História do notts county

Universally recognised as the Oldest League Club in the World. Notts County F.C. was formed in 1862 and was a founder member of the English Football League in 1888.

The Formation of Notts County Football Club took place in 1862 with the Nottingham Guardian of November 28th 1862 saying: "The opening of the Nottingham Football Club commenced on Tuesday last at Cremorne Gardens. A aide was chosen by W.Arkwright and Chas. Deakin. A very spirited game resulted in the latter scoring two goals and two rouges against one and one." Official formation came in 1864 as the 'Notts Foot Ball Club'.

Between 1864 and 1888, friendly matches were arranged with other clubs in England and Scotland. For the first-half of the 1880s Notts were one of the best clubs in England. At one stage, Notts had 8 England Internationals in the same team. The first entry to the FA Cup was in 1877, with good runs leading to semi-final appearances in 1883 and 1884. Home games were played occasionally at TrentBridge in the early years, but regular venues were the Meadows Cricket Ground and later the Castle Cricket Ground.

From 1883 Notts' home matches were mostly played at Trent Bridge until the 1909/10 season when Trent Bridge was used to Cricket. 1894 was used as Notts' home turf was the Castle Cricket Ground and then Notts used Nottingham Forest's Town Ground (1895 and 1986) and the City Ground (1899 to 1909). It was in 1910 that Notts moved to Meadow Lane - their home to this day.

In 1888 Notts were one of the twelve founder members of the Football League, and during the 1890/91 season Notts had one of their best ever seasons by finishing third in the league and also reaching in the FA Cup final at the Kennington Oval and were defeated 3-1 by Blackburn Rovers.

In 1894 Notts had their one and only F.A Cup win when, in front of 37,000 spectators at Goodison Park, they beat Bolton Wanderers 4-1. Notts were the first side from the Second Division to win the FA Cup following their