The International Football Conference was a meeting of the four football associations of the Home Nations.
The International Football Conference was a meeting of the four football associations of the Home Nations.
England's Football Association (The FA), the Scottish Football Association (SFA), the Football Association of Wales (FAW) and the Irish Football Association (IFA) met at the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, on 6 December 1882. [1] [2] A precursor to the International Football Association Board, the meeting's major purpose was to address inconsistencies between the laws of the various associations, particularly between England and Scotland.
Among the changes resulting from the conference were:
The new laws were used in the international matches of the 1882–83 season (with the exception of the first, England v. Wales, which still used the old rules). [3] They took general effect in the Laws of the Game at the beginning of the 1883–84 season. [4]
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