1905 in association football

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c=20th Century
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yp1=1902
yp2=1903
yp3=1904
year=1905
ya1=1906
ya2=1907
ya3=1908
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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.
*February 19 - Alf Common becomes the first player to be transferred for a fee of 1000 Pounds, in a transfer from Sunderland A.F.C. to Middlesbrough F.C.

Clubs formed in 1905

*Crystal Palace Football Club
*Chelsea Football Club
*Club Atletico Boca Juniors
*Galatasaray SK - Turkey

Winners club national championship

* Germany: Union 92 Berlin

*Scotland: "For fuller coverage see: 1904-05 in Scottish football"
**Scottish Division One – Celtic
**Scottish Division Two – Clyde
**Scottish Cup – Third Lanark

International tournaments

*1905 British Home Championship (February 25 – April 8, 1905)::fb|ENG

Births

* September 25 – Aurelio González (Paraguayan footballer)
* September 26 – Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1996)
* October 16 – Ernst Kuzorra (German footballer)

Deaths

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