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Jardines F.C.
Jardines F.C. was an English association football club from Nottingham, England. History Formation and name The club was the works side for the John Jardine manufacturing company in Nottingham, formed in 1850 and a manufacturer of machinery for the lace industry. The club claimed a foundation date of 1874, but there is no record of it playing matches against any external opposition until 1884, so for the first decade the club presumably only arranged matches between members. The club registered its name as Jardines. The media were inconsistent in referring to the club as Jardines or Jardine's, sometimes within the same article; sometimes the media referred to the club as Nottingham Jardines or Notts Jardines, especially when playing outside Nottinghamshire. Expansion into the wider game Sir Ernest Jardine, 1st Baronet, Ernest Jardine, the son of the company founder, was a footballer for Nottingham Forest in the early 1880s and it may have been his impetus to have the club p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club () is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900. Albion was a founder member of the Football League in 1888, the first professional football league in the world. The club has spent the majority of its existence in the top tier of English football, where it has played for 82 seasons. The club has been champions of England once, in 1919–20, and has been runners-up twice. Albion have reached ten FA Cup finals and won the Cup on five occasions. The first win came in 1888, the year the league was founded, followed by wins in 1892, 1931, 1954 and most recently in 1968, the club's last major trophy. Albion also won the Football League Cup at the first attempt in 1966, and have reached a further two finals. The club's longest continuous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club play their home games at The Keepmoat Stadium, having moved from Belle Vue in 2007. Their home strip consists of red and white hoops, which has been the main design of the club's home shirt since 2001 through different variations. Rovers often sport a third kit each season promoting mental health charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), with proceeds of the particular home games being donated to said charity.Doncaster Rovers Historical Kits Historicalkits.co.uk. Retrieved on 24 September 2012. The club was founded in 1879 and turned professional six years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland Alliance (1890)
The Midland Alliance was an association football league for teams in the Midlands of England, which ran for three seasons in the 1890s. History The League was set up at a meeting at the Maypole Hotel in Nottingham in June 1890. The aim was to form a competition akin to the Midland League for clubs overlooked for that particular division; 9 clubs initially pledged to join, with an invitation sent to Football League club Notts County for its reserve side (the Rovers) to take part. County duly accepted and 10 teams formed the first league, officially called the Midland Football Alliance, but almost always referred to as the Midland Alliance. 1890–91 season Rotherham Swifts, after winning only one of its first five matches, withdrew from the league in December 1890. Although the Alliance initially refused to accept the club's resignation, another member, Jardines, was suspended by the Football Association for non-payment of a fine. On 17 April 1891 it was decided to exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notts Swifts F
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Notts may refer to: * Nottinghamshire * Notts County FC, an association football club See also * Nott (other) Nott may refer to: People *Abraham Nott, a United States Representative *Charles Stanley Nott, an author *Charles Cooper Nott (other), two New York judges *Eliphalet Nott, President of Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute *Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham St George's
Birmingham St. George's F.C. was a football club based in Smethwick, England. The club started as St George's FC in Aston, before moving to the Cape Hill brewery in 1886 under the name Mitchell St George's. Ancestry The club's origin was in two separate clubs: * Mitchells Brewery FC, a club claiming a foundation date of 1873, being the works side of the Mitchells & Butlers brewery; * St George's FC, a club founded in 1875, and based at Fentham Road in Aston. St George's St George's was active within the Birmingham & District Football Association, being founder members in late 1875. One of the first games for St George's was against Aston Villa in December 1875. The club's ground was at Fentham Road, near the junction with Birchfield Road, and was notable for sloping upwards from the spectator entrance end; it was also known as "the Basin" from its tendency to flood. In the days before goalnets, the lower goal was backed by boards. The club entered the first Birmingham S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby Junction F
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gained city status in 1977, the population size has increased by 5.1%, from around 248,800 in 2011 to 261,400 in 2021. Derby was settled by Romans, who established the town of Derventio, later captured by the Anglo-Saxons, and later still by the Vikings, who made their town of one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry. Derby is a centre for advanced transport manufacturi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notts Olympic F
Notts may refer to: * Nottinghamshire * Notts County FC Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. The team participate in the National League (division), National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Founded on the 2 ..., an association football club See also * Nott (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (), commonly known as Wolves, is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, England, which compete in the . The club has played at Molineux Stadium since moving from Dudley Road in 1889. The club's traditional kit consists of old gold shirts and socks with black shorts. Since 1979, the kit has also featured the club's "wolf's head" logo. Long-standing rivalries exist with other clubs from the West Midlands, the main one being the Black Country derby contested with West Bromwich Albion. Formed as ''St. Luke's F.C.'' in 1877, the club changed name to Wolverhampton Wanderers two years later and became one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888. They won the FA Cup for the first time in 1893, and again as a Second Division team in 1908 following the club's relegation two years previously. They fell to the third tier in 1923, but went on to win the Third Division North in 1923–24 and the Second Division in 1931–32. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Danks
Richard Danks (March 1865 – November 1929) was an English footballer who played as a forward for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burslem Port Vale. Career Danks played for Wolverhampton Wanderers and made three guest appearances for Burslem Port Vale whilst still at Wolves, including his debut on 14 January 1888 friendly with South Shore where he bagged two goals in a 2–2 home draw. He switched to the Vale permanently in the summer of 1888. He played regular football in the 1888–89 season, but after being appointed club secretary in October 1889 played only in emergency circumstances. He served as secretary until November 1893 and was released as a player at the end of the 1893–94 season. He had played 42 games (including one in the Football League Second Division, 19 friendlies An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a preseason game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aston Villa
Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in England, being a founding member of the Football League in 1888 and of the Premier League in 1992. They are one of the five English clubs to have won the European Cup, in 1981–82. They have also won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup five times, and the European (UEFA) Super Cup once. The club is currently ranked 5th in the all-time English top flight table, since its creation in 1888. Villa have a fierce local rivalry with Birmingham City and the Second City derby between the teams has been played since 1879. The club's traditional kit colours are claret shirts with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
