Two Yorkshire clubs, Leeds United and York City, playing each other in a friendly match.
Football in Yorkshire refers to the sport of association football in relation to its participation and history within Yorkshire, England. The county is the largest in the United Kingdom and as thus has many football clubs professional and amateur.
Sheffield F.C., pictured in 1890, are the oldest football club in the world
The county has a very long tradition in the sport; it is officially recognised by FIFA as being the birthplace of club football as the world's oldest club Sheffield F.C. was formed in Sheffield during 1857.[1] Two men from Sheffield codified a set of rules for the game in 1857, these were known as the Sheffield rules and the Football Association rules which were created in 1863 were based in part on them. Ebenezer Cobb Morley was the first secretary of The Football Association, its second ever president and the man who drafted the FA's laws of the game at his home in Hull.
The world's first ever inter-club match took place on 26 December 1860 in Sheffield; the match was between Sheffield F.C. and a newly formed club named Hallam F.C.; Sheffield won 2–0. As Hallam were also from the city of Sheffield, this would also prove to be the world's first ever local derby in club football. Notably, Hallam's home ground Sandygate Road, at which they still play at today, was first opened in 1804 and is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest ground in the world.[2]
Domestic competitions
1860s to 1920s
Herbert Chapman — played for many teams, but was most noted as a manager for Huddersfield Town and Arsenal winning the top honours in English football. He is credited with being one of the game's first modernisers, introducing new tactics and training regime; Chapman is also credited with the introduction of shirt numbers in the sport.[3]
Thomas Hogg and Chris Hogg — brothers from Skelton, Yorkshire introduced football to Argentina, they organised a meeting on 9 May 1867 where the oldest football club in Argentina was founded in the form of Buenos Aires Football Club.[4]
Joseph Whitaker — one of the key figures in the foundation of US Palermo, the second oldest football club in Sicily. His family were wealthy 19th-century tycoons from West Yorkshire,[5] who moved to develop a wine industry in Sicily.
Frank Womack — played for Birmingham City, he holds the all-time league appearances record for the club, turning out a total of 491 times.[6]
1930s to 1970s
Gordon Banks — from Sheffield, played club football largely at Leicester City and Stoke City. With England, he was part of the 1966 FIFA World Cup winning squad, he represented the country 73 times. Banks was elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the second best goalkeeper of the 20th century.[7] He is also acknowledged by FIFA to have made one of the finest saves in the history of the World Cup, at the 1970 tournament, against Pelé of Brazil.[8] He has been awarded an OBE for his contributions to sport.
George Raynor — from Barnsley, transformed the Sweden national team into a powerful force in the late 1940s, and 1950s. He guided them to an Olympic gold in 1948 and a bronze medal in 1952. In the 1950 World Cup he guided them to 3rd place behind only Brazil and Uruguay, and in 1958 he led them to the final, losing again to Brazil. His remarkable achievements went largely unnoticed and unrecognised in his native England, although in continental Europe he enjoyed short spells as manager of clubs such as Lazio and Juventus.
Don Revie — from Middlesbrough, he had an influential career as both a player and manager. As a player, he became famous as one of the first deep-lying centre forwards of the English game in Manchester City's so-called Revie Plan. In management he transformed Leeds United from Second Division also-rans into one of the most feared club sides in Europe, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His remarkable achievements with the club were recognised with three Manager of the Year awards, an OBE and the England manager's job, which he eventually left controversially to take up a role in the Middle East.
Brian Clough — from Middlesbrough, he transformed Derby County from a struggling Second Division club, into first division title winners in 1971–72 Football League First Division, also reaching the European Cup semi-final under his guidance. He was successful again with another struggling Second Division club, Nottingham Forest, winning the first division title in 1978 and the European Cup successively in 1979, and 1980
FA Cup Runners-up 2013–14 Football League Championship Runners-up 2012–13 Football League One Champions 2020–21 Football League Third Division Winners 1965–66 Football League Third Division (North) Winners 1932–33, 1948–49
League Champions 1968–69, 1973–74, 1991–92 FA Cup Winners 1971–72 League Cup Winners 1967–68 FA Charity Shield Winners 1969, 1992 European Cup Runners-up: 1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup Runners-up: 1972–73 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Winners: 1967–68, 1970–71, Runners-up: 1966–67
Football League Third Division (North) Champions 1950–51 Football League Third Division Champions 1980–81 Football League Trophy Winners 1995–96 Football League Third Division North Cup 1945–46
Football League One Champions 2012–13 Football League Third Division (as fourth tier) Champions 2003–04 Football League Fourth Division Champions 1965–66, 1968–69 Football League Trophy Winners 2006–07 Conference League Cup Winners 1998–99, 1999–2000
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