1905 in association football

The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1905 throughout the world.

Events

• Leeds City F.C. admitted to the English Football League.
• On February 19, Alf Common becomes the first player to be transferred for a fee of £1,000 (a 2011 equivalent of roughly £95,000), in a transfer from Sunderland A.F.C. to Middlesbrough F.C.

Clubs formed in 1905

• Charlton Athletic Football Club
• Crystal Palace Football Club
• Chelsea Football Club
• Club Atletico Boca Juniors
• Galatasaray SK - Turkey
• Sport Club do Recife - Brazil
• ADO Den Haag - Netherlands
• A.C. Perugia Calcio - Italy
• 1. FSV Mainz 05 - Germany

Winners club national championship

• Germany: Union 92 Berlin
• Hungary: Ferencvárosi TC
• Italy: Juventus
• Scotland:
  • Scottish Division One – Celtic
  • Scottish Division Two – Clyde
  • Scottish Cup – Third Lanark^[1]

International tournaments

• 1905 British Home Championship (February 25 – April 8, 1905)

 England

Births

• January 18 – Enrique Ballesteros, Uruguayan footballer
• March 17 – William Bell, English footballer^[2]
• May 6 – Billy Dixon, English professional footballer (died 1956)^[3]
• May 11 – Pedro Petrone, Uruguayan footballer
• September 25 – Aurelio González (Paraguayan footballer)
• September 26 – Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and manager (died 1996)
• October 16 – Ernst Kuzorra, German international footballer (die 1990)
• December 28 – Fulvio Bernardini, Italian international footballer and trainer (died 1977)

Deaths

• September 6 - Morris Bates, 39, former Nottingham Forest player and founding member of Woolwich Arsenal FC, tuberculosis.