British Club
The British Club or British Football Club was a soccer club in Mexico City that was one of the five founding members of the old Primera Fuerza , the amateur championship in Mexico.
history
The club was founded by Percy Clifford , who a few years earlier had started a football team at Reforma Athletic Club , which was founded in 1894 , and who founded Rovers FC ten years later .
British FC was founded in 1902 to participate in the Mexico soccer championship, which was held for the first time in the same year . He was financially supported by Club Británico, founded in 1899, and was allowed to use the club's premises for training and playing his home games.
Although founded by Clifford as a breakaway member of Reforma AC, both clubs had a good relationship with each other and exchanged or loaned players if necessary. The Reforma AC was the dominant team between 1906 and 1912 and was able to win six of seven possible championship titles during this period. Only in the 1907/08 season was the British Club able to break through its supremacy and win its only championship. Three years later, the British Club footballers could still look forward to winning the cup .
The British Club football team played in the old Primera Fuerza for eleven years (from 1902 to 1913) before they had to retire. The exact reasons for the withdrawal are not known to posterity. The club's founder, Clifford, saw at the end of the 1911/12 season that things were taking their negative turn and that there was no stopping them, and so called Rovers FC, a new club that only existed for a few years.
Champions team
The championship team for the 1907/08 season consisted of the following players: A Dewar, Jack Easton, P. Mennill, George Ratcliff, Ack Caldwall, Horace Hogg, Bryan Withe, Jack Johnson, John Hogg , D. Watson, Percy Clifford (player-coach).
successes
Mexican champion: 1908
runner-up: 1905, 1907, 1912
Cup winners: 1911
Individual evidence
- ↑ La historia de nuestro futbol mexicano (Spanish)