SOME SIGNIFICANT DATES IN THE HISTORY OF BRTISIH
FOOTBALL - A DRAFT LISTING.
1175 Shrove
Tuesday football mentioned in William Fitzstephen's History of London
1314 Shrove
Tuesday Games banned by Edward II
1388 Richard
II repeats ban
1424 King
James restricts the game by decree
1531 Sir
Thomas Elyot's Boke Named the Governour published Speaks of football as
being 'nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence'
1618 James
I Declaration banning sports on the Sabbath
1625 Charles
II renews the Declaration forbidding sport on the Sabbath
1863 Football
Association Founded
1871 The
F.A. Cup established
1872 1st
England v Scotland Football international
1873 Scottish
Football Association founded
1873 1st
Scottish Cup final Queen's Park win
1876 Football
Association of Wales founded
1876 1st
Scotland v Wales international Glasgow Scotland won 4-0
1877 1st
Scotland v Wales international played in Wales Wrexham Scotland won 2-0
1878 1st
match played under floodlights Bramall Lane Sheffield
1878 1st
Welsh Cup Final Wrexham beat The Ruabon Druids 1-0
1879 1st
England v Wales international at the Kennington Oval England won 2-1
1881 1st
England v Wales international Blackburn England won 1-0
1885 Professionalism
legalised by the Football Association
1886 International
caps awarded for the first time
1888 Football
League founded
1890 Football
goal nets introduced for senior competition
1893 Football
Association of Wales founded
1907 Public
Health Act passed
1907 The
Football Players' and Trainers' Union formed
1908 1st
International Match England v Austria in Vienna England won 6-1
1920 (Northern)
Irish Football Association founded
1922 1st
œ5K transfer Puddefoot West Ham to Falkirk
1923 1st
F.A. Cup Final played at Wembley Stadium.Bolton Wanderers 2 West Ham 0
gate 126,047
1928 Scotland
beat England at Wembley for the 1st time England 1 Scotland 5
Wembley Wizards enter Scottish folklore
1930 1st
World Cup in Soccer Uruguay
1933 Numbers
worn for first time on shirts
1934 1st
coaching course
1934 World
Cup Italy
1939 Numbers
on shirts introduced into the Football League
1946 FA
appoint 1st National Coach
1946 1st
Scottish League Cup Final
1949 Stanley
Rous knighted for services to soccer
1950 World
Cup Italy
1953 England
beaten for the first time on home soil 6-3
by Hungary at Wembley
1953 1st
World Cup competition
1956 1st
League Game under floodlights Portsmouth v Newcastle United
1958 World
Cup Brazil
1960 1st
match to be broadcast live on television Blackpool v Bolton Wanderers
1962 World
Cup - Chile Brazil beat ? in final
1962 Accrington
Stanley forced to withdraw their membership of the Football League
1965 Stanley
Matthews knighted for services to soccer
1965 Ten
professional footballers found guilty of fixing matches
1966 World
Cup - England England beat West Germany 4-2 in final
1967 Glasgow
Celtic beome 1st British club to win the European Cup
1968 1st
England player to be sent off Alan Mullery England v Yugoslavia Florence
1968 Manchester
United becomes the first English club to win the European Cup
1969 Women's
Football Association founded
1969 1st
match broadcast live in colour Liverpool v West Ham
1970 World
Cup - Mexico England eliminated in quarter finals final won by Brazil
1971 Arsenal
win League and F.A. Cup double
1971 Disaster
at Ibrox Stadium 66 killed
1971 Scottish
Women's Football Association founded
1974 1st
U.K. Minister for Sport Denis Howell
1974 World
Cup - Germany Scotland eliminated despite not losing in preliminary rounds
1975 Centres
of Excellence for Sport introduced
1977 Liverpool
win European Cup for 1st time
1978 World
Cup - Argentina
1978 Sports
Aid Foundation founded
1979 Trevor
Francis becomes first œ1m player Transfer from Birmingham City to
Nottingham Forest
1979 Nottingham
Forest win European Cup for second time
1980 Nottingham
Forest win European Cup for first time?
1981 Liverpool
win European Cup for second time
1982 World
Cup Spain England eliminated in preliminary rounds Final won by
1984 Liverpool
win European Cup for third time
1985 Heysel
Stadium Disaster Bruxelles; 39 killed
Liverpool v Juventus in the final
of the European Cup leads
1985 UEFA
ban British football clubs from European Club Competition
1986 World
Cup - Mexico
1989 Hillsborough
disaster 96 killed Leads to Justice Taylor being commissioned to look into safety at
1990
World
Cup - Italy England progress to
1990 Swindon
Town relegated from the first to third Division after financial
irregularities
1990 Liverpool
win League and Cup double
1991 David
Platt sets new œ5.5m transfer record Aston Villa to Bari
1994 Manchester
United win League and F.A. Cup double
1994 World
Cup - U.S.A. England Scotland N. Ireland and Wales failed to qualify
Final won by Brazil
1995 Ireland v England International in Dublin abandoned following fan violence