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    been contested by English teams since 1872. The first official international football match also took place in 1872, between Scotland and England in Glasgow...
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  • (1872-1940) - Part 8". International Federation of Football History & Statistics. 30 October 2020. "Scotland vs England, 2 April 1966". eu-football.info...
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  • established in connection with the [Football] Association", the idea that gave birth to the competition. At the first FA Cup in 1872, Wanderers and Royal Engineers...
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    rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby...
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    above le Tholonet. Association football is represented in the city by Pays d'Aix Football Club, until 2014 known as AS Aix-en-Provence. Their best result...
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    help footballs maintain their shapes. In 1872 the specifications were revised, and have been kept essentially unchanged by the International Football Association...
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    Gillian; Ruddell, Trevor (2010). "The Evolution of the Rules of Football From 1872 to 1877" (PDF). The Yorker (41). Archived (PDF) from the original...
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    club in 1872, making it the oldest surviving football club registered in France and continental Europe. They began playing association football on a regular...
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  • West End Park (now Kelvingrove Park) in March 1872 where they discussed the idea of forming a football club, and played its first match against the now...
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    Chapel-en-le-Frith (/ˌtʃæpəl ˌɒn lə ˈfrɪθ/) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England. It has been dubbed the "Capital...
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    the Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, far from the urbanized part of the commune. Saint-Germain-en-Laye has a proud footballing history. From 1904 to 1970...
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    World Cups. The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England. The first international...
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  • Edward Banfield (railroad engineer) (category 1872 deaths)
    The professional Argentine football club Club Atlético Banfield with headquarters there, also carries his name. In 1872, he felt ill, and ended as General...
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    connects Bourg with Dole and Dijon, the A40 with Mâcon and Geneva. Football Bourg-en-Bresse Péronnas 01 is based in the town. On 3 May 1953 a motorcycle...
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  • author (d. 1876) 1815 – George Meade, American general and engineer (d. 1872) 1830 – Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian ruler (d. 1895) 1830 – Alexander Smith, Scottish...
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  • Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. 881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the...
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    Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England...
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    and 1872 (Notts County). There were attempts to introduce the one-player rule of the Sheffield Football Association in 1867 (Sheffield FC), 1872 (Sheffield...
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    Le Puy-en-Velay (French pronunciation: [lə pɥi ɑ̃ vəlɛ] , literally Le Puy in Velay; Occitan: Lo Puèi de Velai [lu ˈpœj ðə vəˈlaj]) is the prefecture of...
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    UEFA Euro 2024 final (category Football competitions in Berlin)
    The UEFA Euro 2024 final was a football match that determined the winners of UEFA Euro 2024. The match was the seventeenth final of the European Championship...
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    IWA reported having 8 million members while police reported 5 million. In 1872, it split in two over conflicts between statist and anarchist factions and...
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    developed the first railways in Japan, from Shinbashi (in Tokyo) to Yokohama in 1872.[citation needed] The epicenter of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake was deep...
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    the town's football club based in Châteauroux, founded in 1883. The team currently plays in National, the third division of French football, and played...
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  • Club held a combined 5% of the club, as of March 2021. Rangers F.C. – Club 1872, a supporters' group, owned 10.71% of the club, as of 2017. Stenhousemuir...
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    4 April 2017 "Paris Football Team | The Paris Football Team is an American football franchise of the European League of Football, based in Paris, France"...
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    (Argentina) Argentina–Uruguay football rivalry History of the Argentina national football team 1872 Scotland v England football match Argentina national team...
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    complex and the manufacturing creative district. The city is known for its football club AS Saint-Étienne, which has won the Ligue 1 title ten times. Named...
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  • 1872 – 1992 by Peter Jones, Breedon Books, 1992 Wrexham AFC (Ultimate Football Heroes) by Paul Harrison, John Blake Publishing, 2024 Wrexham Football...
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  • lawyer and politician Axel Juárez (born 1990), Argentine footballer Benito Juárez (1806–1872), Mexican president and Supreme Court magistrate Carlos Arturo...
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    Esquermes, Fives, Moulins-Lille and Wazemmes. Lille's population was 158,000 in 1872, growing to over 200,000 by 1891. In 1896 Lille became the first city in...
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