The Melbourne Football Club which was founded on 14 May 1859.
If you are talking about Gaelic Football and Australian rules teams, then the answer is no. The first time Gaelic Football and Australian rules teams played each other was in 1967. A Meath team played an Australian team.
Tom Wills is recognized as the founder of the game of "Aussie Rules Football" back in the 1850's and 1860's. He was not the founder, however, of the AFL, which was founded, as such, in 1990. The Victorian Football League was the first major league founded in Australia for playing the game, in 1896.
1859 between Melbourne Grammar school and Scotch College.
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The first match was played in 1859 between Melbourne Grammar school and Scotch College.
The Lausanne Football and Cricket Club was founded in 1860. This was one of the first clubs to play football.
.Christchurch Football Club, which is now the oldest rugby club in the country, was founded in 1863. It played by its own rules for many years. The game was taken in effect by British settlers - However, it must be noted that the the Māoris were playing a ball game called ki-o-rahi which greatly resembled Australian Rules Football and rugby football before this. Rugby football, as we now know it was first introduced to New Zealand in 1870 by Charles John Monro who was a student in Britain before this and saw and played the game.
The first known game was on 15 June 1858 between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School.
yes they are...the English football assocation wrote the rules for football in 1863
THE Football Association. i.e. the English F.A. was founded in 1863. If you're so inclined though you could count the drawing of the Sheffield Rules in 1857 as an FA. But it wasn't really.
It depends on which code of football you are referring to. European football has been played for hundreds of years, Gaelic Football for over a thousand years, American Football and Australian Rules Football are very recent versions or codes and only played for 150 to 200 years. You need to specify which code e.g. soccer, gridiron auusie rules, rugby, gaelic football etc.