The following are the
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 f ...
events of the year 1892 throughout the world.
Events
Clubs founded in 1892
Chile
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Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers
Czech Republic
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Slavia Prague
Sportovní klub Slavia Praha – fotbal (Sports Club Slavia Prague – Football, ), commonly known as Slavia Praha or Slavia Prague, is a Czech professional football club in Prague. Founded in 1892, they are the second most successful club in t ...
England
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Bromley F.C.
Bromley Football Club is a professional association football club based in Bromley, Greater London, England. They are currently members of EFL League Two. Bromley play their home matches at Hayes Lane.
Formed in 1892, they were founder members ...
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Droylsden F.C.
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Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Founded in ...
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Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Since the formation of the club in 1881 ...
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Old Castle Swifts F.C.
Old Castle Swifts Football Club, the first professional football club in Essex, was formed by Scottish shipowner Donald Currie in September 1892 as Castle Swifts Football Club. The club's first home ground, located in West Ham, was named Duno ...
Netherlands
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Vitesse Arnhem
Germany
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Hertha BSC
Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC () or Hertha Berlin, is a German professional football club based in Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football league system, German footbal ...
National champions
*England:
Sunderland
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*Ireland:
Linfield
*Scotland:
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Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the w ...
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Dumbarton
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Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,[Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
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*Celtic music
*Celtic nations
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International tournaments
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1892 British Home Championship (February 27 – April 7, 1892)
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Births
*January 16:
Robert Coverdale, English professional footballer (d. 1959)
*April 4:
Chris Elvidge, English professional footballer (d. date unknown)
*April 29:
Henri Bard, French footballer (d.
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...
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*May 20:
Josiah Kelsall, English professional footballer (d. 1974)
References
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Association football by year