X-Nico

unusual facts about Football Association



1992–93 Colchester United F.C. season

The U's lost four of their first five games and sunk to the bottom, they also suffered a hefty FA fine for their indiscipline on the field with Roy McDonough one of the main culprits.

2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championship

The draw for the 2010 World Blind Football Championship was held on Monday 12 April 2010 at Wembley Stadium in London and overseen by Sir Trevor Brooking, the Football Association's Director of Football Development, and George Cohen, who was part of England's winning team at the 1966 World Cup.

Ernie Nicholls

In the next round, St. Mary's defeated Reading 7–0, with Nicholls scoring one of the goals, but the match was awarded to Reading following an F.A. enquiry into the eligibility of two St. Mary's players, Jock Fleming and Alexander McMillan.

Faria Alam

Faria Alam (born 13 February 1966) is a former Football Association secretary implicated in a sexual scandal with football officials.

Garston Ladies FC

Garston Ladies FC is an FA Charter Standard football club for girls and women, based at the Metropolitan Police Sports Club in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

George Verney

In the next round, St. Mary's defeated Reading 7–0, with Verney scoring one of the goals, but the match was awarded to Reading following an F.A. enquiry into the eligibility of two St. Mary's players, Jock Fleming and Alexander McMillan.

Gordon McKeag

He was president of the Football League, chairman of the FA Challenge Cup Committee, director of the Football Association and director of the Football League and PFA Administration.

Mohd Hashim Mustapha

Mohd Hashim Mustapha (born January 31, 1966 in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia) is a former Kelantan FA, Kedah FA, Johor FA, Kelantan JKR FC, Kelantan TNB FC Striker, and also former Malaysian international footballer and currently Assistant Coach for Kelantan FA.

Rangemore

The National Football Centre (NFC) of the English National Team received planning permission and funding from the Football Association in late 2010 to develop the nearby Byrkley Lodge site.

Tim Coleman

While at Everton, he was notable for being one the few players, along with most of the Manchester United side, to maintain their membership of the Players' Union (the forerunner of the Professional Footballers' Association), in defiance of Football Association rules.

William Stride

In the next round, St. Mary's defeated Reading 7–0 but the match was awarded to Reading following an F.A. enquiry into the eligibility of two St. Mary's players, Jock Fleming and Alexander McMillan.

Wirral District Football Association

It is affiliated to the Cheshire County Association, which in turn is affiliated to the Football Association.


see also

1880 Michigan Wolverines football team

On October 16, 1880, The Chronicle wrote that the Athletic Association's corresponding secretary was in correspondence with the football association at the University of Toronto concerning a game between the two schools.

1996–97 Middlesbrough F.C. season

The club's officials insisted that manager Bryan Robson had been unable to field a team due to a severe injury and illness crisis among his players, but this did not prevent the Football Association from docking the club 3 points.

2012–13 Iran Futsal's 1st Division

After the Maku Javan withdrew from league, Football Association decided to hold a playoff game between the two teams that won 3rd place in their group in the 2012 2nd Division.

AFL Europe

The January conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany and the European Australian Football Association was founded.

Arthur Kinnaird

Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847–1923), principal of The Football Association and leading footballer

Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago

In the early twentieth century, in Santiago there did not exist any organization for the various college football clubs that were emerging and therefore no any football tournament was contested, unlike what happened in Valparaiso, where competitions were held by the Football Association of Chile since 1895 and there was a championship each year.

Charles Wreford-Brown

Indeed, in 1906 Wreford-Brown was one of the leading figures in the movement to create the Amateur Football Alliance in London in order to keep the amateur game separate from the Football Association, an organisation that the amateur clubs found to be increasingly driven by the financial gain of the professional clubs.

Cup of Nations

Under 17 Gulf Cup of Nations, an annual international association football competition for under-17 players organised by the Union Arab de Football Association

David Sheepshanks

Like his predecessors, Patrick and John Cobbold, Peter Hill-Wood (Chairman of Arsenal), and HRH Prince William (President of the Football Association), Sheepshanks is an Old Etonian.

Diamond Creek Football Club

Formed in 1904, the club was a founding member of the Whittlesea District Football Association.

Epping Football Club

Formed in 1895, the club began playing social matches up until joining the Whittlesea and District Football Association in 1904.

Évence Coppée Trophy

Both teams were not selected by a national manager but by their entire national Football Association (with as Belgian chairman Édouard de Laveleye and as French chairman Robert Guérin).

Falkirk F.C.

The Stirlingshire Football Association was founded in 1883, which invited clubs from the Stirlingshire region to join.

Football Association of Indonesia

On April 19, 1930, almost all non-national organizations, such as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jakarta representing Jakarta, BIVB Bandung,), PSIM Yogyakarta, PPSM Madiun, IVBM Magelang, SIVB Surabaya, and VVB Solo gathered at the final meeting and established Persatoean Sepak Raga Seloeroeh Indonesia (Football Association of Indonesia or PSSI) with Soeratin as the first leader.

Football in Finland

The Finnish Cup is Finland's national cup competition, open to all member clubs of the Finnish Football Association.

Frederick Kashimoto

Kashimoto was born in Mufulira where he started his soccer career at Mutende Community Centre with whom he won the Dunlop Cup organised by the Copperbelt Amateur Football Association.

Geordie Campbell

He was selected to play for the Toronto and District Football Association All-Stars against the Corinthians (considered the top English amateur team) on August 18, 1906 at Hanlan's Point Stadium in Toronto.

Gradina, Virovitica-Podravina County

Slavko Šajber, Croatian politician, football official and former president of the Football Association of Yugoslavia

Harold Thompson

Harold Warris Thompson (1908–1983), English physical chemist, Chairman of the Football Association

Heather Rabbatts

In October 2013 she criticised the make-up of the Football Association's commission to improve the national team as being "all-white, all-male"; Rio Ferdinand was subsequently added to the commission.

Ħal Kirkop

The village football team, Kirkop United F.C., currently plays in Division 2 of the Malta Football Association competitions.

India at the FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association footballcompetition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.

John Clegg

John Charles Clegg (1850–1937), English footballer and later both chairman and president of the Football Association

Kalusha Bwalya

Kalusha Bwalya (born 16 August 1963 in Mufulira), known as simply Kalusha or "Great kalu", is a Zambian footballer, former coach and President of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ).

King Island Football Association

The King Island Football Association (KIFA) is an Australian rules football competition held in Tasmania, Australia.

Leo Carle

Leo Carle (born 6 June 1980 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football and Futsal player currently playing for AC United in the Southern Districts Football Association Premier League Competition.

Lütfi Arıboğan

In 2005, he became the general secretary of the Turkish Football Association under the presidency of Levent Bıçakçı and continued to serve in various roles under TFF presidents Haluk Ulusoy, Hasan Doğan, Mahmut Özgener and Mehmet Ali Aydınlar until January 2012.

Marion Football Club

Marion continued in the competition known as the Glenelg District Football Association, Glenelg-South-West District Football Association, Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association and finally the Southern Metropolitan Football League until it folded at the end of the 1986 season.

The Mid-Southern Football Association became the Glenelg District Football Association in 1931, with Sturt once again winning the first premiership.

Mark Palios

Palios resigned in August 2004 following media revelations around his brief relationship with a Football Association secretary, Faria Alam, who subsequently went on to have an affair with the England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.

Mauricio Gonzalez Sfeir

He is a past president of The Strongest football club, a past president of the La Paz Football Association and a past vice-president of the Bolivian Football Federation (Federación Boliviana de Fútbol).

Maxwell Konadu

After participating in the 31st and 32nd International DFB (German Football Association) coaching courses in Hennef, Germany, he received the International DFB Coaching Certificates “B” and “A” in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

The club plays in the Varsity Sports Football challenge and the Port Elizabeth Football Association Premier Division.

Normal Park

The Cardinals joined the new American Professional Football Association (soon renamed the National Football League) and continued to use Normal Park as their home field for several years and continue to be called the Racine Cardinals for a while.

Ralph Capron

He also played football in the American Professional Football Association (Later renamed the National Football League in 1922) with the Chicago Tigers in 1920.

Richard Niederbacher

Currently he works for a regional football association and used to be co-trainer of Gleisdorf, where he lives together with his wife (who is former Miss Belgium Françoise Bostoen) and two kids.

Shai Biruk

During his time at Ajax, he met a fellow Jewish Israeli footballer named Daniël de Ridder and was the first to report on Ajax having a Jewish Israeli on their books to the Israel Football Association.

South Sudan Football Association

In April 2011, the Government of South Sudan's (GOSS) minister for Youth, Sports and Recreation, Makuac Teny Youk issued a ministerial order establishing the Provisional Football Association.

South Vietnam national football team

The South Vietnam national football team (Vietnamese: Đội tuyển túc cầu quốc gia Việt Nam Cộng hòa) was the national team of South Vietnam controlled by Vietnam Football Association (now Vietnam Football Federation) between 1949 and 1975.

Talaba SC

The team was founded as (Al-Jameaa) (الجامعة) on 17 December 1969 to represent the University of Baghdad and by special resolution from the Football Association decided that the team participates in the first division (second level) without going through second and third divisions.

Theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy

On Monday 21 March, Joe Mears, the Chairman of the Football Association, received an anonymous phone call.

UAFA

UAFA - Union of Arab Football Associations A football association that organises several tournaments between CAF and AFC Arab Nations

Wakefield and District Football Association League

The Wakefield and District Football Association League is a football competition based in Yorkshire, England.

WJOB

WJOB continued as the "Sports Voice of the Region" with its dedication to local and Big Ten sports events and was one of the first local radio stations to broadcast WFA (Women's Football Association) games featuring the Chicago Force and Ron Kittle's Collegiate Baseball League team the NWI Oilmen games.