1888 IN FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

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Events

Clubs founded in 1888

Winners club national championship

International tournaments

Births

Deaths

Events

The following are the 'football (soccer)' events of the year '1888' throughout the world.
'Foundation of Football League in England (1888)'
A Scottish draper and director of Aston Villa, William McGregor, was the first to set out to bring some order to a chaotic world where clubs arranged their own fixtures. On 2 March 1888, he wrote to Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion and to the secretary of Aston Villa about the formation of a football league.
The first meeting was held at Anderson's Hotel in London on 23 March 1888 on the eve of the FA Cup Final with the name of the Football League being settled at a further meeting on 17 April at Manchester's Royal Hotel. The first season of the Football League began a few months later on 8 September with 12 member clubs.
The first own goal ever is scored, by Gershom Cox of Aston Villa, for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Clubs founded in 1888

★ Barnet

★ Celtic

★ Dartford

★ Sparta Rotterdam

★ Walsall

Winners club national championship

International tournaments

★ 1888 British Home Championship (February 4 – April 7, 1888)
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Births

★ August 24 — Leo Bosschart, Dutch footballer (d. 1951)

Deaths