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Year published by club Club Season 2024–25 Notes 1 1861 [4]: Crystal Palace [5]: Premier League: The club previously published a foundation date of 1905, however they released research in 2020 suggesting an 1861 date, stating that they were "staking a claim to be recognised as the world's oldest league club in existence still playing professional football."
While the first clubs emerged in Britain, possibly as early as the fifteenth century, these are poorly-documented and defunct. For example, the records of the Brewers' Company of London between 1421 and 1423 mention the hiring out of their hall "by the "football players" for "20 pence", under the heading "Trades and Fraternities". [2]
Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England.The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.They have played home games at Craven Cottage since 1896, other than a two-year period spent at Loftus Road whilst Craven Cottage underwent redevelopments that were completed in 2004.
Royal Arsenal was London's first professional team, becoming so in 1891, [9] a move which saw them boycotted by the amateur London Football Association. Other London clubs soon followed Arsenal's footsteps in turning professional, including Millwall (1893), Tottenham Hotspur (1895), Fulham (1898) and West Ham (1898). In the meantime, Woolwich ...
The club's name was changed again to Clapton Orient in 1898 to represent the area of London in which they played, though there was another team called Clapton F.C. Before their relegation in 2017, the O's were the second-oldest league club in London behind Fulham and were the 24th oldest club currently playing in the Football League. Following ...
Cray Wanderers Football Club is an English semi-professional football club based in Chislehurst, London. [2] [3] Based on later reports, the club has a claim to have been established some time in 1860 in the twin villages of St Mary Cray and St Paul's Cray, near Orpington. [4] Such a date would make it one of the oldest football clubs in the ...
This article concerns football records in England. Unless otherwise stated, records are taken from the Football League or Premier League . Where a different record exists for the top flight ( Football League First Division 1888–1992, and Premier League 1992–present), this is also given.
The club had the highest average attendance in English football in 1907–08, [19] 1909–10, [20] 1911–12, [21] 1912–13 [22] and 1913–14. [23] A crowd of 67,000 attended a league game against Manchester United on Good Friday 1906, a then-record for a football match in London.