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Juventus becomes the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major confederation competitions after defeating Liverpool 1–0 in that match, as well as the first in association football history to have won all possible international competitions [8] [9] [10] after defeating Argentinos Juniors 6–4 (2–2 a.e.t.) in ...
The club was known as Wednesday Football Club until 1929 when they added Sheffield to their name. [28] 19 October – Chesterfield F.C. was formed as an offshoot of Chesterfield Cricket Club in October 1867. [29] West Kent Football Club were founded in 1867 [30] by a core of Old Rugbeians including Arthur Guillemard.
As a consequence, Leeds were hit with the biggest point deduction yet in English professional football history (until Luton's 30 point penalty a year later), starting the 2007–08 League One season on -15. Boston United entered administration in the final minutes of the league season to take a 10-point deduction in the 2006–07 season.
The American Professional Football Association is formed on September 17, 1920, at Canton, Ohio, with Jim Thorpe elected president. [1] The fourteen teams were mainly drawn from the Ohio League, Chicago Circuit, New York Pro Football League and other teams from the lower midwest.
On 16 October 1880 the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette announced that the club's name had been changed to Sunderland Association Football Club; and non-teachers were allowed to join. [7] They turned professional in 1885, the same year that the club recruited a number of Scotsmen, their first internationally capped players. [8]
In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as an independent unit or as part of a larger sports organization as a subsidiary of the parent club or ...
For the purposes of this article, "intercontinental competitions" are competitions organized between two or more confederations or by FIFA.Competitions organized between two or more national federations on different continents such as the Copa Iberoamericana are not included, nor are competitions that are only available to teams from part of each continent such as the Arab Club Champions Cup.
1 January – Charles Chenery (d. 1928), England international 1872–1874 who played in the first three official international matches; also a county cricketer. 13 March – Alfred Goodwyn (d. 1874), England international in 1873 who played in the second official international match; the first international footballer to die.