From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Football Alliance
Football Alliance
Club Admitted Resigned
Ardwick !Ardwick 01891 1891 01892 18922
Birmingham St George’s !Birmingham St George’s 01889 1889 01892 1892
Bootle !Bootle 01889 1889 01892 18922
Burton Swifts !Burton Swifts 01891 1891 01892 18922
Crewe Alexandra !Crewe Alexandra 01889 1889 01892 18922
Darwen !Darwen 01889 1889 01891 18911
Grimsby Town !Grimsby Town 01889 1889 01892 18922
Lincoln City !Lincoln City 01891 1891 01892 18922
Long Eaton Rangers !Long Eaton Rangers 01889 1889 01890 1890
Newton Heath !Newton Heath 01889 1889 01892 18921
Nottingham Forest !Nottingham Forest 01889 1889 01892 18921
Small Heath !Small Heath 01889 1889 01892 18922
Stoke !Stoke 01890 1890 01891 18911
Sunderland Albion !Sunderland Albion 01889 1889 01891 1891
The Wednesday !The Wednesday 01889 1889 01892 18921
Walsall Town Swifts !Walsall Town Swifts 01889 1889 01892 18922
Football Alliance Darwen, another Alliance club, were accepted into the
Countries England League, taking its membership to 14 clubs.
In 1892 it was decided to formally merge the two
Founded 1889
leagues, and so the Football League Second Division was
Folded 1892 formed, consisting mostly of Football Alliance clubs. The
existing League clubs, plus three of the strongest Alliance
Number of teams 12
clubs, comprised the Football League First Division.
The Football Alliance was an association football league
in England which ran for three seasons, from 1889–90 to Member clubs
1891–92.
Notes
It was formed by 12 clubs as a rival to the Football 1 Elected to Football League First Division
League, which had begun in the 1888–89 season, also with 2 Elected to Football League Second Division
12 member clubs. The Alliance covered a similar area
to the League, stretching from the English Midlands to
the North West, but also further east in Sheffield, Grims- Football Alliance champions
by and Sunderland. Some of the clubs which originally
founded the Alliance had played in The Combination the
year before, but that league collapsed as a result of the References
disarray and lack of organization. The president of the
Football Alliance was John Holmes, also the president of
The Wednesday who were the first champions winning
fifteen games out of twenty-two.
At the end of the Alliance’s first season, when Stoke
dropped out of the Football League, the Alliance accepted
them as a new member. The following year, Stoke and
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Season Club
1889–90 The Wednesday
1890–91 Stoke
1891–92 Nottingham Forest
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