Before The 'D'...Association Football around the world, 1863-1937.

When we think of the professional football clubs of the industrialized north that came to dominate the game in the 1880s, it is easy to cons...

1910   It was an early example of the democratization of football in South America.  In 1897, when football was still alm...

Matches such as this were the staple in the pre League football days. Even in friendly competition local and regional rivalries could...

In September 1890 Wolverhampton Wanderers ran out for their league game against newly elected Sunderland  at    Newcastle Road  in the red a...

When Botafogo chose their black and white stripes in 1904 they did so on the insistence of one of their founder members who had just ret...