British Club (football)

The British Club or British Football Club was a football club based in Mexico City, of the five founding members of the old Primera Fuerza, the Championship on amateur basis in Mexico, belonged.

History

The association of Percy Clifford, who had already founded Reforma Athletic Club called the 1894 a few years before a football team into life and ten years later founded the Rovers FC was founded.

The British FC was founded in 1902 in order to participate in the inaugural Football Championship in the same year of Mexico can. He was financially supported by the Club Británico founded in 1899 and was allowed to exercise and to host its home games use the club facilities.

Although founded by Clifford abtrünnigem member of the Reforma AC, both clubs had a good relationship with each other and shared or mutually borrowed when needed players. The Reforma AC was 1906-1912 belonged to and was able to win in this period six of a possible seven league titles. Only in the 1907/08 season the club was able to break through the British supremacy and win his only championship. Three years later, the players of the British club could still enjoy the Cup victory.

The football team of the British Club worked for eleven years ( 1902-1913 ) in the old Primera Fuerza with before they had to retreat. The exact reasons for the withdrawal are not known to posterity. The club founder Clifford looked already at the end of the season in 1911/12, that things take their negative run and are unstoppable and therefore appealed to the Rovers FC a new club to life, but also consisted of only a few years.

Champion team

The champion team in the season 1907/ 08 consisted of the following players: A Dewar, Jack Easton, P. Mennill, George Ratcliff, Ack Caldwall, Horace Hogg, Bryan Withe, Jack Johnson, John Hogg, D. Watson, Percy Clifford ( player-coach ).

Achievements

Mexican champion: 1908 Runner-up: 1905, 1907, 1912 Cup winner: 1911