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1889 in association football

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Summary

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The following are the association football events of the year 1889 throughout the world.

Events

  • The Danish Football Association is founded.

Clubs founded

America

:ARG Argentina

Asia

:British India India

Europe

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National Championship winners

Asia

[[India national football team|India]]

  • Durand Cup Winners: :Highland Light Infantry

Europe

England

  • Football League Winners: :Preston North End
  • FA Cup Winners: :Preston North End

Ireland

  • Irish Cup Winners: :Lisburn Distillery

Netherlands

  • Football League Winners: :VV Concordia

Scotland

  • Scottish Cup Winners: :Third Lanarkshire RV

Wales

  • Welsh Cup Winners: :Bangor City

International tournaments

Europe

Births

  • 25 May – Jan van Dort (d. 1967), Netherlands international forward in five matches (1920).
  • 25 June – Joe Smith (d. 1971), England international forward in five matches (1913–1920).

Undated

  • Patrick Dougan, Scottish professional footballer, 1910s

References

References

  1. [[Mohun Bagan]] is the oldest association football club in [[India]] and the continent of [[Asia]].
  2. Inaugural [[Durand Cup]], formed by India's Foreign Secretary [[Mortimer Durand]] in [[Shimla. Simla]] for [[Great Britain. British]] troops stationed in [[India]]. At this time it was the nation's national football competition and pre-dates any other football tournament in India.
  3. First season of the English Football League.
  4. First unofficial season of Dutch Championship.
  5. This championship was considered as unofficial because teams had not played an equal number of matches.
  6. "Scottish Cup Past Winners {{!}} Scottish Cup {{!}} Scottish FA".
  7. Competition contested between February 28 and April 27, 1889.
  8. Simpson, Ray. (2007). "The Clarets Chronicles: The Definitive History of Burnley Football Club 1882–2007". Burnley F.C..
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