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1895 World Championship (football)

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1895 World Championship
EventFootball World Championship
Date27 April 1895
VenueTynecastle Park, Edinburgh
RefereeMr Dickson (Scotland)
Attendance15,000
1888

The 1895 World Championship was a football match that took place at Tynecastle Park on 27 April 1895 between the winner of the English Football League First Division, Sunderland, and Scottish League Division One, Heart of Midlothian.[1][2] The match was won by Sunderland 5–3.[1][3][4][5]

The wealthy miner Samuel Tyzack, who alongside and shipbuilder Robert Turnbull funded the Sunderland side known as the "team of all talents," often pretended to be a priest while scouting for players in Scotland, as Sunderland's recruitment policy in Scotland enraged many Scottish fans. In fact, the Sunderland lineup in the 1895 World Championship consisted entirely of Scottish players - Scottish players who moved to England to play professionally in those days were nicknamed the Scotch Professors.[4][6]

The game was not the first "World Championship" game between English and Scottish sides; and it was the second such club competition won by an English team, with previous winners being Aston Villa and Renton (both Scottish Cup and FA Cup winners, as the leagues had not been yet created at the time). The Scottish and English leagues were pre-eminent in the world at that time.[2] However, it was the first ever game played between the respective champions of two different leagues.[6]

This was the only international competition Sunderland won; they subsequently participated in the British League Cup in 1902 and the Empire Exhibition Trophy in 1938 but exited early in those competitions.[7][4]

Participant teams

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Team Qualification
England Sunderland 1894–95 Football League First Division champions
Scotland Heart of Midlothian 1894–95 Scottish Division One champions

Match details

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Heart of Midlothian Scotland3–5England Sunderland[8]
Taylor
McLaren
Report Johnston
Campbell
Millar
Harvey
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Mr Dickson, Scotland
GK Scotland Jock Fairbairn
DF Scotland Barney Battles
DF Scotland James Mirk
MF Scotland Alexander Hall
MF Scotland Bob McLaren
MF Scotland George Hogg
FW Scotland Willie Taylor
FW Scotland Thomas Chambers
FW Scotland Willie Michael
FW Scotland George Scott
FW Scotland Davie Baird
GK Scotland Ned Doig
DF Scotland Robert McNeill
DF Scotland Donald Gow
MF Scotland Billy Dunlop
MF Scotland John Auld
MF Scotland Harry Johnston
FW Scotland Jimmy Hannah
FW Scotland James Gillespie
FW Scotland John Harvey
FW Scotland John Campbell
FW Scotland Jimmy Millar

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sat 27 April 1895 Hearts 3 Sunderland 5". londonhearts.com. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  2. ^ a b "World Champions!". roker-roar.com. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Most Successful Era Of Some Famous English Clubs". 1SPORTS1. 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  4. ^ a b c Jonathan Wilson (2020-04-25). "Sunderland's Victorian all-stars blazed trail for money's rule of football". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  5. ^ Saturday's Football. | Heart of Mid-Lothian v. Sunderland, The Glasgow Herald, 28 April 1895
  6. ^ a b When Sunderland met Hearts in the first ever 'Champions League' match | Nutmeg Magazine, Nutmeg Magazine, September 2017
  7. ^ "When Sunderland AFC Were World Champions! – Ryehill Football". Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  8. ^ "Hearts 3 Sunderland 5". The Stat Cat. Retrieved 2 May 2013.