1905 in association football
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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1905 throughout the world.
Events
- Leeds City F.C. admitted to the English Football League.
- On February 19, Alf Common becomes the first player to be transferred for a fee of £1,000 (a 2011 equivalent of roughly £95,000), in a transfer from Sunderland A.F.C. to Middlesbrough F.C.
Clubs formed in 1905
Winners club national championship
International tournaments
- 1905 British Home Championship (February 25 â April 8, 1905)
Births
- January 18 â Enrique Ballesteros, Uruguayan footballer
- March 17 â William Bell, English footballer[2]
- May 6 â Billy Dixon, English professional footballer (died 1956)[3]
- May 11 â Pedro Petrone, Uruguayan footballer
- September 25 â Aurelio González (Paraguayan footballer)
- September 26 â Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and manager (died 1996)
- October 16 â Ernst Kuzorra, German international footballer (died 1990)
- December 28 â Fulvio Bernardini, Italian international footballer and trainer (died 1977)
Deaths
- September 6 - Morris Bates, 39, former Nottingham Forest player and founding member of Woolwich Arsenal FC, tuberculosis.