What year were Stoke City Football Club formed,what date was their first match?
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claims to have been formed in 1863 (disputed by some, who claim it to be 1868).\nIt played (and lost) its first game against West Bromwich Albion F.C. on 8 September 1888.
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Stoke`s record league victory was 10-3 v. West Bromwich Albion F.C. in 1937
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The first charity shield winners were Manchester United,then football league champions,who defeated Queen's Park Rangers,then southern league champions 4-0 in 1908.
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Both American Football and Soccer (called Football by the rest of the world) have their origins in the game of Rugby, invented in 1823 at the Rugby Boys' School in England.  \n\nA "football-type" game was played on the first Monday of every school year on the Boston Common by Harvard University Students and caught on in popularity around 1860 (about the time of the Civil War).  In 1865, Princeton and Rutgers along with other colleges established standard rules for the game, and that same year, the football itself was patented.\n\nIn the 1890's the game was so brutal that nearly 200 players had been injured badly.  In 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt called upon Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to help save the sport from demise.  These schools met, agreed upon rules for reform, and invited other schools to come and meet about these reforms.  Sixty schools showed up and formed what would eventually be come to known as the NCAA.
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Bramall Lane (Sheffield Uniteds ground) on 14 October 1878 with an attendance of 12,000.\n\nThe first floodlit league game was Portsmouth against Newcastle United in 1956 at Fratton Park
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One of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto.
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South Africa - Foundation Dates of Clubs\n\nJohannesburg            1889    Rangers FC
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West Auckland Town F.C. in 1909\n\nthanks for the trivia
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FIFA was founded in Paris in May 1904 it had seven founder members: France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain (represented by the Madrid FC), Sweden and Switzerland. The German Football Federation cabled its intention to join on the same day.
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Liverpool Football Club (usually known simply as Liverpool) is an English football club that is based in Liverpool, Merseyside; current holders of the English FA Cup (2006), they are the most successful English football team of all time. Since being founded in 1892, Liverpool is the only English team to have won the Champions League five times. The club also has 18 Football League titles to its name, as well as being the English club to have won the most number of UEFA Cups, European Supercups and English League Cups. The club's home ground is the 45,400 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool and situated on Anfield Road.\n\nThe club was founded on March 15, 1892 by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent. The original name was to be Everton F.C. but was changed to Liverpool F.C. (after the F.A. refused to recognise the team as Everton). Liverpool were elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later.\n\nThe club was involved in two of the biggest tragedies in European football — at Heysel in 1985 in which 39 spectators were crushed, and Hillsborough in 1989 in which 96 people died and 766 were injured. After Heysel, English clubs were banned from European competition for a period of five years, six in the case of Liverpool.\n\nLiverpool Football Club is not to be confused with Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club which was formed in 1858 and is now known as Liverpool St. Helens. The club has always had a strong Scottish link.
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FIFA was founded in Paris on 21 May 1904.\n\nBelgium faced France at the first official international match in Brussels on 1 May 1904. \n\nFor oodles more information, please check out:\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/history/history/0,1283,4,00.html
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Modern football started in the UK.\nFirst time humans used a game based n shooting a ball with their feet was around 3000 b.c. in ancient egypt.Later the babylonians played a similar game, then much later a game closer to basket ball called "ring ball" appeared in the villages of the Maya civilization in central america. Almost all civlizations have used a spherical object in one sport or the other.
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allnationsca is right, the first match of the first World Cup (Uruguay 1930) was France x Mexico, in the Pocitos stadium in Montevideo on July 13th 1930. France won 4x1. USA x Belgium (3x0) took place on the same day, but according to FIFA France x Mexico was the opening match of the 1930 WC.\n\nThe Uruguay x Argentina (4x2) that other people mentioned was the 1930 WC final (and so the first WC final), on July 30th 1930.
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Evidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking
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I think it was season 1954/55 please see link for all tables and fixtures, that season Chelsea won the 1st Div and played on Christmas Day
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The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England.
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if you are taking about the recognised comps today celtic is the answer. if not then tottenham in 1961 appeared in the fairs cup but pre war glentoran from northern ireland appeared in the european inter-cities cup.