Futbol de Gutemala) was formed.

1926, The Austrian Football Association was founded.

1926, The Greek Football Association (Federation Hellenique de Football) was formed.

1925, The Ecuadorian Football Association (Associacion Ecuatoriana de Futbol) was formed

1925, The Bolivian Football Association (Federacion Boliviana de Futbol) was formed.

1924, The Grenada Football Association was formed.

1924, The Colombian Football Association (Federacion Colombiana de Futbol) was formed.

1921, The Cuban Football Association (Associacion de Futbol de Cuba) was formed.

1924, The Football Association of the People�s Republic of China was formed.

1924, The Federation of Uganda Football Associations was founded.

1923, The Turkish Football Association (Turkiye Futbol Federasyono) was formed

1923, The Bulgarian Football Association (Bulgarski Futbolen Solus) was formed.

1923, The Sierra Leone Amateur Football Association was formed.

1922, The Peruvian Football Association (Federacion Peruana de Futbol) was formed.

1922, The Czechoslovak Football Federation was founded.

1922, The Armenian Football Association was formed.

1922, The Football Federation of the National Olympic Committee, Afghanistan, was formed.

1922, The Russian Football Federation was formed (USSR)

1921, The Football Association of Ireland was formed.

1921, The Estonian Football Association was formed.

1921, The Lithuanian Football Association was formed.

1921, The Football Association of Latvia was formed.

1921, The Egypt Football Association was formed.

1921. The Netherlands Antilles Football Association (Nederlands Antiliaanse Voetbal Unie) was formed.

1921, The Costa Rica Football Association (Federacion Costarricense de Futbol) was formed.

1920, The Australian Football Association was formed.

1920, The Surinam Football Association (Surinaamse Voetbal Bond) was formed.

1920, The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran was formed.

1919, The Congo (Democratic Republic) Football Association (Federation Congolaise de Football-Association, FECOFA) was founded.

1919, The Polish Football Association (Polski Zwiazek Pilki Noznej) was formed.

1919, The Yugoslav (Serbian) Football Federation was formed.

1918, French Football Association (Federation Francaise de Football) was formed.

1916, The Football Association of Thailand was formed.

1914, The Portuguese Football Association (Federacao Portuguesa de Futebol) was formed.

1914, The Hong Kong Football Association was formed.

1914, Brazilian Football Association (Confederacao Brasiliera de Futebol) was formed.

1914, The Football Association of the Republic of Kazakhstan was formed.

1913, The Spanish Football Association (Real Federacione Espanola de Futbol) was formed.

1912, The Russian Football Association was formed.

1912, The Canadian Soccer Association was formed.

1910, The Jamaica Football Federation was formed.

1910, The Barbados Football Association was formed

1908, The Luxembourg Football Association (Federation Luxembourgeoise de Football) was formed.

1908, The Macedonian Football Association was formed.

1908, The Romanian Football Association (Federatia Romana de Fotbal) was formed.

1907, The Finnish Football Association (Suomen Palloliito Finlands Bollofoerbund) was formed.

1907, The Philippine Football Federation was formed.

1906, The Swedish Football Association was formed.

1906, The Paraguayan Football Association (Liga Paraguaya de Futbol) was formed.

1906, The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association was formed.

1905, The Spanish Football Association was formed.

1904, The Haiti Football Association (Federation Haitienne de Football) was formed.

1904, The Guyama Football Assciation was formed.

1904, The Austrian Football Association (Osterreicher Fussball Bund) was formed.

1904, The Swiss Football Association (Schweizerischer Fussballverband) was formed.

1904, The Swedish Football Association (Svensk Fotbollforblundet) was formed.

1902, The Norwegian Football Association (Norges Fotballiforbun) was formed;

1901, The Hungarian Football Association (Magyar Labdarugo Svotetsveg) was formed

1900, The German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund) was formed.

1900, The Malta Football Association was formed.

1900, The Uruguayan Football Association (Association Uruguaya de Futbol) was formed.

1898, The Italian Football Association (Federazione Italiana Guuoco Calcio) was formed.

1895, The Belgian Football Federation (Union Royale Belge des Societes de Football) was founded.

1895, The Swiss Football federation was formed.

1895, The Chilean Football Association (Federacion de Futbol de Chile) was formed.

1893, The Argentine Football Association (Associacion del Futbol Argentino) was formed.

1892, The South African Football Association was formed.

1892, The Football Association of Singapore was formed.

1891, The New Zealand Football Association was formed.

1889, The Danish Football Association (Dansk Boldspil Union) was formed.

1889, The Dutch Football Association (Koninklijke Nederland Voetbalbond) was formed.

1882, The Natal (South Africa) Football Association was formed.

1882, The New South Wales Football Association, Australia, was formed.

1878, The Irish (now Northern Irish) Football Association was formed.

2 February 1876, The Welsh Football Association was formed.

13 March 1873, The Scottish Football Association was formed at a meeting attended by representatives from eight clubs.

26 October 1863. The English Football Association formed at a meeting at Freeman�s Tavern in Great Queen Street, London.

 

Famous footballers

21 April 2006, Tele Santana, Brazilian football coach, died (born 26 July 1931)

19 April 2006, John Lyall, football manager, died (born 24 February 1940)

1 March 2006, Peter Osgood, footballer, died.

26 December 2005, Ted Ditchburn, goalkeeper, died (born 24 October 1921)

29 November 2005, David di Tommaso, French footballer died (born 1979)

25 November 2005, George Best, British footballer, died aged 59

3 March 2005, Rinus Mochels, football manager, died (born 9 February 1928)

23 October 2004, Bill Nicholson, footballer, died (born 26 January 1919).

20 September 2004, Brian Clough, footballer, died (born 21 March 1935)

21 February 2004, John Charles, footballer, died.

3 July 2001, Billy Liddell, footballer, died (born 10 January 1921).

28 November 2000, Len Shackleton, footballer, died (born 3 May 1922).

7 August 2000, Lauren Hemp, footballer, was born.

14 April 2000, Wilf Maunion, footballer, died (born 16 May 1918).

23 February 2000, Stanley Matthews, footballer, died (born 1 February 1915)

1 November 1999, Walter Peyton, US footballer, died.

28 April 1999, Alf Ramsey, footballer, died (born 22 January 1920).

3 March 1998, Panggih Prio Sembodho, Indonesian footballer, was born.

7 December 1997, Billy Bremner, footballer, died (born 9 December 1942).

23 April 1996, Filippo Florio, Italian footballer, was born.

12 February 1996, Klein Stanley Eden Cristobal, Trinidadian footballer, was born.

2 February 1996, Harry Billy Winks, English footballer, was born.

26 July 1995, Keanu Neal, US football linebacker, was born.

30 May 1995, Edward Drake, footballer, died (born 16 August 1912).

20 January 1994, Sir Matthew Busby, footballer, died (born 26 May 1909).

21 August 1993, Millie Bright, footballer, was born.

23 May 1993, Eseosa Mandy Aigbogun, Swiss footballer, was born.

7 March 1993, Vin�cius de Freitas Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer, was born.

27 February 1993, Alphonse Areola, footballer, was born.

1 November 1992, Reece Brown, English footballer, was born.

3 July 1992, Crystal Dunn, US soccer player, was born.

26 June 1992, Joel Campbell, footballer, was born.

17 June 1992, Ryan Allsop, English footballer, was born.

18 March 1992, Anthony Barr, footballer, was born.

3 December 1991, Clifford Bastin, footballer, died (born 14 March 1912)

27 September 1991, Joseph Hulme, footballer, died (born 26 August 1904).

7 May 1991, Stanley Mortensen, footballer, died (born 26 May 1921).

7 March 1991, Michele Rigione, Italian footballer, was born.

5 December 1990, Montee Ball, footballer, was born.

6 April 1990, Peter Doherty, footballer, died (born 5 June 1913).

8 October 1989, Armand Traore, French footballer, was born,

4 July 1989, Rodgers Kola, Zambian footballer, was born.

28 May 1989, Don Revie, footballer, died (born 10 July 1927).

8 October 1988, John Milburn, footballer, died.

13 August 1988, Servando Carrasco, US soccer player, was born.

21 May 1988, Jonathan Howson, English footballer, was born in Morley, England.

21 March 1988, Lee Cattermole, English footballer, was born.

10 January 1988, Marvin Martin, French footballer, was born

23 December 1987, Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer, was born.

19 December 1987, Karim Benzema, French football player, was born in Lyon, France.

31 August 1987, Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer, was born.

18 February 1987, Vicente Guaita, Spanish footballer, was born

18 July 1986, Stanley Rous, footballer, died (born 25 April 1895).

3 March 1986, Jed Collins, US football player, was born.

24 October 1985, Wayne Rooney, English footballer, was born.

11 September 1985, Jock Stein, footballer, died (born 5 October 1923).

7 September 1985, Marcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, Brazilian footballer, was born in Londrina, Parana

10 September 1985, John Stein, footballer, died.

28 June 1983, Alexander Borromeo, Filipino footballer, was born.

2 April 1983, Felix Borja, Ecuadorian footballer, was born.

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8 November 1982, James Dickinson, footballer, died (born 24 April 1925).

17 October 1982, Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer, was born.

16 June 1982, Chris Wingert, US soccer player, born in Babylon, New York

22 April 1982, Ricardo Ezecson dos Santos Leite, Brazilian footballer, was born.

20 March 1982, Jose Moreira, Portuguese footballer, was born.

4 March 1982, Landon Donovan, US footballer, was born.

9 November 1981, Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer, was born.

28 September 1981, William Shankly, footballer, died (born 2 September 1913).

26 September 1981, Graham Christopher Stack, footballer, was born.

2 July 1981, William Gillespie, footballer, died (born 6 August 1892).

20 May 1981, Iker Casillas Fernandez, Spanish footballer, was born

1 April 1981, Clarence Hearn, Australian footballer, died(born 13 November 1905).

15 January 1981, El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf, Senegalese footballer, was born.

20 December 1980, Ashley Cole, English footballer, was born.

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9 December 1980, Jos� Roberto de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer, was born.

28 October 1980, Alan Smith, English footballer, was born.

1 March 1980, William Dean, footballer, died.

14 December 1979, Michael Owen, English footballer, was born.

13 July 1979, Craig Bellamy, footballer, was born.

10 July 1979, Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer, was born.

12 May 1979, Steve Smith, US footballer, was born in Los Angeles, California

2 March 1979, Damien Duff, footballer, was born.

29 January 1979, William McCracken, footballer, died.

28 January 1979, Edwin Mbaso, Zambian footballer, died aged 24 from injuries in a motor vehicle accident.

12 January 1979, Grzegorz Rasiak, footballer, was born in Szczecin, Poland.

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29 November 1978, Viv Anderson, of Nottingham Forest, became the first Black footballer to play for England.

22 September 1978, Harry Kewell, Australian footballer, was born.

22 May 1978, Yoshifumi Ono, Japanese footballer, was born.

19 May 1978, Marcus Bent, English footballer, was born.

13 May 1978, Steve Mildenhall, English football player, was born.

14 February 1978, Paul Governali, US football player, died (born 1921).

2 February 1978, Darrick Leonard Vaughn, US footballer, was born.

28 January 1978, Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer, was born.

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15 October 1977, David Trezeguet, French footballer, was born.

2 September 1977, Frederic Kanoute, Malian footballer, was born.

17 August 1977, Thierry Henry, French footballer, was born in Essonne, Paris.

27 July 1977, Anderson de Souza, Portuguese footballer, was born.

27 June 1977, Raul Gonzalez Bianco, Spanish footballer, was born in Madrid.

19 May 1977, Manuel Almuni, Spanish footballer, was born.

22 January 1977, Hidetoshi Nakaya, Japanese footballer, was born.

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25 November 1976, Donovan McNabb, US football player, was born.

27 September 1976, Francesco Totti, Italian footballer, was born.

22 September 1976, Ronaldo, footballer, was born.

23 June 1976, Patrick Viera, French footballer, was born.

19 March 1976, Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer, was born.

22 February 1976, Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, Brazilian footballer, was born.

23 November 1975, Arno Schreuders, Dutch footballer, was born.

10 June 1975, Henrik Pedersen, Danish football player, was born.

2 May 1975, David Beckham, footballer, was born in Leytonstone, London.

18 February 1975, Gary Neville, English footballer, was born.

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9 November 1974, Alessandro del Piero, Italian footballer, was born.

18 September 1974, Sulzeer Campbell, English footballer, was born.

11 September 1974, Lucian Sahetapy, footballer, was born in Groningen, Netherlands.

7 September 1974, Mario Frick, footballer, was born in Chur, Switzerland.

31 August 1974, Luis Marcelo Duran, footballer, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.

16 August 1974, Ivan Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer, was born.

16 February 1974, Fanis Katergiannakis, Greek footballer, was born.

6 February 1974, Olaf Lindenbergh, Dutch footballer, was born in Purmerend, Netherlands.

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29 November 1973, Ryan Giggs, footballer, was born in C\ardiff.

25 October 1973, Steve White, US footballer, was born.

7 October 1973, Dida, Brazilian footballer, was born in Bahia.

14 August 1973, Augustin Okocha, footballer, was born.

19 August 1973, Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer, was born.

9 August 1973, Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer, was born.

12 July 1973, Christian Vieri, Italian footballer, was born.

29 May 1973, Alpay Ozalan Fehmi, Turkish footballer, was born.

20 April 1973, Edris Hapgood, footballer, died.

13 March 1973, Edgar Steven Davids, Dutch footballer, was born.

26 February 1973, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Norwegian footballer, was born.

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23 November 1972, Alf-Inge Haland, Norwegian footballer, was born in Stavanger.

30 August 1972, Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer, was born.

16 September 1972, Ramon van Haaren, Dutch footballer, was born in Waalwijk, Netherlands

14 April 1972, Paul Devlin, English-Scottish footballer and manager, was born.

2 March 1972, Mauricio Pochettino, Argentinian footballer and manager, was born.

1 January 1972, Lilian Thuram, French footballer, was born.

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6 October 1971, Takis Gonias, Greek footballer and manager, was born.

20 September 1971, |Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer, was born.

10 August 1971, Roy Keane, footballer, was born in Cork, Ireland.

28 June 1971, Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer, was born.

20 February 1971, Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer, was born.

5 September 1970, Jesse Pennington, footballer, died (born 23 August 1883).

3 September 1970, Gareth Southgate, footballer, was born

28 April 1970, Diego Pablo Simeone, Argentinean footballer, was born.

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9 December 1969, Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer, was born

22 September 1969, Robert Kelly, footballer, died (born 16 November 1893).

24 April 1969, Ernest Blenkinsop, footballer, died (born 20 April 1902).

1 February 1969, Gabriel Batistuta, Argentinean footballer, was born.

17 January 1969, Samuel Irving, footballer, died (born 28 August 1893).

25 January 1967, David Ginola, footballer, was born

9 January 1967, Claudio Cabiggia, Argentinean footballer, was born.

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24 October 1966, Sam Hardy, footballer, died (born 26 August 1883).

12 August 1966, Les Ferdinand, footballer, was born

2 August 1966, Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer, was born.

24 July 1966, Martin Keown, footballer, was born.

10 June 1966, David Platt, footballer, was born.

24 May 1966, Eric Cantona, French footballer, was born,

24 April 1966, Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer, was born.

8 April 1966, Mazinho, Brazilian footballer, was born.

9 March 1966, Tony Lockett, Australian footballer, was born.

29 January 1966, Romario da Souza Paria, Brazilian footballer, was born.

19 November 1965, Laurent Blanc, French footballer, was born.

6 October 1965, Jurgen Kohler, West German footballer, was born.

31 October 1965, Denis Irwin, Irish footballer, was born.

29 March 1965, Eric Brook, footballer, died (born 27 November 1907).

1 January 1965,Vinnie Jones, footballer, was born.

1 December 1964, Salvatore Schilllaci, Italian footballer, was born.

31 October 1964, Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer, was born.

21 June 1964, Dean Saunders, footballer, was born.

15 June 1964, Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer, was born.

17 March 1964, Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer, was born.

16 February 1964, Jose Roberto Gama de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer, was born.

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7 November 1963, John Barnes, footballer, was born.

3 November 1963, Ian Wright, footballer, was born.

17 October 1963, Sergio Javier Goycochea, Argentinean footballer, was born.

9 September 1963, Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer, was born

13 June 1963, Edward Sturing, Dutch footballer, was born in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

28 May 1963, Chris Camden, English footballer, was born.

7 April 1963, Bernard Lama, French Guianese footballer, was born.

23 March 1963, Jose Miguel Gonzalez Maria del Campo, Spanish footballer, was born.

12 March 1963, Arthur Grimsdell, footballer, died (born 23 March 1894).

26 January 1963, Jose Mourinho, footballer, was born.

24 April 1962, Stuart Pearce, footballer, was born.

24 September 1962, Alistair McCoist, footballer, was born.

5 April 1962, Richard Gough, footballer, was born.

8 January 1962, Edward Rodgerson , English footballer, died (born 3 April 1891).

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12 November 1961, Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer, was born.

23 October 1961, Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer, was born.

20 October 1961, Ian Rush, footballer, was born.

15 September 1961, Dan Marino, US footballer, was born in Pittsburgh

1 August 1961, Dirk Franciscus Blind, Dutch footballer, was born.

10 June 1961, David Platt, footballer, was born.

19 March 1961, Rune Bratseth, Norwegian footballer, was born.

1 February 1961, Manuel Amoros, French footballer, was born.

14 December 1960, Christopher Waddle, footballer, was born.

30 November 1960, Gary Lineker, footballer, was born.

25 September 1960, Igor Belanov, Russian footballer, was born.

10 July 1960, Roger Craig, US footballer, was born in Davenport, Iowa

25 May 1960, Patrick Bonner, footballer, was born.

16 April 1960, Pierre Littbarski, German footballer, was born.

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22 December 1959, Bernd Schuster, West German footballer, was born.

4 December 1959, Paul McGrath, footballer, was born.

16 May 1959, Elisha Scott, footballer, died (born 24 August 1894).

28 December 1958, Terry Butcher, footballer, was born.

26 September 1958, Kenneth Sansom, footballer, was born.

18 September 1958, John Aldridge, footballer, was born.

22 June 1958, Rodion Catamaru, Romanian footballer, was born.

11 June 1958, Hugo Sanchez, Mexican footballer, was born.

19 April 1958, William Meredith, footballer, died (born 30 July 1874).

21 February 1958, Duncan Edwards, footballer, died (born 1 October 1936).

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8 October 1957, Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer, was born.

11 September 1957, Preben Elkjaer Larsen, Danish footballer, was born.

27 July 1957, Hans Peter Muller, West German footballer, was born.

11 June 1957, Hugh Gallagher, footballer, was born (died 11 June 1957).

18 March 1957, Wolfgang Schilling, German footballer, was born.

28 February 1957, Jan Ceulemans, Belgian footballer, was born.

11 January 1957, Bryan Robson, English footballer, was born.

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14 September 1956, Raymond Wilkins, footballer, was born.

28 February 1956, James Nicholl, footballer, was born.

13 February 1956, Liam Brady, footballer, was born in Dublin, Ireland.

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6 December 1955, Anthony Woodcock, footballer, was born.

26 November 1955, Philip Thompson, footballer, was born.

25 September 1955, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, West German footballer, was born

9 July 1955, Steve Coppell, footballer, was born in Liverpool.

23 June 1955, Jean Amadou Tigana, French footballer, was born.

21 June 1955, Michel Platini, French footballer, was born.

13 June 1955, Alan Hansen, footballer, was born.

8 June 1955, Jose Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer, was born.

13 April 1955, Safet Susic, Yugoslav footballer, was born

13 March 1955, Bruno Conti, Italian footballer, was born.
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15 November 1954, Uli Steilke, West German footballer, was born.

10 November 1954, Juan Gomez Gonzalez, Spanish footballer was born.

23 May 1954, Gerry Armstrong, British footballer, was born.

19 April 1954, Trevor Francis, footballer, was born in Plymouth.

31 January 1954, Vivian Woodward, footballer, died.

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4 December 1953, Jean-Marie Pfaff, Belgian footballer, was born.

27 May 1953, Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer, was born.

25 May 1953, Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer, was born.

21 May 1953, Bum Kun Cha, Korean footballer, was born.

3 March 1953, Artur Antunes Coimbra, Brazilian footballer, was born.

14 February 1953, Johannes Kranki, Austrian footballer, was born.

15 December 1952, Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer, was born.

5 November 1952, Oleg Blokhin, Russian footballer, was born.

23 August 1952, Carlos Alonso Gonzalez, Spanish footballer, was born.

3 August 1952, Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinean footballer, was born.

15 July 1952, Mario Alberto Kempes, Argentinean footballer, was born.

20 May 1952, Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer, was born.

9 May 1952, Zdenek Nehoda, Czech footballer, was born.

7 March 1952, Lynn Swann, Footballer, was born.

1 March 1952, Martin O�Neill, footballer, was born.

5 January 1952, Uli Hoeness, West German footballer, was born.

21 December 1951, Stephen Perryman, footballer, was born.

6 December 1951, Gerald Francis, footballer, was born in Hammersmith, London.

1 October 1951, Peter McWilliam, footballer, died.

5 September 1951, Paul Breitner, West German footballer, was born.

15 May 1951, Johan Neesken, Dutch footballer, was born.

4 March 1951, Kenny Dalglish, footballer, was born in Glasgow.

4 February 1951, Footballer Kevin Keegan was born.

20 February 1951, Philip Neal, footballer, was born.

1 May 1950, Daniel McGrain, footballer, was born.

27 March 1950, Anton Ondrus, Czech footballer, was born.

15 January 1950, Marius Tresor, French footballer, was born.

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18 December 1949, Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer, was born.

14 August 1949, Morten Olsen, Danish footballer, was born.

24 March 1949, Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer, was born.

4 January 1949, Michael Mills, footballer, was born.

2 December 1948, Antonin Panenka, Czech footballer, was born.

2 October 1948, Trevor Brooking, footballer, was born.

5 August 1948, Ray Clemence, footballer, was born.

5 February 1948, Sven Goran Eriksson, footballer, was born.

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23 October 1947, Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer, was born.

27 July 1947, Bob Klein, US footballer, was born

21 July 1947, Co Adriaanse, footballer was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands

9 July 1947, OJ Simpson, footballer, was born.

25 April 1947, Johann Cruyff, Dutch footballer, was born.

3 February 1947, Hristo Bonev, Bulgarian footballer, was born.

30 December 1946, Hans Hubert Vogts, West German footballer, was born.

18 September 1946, Otis Sistrunk, US footballer, was born in Columbus, Georgia.

3 April 1946, Alf Common, footballer, died (born 25 May 1880).

3 November 1945. Gerd Muller, German footballer, was born in Nordlingen.

17 October 1945, Dave Cutler, Canadian footballer, was born.

12 June 1945, Patrick Jennings, footballer, was born.

28 February 1944, Josef Maier, West German footballer, was born.

9 December 1942, Billy Bremner, footballer, was born.

11 September 1942, John Grieg, footballer, was born in Edinburgh.

26 February 1942, Jozef Adamec, Slovak footballer, was born

24 February 1940, Denis Law, footballer, was born.

23 January 1940, Brian Labone, footballer, was born (died 24 April 2006)

6 January 1940, John Giles, footballer, was born in Dublin.

28 December 1939, Frank McLintock, footballer, was born.

23 October 1939, George Cohen, footballer, was born

21 July 1939, Helmut Haller, West German footballer, was born.

17 July 1939, Valery Voronin, Russian footballer, was born.

29 June 1939, Amarildo Tavares Silveira, Italian footballer, was born.

27 August 1938, Jose Altafini, Italian footballer, was born.

8 August 1938, Otto Rehhagel, footballer, was born in Essen, Germany

20 July 1938, Roger Hunt, footballer, was born.

7 June 1938, Ian StJohn, footballer, was born.

30 December 1937, Gordon Banks, footballer, was born.

6 December 1937, Pedro Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer, was born.

16 May 1937, Antonio Ubaldo Rattin, Argentinean footballer, was born.

13 April 1937, Augusto Jose Pinto de Almeida, Portuguese footballer, was born.

8 April 1937, William Bassett, English footballer, died (born 27 January 1869).

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21 October 1936, Khennane Mahi, French-Algerian footballer, was born.

3 October 1936, John Heisman, American football player, died aged 66.

1 October 1936, Duncan Edwards, footballer, was born (died 21 February 1958).

23 September 1936, George Eastham, footballer, was born.

30 May 1936, Slava Metreveli, Russian footballer, was born.

21 September 1935, Jimmy Armfield, English footballer, was born.

12 September 1935, Jan Popluhar, Czech footballer, was born.

6 August 1935, Mario Esteves Coluna, Portuguese footballer, was born.

7 May 1935, Jack Charlton, footballer, was born.

6 April 1935, Luis del Sol Cascajares, Spanish footballer, was born.

7 February 1935, Clifford Jones, footballer, was born.

17 December 1934, Ramon Wilson, footballer, was born.

27 November 1934, Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer and coach, was born in Baghdad (died 2009).

19 November 1934, Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer, was born.

14 November 1934, Dave Mackay, footballer, was born.

12 November 1934, Edvaldo Izidio Neto, Brazilian footballer, was born.

17 October 1934, John Haynes, footballer, was born in Kentish Town, London.

27 May 1934, Bryan Douglas, footballer, was born.

6 January 1934, Herbert Chapman, footballer, died (born 19 January 1878).

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28 October 1933, Manoel Francisco dos Santos, Brazilian footballer, was born.

22 October 1933, Francisco Gento, Spanish footballer, was born.

18 August 1933, Just Fontaine, French footballer, was born in Marrakech, Morocco.

18 February 1933, Robert Robson, footballer, was born.

5 February 1933, Milos Milutinovic, Yugoslavian footballer, was born.

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21 November 1932, Ron Saunders, footballer, was born.

3 November 1932, Ernst Pol, Polish footballer, was born.

31 December 1931, Ray Graves, US football player, was born.

27 December 1931, John Charles, footballer, was born near Swansea, Wales.

26 November 1931, Roger Piantoni, French footballer, was born.

13 October 1931, Raymond Kopa, French footballer, was born.

2 August 1931, Villam Schroiff, Czech footballer, was born.

26 July 1931, Tele Santana, Brazilian football coach, was born (died 21 April 2006)

19 February 1931, Bobby Collins, footballer, died.

9 February 1931, Josef Masopust, Czech footballer, was born.

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28 October 1930, Svatopluk Pluskai, Czech footballer, was born.

4 September 1930, Igor Netto, Russian footballer, was born.

29 April 1930, Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer, was born.

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16 December 1929, Ivor Allchurch, footballer, was born.

12 December 1929, Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese footballer, was born.

23 August 1929, Zoltan Czibor, Hungarian footballer, was born.

16 August 1929, Helmut Rahn, West German footballer, was born.

9 July 1929, Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer, was born.

17 May 1929, Branislav Zebec, Yugoslav footballer, was born.

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28 October 1928, Lawrence Reilly, footballer, was born.

14 October 1928, Jose hector Rial, Argentinean footballer, was born.

24 August 1928, Tommy Docherty, football manager, was born.

15 July 1928, Jimmy Leadbetter, footballer, was born (died 18 July 2006)

4 July 1928, Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer, was born.

24 April 1928, Thomas Docherty, footballer, was born.

9 February 1928, Rinus Michels, football manager, was born (died 3 March 2005)

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5 September 1927, Malcolm Allison, footballer, was born in Dartford, England.

16 July 1927, Robert Evans, footballer, was born in Glasgow.

10 June 1927, Ladislav Kubala, footballer, was born in Hungary.

16 May 1927, Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer, was born.

29 April 1927, William Slater, footballer, was born.

12 October 1926, Nikita Simonian, Russian footballer, was born.

4 July 1926, Alfredo di Stefano, Spanish footballer, was born in apoor suburb of Buenos Aires.

7 March 1926, Ernst Ocwirk, Austrian footballer, was born.

27 August 1925, Nathaniel Lofthouse, footballer, was born.

28 July 1925, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer, was born.

3 May 1925, Robert Jonquet, French footballer, was born.

24 April 1925, James Dickinson, footballer, was born (died 8 November 1982).

5 October 1923, Jock Stein, footballer, was born (died 11 September 1985).

1 May 1923, William Steel, footballer, was born (died 13 May 1982).

30 January 1923, Arthur Kinnaird, footballer, died (born 16 February 1847).

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8 October 1922, Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer, was born.

3 May 1922, Len Shackleton, footballer, was born.

5 April 1922, Thomas Finney, footballer, was born.

24 January 1922, Cornelius Franklin, footballer, was born in Stoke on Trent.

24 October 1921, Ted Ditchburn, goalkeeper, was born (died 26 December 2005)

22 April 1921, Vinko Golob, Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer, was born (died 5 September 1995)..

22 January 1920, Sir Alf Ramsey, England international footballer and manager, was born.

16 October 1919, Ivor Allchurch, Welsh footballer, was born.

26 September 1919, Henry Johnstone, footballer, was born (died 12 October 1973)

23 February 1919, John Carey, footballer, was born in Dublin.

26 January 1919, Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer, was born in Milan.

15 November 1918, Adolfo Pedernera, Argentinean footballer, was born.

16 May 1918, Wilfred Mannion, footballer, was born.

25 October 1916, Stanley Cullis, footballer, was born.

4 December 1914, George Swindin, footballer, was born (died 27 October 2005).

1 February 1914, Stanley Matthews, professional footballer, was born.

2 September 1913, William Shankly, footballer, was born (died 28 September 1981).

5 June 1913, Peter Doherty, footballer, was born (died 6 April 1990).

26 December 1913, Frank Swift, English footballer, was born.

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16 August 1912, Edward Drake, footballer, was born (died 30 May 1995).

14 March 1912, Clifford Bastin, footballer, was born (died 3 December 1991)

1 December 1911, Franz Binder, Austrian footballer, was born.

11 November 1910, Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer, was born.

23 August 1910, Guiseppe Meazza, Italian footballer, was born.

6 September 1909, Severino Minelli, Swiss footballer, was born.

26 May 1909, Sir Matthew Busby, footballer, was born (died 20 January 1994).

7 March 1909, Andre Abegglen, Swiss footballer, was born.

12 February 1909, Bernabe Ferreyra, Argentinean footballer, was born.

27 September 1908, Eddie Hapgood, English footballer, was born.

27 November 1907, Eric Brook, footballer, was born (died 29 March 1965).

28 April 1907, Raymond Braine, Belgian footballer, was born.

27 January 1907, Albert Arthur Roberts, English footballer for Southampton, was born..

27 May 1906, Henry Hibbs, footballer, was born (died 23 April 1984).

13 November 1905, Clarence Hearn, Australian footballer, was born (died 1 April 1981).

17 January 1905, Guillermo St�bile, Argentine footballer, was born (died 1966)

26 August 1904, Joseph Hulme, footballer, was born (died 27 September 1991).

2 June 1904, Frantrisek Planicka. Czech footballer, was born.

18 February 1903, Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer, was born.

27 November 1902, George Camsell, footballer, was born (died 7 March 1966).

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5 December 1900, James Dimmock, footballer, was born (died 23 December 1972).

3 April 1899, David Jack, footballer, was born (died 10 September 1858)

3 February 1899, Robert John, footballer, was born (died 17 July 1982).

21 June 1898, Hector Scarone, Uruguayan footballer, was born.

5 November 1897, Warneford Cresswell, footballer, was born (died 20 October 1973).

25 April 1895, Stanley Rous, footballer, was born (died 18 July 1986).

26 March 1895, Jimmy McMullan, footballer, was born (died 28 November 1964).

25 March 1895, James Seed, footballer, was born (died 16 July 1966).

24 August 1894, Elisha Scott, footballer, was born (died 16 May 1959).

23 March 1894, Arthur Grimsdell, footballer, was born (died 12 March 1963).

16 November 1893, Robert Kelly, footballer, was born (died 22 September 1969).

28 August 1893, Samuel Irving, footballer, was born (died 17 January 1969).

24 April 1893, Alan Morton, footballer, was born (died 15 December 1971).

6 August 1892, William Gillespie, footballer, was born (died 2 July 1981).

29 May 1892, Jamie Thompson, Australian footballer, was born (died 12 July 1975).

22 September 1891, Charles Buchan, footballer, was born (died 25 June 1960).

3 April 1891, Edward Rodgerson , English footballer, was born (died 8 January 1962).

26 August 1883, Sam Hardy, footballer, was born (died 24 October 1966).

23 August 1883, Jesse Pennington, footballer, was born (died 5 September 1970).

25 May 1880, Alf Common, footballer, was born (died 3 April 1946).

26 September 1879, Robert Crompton, footballer, was born (died 15 March 1941).

30 July 1875, Billy Meredith, footballer, was born (died 19 April 1958).

30 July 1874, William Meredith, footballer, was born (died 19 April 1958).

12 April 1874, Bill Foulke, footballer, was born.

20 January 1874, Stephen Bloomer, footballer, was born (died 16 April 1938).

25 November 1872, Gilbert Smith, footballer, was born (died 6 December 1943).

27 January 1869, William Bassett, English footballer, was born (died 8 April 1937).

18 January 1861, Peter Beardsley, English footballer, was born.

30 July 1858, Charles Bambridge, English footballer, was born (died 8 November 1935).

16 February 1847, Arthur Kinnaird, footballer, was born (died 30 January 1923).

2 December 1842, Charles Alcock, footballer, was born (died 26 February 1907)

 

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