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The initial Football League

It really is generally accepted the first officially organised league competition on earth was the (English) Football League formed in 1888. Then, it contained 12 clubs all whom were located in the North and also the Midlands of England. The initial winners with the Football League Championship were Preston North End.

In 1992 with the influx of megabucks from BSkyB (now called Sky TV), the top teams broke off to form their own league referred to as FA Premier League.

Today, the original Football League has 3 divisions called; the Championship, Division 1 and Division 2.

To ensure that England today features a total of four professional football leagues, with teams upgrading (promotion) or down (relegation) with the leagues according to their points tally at the conclusion of each season.

The First Football Association Cup (FA Cup)

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The initial FA Cup final was played in England in 1872 between Royal Engineers and Wanderers in front of 2,000 spectators. Wanderers ran out 1-0 winners partly because Royal Engineers -- who were the favourites -- lost a person through injury, at the beginning of the match, together to play on with only 10 men since substitutes weren't allowed then. The "Challenge Cup", since it was known originally, was the brainchild of Mr. C. W. Alcock of Sunderland who proposed just the year before that "A challenge cup needs to be established in connection with the Association"; the "Association" being the Football Association, hence the FA Cup.

The Oldest Football team in the World

There have been many arguments within the oldest football team on earth. Below are a few things to consider though...

The oldest, continuously documented, "football" club on earth is Dublin University Football team, within the Republic of Ireland, that has been founded in 1854. However, the club now plays Rugby Union, not Association Football. For this reason it isn't officially acknowledged as the oldest football team on earth.

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Sheffield Football team -- Sheffield FC -- founded in England in 1857, is recognised by the English FA and FIFA as being the oldest, continuously documented football team on the planet still playing Association Football. They play in the Northern Premier League Division 1 South in England. So they are often now recognised as being the oldest football team on earth.

But, there is documentation of a "football club" in Edinburgh, Scotland between 1824 and 1841. Several documents continue to exist today which reference the "Foot Ball Club" and it's really rules. It worked rather just like a golf club where members selected teams from other membership to experience each other. The club may be now been reconstituted and plays as of "The Foot Ball Club of Edinburgh" in a amateur capacity.

The very first International Football Match

The initial international football match was played between Scotland and England in Glasgow, Scotland on 30th November 1872, in front of 4,000 spectators. The effect was obviously a hard-fought 0-0 draw. And also the 110 games played between 1872 and 1999 when the fixture was disbanded, Scotland had won 41, England 45, and 24 games had ended in a draw.

The very first Trainer's Dugout

The initial ever recorded utilization of a sunken covered enclosure beside the pitch (the dugout) is at early 1920s at Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen, Scotland. The trainer during the time, Donald Coleman, had it created to protect himself as they took detailed notes of his players during matches, as was his practice, and, was partly sunken in to the ground so you don't block spectators' views with the game. Visiting teams were so impressed that the idea soon spread all through great britain and so the world.

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