Royal Engineers AFC

The football club in the Royal Engineers ( officially: Royal Engineers Association Football Club ) is an in 1863 founded by Major Marindin English club. The Army Group of the Royal Engineers - also known as "The Sapper " - had in the 1870s, their most successful period in 1875 and won the FA Cup.

The club joined the 1869 founded six years earlier Football Association Football Association ( "FA" ) at. Four years later, the Royal Engineers one of the first teams that started a tour through the country and see in Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield were. During the season 1871/72 launched the FA Cup, the oldest national soccer competition in sports history, the Royal Engineers the final and lost immediately reached there with 0-1 against the Wanderers FC. After two years later a further final defeat followed ( 0-2 against the University of Oxford), the third attempt was successful already in the subsequent year.

The team that won the FA Cup in 1875, was set up as follows:

The first game ended against the Old Etonians first with a 1:1 ( scored the goal for the Royal Engineers Renny - Tailyour ) before then goals from Renny - Tailyour and Stafford decided the replay 2-0 for Sappers.

The team that should be 1878 wide in the final time ( and there with the 1:3 Wanderers FC defeated ), was regarded as the first team instead of focusing on the individual dribbling skills, a combination game ( "Combination Game" ) developed that there also has its origins in the opinion of Sir Frederick Wall, 1895-1934 Secretary of the FA.

The Engineers were until the end of the 1880s the rise of professional teams from the Football League equal and considered as one of the last bastions of occupied with amateur players "Gentleman's team." After the beginning of the 1890s, the team has withdrawn from the top English football ever and only occurs since usually against other army selections to.