Timeline: SOCCER OVER THE YEARS

Aug 25, 1863

Soccer officially began on

This is a hard question because, the Chinese, Italian, Persian, Ancient Greek and the Vikings also played a similar game to soccer. Modern soccer was formed at England where soccer really started as they had an association for it. The first professional soccer team in the world was Notts County, they were located at Nottinghamshire in the U.K

Nov 30, 1872

FIRST INTERNATIONAL SOCCER MATCH

Scotland VS England
first international ever played,
watched by 4000 spectators
played in Hamilton crescent, Patrick, Scotland
Ended in a 0-0 draw.

Jul 19, 1885

FIRST INTERNATIONAL PLAYED OUTSIDE OF U.K

USA VS CANADA
SCORE: USA 0-1 CANADA

Oct 28, 1888

PENALTY KICK WAS INTRODUCED

the penalty kick rule was introduced

Sep 7, 1908

SOCCER BECOMES A OFFICIAL OLYMPIC EVENT

Jul 13, 1932

FIRST WORLD CUP

first world cup in the world!
held in uruguay with 13 active international teams competing
uruguay won it.

May 28, 1938

FIRST FA CUP FINAL TELEVISED ON TV

English FA Cup Final televised live by BBC.

Feb 7, 1955

Europe club competitions was born

Seria A, Liga BBVA, and other european leagues formed then

Jul 13, 1958

FIRST WOLD CUP THAT WAS TELIVISED AROUND THE WORLD

Jul 13, 1970

THE WORLD CUP IN MEXICO WAS TELIVISED LIVE USING SATALITE TECHNOLOGY

Jul 30, 1970

PELE'S LAST WORLD CUP

May 21, 1971

PELE RETIRES

Pelé retired from international competition after Brazil tied Yugoslavia 2-2 before 150,000 people at the Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium.

May 2, 1975

DAVID BECKHAM WAS BORN

Nov 6, 1985

FIRST UNDER 17 WORLD CUP. HELD IN CHINA

Jul 13, 1991

FIRST WOMENS WORLD CUP.

WON BY USA
HELD IN CHINA

Mar 2, 1993

PELE INTRODUCED IN SOCCER HALL OF FAME

Apr 2, 1995

BECKHAM DEBUTS FOR MANCHESTER UNITED

Jun 5, 1996

USA FIRST PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE STARTED. CALLED MLS

Jul 13, 1999

USA WINS CHINA IN THE WOMENS WORLD CUP.

Women's World Cup Final in Los Angeles, USA beat China in front of 90,185 fans. This was the largest ever attendance for a women's sporting event in world history. The tournament had over 658,000 attendees and over 1 billion television viewers worldwide, thus not only putting women's soccer but also women's sport into mainstream society forever.