If you don't know the name of the oldest football club, then where have you been? There are several! depending on the criteria....the oldest club, the oldest league club, the oldest professional club...there's an excure for you not knowing this one..... The video covers the basics and is very rewarding; its about 17 minutes worth...so stick with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=7in00aPT_QA&feature=emb_logo Sheffield FC is regarded as the oldest club formed from a cricket team on October 24th (a familiar date with my family) 1857.
Notts County is/was* the oldest League Club, from November 1862. (*presently in the National League)
Author Peter Manning, featured in the video associates the club with the Crystal Palace Company of 1852, that managed the giant cast-iron and glass structures, one moved from Hyde Park in 1854 to Sydenham after the "Great Exhibition". The Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, was the World's first major theme park set in 200 acres of ground. There was a cricket pitch laid there in June 1857, when the Crystal Palace club was formed with its first Chairman, Thomas Farquhar, chairman of the Company, its first president. Cricketers formed the football club in 1861, as many cricket clubs did at the time, to stay fit in the winter.
Wearing Blue and White, the CPFC's first official game was against Forest FC on March 1862. The cricket club's chairman Frank Day was at the inaugural FA meeting in 1863, where the laws were set away from "rugby" and the club had three players involved in the first official match at Battersea Park in January 1864 when the President's XIV played the Secretary's XIV (yes 14). From 1864-8, James Turner from the club was thre FA Treasurer.
Crystal Palace's first match was a 1-2 defeat by Barnes on February 27th 1864. Several "trial matches" were held between counties, for example between Middlesex and a combined Kent and Surrey team on Saturday November 27th 1867 and both teams had players from Crystal Palace and players from the club were there when the first internationals were played.
In 1871 the club's captain, Douglas Allport sat on the FA sub-committee establishing the laws for the cup and indeed was one of three members contributing towards the cost and purchasing of the brand new trophy.
Crystal Palace played in the first ever First Round of the FA Cup (the only present football club to have done so), with 15 teams ready to compete and eventually found themselves in the semi-final losing to the very strong Royal Engineers after a draw. In the Palace team was Charles John Chenery, who played in the first three official England internationals (1872-4). A cousin to the famous Carthusian G.O.Smith was Charles Eastlake Smith, who played against Scotland in 1876.
The Crystal Palace club stopped playing organised football matches in 1875 for around twenty years, as the cricket outfield was being torn up in the winter; a similar arrangement was made at The Oval, of course.
Between 1895-1914 FA Cup Finals were held at the Crystal Palace. An amateur team played on the ground during that period. On September 10th 1905, a professional football club was established at the Crystal Palace, to help pay for the ground and facilities, with a leading committee member, W. G. Grace, appointed as the Crystal Palace Co. Sporting Director. More of the same here.....
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