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Levendale F.C. (1889)
Levendale Football Club was an association football club from Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, active in the 19th century, and was the second senior club of that name. History The earliest record of the club is a 3–1 win over the Vale of Clyde F.C., Vale of Clyde in February 1890. The club joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1892, after a season in which the club had not been able to play a single match, as "the senior team in the neighbourhood" (the Vale of Leven F.C., Vale of Leven) was "employing most of the young talent". The club hoped, by recruiting a number of former Vale players with the promise of senior football, that it could retain a more consistent XI. The club only played the 1892–93 season as a senior club, in which it lost 14 of its 24 matches. It played in the qualifying rounds of the 1892–93 Scottish Cup, and was one match short of playing in the Scottish Cup proper, going down 4–1 at Motherwell F.C., Motherwell in the fourth and fina ... [...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] |
