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

Budapesti Torna Club The Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség was founded in January  1900, and the   first  Hungarian  league match was played...

Here are some team photographs from the 1936 seasons of the Soviet Union league.  Spartak Moscow  (Autumn winners)   Dinamo M...

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, winners of the football league, Malta, 1903. Football was, of course, introduced...

There had been embryonic national championships in the Netherlands in the two previous seasons, but their credibility as true championships ...

The Liga de Football Association Amateur was founded in June 1902, and a national Mexican championship was held during the 1902/03 season , ...

France received early exposure to football. A presumably pre- association variant of the game caused much mirth when it was practiced by En...

 The multi-sport governing body Union Belge des Sociétés de Sports Athlétiques came into being on August 4th, 1895. The decision was mad...

Grasshopper Club Zürich The Swiss league in   the 1897–1898 season was contested by 9 teams divided into 3 groups.It was a curio...

C.U.R.C.C. 1900 1. C.U.R.C.C. 6 6 0 0 36- 2 12 2. Albion 6 4 0 2 22- 6 8 3. Ur...

HMS Imogene FC 1904-05  Cadi-keuy FC 1905-06 Cadi-keuy FC 1906-07    Moda FC 1907-1908 Galatasaray SK 1908-09 Gal...

British sport and games tend to physically develop the youth of the country and to impose an admiration for that fair play which sport breed...

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

The second oldest league competition in the world was contested in Denmark in the 1889/90 season. The competition was contested exclusively...