1840s in association football

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The following are the association football events of decades 1840s around the world.

Events

• 1848 – A committee at Cambridge University attempts to create a universal set of rules for football. (This code later become known as The Cambridge Rules and greatly influenced association football, also known as soccer, when it was codified in 1863.)
• 1849 – In Cheltenham, the first use of three official referees in a match, two in field and one in tribune.

Births

• 1842, December 2 – Charles William Alcock, English footballer and creator of the FA Cup
• 1847, June 19 – Robert Barker, English footballer
• 1847, August 30 – Morton Betts, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1914)
• 1848, May 16 – Ernest Bambridge, English footballer
• 1848, August 22 – John Brockbank, English footballer
• 1849, March 28 – Reginald Birkett, English footballer

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