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

Lloyd's Weekly London  Newspaper - 30.10.92

 We have previously alluded to the position of the Queen's Park club as a de facto governing body within Scottish football. It co...

1874 - Queen's Park 2 Clydesdale 0  16 teams entered the  inaugural   Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup. The first Scottish ...

As we have seen, the Football League had 12 founding Members, 11 of which still exist as full time professional clubs in the English Pyramid...

The following illustration from  The Pictorial World , March, 1883 shows  Dumbarton v Queen's Park in a  Scottish Cup quarter final play...

There were only 6 seasons between 1891 and 1937 when one or other of the Glasgow 'Old Firm' clubs did not win the Scottish champions...

Following the example of England two other members of the  International Football Association Board  (founded 1886)  inaugurated lea...