develpment of football

By jackolad1
  • 1992 BCE

    premier league

    premier league
    the premier league first started on the 15th of august 1992. it is wear all the top teams met up and formed a league to compete against each other.

  • first 90 minute match

    first 90 minute match
    in 1868 the FA was formed and rules were changed to 11 a side with total duration of 90 mins with 45 for each half of the game and also added another rule to have extra time at the end of each half to compensate for the stops in between each half.

  • FA cup

    FA cup
    the fa cup is an English competition were many team all around the country to play against each other. the tournament is the oldest competition in the world, the competition is open to any club down to level 10 of the English football league system.

  • first ever black footballer

    first ever black footballer
    Arthur Wharton: the world's first black professional footballer. Wharton moved to England in 1882 at age 19, to train as a Methodist missionary, but soon abandoned this in favour of becoming a full-time athlete.[

  • first world cup

    first world cup
    The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 July to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's international governing body, selected Uruguay as host nation, as the country would be celebrating the centenary of its first constitution, and the Uruguay national football team had successfully retained their football title at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

  • first live football match

    first live football match
    the very first live football match on television was an arranged friendly match between arsenal and the arsenal reserves at highbury.

  • 11 aside football

    11 aside football
    this was the first time that 11 players on each team played against each other.

  • hillsboroah disaster

    hillsboroah disaster
    The Hillsborough disaster was a human crush at Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield, England on 15 April 1989, during the 1988–89 FA Cup semi-final game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The resulting 96 fatalities and 766 injuries makes this the worst disaster in British sporting history.