Paraguay

William Paats

English railway workers were reportedly playing football in Paraguay in the 1880s, but the responsibility for introducing organized football lies with the Dutchman William Paats. Paats moved to Asuncion when he was 18 years old. He became a games instructor at a local college and introduced football. In 1902 he was involved in founding the oldest (and most successful) club in Paraguay- Olimpia.

Olimpia 1902

Paats  was also influential in the foundation of Liga Paraguaya de Football Association and was its 3rd president (1909–1910).
The league began in 1906- competing for the newspaper sponsored Copa el Diario. The first ever league match in Paraguay was a 1-1 draw between Football Club Guarani and Olimpia. The return match was also a 1-1 draw- Guarani won all their other games and were champions. 

Final standings:

1.Guaraní
2.Olimpia
3.Libertad
4.General Díaz
5.Nacional
6.14 de Mayo

Football Club Guarani were dominant in the early years- they play in black and yellow as their founders included the bothers Federico and Salvador Melina who had played for CURCC.

 Federico Melina (Guarani)

Juan Deandreis (Guarani)

Olimpia didn't win the title until 1912.

The Uruguayan Association Football League- Amateur Era

The Uruguay Association Foot-ball League was founded in 1900 at the instigation of Snr.Enrique Cándido Lichtemberger of Albion FC. Note that the name of the organization was in English, and they took the Football Association as their model, going as far as to make English the official language of the League. The banner at the top left of the foundation act above shows the flag of Uruguay, the Union Flag of Great Britain and the flag of C.U.R.C.C.
The first president was Snr P.D. Chater of C.U.R.C.C.
In 1905 the organization's name changed to the Spanish- Liga Uruguaya de Football, and in 1915 to Asociación Uruguaya de Football.

In 1922 a number of teams, most notably Peñarol and Central Español seceded from the league and competed in a breakaway league (Federación Uruguaya de Foot-ball). This led to the situation whereby in 1923 both Wanderers and Nacional could claim to be national champions and in 1924 both Nacional and Penarol.

The Government intervened to resolve the schism, neither league was completed in 1925 and a reunification tournament was held in 1926.

Uruguay Association Foot-ball League
1900	C.U.R.C.C.*
1901	C.U.R.C.C.
1902	Nacional
1903	Nacional
1904	No tournament due to Civil War
1905	C.U.R.C.C.
1906	Montevideo Wanderers
1907	C.U.R.C.C.
Liga Uruguaya
1908	River Plate FC
1909	Montevideo Wanderers
1910	River Plate FC
1911	C.U.R.C.C.
1912	Nacional
1913	River Plate FC
1914	River Plate FC
Asociación Uruguaya de Foot-ball
1915	Nacional
1916	Nacional
1917	Nacional
1918	Peñarol **
1919	Nacional
1920	Nacional
1921	Peñarol
1922	Nacional	Federación Uruguaya de Foot-ball***
1923	Nacional	(Athletic) Montevideo Wanderers ****
1924	Nacional	Peñarol
1925	Neither League completed
1926	Consejo Provisorio***	Peñarol
Asociación Uruguaya de Foot-ball
1927	Rampla Juniors
1928	Peñarol
1929	Peñarol
1930	No tournament due to World Cup
1931	Montevideo Wanderers

* For more on the first season, see here.

** C.U.R.C.C.became Peñarol in 1914.

***These three titles are not recognized officially.

****  Montevideo Wanderers competed in both leagues.

Nacional 1902

Montevideo Wanderers 1906

River Plate 1914

Peñarol 1918

Rampla Juniors 1927

Sensational Nottingham Forest 1905

Sensational  might not be the word for Nottingham Forest in the 1904-05 season in English football. They finished the season 16th out of 18 (p 34 w 9 d 7 l 18 f 40 a 61) in the league and were eliminated in the second round of the FA Cup .

However, their appearance in South America certainly was a sensation. English and Scottish football were still perceived as being on a different planet from the football played elsewhere. The Argentine FA invited Nottingham Forest to tour with an offer of £200.  The voyage, from Southampton, took three weeks.

The touring party consisted of H S Radford (vice president), Harry Hallam (secretary), and players Bob Norris, Harry Linacre, C Clifford, Charles Craig, William Shearman, Sam Timmins, Alf Spouncer, Fred Lessons, Walter Dudley, Thomas Davies, Thomas Niblo, George Henderson and Albert Holmes.

The tour was a success commercially, and Forest enjoyed asserting the superiority of the English game, winning all eight  matches, scoring 57 goals and  conceding 3.

The poster bills the match on June 11th as being against Uruguay, whilst contemporary reports list the opponents as Peñarol  (something of a colloquialism, as at the time the team in black and yellow kit based on the chevrons of Stephenson's Rocket were still officially known as CURCC).

CURCC

11.6.05  Peñarol 6-1 (Montevideo)
16.6.05  Rosario Central-Rosario A.C. 5-0 (Rosario)*

18.6.05  Belgrano 7-0 (this and all subsequent games were played in Buenos Aires).
22.6.05  Británicos 13-1
?            Rosario Central-Rosario A.C. 6-0
?            Alumni 6-0 **
29.6.05  Argentinos 5-0***
2.7.05    Liga Argentina 9-1

The tour concluded with a game between teams combining Argentine and Forest players. 

*Forest donated their share of the gate money to the victims of a local flood

** It was this match that inspired Independiente to adopt the Forest colours.

*** The line up featured Zenon Diaz, the first indigenous player to represent Argentina.

Forest secretary Harry Hallam described the quality of opposition as almost equal to the English Second Division and predicted a bright future for South American football.