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The England national football team playing at Wembley.

Football is the most popular sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game. With over 40,000 association football clubs, England has more clubs involved in the code than any other country. England hosts the world's first club, Sheffield F.C.; the world's oldest professional association football club, Notts County; the oldest national governing body, the Football Association; the joint-oldest national team; the oldest national knockout competition, the FA Cup; and the oldest national league, the English Football League. It also has 31% of the population interested in Football. Today England's top domestic league, the Premier League, is one of the most popular and richest sports leagues in the world, with five of the ten richest football clubs in the world as of 2022.

The England national football team is one of only eight teams to win the FIFA World Cup, having done so once, in 1966. A total of six English club teams have won the UEFA Champions League, formerly known as the European Cup. ( Full article...)

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West Bromwich Albion Football Club are an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands. They have competed in England's top-flight for a total of over 70 seasons overall, but as of this current season, the team plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was formed in 1878 by workers from Salter's Spring Works in West Bromwich, and have played their home games at The Hawthorns since 1900.

Albion were one of the founding members of The Football League in 1888 but have won the league title only once, in 1919–20. They have had more success in the FA Cup, with five wins. The first came in 1888, the year the league was founded, and the most recent in 1968, their last major trophy. They also won the Football League Cup at the first attempt in 1966. Since the early 1980s the club has been less successful and they spent their longest ever period out of the top division from 1986 to 2002. During their exile from the top tier, in 1991, the Baggies fell to the third tier for the first time. However, Albion won promotion over their Black Country Neighbours, Wolves, in 2002, despite being 10 points ahead of them. For most of the 2000s, Albion yo-yoed between the Premiership and the second tier, before they were a mainstay in the top flight for the majority of the following decade. After relegation in 2018, Albion returned to the Premiership two years later, but went down the following year.

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Did you know...

...that despite being organised on St. Andrew's Day, the first official international football match (comic pictured) did not result in a home win?

...that Peter Knowles, a popular English football player, voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness?

...that the England football squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico contained two players called Gary Stevens?

...that John Percival, when headmaster of Rugby School, gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football shorts below the knee with elastic?

...that former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club?

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The Football Conference is a football league at the top of the National League System of non-League football in England. Conference National is the highest of the three divisions within the Football Conference, with Conference North and Conference South serving as regional feeders one step down. The Football Conference consisted of only one division up until 2004, but expanded as part of an extensive restructuring of the National League System which took effect beginning with the 2004-05 season.

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The song " You'll Never Walk Alone", originally from the musical Carousel, adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of the former manager Bill Shankly. The "You'll Never Walk Alone" portion of the Shankly Gates is also reproduced on the club's crest.

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