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8 unusual facts about The Football Association


Amal Dutta

After retirement as a player he went to England for a one-year FA coaching course, where he was taught by the renowned Walter Winterbottom.

Bill Tomlins

In June 2008 he was fined £15,000 and suspended from all football and football activities for a period of five years by The Football Association in respect of thirteen charges of misconduct made against him.

England national beach football team

The England national beach football team represents England in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the FA, the governing body of football in England.

FA Cup Final

It is the culmination of a knockout competition among clubs belonging to The Football Association in England, although Scottish and Irish teams competed in the early years and Welsh teams regularly compete, with Cardiff City winning the Cup in 1927 and reaching the final in 2008.

Faria Alam

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

After doing some part-time modelling work, Alam took a job at The Football Association in July 2003 as personal assistant to executive director David Davies, based at the organisation’s headquarters in Soho Square, London.

Lord Kinnaird

The eleventh Lord was a leading footballer and President of The Football Association.

NAWO

During 2006, before the Football World Cup in Germany, NAWO campaigned and called on football managers, players and FA officials to make a public statement condemning human trafficking, as approximately 40,000 prostitutes were expected to enter the country during the World Cup, many of whom would have been illegally trafficked into the sex industry.


Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird

Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird KT (16 February 1847 – 30 January 1923) was a principal of The Football Association and a leading footballer.

Bobby Davidson

He additionally took charge of the match between England and the Rest of the World in October 1963 which celebrated the centenary of The Football Association, and refereed the 1975 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final between Dynamo Kiev and Ferencváros.

David Geddis

Most recently, Geddis was Reserve Team Coach at Leeds United, a job he took up after scouting for England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson and the English FA at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

FA Charter Standard Award

The FA's Charter Standard Award recognises and rewards high quality of levels of provision in club, league and schools football.

FA Community Shield

In 1974 the then FA secretary, Ted Croker, created the current format with the match being played at Wembley Stadium, and being contested by the reigning League and FA Cup holders.

Foundation of the Premier League

The five clubs decided it was a good idea and decided to press ahead with it, however the league would have no credibility without the backing of The Football Association and so David Dein of Arsenal F.C. held talks to see whether the FA were receptive to the idea.

Futsal in England

Both the FA and FIFA had representatives at the tournament, there were also members of the British Universities Sport’s Association present.

Gusztáv Sebes

Among those who witnessed Hungary's Olympics victory was Stanley Rous, secretary-general of the English FA and future FIFA president; he subsequently approached Sebes and invited Hungary to play England at Wembley.

Hertfordshire County Football Association

Proposing the toast to the Hertfordshire FA was Sir Stanley Rous, Secretary of The Football Association, who ten years prior to his appointment to football's top job was a member of the Hertfordshire FA Council.

In the early 1880s there were already 20 clubs operating in Hertfordshire and with interest continuing to grow, the Secretary of St Albans F.C., Mr R Cook called a meeting in 1885 which was to have been held at The Football Association's Headquarters, then at 51 High Holborn in Central London but on arrival they found the offices closed.

Marown A.F.C.

On 11 August 2008 the Under-10 team represented the Isle of Man at the English FA's National Football Festival held at Wembley Stadium in London.

Thomas McGhee

Portsmouth's manager Eddie Lever was impressed with the full back when he turned out for a senior service side against a FA eleven on 31 December 1953.

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.

Tony Strudwick

He had previously worked with Coventry City, West Ham United and The Football Association before becoming one of Mark Hughes' first appointments when he took over as manager of Blackburn Rovers in 2004.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.