the timeline of football

Last meetings of The Gymnastic Society, the first football club in the world

Apr 1, 1796

Last meetings of The Gymnastic Society, the first football club in the world

irst description of a pass comes from Suffolk

Apr 25, 1823

First description of a pass comes from Suffolk.[11][12] In this Moor describes a team ball game with goals in which a player who can not advance further "throws the ball [he must in no case give it] to some less beleaguered friend more free and more in breath than himself". Although this description refers to throwing, Moor tells us that the game was at other times a football one: "Sometimes a large football was used; the game was then called 'kicking camp'."

First use of referee. During a match in Rochdale, between the Bodyguards club and the Fearnaught club

Jun 23, 1842

Notts County F.C., the oldest existing league club, established

Jun 26, 1862

Everton win their first league championship.

Jan 24, 1891