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Football is the most popular sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game. With over 40,000 association football clubs, England has more clubs involved in the code than any other country. England hosts the world's first club, Sheffield F.C.; the world's oldest professional association football club, Notts County; the oldest national governing body, the Football Association; the joint-oldest national team; the oldest national knockout competition, the FA Cup; and the oldest national league, the English Football League. Today England's top domestic league, the Premier League, is one of the most popular and richest sports leagues in the world, with five of the ten richest football clubs in the world as of 2022.
The England national football team is one of only eight teams to win the FIFA World Cup, having done so once, in 1966. A total of six English club teams have won the UEFA Champions League, formerly known as the European Cup. (Full article...)
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From 1878 to 1914, the team was selected by a committee whose secretary had the same powers and role as a manager has today. There were four secretaries during this period, A. H. Albut, James West, J. Ernest Mangnall and John Bentley.
Did you know...
- ...that Mick Mills (pictured) was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?
- ...that Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989, which Forest won 4-3?
- ...that Tommy Sale scored 282 goals during 14 years at the English Football club Stoke City F.C.?
- ...that Harry Newbould was the first-ever manager of Derby County F.C.?
- ...that former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club?
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Woolwich Arsenal (now Arsenal) and Newcastle United playing in the 1906 semi-final of the FA Cup. They played this game at the Victoria Ground in Stoke. Newcastle ultimately won the game 2-0, but lost out to Everton in the final.
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