Sheffield Football Club
Sheffield Football Club, in Sheffield, England (in the middle of England, about 63 miles east of Liverpool) is the oldest documented non-university club, founded in 1857. It initially played a code of its own devising. The club was one of the first to join the new English Football Association (FA) in 1863 and is recognized by both the FA and FIFA as the world’s oldest club now playing association football.
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