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Nottinghamshire F.C.
Nottinghamshire Football Club is an amateur association football club from Nottingham, which had success at non-league level before the First World War. History The club was founded in 1894 by the Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne, who, at the time, preached at St Andrew's Church in Nottingham, under the name Notts Magdala; it started to enter the FA Amateur Cup in 1902, reaching the fourth and final qualifying round in 1904–05. The club grew to such a size in its first decade that its reserve XI split in 1904 to form a separate club, Magdala Amateurs F.C., and, to avoid confusion, in 1907 Notts Magdala changed its name to Nottinghamshire. As with many amateur clubs of the era, Nottinghamshire was a popular guest on European tours, playing in the 1905 Coupe Van der Straeten Ponthoz in the Netherlands, and winning the Le Havre tournament in 1912 and 1914. It achieved its greatest success on a senior level in 1906–07 by reaching the final of the Nottinghamshire Senior Cup, after be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
