Records and achievements.

[silkyman]

Random 'things' that your club has done.

City have just played four consecutive away matches in four different countries. That can't have happened very often?

Swansea
Celtic
Spurs
Barca

 

[TomPNE94]

Won the league and cup double without losing a single game and without conceding a goal in the cup

 

[Indian Dan]

Fucking hell, God was a boy then!

The Crimea War had just ended and Jack the Ripper was active

 

[Camborne Gills]

Fewest goals conceded in the 4th tier (95/6)

 

[Smudge]

Scorers of the fastest ever goal in an FA Cup Final. Only Everton could have a record like that and still lose the game.

 

[johnnytodd]

Everton won the league and a world war broke out

TWICE

Everton that.

 

[Habbinalan]

Cambridge United record home attendance was for a friendly (14,000 against Chelsea in 1970)

31 matches without a win - FL Division 2 (Championship??) in 1983/84.

First ever Sunday FA Cup tie (1974)

Although we're not the only club to have a Moose as a mascot, we may be the only football club.

For Barrow AFC, just look up Bobby Knox - second sub ever by 14 minutes and first sub to score and first sub to save a penalty (the Liam Hughes of the 1960s)

 

[Madejski]

Most points in an English league season - 106 (2005/06)

Most consecutive wins from the start of a season - 13 (1985/86)

Most entries into the FA Cup proper without winning it (or getting to the final)

Lost in both the highest scoring Premierleague (7-4) and League Cup (7-5) games.

 

[AFCB_Mark]

Fastest hat-trick in Football League history, James Hayter in 140 seconds

Something about the last lower league side to knock out the FA Cup holders in the 3rd round, when we did so to Man United in 84 (I think that still stands)

Most goals by a single player in an FA Cup Game - 9 from Ted MacDougall.

Technically our record league win is the 8-0 over Birmingham a couple years ago. However our actual biggest league win was 10-0 over Northampton, but it got expunged from the records due to the outbreak of World War 2 the very next day.

And when God really was a boy, we once beat Wolves at Molineux in 1957 (when they were very good) and the game had to be stopped for 20 minutes after our winger Reg Cutler managed to break the crossbar with an effort at goal, and Wolves' staff had to fetch and fit a spare crossbar from somewhere before the game could continue.

 

[DarkSithLord]

Holder of a record that will never be beaten - Only NON League club to have taken a league side to 4 fa cup replays before bowing out, in extra time 2-0 at Deepdale to Barrow (Then a football league side)

 

[Habbinalan]

Holder of a record that will never be beaten - Only NON League club to have taken a league side to 4 fa cup replays before bowing out, in extra time 2-0 at Deepdale to Barrow (Then a football league side)

It was only 3 replays (4 games in 10 days). Still, another addition to the Barrow AFC honours board that will be there forever and I'd forgotten - Only League club to have been taken to 3 FA cup replays by a non-league team before winning, in extra time, 2-0 at Deepdale.

As you may remember from previous exchanges, I was there for some of them. We were already showing the symptoms of a wannabe Non-League side playing in the Football League (amazingly still Div3/L1). Barnsley hammered us in the next round. The beginning of the dark days.

 

[DarkSithLord]

It was only 3 replays (4 games in 10 days). Still, another addition to the Barrow AFC honours board that will be there forever and I'd forgotten - Only League club to have been taken to 3 FA cup replays by a non-league team before winning, in extra time, 2-0 at Deepdale.

As you may remember from previous exchanges, I was there for some of them. We were already showing the symptoms of a wannabe Non-League side playing in the Football League (amazingly still Div3/L1). Barnsley hammered us in the next round. The beginning of the dark days.

Thanks for the correction! Was a fond time to be an Alfreton fan by all accounts, we won the league the following season by winning 30, drawing 3 and losing 1 of our 34 games.

 

[Meadow]

We hold the record for the longest unbeaten run of league matches in English senior football.

78 in all, from February 2003 to December 2004.

 

[HarvSFC]

I don't know if it's a record, but it must be up there. We won 21 consecutive home matches in all competitions in 2011.

As you can imagine, it was great to have a ST at the time.

 

[Christian Slater]

Since October 1937 Manchester United have had a youth team graduate at least in the match day squad for every single match.

 

[johnnytodd]

Everton FC - The Peoples Club 1878

• First club presented with the League Championship trophy
• First club to present League winners medals
• First club to stage an FA Cup Final in 1894
• First English club to go on an overseas tour in 1905
• First club to build a purpose-built football stadium
• First club to have a four-side stadium with two-tier stands
• First club to have a stadium with a three-tier stamd
• First club to issue a regular match programme
• First club to have a player score 60 league goals
• First club to wear numbered shirts, 1-11 in 1933
• First club to install dugouts
• First club to install floodlights
• First club to install undersoil heating
• First club to win a European Cup penalty shootout in 1970
• First club to play 4,000 top-flight games
• First club to amass 5,000 league points
• First club to play 100 seasons in the top flight
• First British club to stage a World Cup semi-final
• First club to break thw £100,000 transfer fee threshold in 1966
• Featured in the first televised game with Arsenal in 1936
• First club to have a fan to list the most club firsts and piss over previous posts on a forum

 

[shane]

Since October 1937 Manchester United have had a youth team graduate at least in the match day squad for every single match.

Thats actually impressive and it shouldn't be.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Everton FC - The Peoples Club 1878

• First club presented with the League Championship trophy
• First club to present League winners medals
• First club to stage an FA Cup Final in 1894
• First English club to go on an overseas tour in 1905
• First club to build a purpose-built football stadium
• First club to have a four-side stadium with two-tier stands
• First club to have a stadium with a three-tier stamd
• First club to issue a regular match programme
• First club to have a player score 60 league goals
• First club to wear numbered shirts, 1-11 in 1933
• First club to install dugouts
• First club to install floodlights
• First club to install undersoil heating
• First club to win a European Cup penalty shootout in 1970
• First club to play 4,000 top-flight games
• First club to amass 5,000 league points
• First club to play 100 seasons in the top flight
• First British club to stage a World Cup semi-final
• First club to break thw £100,000 transfer fee threshold in 1966
• Featured in the first televised game with Arsenal in 1936
• First club to have a fan to list the most club firsts and piss over previous posts on a forum

Are you sure you have covered everything?

I am also guessing that you toured overseas before Exeter City went to Brazil

 

[johnnytodd]

Are you sure you have covered everything?

I am also guessing that you toured overseas before Exeter City went to Brazil

nope thats just off the top of my head, why do you want the full list?

 

[Camborne Gills]

If there are any more JT. You could include longest individual post for starters

 

[Skinner]

Arsenal were the first club the have shirt numbers 1-11, 1928.

 

[johnnytodd]

Arsenal were the first club the have shirt numbers 1-11, 1928.

Wrong

 

[Habbinalan]

Wrong

Wrong

On 25 August 1928, Arsenal and Chelsea wore numbered shirts in their matches against The Wednesday (renamed Sheffield Wednesday soon after) and Swansea Town, respectively. This is the earliest record of the use of shirt numbers in Football League play. On 29 April 1933, shirt numbers were worn for the first time in the Football Association Challenge Cup final. Everton players wore numbers 1 through 11 and Manchester City numbers 12 through 22. The following week, on 6 May 1933, Everton wore their numbered shirts in a Football League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux. But at its annual general meeting in 1933, the Football League Management Committee rejected a proposal requiring shirt numbers after hearing objections that it would cost too much and spoil club colours.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Are you sure you have covered everything?

I am also guessing that you toured overseas before Exeter City went to Brazil

Lots of clubs toured Europe in the late 19th Century.

 

[johnnytodd]

Wrong

On 25 August 1928, Arsenal and Chelsea wore numbered shirts in their matches against The Wednesday (renamed Sheffield Wednesday soon after) and Swansea Town, respectively. This is the earliest record of the use of shirt numbers in Football League play. On 29 April 1933, shirt numbers were worn for the first time in the Football Association Challenge Cup final. Everton players wore numbers 1 through 11 and Manchester City numbers 12 through 22. The following week, on 6 May 1933, Everton wore their numbered shirts in a Football League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux. But at its annual general meeting in 1933, the Football League Management Committee rejected a proposal requiring shirt numbers after hearing objections that it would cost too much and spoil club colours.

wrong we had them in 1908 but weren't allowed to use them.......

 

[mnb089mnb]

Everton FC - The Peoples Club 1878

• First English club to go on an overseas tour in 1905
• First club to build a purpose-built football stadium
• First club to have a four-side stadium with two-tier stands
• First club to have a stadium with a three-tier stamd
• First club to issue a regular match programme
• First club to have a player score 60 league goals
• First club to wear numbered shirts, 1-11 in 1933
• First club to install dugouts
• First club to install floodlights
• First club to install undersoil heating
• First club to win a European Cup penalty shootout in 1970
• First club to play 4,000 top-flight games
• First club to amass 5,000 league points
• First club to play 100 seasons in the top flight
• First British club to stage a World Cup semi-final
• First club to break thw £100,000 transfer fee threshold in 1966
• Featured in the first televised game with Arsenal in 1936
• First club to have a fan to list the most club firsts and piss over previous posts on a forum

A lot of those aren't true.

The European tour, floodlights, and £100,000 transfer fee ones look dodgy to me.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Most entries into the FA Cup proper without winning it (or getting to the final)

"FA Cup proper" as if that's an actual thing.

I think Marlow (and probably Maidenhead) have played in more

 

[johnnytodd]

A lot of those aren't true.

The European tour, floodlights, and £100,000 transfer fee ones look dodgy to me.

i made them all up anyway so who cares?

 

[Habbinalan]

wrong we had them in 1908 but weren't allowed to use them.......

Why did you say 1933 then?

Everton FC - The Peoples Club 1878

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• First club to wear numbered shirts, 1-11 in 1933
• First club to install dugouts
• First club to install floodlights
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• First club to have a fan to list the most club firsts and piss over previous posts on a forum

Possibly first English club with dugouts but Aberdeen (Pittodrie) were there ahead of Goodison Park.

The floodlights (1957?) is a big no no. Lots of games played under lights over the years, including the first FA Cup Tie in 1955. Once the Football League relented, Fratton Park was first to stage a floodlit league match - in February 1956.

The Club Website section "Everton Firsts" is full of dodgy claims...... unless you include "in Liverpool" in every statement.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Why did you say 1933 then?
The floodlights (1957?) is a big no no. Lots of games played under lights over the years, including the first FA Cup Tie in 1955. Once the Football League relented, Fratton Park was first to stage a floodlit league match - in February 1956.

There was one in 1878.
http://footysphere.com/post/190245234/worlds-first-floodlit-football-match-sheffield

I've read great stories about teams painting the ball white before KO in order to help visibility. Took ages for Floodlit Football to get off the ground. FA dug in their heels for quite some time.