The Ancient History of Middlesbrough Football Club. Selected newspaper reports from 1876 up to 1899 when Middlesbrough commenced battle in the Football League.

19th Century MatchTank. Match reports for games prior to Boro’s admission to the Football League in 1899.

Match reports, some long some short!

SACC = Sheffield Association Challenge Cup.  

CC = Cleveland F.A. Challenge Cup

FAC = F.A.Cup

NL = Northern League

From the Press

Club Meetings

1876-77

Tees Wanderers H

1876-77

1877-78

Loftus H     Tyne A

1877-78

1878-79

Tyne H     Redcar H     Redcar A

1878-79

Poetry, team review, and a Paper Chase!

1879-80

Hunslet A (SACC)

Sheffield Exchange H (SACC)

Redcar A     Loftus H

Tyne A     Sheffield H

1879-80

Press advert, Player supply

29 August 1879

1880-81

Tyne H

1880-81 Look back at the 1876 formation of Middlesbrough F.C.

10 September 1880

1881-82

Rangers (Newcastle) A

Sheffield Albion H     Tyne H

Guisborough A (CC)     Redcar H (CC) Final

Redcar H (CC) Final replay

Partick Thistle H

1881-82

Charging!, Another look back.

12 September 1881

1882-83

Attercliffe (Sheffield) H,   Dumbarton H,  Tyne H,  Redcar (CC Final),  Acton (London) H.

1882-83

1 May 1883

1883-84

Tyne A,  Staveley H (FAC - First game),  Thurlstone  A (SACC),  Lockwood Bros. A (SACC semi-final),  Redcar A (CC Final)

1883-84

A new stand, Winning the Cleveland cup

6 May 1884 and Annual Dinner 9 May 1884

1884-85

Newark H (FAC),  Pyebank (Sheffield), Old Etonians A (FAC),  Redcar N (CC Final), Cleveland.

1884-85

14 May 1885 AGM

1885-86

Notts County H,  Lockwood Bros.,  Great Lever (Bolton) H,  St. Johns (H)

1885-86

14 May 1886 AGM

1886-87

Stockton H, Bishop Auckland Church Institute A (FAC), Aston Villa A, Lincoln H and A(FAC)

1886-87

12 May 1887 AGM

1887-88

Hallam H (FAC), Whitburn (FAC), Sunderland H & A (FAC), Crewe Alexandra H (FAC)

1887-88

14 May 1888 AGM

1888-89

Sunderland H, Stockton H, Ecclesfield H (FAC)

1888~89      Stockton Riot

Finances

14 May 1889 AGM

1889-90

Birmingham St. George H, Sunderland A.

Newcastle East End H (NL), Stockton (CC)

Ironopolis (Charity Cup final x2)

1889-90

Introduction of professional players

October 1889 - Special General

17 May 1890 AGM

1890-91

Scarborough, Record 11-0 win, Darlington (FAC), Newcastle East End H (NL) Stockton (CC)[long]

1890-91 Season Preview, – Middlesbrough disqualified from the FA Cup. - Boys Out for a Lark. Season Review.

27 May 1891

1891-92

Birmingham St.George, Luton A (FAC) Preston H (FAC) Ironopolis CC final N

1891-92

Players awol. Middlesbrough Football and Athletic Company established.

1891-92

30 May and 13 June 1892 - AGM

1892-93

Ardwick A and H, Newcastle A  Royal Arsenal H

1892-93

MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB Require TWO first-class FORWARDS (inside right and left), and TWO HALF-BACKS, for next Season. Good terms to good men.     Applications, with full particulars, which will be treated in confidence, to be sent at once to A.BORRIE, 99, Linthorpe- road,  Middlesbrough.

October 1892 - General

Nov. 1892 - Shareholders

1893-94

Tow Law (FAC),  Gateshead (FAC),

Preston North End H, Darlington (NL),    Newton Heath (FAC)

1893-94

Half and Full year reports

Match v Bishop Auckland

3 May 1894 - Dinner and Presentations

1894-95 F.A. Amateur Cup, Follow the Winners!  Road to the Final -

Bishop Auckland 3-2 – Darlington 1-1, 1-1, 2-0 - Old Brightonians 8-0, King’s Own Lancashire Regiment 4-0.

Old Carthusians 1895 Amateur Cup final

1894-95, Other games

Scottish Borderers

24 May 1895 AGM

1895-96

Darlington (NL), Royal Artillery (Amat.Cup), Saltburn Swifts (CC).

28 May 1896 AGM

1896

31 May 1897, Annual Meeting

1897-98

Uxbridge 1898 Amateur Cup final.

31 May 1898, AGM

1898-99

1898-99 Entry to the Football League.

February and March 1899

Directors, Shareholders, and a Public Meeting - AGM

1899-1900

Practice match, Whites v Stripes.

1899-1900

A supporter’s letter

19th Century MatchTank. Match reports for games prior to Boro’s admission to the Football League in 1899.

Northern League tables. 1889-90 Inaugural Season up to 1898-99.

Sheffield Association Challenge Cup. Middlesbrough’s involvement, 1879 to 1884