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Crystal Palace F.C. were an amateur football club, founded circa 1861, formed from the groundkeepers of the Great Exhibition. Later notable players joined such as Cuthbert Ottaway. Their original colours were claret and blue, which Aston Villa later adopted. The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1851. ...
Cuthbert Ottaway, first captain of the England international football team, was regarded by contemporaries as perhaps the most versatile sportsman of his generation. ...
Aston Villa Football Club (also known as The Villa or The Villans) are an English professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the Premier League. ...
The 'Groundkeepers' were one of the 12 founder members of the Football Association. The club was moderately successful in the pre-Football League era and competed in the first FA Cup reaching the semi-finals where they were eliminated by the Royal Engineers 3-0, in a replay after the first game ended goalless. The team also played in the FA Cup in the next 4 seasons, without any significant impact. The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. ...
The Football League is an organisation representing 72 professional football clubs in England and Wales, and runs the oldest professional football league competition in the world. ...
The 1871-72 Football Association Challenge Cup was the first organised Association Football competition in the world. ...
The Royal Engineers AFC is a football team founded in 1863, under the leadership of Major Marindin of the Corps of Royal Engineers. ...
Note: for the full results of all FA Cup finals, see FA Cup Final The FA Cup — this is the fourth trophy, in use since 1992, and identical in design to the third trophy introduced in 1911. ...
4 players from the club appeared for England: First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Biggest win Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Ireland; 18 February 1882) Biggest defeat Hungary 7 - 1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954) World Cup Appearances 12 (First in 1950) Best result Winners, 1966 European Championship Appearances 7 (First in...
- Charles Chenery (Forward) (3 appearances)
- Alexander Morten (Goalkeeper)
- Arthur Savage (Goalkeeper)
- Charles Eastlake Smith (Forward)
There is no direct link between this club and the modern day Crystal Palace which was founded in 1905, although the 'new' club 'inherited' the Crystal Palace stadium, and thus could be considered spiritual successors to the former club. Alexander Morten (November 15, 1831?-24 February 1900) was an Association Football player who captained the England team in its second official international, played against Scotland on 8 March 1873. ...
Crystal Palace Football Club is an English professional football team based in SE25 in London. ...
The National Sports Centre The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London is a large sports centre and athletics track. ...
A spiritual successor, sometimes called a spiritual sequel, is a successor to a computer or video game, movie, novel, comic, stage play, or television mini-series. ...
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