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Spital F.C.
Spital Football Club was an association football club from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, active in the 19th century. History The club was founded as Spital United F.C in 1874, its first reported match being against Gleadless F.C. in March 1875; at the time, the club played under the Sheffield rules. The club was founded by employees of the Geo. Mason & Sons twist tobacco manufactory, and the club's secretary from 1879 to its dissolution was Charles Leonard Mason, grandson of the company founder. The club shortened its name to Spital from the start of 1877, and, with the rest of the Sheffield Association, took up the association code after the Sheffield and Football Associations merged. Its first achievement of any note was reaching the quarter-final of the Sheffield Senior Cup in 1878–79; in the first round, the club beat Derbyshire F.C., and survived a protest that four of its players were not proper club members, but Nottinghamshire men. Notably, the club did not field any o ... [...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 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. 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 and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
