1908 in association football

Years in association football

← 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 →

1908 in sports

American football Aquatic sports Association football Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Chess Climbing Combat sports Sumo Cricket 1907–8 1908 1908–9 Cycling Equestrianism Esports Golf Gymnastics Ice sports Modern pentathlon Motorsport Racquetball Sailing Skiing Rugby league‎ Rugby union Snooker 1907–8 1908–9 Squash Table tennis Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting

The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1908 throughout the world.

Winners club national championship

• Argentina: Belgrano(*)
• Belgium : Racing CB
• England: Manchester United
  • FA Cup: Wolves
• Finland: Unitas Helsinki
• Germany: Viktoria Berlin (winners of a regional league play-off)(*)
• Hungary: MTK(*)
• Italy: Pro Vercelli(*)
• Netherlands : Quick Den Haag(*)
• Scotland: For fuller coverage, see 1907-08 in Scottish football.
  • Scottish Division One – Celtic
  • Scottish Division Two – Raith Rovers
  • Scottish Cup – Celtic
• Sweden: IFK Gothenburg(*)
• Switzerland: FC Winterthur (winners of a play-off)(*)
• Uruguay: River Plate(*)
• Greece: F.C. Goudi Athens

(*)Amateur league

International tournaments

• Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva, in Turin, Italy:
  1. Servette FC
  2. Torino
• Olympic Games in London, United Kingdom (October 19 – 24 1908)
  1. Great Britain
  2. Denmark
  3. Netherlands
• 1908 British Home Championship

Shared by England and Scotland

Clubs founded

• March 25 – Clube Atlético Mineiro (Brazil)
• July 19 – Feyenoord (Netherlands)
• September 26 – SK Brann (Norway)
• Hartlepool United F.C. (England)
• March 9 – F.C. Internazionale Milano (Italy)
• R.S.C. Anderlecht (Belgium)
• Huddersfield Town F.C. (England)
• Panathinaikos FC (Greece)
• U.S. Lecce (Italy)
• St Albans City F.C. (England)
• S.S.C. Bari (Italy)
• Real Murcia (Spain)
• FC Lugano (Switzerland)
• ŁKS Łódź (Poland)
• LASK (Austria)

Births

• March 21 – Juan López Fontana, Uruguayan football manager (died 1983)
• April 20 – Pierre Korb, French international footballer (died 1980)
• June 4 – Alejandro Villanueva, Peruvian footballer (died 1944)
• June 8 – Leo Lemešić, Croatian football player and manager (died 1978)
• August 1 – William Ling, English football referee (died 1984)