Football Alliance

The Football Alliance was 1889-1892 a standing to the English professional league Football League rivalry football league.

In response to the resulting start of the 1888/89 season Football League was created in 1889, the Football Alliance - as its competitor - twelve member clubs. The Alliance revealed a similar area as the Football League from the Midlands via the North West of England. But were also present with the club from Sheffield, Grimsby and Sunderland some clubs lying easterly part of this league. By The Wednesday Club, a precursor of today's Sheffield Wednesday was the first champion of the Football Alliance.

After the end of the first season with FC Stoke the Alliance in 1890 took on the relegated from the Football League. When the Football League increased its capacity from twelve to 14 clubs for season 1891/92, it was with Stoke and Darwen FC two clubs in the Alliance, which benefited from this increase.

In 1892 the merger of the Football Alliance with the Football League was formally decided. Concurrent with the objective of creating a second-rate Football League Second Division, whose participants primarily were made up of clubs in the former Football Alliance The previous clubs from the Football League were also - with the exception of Absteigers Darwen FC, ​​who had to compete in the new Second Division - together with the three best Alliance clubs which now consists of 16 teams consisting Football League First Division.

Participants of the Football Alliance

  • Ardwick AFC (1891-1892)
  • Birmingham St. George's (1889-1892)
  • Bootle FC (1889-1892)
  • Burton Swifts (1891-1892)
  • Crewe Alexandra (1889-1892)
  • Darwen FC (1889-1891)
  • Grimsby Town (1889-1892)
  • Lincoln City (1891-1892)
  • Long Eaton Rangers (1889-1890)
  • Newton Heath (1889-1892)
  • Nottingham Forest (1889-1892)
  • The Wednesday (1889-1892)
  • Small Heath (1889-1892)
  • Stoke FC (1890-1891)
  • Sunderland Albion (1889-1891)
  • Walsall Town Swifts (1889-1892)

Winner of the Football Alliance

Footnotes

  • Football competition in England
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Crewe Alexandra F.C. Lincoln City F.C. Manchester United F.C. Nottingham Forest F.C. Birmingham City F.C. Walsall F.C.
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