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The first football team in South America is founded, Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, Argentina. British introduce football to Russia. Hamburger SV is founded. Hibernian F.C. wins the Football World Championship against Preston North End, 2–1 in Edinburgh. 1888 in football
The Football League was renamed to the English Football League, with all of the leagues and cup competitions it organizes including "EFL" in their titles. Manchester United equaled Arsenal's record of 12 FA Cups. Leicester City won the top tier title of English football for the first time in history, just 8 years after their relegation to the ...
Category: Association football in North America by country. 13 languages. ... Simple English;
The first association football team in South America, Buenos Aires Football Club was created in Argentina that same year. The first country's league was the "Association of Argentine Football" (AAF), founded in 1891 by F.L. Wooley.
In the early 20th century, as association football began to grow in Europe, the French Football Association proposed a European federation. [1] The English FA replied that "The Council of the Football Association cannot see the advantages of such a Federation, but on all matters upon which joint action was desirable they would be prepared to ...
North, Central America and the Caribbean Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football: CONCACAF 41 35 Champions Cup: Gold Cup: Nations League: Oceania Oceania Football Confederation: OFC 13 11 Champions League: Nations Cup: South America Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol: CONMEBOL 10 10 Copa Libertadores ...
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 history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...