1890 British Home Championship

The 1890 British Home Championship was an edition of the annual international football tournament played between the British Home Nations. The seventh such competition held, the 1890 edition was, for the second time, jointly won by England and Scotland, the sixth time that Scotland had won. Played during the second half of the 1889/90 season, the tournament was also notable for two matches played by England on the 15 March against Wales and Ireland simultaneously. With an increasingly crowded domestic schedule cramping available dates for matches, England fielded two entirely separate teams, both of which won their games with an aggregate of twelve goals to two.

Wales took the early lead in the competition, winning the opening game at home against Ireland. England's double victories over Wales and Ireland then placed them in front with favourites Scotland still to play a match. Scotland responded to England's lead with two comfortable wins over Wales and Ireland 5-0 and 4-1 leaving the final match between England and Scotland as the deciding game. Despite a furious and dramatic encounter, neither side could best the other and the result was a 1-1 draw, placing both England and Scotland at the head of the table, goal difference not at this stage being used to differentiate the teams.

Table

The points system worked as follows:
* 2 points for a win
* 1 point for a draw

Results

footballbox
date = February 8, 1890
team1 = fb-rt|WAL
score = 5–2
team2 = fb|IRE
goals1 = David Lewis 2, William Pryce-Jones 2, Billy Owen
goals2 = William Dalton 2
stadium = Racecourse Ground, Wrexham----footballbox
date = March 15, 1890
team1 = fb-rt|WAL
score = 1–3
team2 = fb|ENG
goals1 = William Lewis
goals2 = Edmund Currey 2, Tinsley Lindley
stadium = Old Racecourse, Shrewsbury----footballbox
date = March 15, 1890
team1 = fb-rt|IRE
score = 1–9
team2 = fb|ENG
goals1 = Jack Reynolds
goals2 = Fred Geary 3, Kenny Davenport 2, William Townley 2, Joe Lofthouse, John Barton
stadium = Ballynafeigh Park, Belfast----footballbox
date = March 22, 1890
team1 = fb-rt|SCO
score = 5–0
team2 = fb|WAL
goals1 = William Paul 4, Lalty Wilson
goals2 =
stadium = Underwood Park, Paisley----footballbox
date = March 29, 1890
team1 = fb-rt|IRE
score = 1–4
team2 = fb|SCO
goals1 = John Peden
goals2 = Gilbert Rankin 2, Thomas Wylie, John McPherson
stadium = Ballynafeigh Park, Belfast----footballbox
date = April 5, 1890
team1 = fb-rt|SCO
score = 1–1
team2 = fb|ENG
goals1 = John McPherson
goals2 = Harry Wood
stadium = Cathkin Park, Glasgow

References

*cite book
author= Guy Oliver| title=The Guinness Record of World Soccer
date=1992
publisher=Guinness
id=ISBN 0-851129-54-4