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| Sheffield FC — recognised as the world's oldest football club — founded |
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1857 |
| Notts County — the Football League's oldest club — founded |
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1862 |
| Football is played at Bramall Lane, Sheffield (previously a cricket ground), for the first time — making it the world's oldest major football ground |
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1862 |
| Football Association founded |
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1863 |
| FA introduces a tape between the goalposts, eight feet above the ground |
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1866 |
| Corner kick first introduced under the Sheffield Rules |
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1867 |
| FA Cup competition first held |
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1871–2 |
| FA adopts the corner kick |
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1872 |
| England and Scotland contest the first international match (result 0–0) |
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1872 |
| Shin guards first used (by Sam Widdowson of Nottingham Forest) |
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1874 |
| Scottish Cup (final) first played |
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1874 |
| FA rules make crossbars obligatory |
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1875 |
| Floodlights first used, at Bramall Lane (as an experiment, for a friendly game between teams chosen by the Sheffield Association and local clubs) |
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1878 |
| The four British associations meet to agree a common set of laws |
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1882 |
| Single–handed throw–ins outlawed |
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1883 |
| Professionalism legalised (in England) |
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1885 |
| International Football Association Board (IFAB) meets for the first time |
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1886 |
| Football League founded |
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1888 |
| Scottish Football League founded, with 10 clubs |
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1890 |
| Football League expanded to 14 clubs |
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1891 |
| Goal nets introduced |
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1891 |
| Penalty kicks introduced |
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1891 |
| Football League creates a Second Division of 12 clubs, and expands the First Division to 16, by effectively absorbing the First Division of the Football Alliance |
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1892 |
| Football League Second Division increased to 15 clubs. One of the five new clubs, Woolwich Arsenal, becomes the first club from the south of England to compete in the League |
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1893 |
| Football League Second Division increased to 16 clubs, making a total of 32 (two divisions of 16 each) |
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1894 |
| Football League increased to 36 clubs (two divisions of 18 each). Automatic promotion and relegation introduced for the first time after Stoke and Burnley were held to have colluded to ensure that they both played in the First Division in the 1898–9 season |
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1897 |
| FIFA founded in Paris |
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1904 |
| Football League increased to 40 clubs (two divisions of 20 each) |
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1905 |
| Football League suspended for the duration of World War I |
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1915 |
| Football League increased to 44 clubs (two divisions of 22 each), on resumption after World War I |
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1919 |
| Football League forms a Third Division of 22 clubs, by effectively absorbing the First Division of the Southern League |
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1920 |
| Football League forms a Third Division (North), by absorbing 18 clubs from various northern league. Most of the Third Division formed the previous year is now the Third Division (South) |
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1921 |
| FA Cup Final played at Wembley for the first time |
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1923 |
| Football League expands the Third Division (North) to 22 clubs, making it the same size as the other three divisions and bringing the total to 88 clubs |
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1923 |
| Number of players needed to keep a player onside reduced from 3 to 2 |
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1925 |
| Dixie Dean scored a record 60 goals |
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1927–8 |
| Shirt numbers first used (in the FA Cup final) |
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1933 |
| Shirt numbers became compulsory in the Football League |
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1939 |
| Football League suspended for the duration of World War II |
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1939–46 |
| Football League expands the two Third Divisions to 24 clubs each, making a total of 92 |
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1950 |
| White ball first used in the Football League |
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1951 |
| UEFA founded in Basel, Switzerland |
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1954 |
| The first floodlit FA Cup game (Carlisle v. Darlington, replay, at Newcastle) |
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1955 (28 November) |
| The first floodlit Football League game (Portsmouth v. Newcastle) |
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1956 (22 February) |
| Football League re–organises the Third Divisions (North) and (South) into the Third and Fourth divisions |
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1958 |
| League Cup (final) first played |
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1961 |
| Football League abolishes the maximum wage |
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1961 |
| Substitutes first appeared in the Football League (for injuries) |
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1965 |
| Tactical substitutes allowed in the Football League |
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1967 |
| Red and yellow cards first used (in the World Cup finals) |
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1970 |
| 3 up and 3 down in the Football League |
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1973 |
| Scottish League restructured into Premier, First, Second and Third divisions |
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1976 |
| Red and yellow cards first used in Britain |
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1976 |
| Clydebank's Kilbowie Park becomes Britain's first all–seater stadium (in order to reduce the crowd capacity, so as to avoid having to comply with safety regulations) |
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1977 |
| Aberdeen's Pittodrie is proclaimed as Britain's first all–seated, all–covered football ground (although two corners remain uncovered) |
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1978 |
| Highfield Road (Coventry) becomes English football's first all–seater stadium (terracing was re–introduced at one end in 1985 to appease fans) |
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1981 |
| Three points for a win introduced in the Football League |
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1981 |
| Modern play–off system introduced in the Football League, as part of the reduction of the First Division to 20 clubs (and the expansion of the Second to 24) |
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1986–7 |
| Football League reduces the First Division to 21 clubs (from 22) and expands the Second to 23 (also from 22) |
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1987 |
| Football League reduces the First Division to 20 clubs and expands the Second to 24 |
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1988 |
| Automatic promotion and relegation between the Football League and the Football Conference introduced |
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1986–7 |
| FIFA makes the wearing of shin pads compulsory |
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1990 |
| Football League expands the First Division to 22 clubs (from 20) and expands the Fourth to 24 (from 22) |
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1991 |
| Football League starts with 93 clubs, but is reduced to 92 when Aldershot are declared bankrupt and obliged to resign after 36 games; their results were expunged |
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1991–2 |
| Back–pass rule takes effect |
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1992 |
| Premier League formed |
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1992 |
| FIFA adopts three points for a win |
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1994 |
| FA Premier League reduced to 20 teams, and Football League Third Division (previously the Fourth Division) increased to 24 |
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1995 |
| Back–pass rule extended to apply to corner kicks |
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1997 |
| Six second rule (limiting the time for which goalkeepers can hold the ball) introduced |
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1998 |
| Scottish Premier League founded; Scottish Football League now consists of three divisions of 10 clubs each |
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1998 |
| Football League "rebranded" into Championship, League One, and League Two |
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2004 |
| Number of clubs automatically promoted and relegated between the League and the Conference each year increased to two |
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2004 |
| VAR used for the first time, in an FA Cup Third Round match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace |
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2018 (8 January) |
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