Football Quiz

Football First:

Author: Mona Gupta, Teacher, Delhi

• Queens Park the oldest Scottish Club founded was founded in 1867.

• The corner kick was first devised in Sheffield under the Sheffield Rules in1867. It was adopted by the Football Association in 1872.

• The first ever penalty kick was awarded to Wolverhampton Wanderers in their game against Accrington Stanley at Molineux on 14 September 1891. The penalty was taken and scored by John Heath as Wolves went on to win the game 5-0.

• The two handed throw in was made compulsory in 1883.

• Goal nets were first used in 1891.

• Numbered shirts were first worn in the 1933 FA Cup in final between Everton & Man City.

• Archie Gemmill of St Mirren was the first substitute to come on in a Scottish first-class match, on August 13 1966 in a League Cup tie against Clyde when he replaced Jim Clunie after 23 minutes.

• First British club to enter the European cup was Hibs in 1955.

• The first period of extra time played in an FA Cup Final was in 1875, when the Royal Engineers and Old Etonians drew 1-1. The Engineers won the replay 2-0.

• The first football team to war shin guards was Nottingham Forest, in 1874. They were invented by their centre forward Sam Widdowson, who wore them outside his socks.

• Sheffield Football Club, founded in 1857 in Sheffield by Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest, is now recognized as the world’s oldest club playing association football.

• Substitutions during English league matches were first permitted in the 1965-66 season. During the first two seasons after the law was introduced, each side was permitted only one substitution during a game.

• The first match to be decided on penalties in England was the semi-final of the Watney Cup between Hull City and Manchester United on 5 August 1970. The game finished 1-1 and United ended up winning 4-3 on penalties.

• Sunday soccer was launched in England on 6 January 1974 with four FA Cup ties, the first being Cambridge v Oldham at 11am.

Internationals Football First:

• The first football international played without involving a British side was between the United States and Canada, played in Newark, New Jersey, USA on 28 November 1885. The Canadians won 1-0.

• When England drew 0-0 with Scotland at Hampden Park in the British Home International Championships on 25 April 1970, it was the first time they had played out a scoreless draw since their first ever official meeting in 1872.

• Alan Mullery of Spurs was the first England player to be shown the red card in an international when he was dismissed against Yugoslavia in Florence on 5 June 1968.

• Billy Ferguson was the first Irish player to be sent off in an international, and the first player from any country to be sent off during the Home Internationals, when Northern Ireland lost 2-0 to England. 1967.

• England played their first game on foreign soil when they beat Austria 6-1 in Vienna on 6 June 1908.

• Alexander Morten, the England goalkeeper when they beat Scotland 4-2 in England’s second official international at the Kennington Oval on 8 March 1873, appeared for Scotland in the first unofficial international between the two counties, the 1-1 drawn on 5 March 1870.

• On 3 February 1945 Frank Wong Soo was the first player of Chinese extraction to play for England.

• Viv Anderson, the first “official” black player, made his debut for England in 1979.

• England players first wore their names on the back of their shirts during the 1992 European Championships in Sweden.

• The 1983-84 British Championship, exactly 100 years after the first, was the last. Northern Ireland won the competition, only their third outright success ever in the competition, and kept the trophy.

• Frederick Patey Chappell, who was born in England, changed his name to Frederick Brunning Maddison in 1873, having played for England in the first international in 1872 against Scotland. However, he had already played for Scotland in the 1-1 draw on 25 February 1871, the third unofficial international involving England and Scotland.

• In 1950-51 Leslie Compton became the oldest player to make his debut for England when he played against Wales aged 38 years and two months.

• The 1956 Home international championship finished in a four-way tie for the first time, all the teams having three points.

• Tommy Lawton of Chelsea scored the fastest England goal in history. He scored after just 17 seconds in England’s 10-0 friendly win over Portugal in Lisbon on 27 May 1947.