football (soccer)

With the strike of a gavel, football changed forever. The European Court Of Justice had just ruled that any footballer could now move freely at the end of a contract, and clubs could no longer hoard players and control their freedom of movement. How football would change, and what this meant for...

Unthinkable. Allowing more teams than the champions of each league? Impossible, it wouldn't be fair. The European Cup is a tournament meant for champions. Yes, the early rounds might be a bore for the big teams, facing little difficulty in qualifying, scoring heavily, and with few surprises. But...

This timeline will deal with a world in which the British Football Associations do not break away from FIFA during the first World Cups, beginning with the first one held in Scotland in 1930. This timeline will have many other vital differences that will become blurred over the years, creating a...

This TL is sync with the A New Beginning TL (go check that out!). This is about how football would look like in a Post-Soviet Russia would be like. This is my first attempt at doing a TL, so if that's any mistake, feel free to let me know! Without further ado, let's start...

The day was the 11th of May, 1966. The clubs Partizan Belgrade and Real Madrid were about to compete in the final of the European Cup, arguably the biggest competition between professional teams in the world. The teams were representing countries that were marred with controversy due to...

Delaunay's dream A World Football Timeline Henri Delaunay, who lived from 13th of June 1883 to November 9th 1955, is a relatively forgotten figure in the World of Football. And Perhaps for a good reason. He was a player, and later a referee, but not a manager. However, Henri was also a part of...

Football was one of the attractions of the second edition of the modern Olympic Games, disputed in 1900 at Paris. Football was one amidst a slew of new events of dubious Olympic status at these games, and didn't even distribute any medals. At the opening match, an English amateur team, Upton...

Greetings dear readers, speculators and fellow football fans. As of writing this introduction, I am still in the process of working on the 2002 World Cup knockout stage in my Brotherhood and Unity timeline, but lately I have been thinking of introducing a thread that gives anyone who reads this...

Ferguson Makes It Three Spin-Off TL: English League Football 2008-09 Premier League - 24th May 2009 Aston Villa 1 Newcastle United 1 It had been a season to forget for Newcastle United. It had started off with so much promise with Kevin Keegan back at the helm, but had quickly gone wrong...

If World War II Never Happened: A FIFA World Cup Timeline By NTF aka Seb The 1942 and 1946 FIFA World Cups were cancelled because of World War II, leaving football fans left to ponder who would have won those tournaments. Myself included, hence why I am making this timeline. There are some...

The European Theatre An alternate history of european club football For decades, Europe has seen attempts by various bodies in football to bring forth clubs from different nations together in supposed regional compatitions. From the early days of the "World Championship" between the Scottish...

Part 1. World Cup 1974 Augusto Pinochet, one of the most controversial characters, if not world, then at least South American history, a tough dictator who killed many of his opponents, but imagine that if he somehow accidentally dies in an accident in the Chilean army. But the essence of this...

Uncertainty Yugoslavia in 1990 - It all seemed like the once great union of southern Slavs was reaching its demise, following ethnic conflict between its people. The Kosovo crisis that has been going on for almost four years now had opened the Pandora's box, with massive riots breaking out all...

It was a controversy. It was pandemonium. A foul ball down the left field by Luis Castillo was hit down the left field line. and almost caught by Moises Alou, was batted by a Cubs fan, a fan whose name was lost to history, and the play was ruled a foul ball. The Cubs seem to be floundering...

So one of the most infamous fouls happened in the 1982 FIFA world cup semi finals between France and Germany. It was 1-1 between France and Germany in normal time. Battinson managed to enter the German final third only to be hit hard by the German goalie Toni Schumacher and thus becoming...

GOOD SEED MAKES A GOOD SPORT A UEFA European Championship (and FIFA World Cup) Timeline Based on my A Solution to Dissolution: If the UEFA Nations League Began in 1998 Timeline By NTF aka Seb Prologue Following the introduction of the Nations League in 1998, UEFA began implementing the...

Hello fellow Football (Soccer) fans of AH.Com. I bring to you a collaborative timeline of the Premier League, more specifically, the English professional game, starting with the formation of the Premier League in 1992. We will form what the world of the top four leagues of England will look...

Though Wales has since qualified for the 2022 World Cup, their first since 1958, they have had a few close calls before hand with teams that should've played at a World Cup with the Welsh team of the 1980's being perhaps the team the most unlucky not to qualify for a major tournament and they...

A comically specific question, nonetheless worth asking in my opinion. I'm working on a TL where the UEFA Nations League begins in 1998 instead of 2018 as OTL. Following the inception of the Nations League in 2018, four play-off paths with two semi-finals and a final each were introduced for...

"Sports What Ifs" is one of my favorite threads on this website. However, there are a lot of sports in it that I don't really care about, so I decided to make this thread for what-if questions that exclusively concern football. No offense to other sports, I enjoy some tennis, table tennis and...