1905 in association football

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)
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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 (die 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.