following are events in the 1840s decade which are relevant to the development of association football. All events happened in English football unless specified...

history of association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, stretches back at least to medieval times. FIFA cites Cuju in ancient China...

agreed and handed down over many years until the first codifications in the 1840s. The traditional date of the William Webb Ellis legend. He was the Rugby...

form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia...

playing association football, being recognised by the FA. For example, : "Salopians formed a club of their own in the late 1830s/early 1840s but that...

outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to association football: Association football – sport played between two teams of eleven players with...

were similar accounts of football in the 1840s in the Colony of Victoria including Melbourne at Batman's Hill and the goldfields in the Colony of Victoria...

football has its origins in various games, all known as "football", played at public schools in Great Britain in the mid-19th century. By the 1840s,...

The 2024–25 season is the 128th season of competitive football in Scotland. The domestic season to began on 13 July 2024 with the first Scottish League...

University Association Football Club is an English football club representing the University of Cambridge. It is affiliated to the Football Association as the...

of The Football Association in 1863 that the sport of football emerged as an actual organized game in England. With this, the sport took off in popularity...

of hurling, which has similar rules to Gaelic football, was played in Australia as early as the 1840s, and may also have been an influence on the Australian...

1840 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events 22 September — James Burke meets Nicholas Ward at Lillingstone Level for the English...

football rules, and rugby football (1845). British public schools football also directly influenced the rules of association football. English public schools...

Canada West. Responsible government was achieved in 1848. There were heavy waves of immigration in the 1840s, and the population of Canada West more than...

The 2023–24 season is the 127th season of competitive football in Scotland. The domestic season began on 15 July with the first Scottish League Cup group...

Athenry" is a song written in 1979 by Pete St. John in the style of an Irish folk ballad. Set during the Great Famine of the 1840s, the lyrics feature a fictional...

also separate matches for men and women. Association Football's use as a leisure sport started in the 1840s as working schedules started to shift with...

to as association football, English association football, British association rules and British football. It is also sometimes referred to in the media...

organized football. 1830s in football 1840s in football The Cambridge Rules are created in 1848. Official referees appear for the first time in a football match...

in Wrexham, which led to the formation of the Wrexham Association Football Club. Four years later, he attended the inaugural meeting of the Football Association...

and Richmond in southern Tasmania during the 1840s and 1850s as well as part of St Patricks Day celebrations. In South Melbourne, football was also played...

Australian rules football, rugby league, rugby union, association football, cricket and tennis are among the earliest organised sports in Australia. Sport...

shows him in a red and green tartan dressing gown. Tatyana Petrovna Musina-Pushkina, Princess Kropotkina (1800–1865), portrait c. 1840s by unknown artist...

Kraljica", holds the infamy as the first recorded brothel in Belgrade, dating from the 1840s. As the prostitution was always illegal, the sex workers had...

established in the urban Northeastern United States, with the first rules being codified in the 1840s, while American football was very popular in the south-east...

president of the New York City Bar Association, partner at Winthrop & Stimson: 183–4  Edward Harris Coy (1910), College Football Hall of Fame player: 107–8 ...

Calliopean, Linonia, and Brothers in Unity existed respectively: 1819–1853, 1768–1878, and 1735–1868. From the mid-1840s until 1883, several societies were...

Catholics who emigrated from Newry in County Down, Ireland to Canada during the Great Famine in the 1840s. While living in Montreal, the Rooneys had a son...

the Football Association in 1863 and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. The code was originally known simply as "rugby football". It...