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Founded in 1862, Notts County are the oldest professional football club in the world. [4] [5] [6] They first competed in the FA Cup in 1877 and in 1888 became one of the 12 founding members of the Football League. Notts County have been promoted 14 times, relegated 17 times and have played in each of the top 5 divisions of English football.
First recorded match: Notts County 0–0 Trent Valley, friendly, 8 December 1864. [39] First FA Cup match: Notts County 1–1 Sheffield, 3 November 1877. [40] First league match: Everton 2–1 Notts County, 15 September 1888. [41] First Football League Cup match: Notts County 1–3 Brighton & Hove Albion, 20 October 1960. [25]
Meadow Lane has been the home of Notts County since the 1910–11 season. The following article is a list of all Notts County Football Club seasons from 1877–78 up to 2021–22. The list details the club's achievements in all national and European first team competitions, and records their top goalscorer, for each completed season.
[35] [36] [37] Stoke City claim to have been founded in 1863 but lack documented proof of any activity before the match in 1868 and, in 2019, the English Football League (EFL) declared that Nottingham Forest (founded 1865) was the EFL's oldest club ahead of the 2019–20 season, Notts County having been relegated to the National League. [38]
1881 – University of Nottingham founded. [3] 1883 – Nottinghamshire Amateur Photographic Association established. [23] 1890 – Raleigh Cycles in business. 1891 – Notts County lose the FA Cup Final 3-1 to Blackburn Rovers. 1894 – Notts County F.C. win the FA Cup beating Bolton Wanderers 4-1 in the final. 1897
The history of post-confederation Canada began on July 1, 1867, when the British North American colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were united to form a single Dominion within the British Empire. [1] Upon Confederation, the United Province of Canada was immediately split into the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. [2]
The county has an area of 2,160 km 2 (830 sq mi) and a population of 1,154,195. The latter is concentrated in the Nottingham built-up area in the south-west, which extends into Derbyshire and has a population of 729,997. The north-east of the county is more rural, and contains the towns of Worksop (44,733) and Newark-on-Trent (27,700).
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 ...