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Football is the most popular sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game. With over 40,000 association football clubs, England has more clubs involved in the code than any other country. England hosts the world's first club, Sheffield F.C.; the world's oldest professional association football club, Notts County; the oldest national governing body, the Football Association; the joint-oldest national team; the oldest national knockout competition, the FA Cup; and the oldest national league, the English Football League. Today England's top domestic league, the Premier League, is one of the most popular and richest sports leagues in the world, with five of the ten richest football clubs in the world as of 2022.

The England national football team is one of only eight teams to win the FIFA World Cup, having done so once, in 1966. A total of six English club teams have won the UEFA Champions League, formerly known as the European Cup. (Full article...)

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Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club, based at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, Wearside, in Northeast England. They moved to the Stadium of Light in 1997 after 99 years at Roker Park. The Sunderland fans were recently voted the loudest in the Premiership following a survey which was carried out at every ground in the league. Before the Second World War, Sunderland were league champions six times - in 1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913, and most recently in 1936, when they became the last team wearing striped shirts to win the league. They were elected into the football league in 1890, becoming the first team to join after the league's birth in 1888. Sunderland stayed in the top flight until 1958, playing there for an impressive 58 seasons, but since their first relegation, they were outside the top flight than in it, appearing in only 29 out of 66 seasons. Only Arsenal, Liverpool, and Everton have lasted longer in the top tier. Nevertheless, they have played a decent amount of top flight seasons, appearing there on 87 occasions. The club won two FA Cups as well, winning the 1937 final over Preston North End 3-1, and most famously, defeated Leeds 1-0 in the 1973 final as a Second Division team.

Traditionally, Sunderland's two main rivals have been the Tyneside club Newcastle United and Teeside club Middlesbrough. Although both are generally geographically close, Newcastle are considered their main rivals.

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Did you know...

...that despite being organised on St. Andrew's Day, the first official international football match (comic pictured) did not result in a home win?

...that Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989, which Forest won 4-3?

...that Bob McGrory managed the English football team Stoke City for a period of 17 years, having previously played for the club for 14 years?

...that footballer Roy Cheetham was the first Manchester City player to be used as a substitute?

...that after retiring, former Premier League footballer Adrian Whitbread worked in four different clubs as assistant coach for Martin Allen?

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The Football Association Challenge Vase is an annual football competition for teams playing in the lower regional leagues of England. Currently over 400 teams compete each season, with two qualifying rounds preceding the six proper rounds, semi-finals and final.

Until 1974, football players were either professionals or amateurs. Professionals were paid to play by their clubs, and the only cup competitions such clubs were allowed to enter were the FA Cup and, for clubs outside The Football League, the FA Trophy. Amateurs, on the other hand, did not get paid by their clubs, and such clubs had their own cup competition, the FA Amateur Cup.

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Griffin Park is the football ground of League Two side Brentford. It is the only English league football ground to have a pub on each corner. The ground gets its name from the Griffin in the logo of Fuller's Brewery, which at one point owned the land on which the stadium was built.

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