1908 in association football

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Years in association football
← 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 →
1908 in sports
Air sports American football Aquatic sports Association football Athletics Australian rules football Badminton Baseball Basketball Canadian football Chess Climbing Combat sports Sumo Cricket 1907–8 1908 1908–9 Cycling Dance sports Darts Equestrianism Esports Field hockey Flying disc Golf Gymnastics Handball Ice hockey Ice sports Korfball Lumberjack sports Mind sports Modern pentathlon Motorsport Orienteering Paralympic sports Precision sports Shooting Racquetball Roller sports Sailing Skiing Speedway Rugby league‎ Rugby union Snooker 1907–8 1908–9 Strength sports Weightlifting Squash Table tennis Tennis Triathlon Volleyball

The following are the

events of the year 1908 throughout the world.

Events

Winners club national championship

• Argentina: Belgrano(*)
• Belgium : Racing CB
• Manchester United
  • Wolves
• Finland: Unitas Helsinki
• Germany: Viktoria Berlin (winners of a regional league play-off)(*)
• Hungary: MTK(*)
• Italy: Pro Vercelli(*)
• Netherlands : Quick Den Haag(*)
• 1907-08 in Scottish football
  .
  • Scottish Division One – Celtic
  • Scottish Division Two – Raith Rovers
  • Scottish Cup – Celtic^[1]
• IFK Gothenburg
  (*)
• Switzerland: FC Winterthur (winners of a play-off)(*)
• Uruguay: River Plate(*)
• Greece: F.C. Goudi Athens

(*)Amateur league

International tournaments

• Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva, in Turin, Italy:
  1. Servette FC
  2. Torino
• Olympic Games in London, United Kingdom (October 19 – 24 1908)
  1. Great Britain
  2.  Denmark
  3.  Netherlands
• 1908 British Home Championship

Shared by  England and  Scotland

Clubs founded

• March 25 – Clube Atlético Mineiro (Brazil)
• July 19 – Feyenoord (Netherlands)
• September 26 – SK Brann (Norway)
• Hartlepool United F.C. (England)
• March 9 –
  F.C. Internazionale Milano
  (Italy)
• R.S.C. Anderlecht (Belgium)
• Huddersfield Town F.C.
  (England)
• Panathinaikos FC
  (Greece)
• U.S. Lecce
  (Italy)
• St Albans City F.C. (England)
• S.S.C. Bari
  (Italy)
• Real Murcia
  (Spain)
• FC Lugano (Switzerland)
• ŁKS Łódź (Poland)
• LASK (Austria)

Births

• Juan López Fontana
  , Uruguayan football manager (died 1983)
• April 20 – Pierre Korb, French international footballer (died 1980)
• June 4 – Alejandro Villanueva, Peruvian footballer (died 1944)
• June 8 – Leo Lemešić, Croatian football player and manager (died 1978)
• August 1 – William Ling, English football referee (died 1984)
• November 12 – Frank Wattam, English professional footballer (died 1984)^[2]

Deaths

References