The Oldest Soccer Club in History-Sheffield F.C. (1857)
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Sheffield F.C. (Sheffield Football Club) is an English football club from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. This oldest soccer club was founded in 1857 and this club is officially recognized by the FIFA and the FA as being the oldest soccer club in the world. Sheffield F.C. was given the FIFA Order of Merit award given in 2004; only one other club “Real Madrid” got this same award from the FIFA. Sheffield F.C. had won the FA Amateur Cup in 1903-04 season and finished as runners-up in the 1977 in the FA. In 2007 this soccer club was inducted into the English football Hall of fame, to memorialize (celebrate) their 150th anniversary of their establishment.
History of this Oldest Soccer Club:
In 1855, members of a Sheffield Cricket club organized informal kick-about without any official rules. Two members of that Sheffield Cricket club, Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest, founded the Sheffield Football Club afterward.
