First FIFA-style Football Match
1872
On a cold November afternoon at the West of Scotland Cricket Club in Glasgow, England played Scotland in what is recognized as the first international football match. The score was 0-0. The code of Association Football was barely nine years old. Within a generation the game would be the world's favorite.
In context
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: May 10, 1871: Treaty of Frankfurt
- After: 1873: Kulturkampf Peaks
Before and after in Culture
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.