1905 in association football

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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1905 throughout the world.

[edit] Events

• Leeds City F.C. admitted to the English Football League.
• February 19 - Alf Common becomes the first player to be transferred for a fee of 1000 Pounds, in a transfer from Sunderland A.F.C. to Middlesbrough F.C.

[edit] Clubs formed in 1905

• Crystal Palace Football Club
• Chelsea Football Club
• Club Atletico Boca Juniors
• Galatasaray SK - Turkey

[edit] Winners club national championship

• Germany: Union 92 Berlin
• Hungary:
  • Hungarian National Championship I: Ferencvárosi TC
• Scotland: For fuller coverage see: 1904-05 in Scottish football
  • Scottish Division One – Celtic
  • Scottish Division Two – Clyde
  • Scottish Cup – Third Lanark

[edit] International tournaments

• 1905 British Home Championship (February 25 – April 8, 1905)

 England

[edit] Births

• September 25 – Aurelio González (Paraguayan footballer)
• September 26 – Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1996)
• October 16 – Ernst Kuzorra (German footballer)

[edit] Deaths

• September 6 - Morris Bates, 39, former Nottingham Forest player and founding member of Woolwich Arsenal FC, tuberculosis.