Norfolk F.C.

Norfolk Football Club was an English football club based in the Norfolk Park suburb of Sheffield. It played Sheffield rules football from its foundation in 1861 until that code merged with association football in 1877, and association football thereafter until its demise some time in or after 1881.

Norfolk
Full nameNorfolk Football Club
FoundedDecember 1861[1]
Dissolvedc. 1881
GroundNorfolk Park

Norfolk finished second in the 1867 Youdan Cup.[2] The club was also responsible for proposing the introduction of the corner-kick into Sheffield Rules in 1868;[3][4][5][6] the corner would subsequently be introduced into association football in 1872.[7]

In 1880, the club reported to the Football Annual that it had moved away from its ground in Norfolk Park to Quibell's Field, near Hyde Park.[8] The last known reference to the club in the press dates from 1881.[9]

Notes
  1. Alcock, Charles W. (ed.) (1868). John Lillywhite's Football Annual. London: John Lillywhite.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link), as reported in Westby (2017), p. 101.
  2. "Football". Sheffield Daily Telegraph: 8. 1867-03-12.
  3. Sheffield Rules (1868)  – via Wikisource.
  4. "Sheffield Football Association". Sheffield and Rotherham Independent: 4. 1868-10-10.
  5. "Sheffield Football Association". Sheffield Daily Telegraph: 3. 1868-10-14.
  6. "Sheffield Football Association". Sportsman: 3. 1868-11-12.
  7. Laws of the Game (1872)  – via Wikisource.
  8. Alcock, Charles W. (ed.) (1880). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link), as reported in Westby (2017), p. 101.
  9. Westby (2017), p. 102.

References
  • Westby, Martin (2017). A History of Sheffield Football 1857-1889. England's Oldest Football Clubs. ISBN 978-0-9556378-2-7.
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