Who was the 1st British football club to play in a European Football club competition?
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celtic! or maybe that was the first british club to win the trophy ..good question!
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Roberto Di Matteo at Wembley - Saturday 20th May 1997\n\nScore : Chelsea 2 Middlesborough 0\n\nRoberto Di Matteo............Picking up a pass from Wise, who had won the ball from Robbie Mustoe, the Italian midfielder ran unchallenged from inside his own half before beating Ben Roberts from 25 yards with a shot that dipped wickedly over the young Middlesbrough goalkeeper and went in off the crossbar.........What a Goal !!!!!!!!\n\nIt was a stunning blow made possible not only by Di Matteo's mastery of technique but also the clever, diversionary run by Hughes that removed Nigel Pearson as the last line of a defence. \n\nThe goal was timed at 42 seconds, which made it the fastest scored in an FA Cup final this century. It beat by three seconds the goal with which Jackie Milburn put Newcastle ahead against Manchester City in 1955.
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Bolton Wanderers 2 West Ham United 0 (FACF)\nWembley's first event was the FA Cup Final of 1923 and that April day was marked by some unprecedented scenes. Before the match a huge crowd outside the stadium rushed the gates, burst through the barriers and swarmed onto the field of play. More than 200,000 people attempted to squeeze into a ground that had been built to accommodate 125,000.\n\nIt took forty-five minutes after the time fixed for the kick-off for mounted police to clear the pitch, with PC George Scorey and his white horse "Billy" particularly visible. The first Wembley goal came only a couple of minutes after the delayed start, and David Jack, Bolton's inside-right, was the scorer. Eight minutes into the second period Bolton scored another, clinching goal. John Smith took a pass from Vizard on the left and sent in a half-volley. The ball hit the back of a net pulled tight by the crowd behind it and rebounded back into play.\n\n\nSo the answer is David Jack of Bolton Wanderers
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Celtic from Glasgow won 1967 European Cup.. They were then nicknamed the Lisbon Lions.
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football soccer europe.
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The First International Match was played in Glasgow, Scotland on 30th. November 1872 when Scotland played England. The Scottish FA did not then exist - it was not founded until three months later. The team England played that day was actually the oldest Scottish club team, Queen's Park - founded 1863.\n\nThe First Professional Players were reputedly two Scots -John Love, and Fergus Suter, who played for a north of England club called Darwen in the 1879 season - and were paid for their soccer talent
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The first "foreign" team to beat England at Football in England were Hungary, who won 6-3 at Wembley in 1953. A year later the Hungarians, who included the legendary Ferenc Puskas, beat England 7-1 in Budapest.
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Not entirely sure - but think it may have been Notts County... They were certainly the first league club. Formed in 1862 and founder member of English football league in 1888.
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the first documented evidence of the game of football was in scotland in the 14th century where the king declared that "the golf and futbal be not usit and cryit dunit" which basically means that that nobody was allowed to play or talk about it in a bid to get more ppl to learn archery to help our failing army.\n\nso documentary evidence shows that the first mention of the game was in scotland but the first football association where the modern game of "soccer" originated was formed in london, england in the 19th century what they don't tell you is that it was founded by men from all over the british isles and was, in fact predominately scottish.\n\nthese are the facts as i have come to find them, take from them what u will.
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First, the simple (and most commonly known) answer: Manchester United in 1999.  They won the English Premiership, the English FA Cup, and the European Champions League Final ("that" game against Bayern Munich).\n\nYour definition of the "European Treble", though, seems to encompass more than just the European Cup.  We'd have to add the UEFA Cup, the Supercup, perhaps the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup (absorbed into the UEFA Cup).  And maybe, just for amusement, the Inter-Toto Cup.  That's a pretty tall order...\n\nThere is also the problem of distinguishing between the two domestic cup competitions, e.g. FA and League cups in England.  Different levels of prestige, sometimes similar levels of competitiveness.\n\nFor now, listed below are the more conventional winners of the treble (domestic league, domestic cup, and either european cup or uefa cup), based on publicly available info:\n\nEuropean Cup Treble:\n\nGlasgow Celtic (1967)\nAjax Amsterdam (1972)\nPSV Eindhoven (1988)\nManchester United (1999)\n\nUEFA Cup Treble:\n\nIFK Göteborg (1982) \nGalatasaray (2000) \nFC Porto (2003) \nCSKA Moscow (2005)
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Manchester United, they also won the European cup in 1968.
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England played in the first ever international football match, against Scotland at Hamilton Crescent in Partick, Glasgow, Scotland on November 30, 1872. The result was 0-0; England had to wait until the following year to record their first win, 4-2, over Scotland at the Kennington Oval.\n\nUruguay in 1930 \n\nGroup A \nFrance - Maxico 4:1 \nArgentina - France 1:0 \nChile - Mexico 3:0 \nChile - France 1:0 \nArgentina - Mexico 6:3 \nArgentina - Chile 3:1 \n\nGroup B \nYugoslavia - Brasil 2:1 \nYugoslavia - Bolivia 4:0 \nBrasil - Bolivia 4:0 \n\nGroup C \nRomania - Peru 3:1  \nUruguay - Peru 1:0  \nUruguay - Romania 4:0  \n\nGroup D \nUSA - Belgium 3:0\nUSA - Paraguay 3:0  \nParaguay - Belgium 1:0  \n\nSemif-finals \nArgentina - USA 6:1  \nUruguay - Yugoslavia 6:1  \n  \nFinal \nUruguay - Argentina 4:2
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The FA Cup is the oldest football competition in the world, commencing in 1872 (the Scottish Cup beginning a year later in 1873). It has been played since 125 years.
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Yes, football (don't call it soccer!!!) plays a major role in this country, at all levels and all ages.   It is a major topic of conversation / debate (and unfortunately fights) in English pubs.  There are intense, almost tribal, feelings of dedication to your team, and there are major rivalries, such as Man United and Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs and Plymouth and Exeter.  (However, probably the biggest is Rangers and Celtic in Scotland).\n\nFootball cuts across boundaries of class, age and (mostly with a few major exceptions) religion - your club is in your heart.  \n\nHaving said that, there are always so-called fans who jump on the bandwagon of whichever club is most successful, in the 80s, it was Liverpool (boo!!!), in the 90s, Man United, and today, Chelsea.  No true fan can change their allegiance though - even when a club goes to the wall (look at Accrington Stanley for a contemporary example).\n\nInternational football is another matter altogether, England fans have a bad reputation in Europe, which was well deserved some years ago; hooliganism by England fans (I say fans very loosely) is largely now a thing of the past, thankfully.  \n\nThere is no sport in England bigger than football, and the same goes for most of Europe.\n\nApart from supporting a team, football is played regularly by millions of men (and women) across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland at every level from a kick-about in the local park, through pub teams who play on a Sunday morning, to top level professional players and everything in between. There are leagues for 5-a-side, 6-a-side, 7-a-side and 11-a-side in most towns.\n\nHistorically, the first officially organised competition was the 1872 FA Cup, a competition which is still going today, and is highly prestigious - this year's final will be between Liverpool and West Ham United.  The Football League started in 1887, and the first champions were, I think Preston North End in 1888 (although I could be wrong).  You can see, then, that there is a lot of history to the game.\n\nSo yes, football is a HUGE part of English culture.
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History and development\n\n\nThe Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England. The first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1848, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury, but they were far from universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs were formed, throughout the English-speaking world, independent of schools or universities, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club (formed by former pupils from Harrow) in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867. In 1862, J.C. Thring of Uppingham School also devised an influential set of rules.\n\nThese efforts contributed to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863 which first met on the morning of 26 October 1863 at the Freemason's Tavern in Great Queen Street, London[1]. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five more meetings between October and December, which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the first FA treasurer, who was the representative from Blackheath, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting, the first which allowed for the running with the ball in hand and the second, obstructing such a run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins), tripping and holding. Other English rugby clubs followed this lead and did not join the FA but instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union. The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, went on to ratify the original fourteen rules of the game. Despite this, the Sheffield FA played by its own rules until the 1870s.\n\nToday the laws of the game are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The Board was formed in 1886[2] after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association.\n\nThe world's first football league was founded in England in 1888 by Aston Villa director, William McGregor. The original format contained 12 clubs from the Midlands and the North of England.\n\nThe Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, the international football body, was formed in Paris in 1904 and declared that they would adhere to the rules laid down by the IFAB. The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the IFAB in 1913. Today the board is made up of four representatives from FIFA and one representative from each of the four British associations.\nFootball is popular among children as well as adults.
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History and development\n\n    See also: Football\n\nThe Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England. The first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1848, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury, but they were far from universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs were formed, throughout the English-speaking world, independent of schools or universities, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club (formed by former pupils from Harrow) in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867. In 1862, John Charles Thring of Uppingham School also devised an influential set of rules.\n\nThese efforts contributed to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863 which first met on the morning of 26 October 1863 at the Freemason's Tavern in Great Queen Street, London[2]. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five more meetings between October and December, which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the first FA treasurer, who was the representative from Blackheath, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting, the first which allowed for the running with the ball in hand and the second, obstructing such a run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins), tripping and holding. Other English rugby clubs followed this lead and did not join the FA but instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union. The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, went on to ratify the original fourteen rules of the game. Despite this, the Sheffield FA played by its own rules until the 1870s.\n\nToday the laws of the game are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The Board was formed in 1886[3] after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association.\n\nThe world's first football league was founded in England in 1888 by Aston Villa director, William McGregor[4]. The original format contained 12 clubs from the Midlands and the North of England.\n\nThe Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, the international football body, was formed in Paris in 1904 and declared that they would adhere to the rules laid down by the IFAB. The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the IFAB in 1913. Today the board is made up of four representatives from FIFA and one representative from each of the four British associations.
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West Ham \n\nSir Geoff Hurst \nBobby Moore \nMartin Peters \n\nGreenwood and Lyall: Glory days\nWest Ham United first established themselves in 1964, when manager Ron Greenwood guided the club to their first major trophy in the shape of an FA Cup final victory over Preston North End. Their captain, (Bobby Moore, would skipper the England team to World Cup success in 1966), while striker (Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick in the final against West Germany). (The other goal in the 4-2 victory was scored by (Martin Peters, also a Hammer). The success of 1964 was repeated a year later, this time with a European Cup Winners Cup triumph over 1860.