10.09.2023 | 11:56
The original twelve football clubs forming “The Football League” and playing their first games on 8 of September 1888 were Wolverhamtpon Wanderers, West Bromwich Albion, Stoke City, Notts County, Derby County, Aston Villa, Preston North End, Everton, Burnley, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, and Accrington. Six teams from the Midlands and six from Lancashire as the southern clubs were still on amateur status. From that day the whole football world was going to be revolutionized but definitely nobody who took part on that first Saturday could imagine how the game would grow enormously in the future.