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The North American Football Union (NAFU; French: Union Nord-Américaine de Football; Spanish: Unión Norteamericana de Fútbol) is a regional grouping under CONCACAF of national football organizations in the North American Zone. [1]
The North American Football Union is the smallest association union in the region with only three members, but its nations have strong commercial and marketing support from sponsors and they are the most populous nations in the region.
- Founding
- 1886 Season
- 1887 Season
- 1888 Season
- 1889 Season
- 1890 Season
On January 6, 1886, representatives from several different athletic institutions across the New York metropolitan area met at 23 Dey Street in Manhattan to discuss the plausibility of a new athletic association for the sport of football. These institutions were the Staten Island, New-Brighton, Cutler, Stevens Institute, Polytechnic Institute, Brook...
The AFU's first fall meeting was held on September 31 at No.243 Broadway Street, and welcomed representatives from the five institutions who confirmed their teams for the 1886 season. They were the Unions of Columbia College, Brooklyn Hill Football Club, Cutler School, the Spartan Harriers, and the Staten Island Football Club. The Staten Island Foo...
The Crescent Athletic Club was officially admitted to the AFU as a full member in April of the 1887 season. They would become the most dominant team in the Union over the next five seasons. A team was also formed by the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club, after spending a year consolidated in the Staten Island Football Club (and any players th...
At the first meeting of the 1888 season, held March 29 in the office of William H. Ford at No. 51 Liberty Street, a new league constitution was adopted to replace the one drafted at the second AFU meeting in 1887. The new constitution would not be as "loosely constructed" as its predecessor, and barred a common practice in the league of football pl...
At its annual first meeting of the 1889 season, held at No. 241 (243?) Broadway, four institutions were represented, and were the same from the previous year. With President Clarence Smith away at Saratoga, vice-president William Ford would preside over the meeting, and at the AFU's annual election, he was named the new president of the Union. T. O...
In the annual first meeting of the AFU, four congregations represented the league, including the Staten Island Athletic Club that had resigned the year prior. Unfortunately, the Staten Island team soon re-resigned, leaving only the New York, Crescent, and Orange Athletic Clubs.Manhattan Athletic Club applied for the Union, and were finally accepted...
Concacaf – formed in 1961 from the merger of the Football Confederation of Central America and the Caribbean (CCCF) and the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) – consists of three sub-regions: North America (3 Member Associations under the regional entity North American Football Union – NAFU- which is non-operational), Central ...
The North American Football Union (NAFU; French: Union Nord-Américaine de Football; Spanish: Unión Norteamericana de Fútbol) is a regional grouping under CONCACAF of national football organizations in the North American Zone. [1]
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football
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The North American Football Union (NAFU; French: Union Nord-Américaine de Football; Spanish: Unión Norteamericana de Fútbol) is a regional grouping under CONCACAF of national football organizations in the North American Zone. [1]
