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Nithsdale F.C.
Nithsdale Football Club was an association football club from Dumfries, Scotland. History The club was founded in 1885. The club may have had a connection with the Union Bank (Scotland), Union Bank as at least two of its honorary secretaries worked there. It entered the Churchill Cup, a competition for clubs from the county, in its first season, and lost 6–1 at Moffat F.C., Moffat in the first round. The same season, the club was invited to take part in the Southern Counties Charity Cup, but lost 10–1 to the 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers F.C., 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers in its one match. Nithsdale entered the Scottish Cup for the first time in 1886-87 Scottish Cup, 1886–87, but, having been drawn against the Queen of the South Wanderers F.C., Queen of the South Wanderers, the strongest team in the area, Nithsdale withdrew. The following two seasons saw the club play its only fixtures in the competition. After the club drew a bye in the first ... [...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] |
