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Mid-Annandale F.C. (1877)
Mid-Annandale F.C. was an association football club from Lockerbie in Dumfriesshire. The club was one of the more successful in the county in the 1880s and early 1890s, once reaching the final 16 of the Scottish Cup, but was wound up in December 1894. History The club was founded in 1877. Its early years were played on the local stage, with its first competitive matches coming in the Churchill Cup, a competition aimed at clubs in Dumfriesshire, for a trophy donated by a Rev. Churchill of the Moffat F.C., Moffat club. The club entered for the first time in 1882–83, its first tie being a 2–1 win over East End Rovers of Dumfries. In 1883–84 the club was also invited to enter the Southern Counties Charity Cup, which was for a more select group of clubs. First Churchill Cup success The club's first success came in the Churchill Cup in 1886–87. In the first round, the club was drawn to play the 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers F.C., 5th K.R.V., one of the two st ... [...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] |
