1872    The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.

1893    The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.

1949    The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.

1996    Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat ''Estadio Mateo Flores'' in Guatemala City.