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The Hackney and Leyton Sunday Football League is a football competition based in London, England. It was founded in 1946 and operates under the jurisdiction of the London Football Association , the only English regional association founded by the FA .
4 February 1963: The FA postpone the fifth and sixth rounds of the FA Cup for a week. 9 February 1963: Only seven League fixtures are played due to the bad weather. [2] 12 February 1963: The FA postpone the fifth and sixth rounds of the FA Cup further. 18 February 1963: The FA Cup semi-finals are postponed four weeks and the final three weeks.
The Sunday Cup trophy was presented to the FA by the Shah of Iran as a gift to mark the centenary of the FA in 1963. It was created by Iranian silversmiths. [2] In the Cup's first season (1964–65), teams representing Sunday players in various counties entered with London winning the two-legged final 6–2 against Staffordshire. [1]
17 August 1963 – Reigning league champions Everton won the Charity Shield after a 4–0 win over FA Cup winners Manchester United.; 14 September 1963 – George Best, a 17-year-old Northern Irish winger, makes his debut for Manchester United in their 1–0 First Division win over West Bromwich Albion.
The first Sunday League to be formed in England was the Edmonton & District Sunday Football League of North London in 1925. [2] The East London Sunday League followed in 1930, the Metropolitan Sunday League in 1934, the West Fulham in 1936 and the Essex Corinthian in 1937.
The FA Sunday Cup is a national knock-out competition for English Sunday league football teams administered by the FA, which has been staged since 1964. [4] The most prominent single location for Sunday league football is Hackney Marshes in east London, which has been called the "spiritual home" of Sunday league. [5] The oldest Sunday League in ...
1963–64: Champions: Liverpool 6th English title: Relegated: Bolton Wanderers Ipswich Town: European Cup: Liverpool: Cup Winners' Cup: West Ham United: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: Manchester United Everton: Matches played: 462: Goals scored: 1,571 (3.4 per match) Top goalscorer: Jimmy Greaves (35 goals) [3] Biggest home win: Fulham 10–1 Ipswich ...
The 1962–63 Football League Cup was the third season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 football clubs; only 80 of them took part. [ a ] The competition began on 3 September 1962, and ended with the two-legged final on 23 and 27 May 1963.