Biography

The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1907 throughout the world.

Events

Winners club national championship

• England: For fuller coverage, see 1906-07 in English football.
  • Football League First Division – Newcastle United
  • Football League Second Division – Nottingham Forest
  • English FA Cup – Sheffield Wednesday
• Italy: A.C. Milan
• Greece: Ethnikos G.S. Athens
• Paraguay: Club Guaraní
• Scotland: For fuller coverage, see 1906–07 in Scottish football.
  • Scottish Division One – Celtic
  • Scottish Division Two – St Bernard's
  • Scottish Cup – Celtic^[1]

International tournaments

• 1907 British Home Championship (March 16 – April 6, 1907)

 Wales

Clubs founded

• Atalanta
• Como
• Venezia
• HJK Helsinki
• Rot-Weiss Essen
• FC Augsburg
• SSV Jahn Regensburg
• SC Paderborn

Births

• January 4 – Willy Busch, German footballer (died 1982)
• November 21 – Ernesto Mascheroni, Uruguayan footballer (died 1984)
• December 6 – Giovanni Ferrari, Italian footballer (died 1982)
• December 10 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (died 2005)

Deaths

• February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English centre forward and creator of the FA Cup. Organisator of the England v Scotland representative football matches (1870–72). (64)

References