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On this day in 1863, representatives from eleven football clubs and schools sat down at the Freemasons’ Tavern on Great Queen Street, London and formed the Football Association.
Before the formation of the FA, there were no established laws of the game that clubs adhered to. For example, students from the University of Cambridge devised a set of rules called the ‘Cambridge Rules’ in 1848. Up north, football enthusiasts in Sheffield formulated their own laws of the game some time in the mid-1850s and called it ‘Sheffield Rules’.