Erection date: 2014
Battersea Park, 1864
9th January 1864, site of the first match of association football.
Wandsworth Council, 2014
This game took place, on a Saturday, just 2 months after the FA had been formed.
2025: have done some investigative journalism and it seems the first match of association football actually took place on 2 January, a week earlier than stated on the plaque.
SW11, Battersea Park
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Football - first FA match
The first official game played to Football Association rules took place in Ba...
Formed on the proposal of Ebenezer Cobb Morley at the Freemasons' Tavern. Â Ou...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Football - first FA match
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
{Beneath the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:} Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft. This listed structure was constructed between 1...
William Henry Pratt, alias Boris Karloff, 1887 - 1969, actor, was born here. English Heritage
Here lived Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, from 1839 - 1873.
In this house was born Eduard Suess (1831 - 1914) geologist, economist, statesman. Erected by the Geological Society of London
Sir Lennox Berkeley, 1903 - 1989, composer, lived here 1947 - 1989. City of Westminster
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