The South Derbyshire Football Association was the third oldest football association in the world, after the FA and Sheffield FA. In 1871 it consisted of eleven clubs and used the Sheffield Rules.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Football: the first hundred years The untold story. Adrian Harvey, Routledge, Abingdon, 2005, page 185
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