1889 in association football

#### Asia :**British India India** ::Mohun Bagan #### Europe :**** ::Bath City ::Brentford ::Crook Town ::Middlesbrough Ironopolis ::Sheffield United ::Torquay United ::Wimbledon ::Woking :**** ::Glenavon ::Larne :**** ::Recreativo Huelva ## National Championship winners ### Asia #### [[India national football team|India]] - **Durand Cup Winners:** :Highland Light Infantry ### Europe #### England - **[Football League](1888-89-football-league) Winners:** :Preston North End - **FA Cup Winners:** :Preston North End #### Ireland - **Irish Cup Winners:** :Lisburn Distillery #### Netherlands - **Football League Winners:** :VV Concordia #### Scotland - **Scottish Cup Winners:** :Third Lanarkshire RV #### Wales - **Welsh Cup Winners:** :Bangor City ## International tournaments ### Europe - **GBR[British Home Championship](1889-british-home-championship)** :**Winners:** :**Runners-Up:** ## Births - 25 May – Jan van Dort (d. 1967), Netherlands international forward in five matches (1920). - 25 June – Joe Smith (d. 1971), England international forward in five matches (1913–1920). ### Undated - Patrick Dougan, Scottish professional footballer, 1910s ## References ## References 1. [[Mohun Bagan]] is the oldest association football club in [[India]] and the continent of [[Asia]]. 2. Inaugural [[Durand Cup]], formed by India's Foreign Secretary [[Mortimer Durand]] in [[Shimla. Simla]] for [[Great Britain. British]] troops stationed in [[India]]. At this time it was the nation's national football competition and pre-dates any other football tournament in India. 3. First season of the English Football League. 4. First unofficial season of Dutch Championship. 5. This championship was considered as unofficial because teams had not played an equal number of matches. 6. ["Scottish Cup Past Winners {{!}} Scottish Cup {{!}} Scottish FA"](https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish-cup/archive/scottish-cup-history/scottish-cup-winners/). 7. Competition contested between February 28 and April 27, 1889. 8. Simpson, Ray. (2007). "The Clarets Chronicles: The Definitive History of Burnley Football Club 1882–2007". *Burnley F.C.*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889_in_association_football) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889_in_association_football?action=history). ::