Which is the oldest football club in England, Sheffield or Notts County?

MaggieG 5

According to Wikipedia it is Sheffield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield#Sport Jul 02 05, 2:27 PM

gtho4

Notts County FC is the oldest Football League club, and Sheffield FC is the oldest football club. The Football Association Laws of 1863 regulated the game in and around London but in the provinces clubs continued to follow their local rules for some time. The most important of these regional variants was at Sheffield. It was not until 1877 that Sheffield adopted the FA Laws which, at the same time, absorbed certain clauses from the Sheffield code. There are some similarities in the formation of the Sheffield club, the oldest club in the world, and Notts County, the oldest Football League club. Both began with impromptu, informal kickabouts by a group of young men of the professional class and only after a couple of years was the club formally founded. Sheffield was formed on October 24, 1857, after informal play since 1855, and Notts County on December 7, 1864 after informal play since 1862. The two clubs first met in the 1864-65 season, the first important match on record played by a current member of the Football League. The Association of Football Statisticians: http://www.11v11.co.uk/page279 Jul 02 05, 7:41 PM

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