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The clubs were founded in 1858 and 1859 respectively and currently compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), making them the world's oldest football clubs that are now professional. The oldest football clubs trace their origins to the mid-19th century, a period when football evolved from being a casual pastime to an organised mainstream ...
Oldest association football league. The Premier League was later created and is now the top-flight English league. 1888: Durand Cup: club trophy: Durand Cup, 1888– Association football: India: Oldest football tournament in Asia. 1889: Northern Football League: club league: Association football: North East England: Second-oldest association ...
Former league club Notts County claim an earlier foundation date of 1862; [30] following their relegation from the fourth tier of the English Football League in 2019, the EFL stated that Nottingham Forest were now the oldest professional football league club. [10] This was contested by Stoke City, who claim 1863 [8] as their foundation year. 6 ...
Discussions about which Italian football clubs are the oldest are controversial due to the fact that some teams that were protagonists in the early days of modern football (in the country that includes distant versions of the ball game, such as calcio storico fiorentino) [1] were founded as football sections of multi-sport clubs that provided separate sections for different disciplines (e.g ...
The Danish association is the first non-British European football association. The Football Alliance is formed as a rival to The Football League. The first football association not admitted to FIFA is formed: the Cornwall County Football Association. Rosario Central, and Mohun Bagan, the oldest football club in India, is founded.
Pelé (left) in Sheffield in November 2007, marking the 150th anniversary of the world's oldest football club, Sheffield F.C. [24] Fifty years after leaving the competition, the club rejoined the Yorkshire League , in 1949.
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from its foundation until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split from it to form the Premier League.
The 1888–89 Football League was the first edition of the Football League, which ran from the autumn of 1888 until the spring of 1889.Created and named in Manchester during a meeting on 17 April 1888, the Football League is the oldest professional association football league competition in the world.