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1894 USFSA Football Championship

Field	Value
title	USFSA Football Championship
image	Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques logo.svg
image_size	150
year	1894
dates	15 April – 6 May
country	France
num_teams	6
winners	Standard Athletic Club
count	1
second	The White Rovers
matches	5
goals	25
next_season	1895

The 1894 USFSA Football Championship was the 1st staging of the USFSA Football Championship. This was the very first recognized football championship to be played in France. The tournament was held on the road between 15 April and 6 May 1894.

The first competition featured just four Paris teams and was organized on a knockout basis with Standard Athletic Club becoming the French champions after beating The White Rovers 2–2 and 2–0 in the replay of the final.

Participants

The first national championship in team sports in France was the high schools rugby football championship in 1891. Its success prompted the Parisian clubs to start a championship for football as well. So, in 1894, it was decided to hold a "championship" among the volunteering football clubs of the U.S.F.S.A. The tournament gathered six teams, of which 4 were clubs from Paris, thus making it seem more of a championship of Paris rather than a French championship.

Teams	Town
Standard Athletic Club	Paris
International Athletic Club	Paris
White Rovers	Paris
Cercle athlétique de Neuilly	Neuilly-sur-Seine
Club Français	Paris
Cercle pédestre d'Asnières	Asnières-sur-Seine

Format

The competition was played under a knockout cup system. Four clubs, Standard AC, International AC, White Rovers and CA Neuilly took part in a preliminary round, while Club Français and Cercle Pédestre d'Asnières received a bye to the semi-finals. All the matches took place on the Racing Club de France grounds in Levallois. The donator of the trophy was a wealthy sports-loving American businessman, James Gordon Bennett.

Bracket

|| CP Asnières || bye | |15 April 1894 – Bécon-les-Bruyères| Standard AC |Forfeit| International AC| || Club Français || bye | |15 April 1894 – Bécon-les-Bruyères| White Rovers |13| CA Neuilly |0 |22 April 1894 – Bécon-les-Bruyères| Standard AC |5| CP Asnières |0 |22 April 1894 – Bécon-les-Bruyères| White Rovers |1| Club Français |0 |29 April and 6 May 1894 – Bécon-les-Bruyères| Standard AC |2 (2)| White Rovers |2 (0)

Results

First round

Bye (2): : CP Asnières : Club Français

Note: At the last moment, the International AC withdrew, without the reason being known.

Semi-finals

Note: Rovers were "not expecting so much resistance", but end up scoring fifteen minutes from the end of the match by Mac Bain, on a corner kick taken by J. Wood, slightly helped by the wind.

Final

A. Tunmer Roscoe

Replay

Vines

Winner

1894 USFSA Football Championship
Standard AC

References

(2 June 2022). "Origins of the French League".
''Football in France, a statistical record 1894–2003'': Alex Graham (2004)
(28 April 1894). "White Rovers 1–0 Club Français review".

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