N.N. Club

N.N. Club or N.N. Kilburn—N.N. standing for "No Name"[1] —was an amateur English football club based in the Kilburn district of London.

N.N. Club
Full nameNo Name Club
Foundedc. 1863
Dissolvedc. 1870
GroundKilburn

The club recorded victories over Barnes F. C. in January and April 1863.[2] It was one of the eleven founding sides of the Football Association on 26 October 1863,[3] and was represented by club captain Arthur Pember, who was elected as the FA's first president.[4] It is unclear when the club dissolved; according to newspaper notices, the N.N.s were scheduled to play against Upton Park FC in February 1870,[5] and the club sent a representative to the annual meeting of the Football Association that month, but subsequent published lists of fixtures fail to show any activity from the club.[6] The club is absent from lists of Football Association members from 1871 onwards.[7]

See also
  • N.N. Club players

References
  1. "Barnes v N. N.". Bell's Life in London: 3. 6 February 1864.
  2. "Football". Bell's Life in London: 7. 12 April 1863.
  3. Harvey, Adrian (2005). Football, the First Hundred Years: The Untold Story of the People's Game. Routledge. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-415-35018-1.
  4. "Meeting of Captains". Bell's Life in London: 10. 31 October 1863.
  5. "Matches for This Week". Sporting Life. London (1140): 4. 2 February 1870.
  6. e.g. "Fixtures for March". Sportsman. London (773): 4. 17 March 1870.
  7. Brown, Tony (2011). The Football Association 1863-1883: A Source Book. Nottingham: Soccerdata. p. 52. ISBN 9781905891528.
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