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With the first championship held in 1891, Argentina became the first country outside the United Kingdom (where the Football League had debuted in 1888, and the Scottish and Irish Football Leagues in 1890) to establish a football league.
History. Tournaments organised by the Association and its predecessors have been held since 1893 (the year when the current AFA was established). Nevertheless, the first championship was organised by the Argentine Association Football League (the first organised body in the country) in 1891.
Argentina had dominated South American football for a long time, but the team that represented the country in 1958 World Cup would return home from Sweden after a fiasco – they finished fourth and last in their group including a 1-6 humiliation against Czechoslovakia in the third match.
The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1902 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship (OIC). As the name implied, its teams were mostly based in Ohio. It is the direct predecessor to the modern National Football League (NFL).
Apr 24, 2019 · Honoring Ohio’s Early Pro Football Roots. The National Football League started as the American Professional Football Association in 1920. And Ohio was home to five of the original teams: the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Tigers, Columbus Panhandles and Dayton Triangles.
The Argentine Association Football League (later renamed Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, either way abbreviated to AFA) was founded by British ex-pats in Buenos Aires in 1893 and is South America’s oldest football association—the oldest in the world outside the British Isles.
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Soccer arrived in Argentina by way of British sailors in the 1860's. The game developed in British schools around Argentina. Fútbol clubs branched out from there. The first Argentinan fútbol team did not begin until 1899. They called themselves Argentinos de Quilmes.
