1887 World Championship (football)
 Aston Villa, winning team | |||||||
| Event | Football World Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 9 April 1887 | ||||||
| Venue | Perry Barr, Birmingham | ||||||
| Attendance | 7,000 | ||||||
The 1887 World Championship was an exhibition football match that took place in the city of Birmingham between the Scottish FA's Hibernian (1886–87 Scottish Cup winners) and The FA's Aston Villa (the 1886–87 FA Cup winners).
The match was billed by the Birmingham Daily Mail in their 7 April 1887 edition as a "Great International Match". Aston Villa won the match 3–0.[1]
Overview[edit]
On 9 April 1887, Scottish Cup holders Hibernian, from Edinburgh, took on FA Cup winners Aston Villa in the Football World Championship at the Birmingham club's Perry Barr ground. Aston Villa won the match 3–0 to become what is believed to be the very first association football world club champions. The Birmingham Daily Mail in their 7 April 1887 edition billed the game as a de facto world championship game;[citation needed] however, the Scottish newspapers The Glasgow Herald and The Scotsman reported on it in no grander terms or greater detail than several other cross-border challenge matches of that weekend, acknowledging the participants' cup-winning status in passing.[2][3]
Later in 1887, Hibernian won a friendly against 1887 FA Cup semi-finalists Preston North End that was billed as 'The Association Football Championship of the World'.[4][5][6]
Participant teams[edit]
| Team | Qualification |
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 Aston Villa |
1886–87 FA Cup winners |
 Hibernian |
1886–87 Scottish Cup winners |
Match details[edit]
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 Hibernian
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References[edit]
- Lugton, Alan (1999). The Making of Hibernian 1. John Donald Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-85976-509-1. Search this book on
- Mackay, John (1986). The Hibees. John Donald Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-85976-144-4. Search this book on
- Birmingham Daily Mail, 7 & 9 April 1887
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Mail, 7 & 9 April 1887
- ↑ Association Matches in England. | Aston Villa v. Edinburgh Hibernians., The Glasgow Herald, 11 April 1887
- ↑ Football, The Scotsman, 11 April 1887 (pages 1, 14 and 15 of scans), via London hearts Supporters Club
- ↑ Scott Murray and Rowan Walker (2008). Day of the Match: A History of Football in 365 Days. Boxtree. ISBN 978-0-7522-2678-1. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
In August 1887, Scottish Cup holders Hibernian took on FA Cup winners [sic] Preston North End in a friendly at Hibs' Hibernian Park ground. Posters appeared all over Edinburgh billing the encounter as 'The Association Football Championship of the World'. Hibernian won the match 2–1 and therefore had the right (whichever way you look at it, as nobody else had bothered to stage such an event) to call themselves the first world champions, beating Uruguay to it by 43 years.
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- ↑ Mackay 1986, p. 40
- ↑ Lugton 1999, p. 121
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