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

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

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.

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.