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
International tournaments 1905 British Home Championship (February 25 – April 8, 1905)
Births January 18 – Enrique Ballesteros, Uruguayan footballer March 17 – William Bell, English footballer May 6 – Billy Dixon, English professional footballer (died 1956) 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 (died 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.
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