This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "1898 in association football" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

1898 in sports
Years in association football
← 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 →
American football Aquatic sports Association football Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Canadian football Chess Climbing Combat sports Sumo Cricket 1897–98 1898 1898–99 Cycling Darts Equestrianism Esports Golf Gymnastics Ice sports Modern pentathlon Motorsport Racquetball Sailing Skiing Rugby league‎ Rugby union Shooting Snooker 1897–98 1898–99 Squash Table tennis Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting

The following are the association football events of the year 1898 throughout the world.

Events

January 1: Footballing arm of Belgian club K.A.A. Gent established.
April 5: Portsmouth founded
May 8: Genoa become the first ever Italian national champions
May 12: French club Tourcoing FC founded (as US Tourcoing)
December: French club Union Sportive Boulonnaise founded at Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Italian Football Federation is founded

National champions

Argentina: Lomas Athletic Club
Belgium: FC Liégeois
England: Sheffield United
France: Standard Athletic Club
Ireland: Linfield

Italy: Genoa (first Italian champions)
Netherlands: RAP Amsterdam (first Eredivisie champions)
Scotland:
- Divions One: Celtic
- Scottish Cup: Rangers^[1]
Sweden: Örgryte IS
Switzerland: Grasshopper Zurich (unofficial)

International tournaments

1898 British Home Championship (February 19 – April 2, 1898)

Births

January 7 – Dick MacNeill, Dutch footballer (d. 1963)
December 13 – Percy Goodison, English professional footballer (d. 1971)^[2]
Full date unknown
- Joe Hughes, Welsh professional footballer^[3]

Deaths

June 30 – Reg Birkett, English footballer

Clubs founded

References

^ "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ "Brief Life History of Percy". FamilySearch. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^ "Joe Hughes". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

v t e Association football chronology
Overviews	Professionalism in association football Geography of men's football Geography of women's football
Timelines	Football Capeverdean football English football Malian football Senegalese football Scottish football USA soccer
History	Prehistory of football History of football History of FIFA
By decade	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
By year	1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Categories