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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 ...
Renton F.C. wins the Football World Championship against West Bromwich Albion, 4–1 in Glasgow. 1889 in football; The Royal Dutch Football Association and the Danish Football Association are founded. The Danish association is the first non-British European football association. The Football Alliance is formed as a rival to The Football League.
Organising body: J.League; known as the J.League from 1993 to 1998 before becoming a two-division league, and as J.League Division 1 from 1999 to 2014. J2 League 2nd-tier 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.
In 1974, the National Football League (NFL) announced plans to launch a professional American football league in Europe, the Intercontinental Football League (IFL). Aiming for a launch in the spring of 1975, the IFL would feature six teams (located in Istanbul, Rome, Munich, West Berlin, Vienna, and Barcelona, respectively) and would be a satellite league of the NFL, with initial funds made by ...
William McGregor (13 April 1846 – 20 December 1911) [1] [2] was a Scottish association football administrator in the Victorian era who was the founder of the Football League (now English Football League), the first organised association football league in the world.
In 1888, William McGregor a gentleman from Perthshire and a director of Aston Villa F.C was the main force between meetings held in London and Manchester involving 12 football clubs, with an eye to league competition. These 12 clubs would later become the Football League's 12 founder members. The meetings were held in London, the main concern ...
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.