Foot-Ball Club
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The Foot-Ball Club was a football club in Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1824.{{cite web|title=News: "Such kicking of shins and such tumbling"|url=http://www.nas.gov.uk/about/071112.asp|publisher=The National Archives of Scotland|accessdate=5 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103231125/http://www.nas.gov.uk/about/071112.asp|archive-date=3 January 2008}} The club met in the summer months to play a form of football. Nevertheless, the organization can claim to be the earliest recorded club playing football of any kind.{{cite news|last=Lambie|first=Derek|title=Football Club of Edinburgh in the News: Scottish Sunday Express|url=http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/thefootballclubofedinburgh/66240/News/view/30358?archive=0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062212/http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/thefootballclubofedinburgh/66240/News/view/30358?archive=0|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|accessdate=5 January 2012|newspaper=Sunday Express|date=11 November 2007}} A modern association football club with the same name was formed in 2007, in an attempt to revive the legacy of the old club.
{{Infobox football club
| clubname = Foot-Ball Club
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Foot-Ball Club
| founded = 1824; 200 years ago
| dissolved = {{circa}} {{Start date and age|1841}}
| ground = Dalry Park (1824–31)
Greenhill Park (1831–41)
}}
History
{{wikisource|Rules of The Foot-Ball Club (1833)}}
The Foot-Ball Club of Edinburgh is thought to be one of the oldest recorded football clubs in the world with records going back to 1824.{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/edinburgh-takes-on-sheffield-in-oldest-club-row-808974.html | title=Edinburgh takes on Sheffield in 'oldest club' row | work=The Independent | date=15 April 2008 | accessdate=3 January 2012 | author=Hughes, Mark}}{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/oldest-football-club-1.846077 | title=Oldest football club | work=Herald Scotland | date=15 April 2008 | accessdate=3 January 2012 | author=Boyle, Mark}} Membership lists and accounts of the club between 1824 and 1841 are held in the National Archives of Scotland (NAS).
Founded by John Hope in 1824, the club played its games in the city's Dalry Park until 1831, when they moved to Greenhill Park. The club appears to have met and played every summer, but there is no record of it after 1841.
In 2017, a brief set of handwritten rules was found on the back of the club's 1833 budget statement. This has been described as the earliest known written rules of football.{{cite archive |collection=Papers of Messrs D and JH Campbell, WS, solicitors, Edinburgh |item-id=GD253/183/7/3 |institution=National Records of Scotland|url=https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD253 |first=John |last=Hope}}{{cite web |title=Historic 'foot-ball' rulebook found |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39112907 |date=2017-02-28 |website=BBC News |accessdate=2020-02-28}}{{cite web |title=Playing the game in 1833 - the world's earliest known rules of football |website=Scottish Sport History |url=http://www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-history-news-and-blog/playing-the-game-in-1833-the-worlds-earliest-known-rules-of-football |date=2018-05-15 |accessdate=2020-02-28}}
=Reformation=
In 2007, an association football club with the same name was formed by Kenny Cameron, a community coach at Spartans, after a tour of the Scottish Football Museum.{{cite news |last1=Morris |first1=Adam |title=Extra-time for the oldest club |url=http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/Extratime-for-the-oldest-club.3738242.jp |work=Edinburgh Evening News |date=2 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204144012/https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/extratime-for-the-oldest-club.3738242.jp |archive-date=4 February 2008}} The club's men play in the Edinburgh Sunday Premier League and the Ladies play in the Scottish Women's Football League Second Division South East Division.
References
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Sources
- 1824: The World's First Foot-Ball Club, John Hutchinson and Andy Mitchell. Andy Mitchell Media, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-9866-1244-9}}.
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Category:Football clubs in Edinburgh
Category:Sports clubs and teams established in the 1820s
Category:1824 establishments in Scotland
Category:History of football in Scotland