Football on Film

Amateur football club Corinthian FC took Millwall to a second replay in the FA Cup third round, before finally losing here at Stamford Bridge 5-1.

At Ninian Park, 23/11/1949, the Welsh football team is victorious but perhaps only because the Belgians, according to a report in the South Wales Echo, were “disappointing”.

Browse through the oh-so-fashionable goods on offer at the George Best boutique. Silken scarves, corded belts, trendy jackets and what’s this? A football icon turned tailor!

An enlightening account of the first Nigerian football team to tour outside West Africa.

Exiles v Nomads in the Smallest League in the World

The great Stanley Matthews reveals the new range of football boots he helped design exclusively for Co-operative stores in this 1950s advertisement.

Don Revie sits in bed talking to the Sunday papers, barks out instructions in a game at Liverpool, calls out the bingo numbers, and Terry Yorath collects his weekly pay packet.

January 1927, fans at Dean Court scale heights to view Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic at home to Liverpool in the FA Cup 3rd round.

1928-29 Irish Cup Semi-Final action between Ballymena and Coleraine, from Belfast's Windsor Park.

Preston's famous Dick, Kerr Ladies FC - one of the earliest known women's football teams in England - play local side, Lister's Ladies, at Bradford's Valley Parade ground.

Baker tries to best baker, as the two distinguished firms compete in a Gaelic football game in West Belfast.

The FA Cup exits England for the first time, arriving in Cardiff to a jubilant welcome.

Arsenal v Leeds United from Highbury in the opening match of the 1929-30 season.

Wembley welcomes Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City for the 1949 FA Cup Final.

World Cup year 1966 but this is a different kind of 'beautiful game' and in these conditions Geoff Hurst would've certainly struggled to get his famous hat-trick.

A football match with no teams or goals? Atherstone's traditional free-for-all has only one rule - killing is not allowed!

Difficult times for women's football, but it doesn't stop the battle of the lightbulb makers in North London.

Southern League football team Gloucester City call in famed hypnotist Henry Blythe to take them to a higher plane.

Pete and Dud prove to be stout football fans in this Guinness commercial recalling a great sporting moment - however fleeting.

Cardiff City Football Club takes on Arsenal in the 1927 FA Cup Final at Wembley. King George V and 100,000 spectators see Cardiff win 1-0.

The earliest surviving Merseyside derby on film catches two of Everton's goals in a 3-1 home win.

It's the FA Cup fifth round and arch-rivals Sheffield United and The Wednesday cross swords for Steel City bragging rights.

A crowd of over 73,000 at Maine Road watch the 5th round Cup tie between Division Two's Manchester City and Stoke City.

Sheffield United break Welsh hearts at Wembley, winning their fourth (and last) FA Cup in a 1-0 win over Cardiff.

A snapshot of Saturday afternoon football watched by thousands of adoring fans, plus contrasting scenes of Southport and Spurs players in training.

Wolves, 1980's League Cup winners, celebrate with an open topped bus parade that brings back memories of the glory days of the 1950s when the team was unstoppable.

After relegation from the Football League Division One the previous season, Bury FC turn up at Craven Cottage for their first ever meeting with Fulham.

First-ever footage of Manchester United in a tense Edwardian football fixture.

Liverpool and Manchester United come down south to do battle with Fulham and Tottenham in football's FA Cup.

Exeter City goalkeeper Ian Main at Exeter University

Flush on wages of £160 per week, George Best ponders money in the game, the pressures of fame and his footballing future.

A quick-fire round up of the FA Cup second round: West Brom v Corinthians, Crystal Palace v Notts County and West Ham v Leeds.

Stamford Bridge hosts the FA Cup Final between Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

FA Cup round-up: Cardiff City v Bristol City, Southampton v Liverpool and Brighton and Hove Albion v Manchester City.

Leicester City players meet their new manager who has introduced a brutal new training regime.

FA Cup Semi-Final: Huddersfield Town v Notts County at Turf Moor.

Music hall star George Robey kicks off the action at this international ladies' footie match at Herne Hill, South London.

Close calls in the goalmouth as Celtic and Rangers meet at Parkhead for the 1929-30 Glasgow Cup final.

Liverpool and England footballer Emlyn Hughes gets nostalgic when he takes a team of aspiring youngsters through their paces

Glorious Ladies All Stars get a 10-0 lead against the QB's: time for an uplift with Quick Brew's quicker teabags!

Goals from the 1923 FA Cup 4th round, featuring QPR v Sheffield Utd, Charlton Athletic v Bolton Wanderers & Tottenham Hotspur v Derby County.

On a glorious spring day, a packed St James' Park welcomes Derby County for an FA Cup quarter-final against home side, and favourites, Newcastle.

King George V attends the FA Cup Final, the last to be played at Crystal Palace.

A daring rescue by a plucky lady fan saves the day for Bestham Vampires in this early footie short.

Tom Finney, Tommy Lawton, Spurs and the Chinese team all help explain to young football enthusiasts how to play the beautiful game.

Tottenham Hotspur takes on an assortment of music hall performers (and their horses) in this comic charity match.

Aston Villa, the must successful cup side in England, have fallen on hard times but the 1971 League Cup final might just be the game that takes them back to the big time.

A Tottenham Hotspur v Middlesbrough football match interrupts the many news reports about World War I.

Canaries defender Mel Machin attempts to dominate the pitch in this 1975 match for Norwich City at their home ground Carrow Road against West Bromwich Albion.

Women munitions workers from the Kynoch and Vickers Maxim factories take to the pitch in Southend during WWI.

Everyone knows their place in this now familiar weekly football ritual of rowdy working class youth arriving at Leeds, separated from their counterparts by police and fences.

Soccer silliness at West Ham courtesy of the 'Ancient Order of Froth Blowers' and pals - including music hall stars and the world's tallest woman.

Woolwich Arsenal at home to Liverpool in front of a crowd of 12,000 in the opening match of the 1911-12 season.

Newcastle United and Barnsley contest the 1910 FA Cup final at Crystal Palace.

The short-lived minnows Wigan Borough F.C. take on the mighty Sheffield Wednesday in the third round of the FA Cup.

Heavy fog hampers the first round football matches of the 1925 FA Cup.

A load of balls - footballs and cricket balls, that is - are crafted by hand from leather and string.

Back to the bad old days of skinners, as worn by these Man. United troublemakers, being escorted by police dogs along that perilous walk from Elland Road to Leeds railway station.

Baggy shorts abound in this footie film from the thirties - where the chaps from Shippams Ltd play various matches, in rain or shine, and win a championship trophy.

Hats off to the huge crowds that turn out for the opening day of the football season at Arsenal and Chelsea.

Rotherham United talent scout Joe McGuire is on the look out for miners with footballing flair.

The 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham was the first at Wembley Stadium. The headlines were not about the football but the crowd!

Supporters' Pitch Invasion and Violence Exeter v Torquay

Lionel Martin is just fifteen years old but with eight top football clubs wanting to sign him his future appears mapped out.

There’s a rapturous welcome from football fans to celebrate a fairy tale win as underdogs Sunderland return home with the FA Cup in 1973.

Derby Day - Manchester City clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford for the bragging rights of the city.

Plymouth Argyle v Exeter City

Eccentric goalkeeping, frantic tackling and one lost stadium feature in these brilliant highlights from two London derbies in the 1922 FA Cup

Minehead Town's player-manager Bob Boyd on FA Cup tie with Exeter City

England's 1966 hat-trick hero doesn't sweat the small stuff - or at all, according to this deodorant commercial.

A whirlwind tour of the 1923-24 season opener: Manchester City's Maine Road debut, Blackburn v Chelsea and goals for Spurs against Preston North End.

"The way we're playing I don't want to see an awful lot of them". Typically blunt words from Brian Clough as his team prepare for a visit by Leeds United.

Footballer Geoffrey Hurst signs on the line for fans

A day in the life of stylish “Gentleman George” Hardwick, the new manager of Sunderland Football Club.

Relive a golden era for Newcastle United FC as the triumphant team, including legend Jackie Milburn, return home twice with the FA Cup in the early 1950s.

Professional footballers answer the call of duty and get in training; many would go on to fight in the Battle of the Somme.

Bobby Charlton and his brothers Gordon and Jack meet their father Bert, a miner, as he clocks off from work.

A fascinating compilation of local topical footage from Workington.

A young Bobby Robson is one of the footballers profiled in this 1962 documentary following a week in the life of West Bromwich Albion FC.

Derby County take on Leicester City at the Baseball ground in April 1939 - the last full season of football before the outbreak of war.

Action shots of the great Billy Meredith, the ‘Prince of Wingers’, the legendary soccer star who played for Manchester City, Manchester United and Wales.

Argyle's Mariner scores in front of Bobby Robson

Ninian Park Stadium (1910-2009), home ground of Cardiff City Football Club and used by the national team, is shown here in its heyday. If you can identify the teams, please tell us.

A never-to-be-forgotten day for Cardiff City fans, when their football team return home with the FA Cup after a 1-0 win against Arsenal at Wembley on 23/4/1927.

On a muddy Belvoir Drive training ground Leicester City players demonstrate the drive and dedication required to reach the top.

Scottish international Andy Wilson plays his first home game at a chilly Stamford Bridge after joining Chelsea from Middlesbrough.

An Edwardian contest between teams representing the English and Irish Football Leagues, with plenty of goal-line action.

St. James’ Park Derby : Exeter City v Bristol Rovers

Heading, tumbling, skipping and tomfoolery at White Hart Lane as Tottenham’s first team prepare for the new season.

Barnstaple in pre-season friendly against Exeter City

From 'Red and White' Rosemary to 'Zigger Zagger' and veteran Fred Trimble, who has been watching the Potters since 1913: Stoke City's fans are a devoted bunch.

In October 1934 a high-flying Grimsby Town team put four past Derby County at the Baseball Ground.

At a packed Edgar Street ground non-league Hereford United take on Sheffield Wednesday in a foggy and chilly cup tie.

The chaps of 6th Battalion, the Queen's Royal (West) Surrey Regiment, enjoy a game of football while a man cooks a rustic stew outdoors.

A daydream at the back of the class takes young Glynn Curtis all the way to Filbert Street.

Listen to the wonderfully clipped tones of the commentator and the attempt at wit by his companion and you'd swear that Harry Enfield's 90s creation Mr Cholmondley-Warner really was alive and well in the 30s.

A light-hearted newsreel item on the Football Association's proposed ban on women's football in 1921.

Did the Brummies of 1966 have a clue about the World Cup?

The wintry conditions at Elm Park made play a bit challenging as Reading hosted Aston Villa in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

What does it take to manage a football team? Two former players talk of the tough role at the top in a world where players are demanding Ј200 a week in wages.

Packed terraces watch Arsenal take on West Ham in this London derby in the Sixth Round of the FA Cup.

Exeter City take on giants Aston Villa at St. James’ Park

A lovely shot of Wembley Stadium mid-construction, with an aerial camera panning round the ground to show its half-built state.

Meet the West Ham team of 1923, about to contest the first FA Cup final to be held at Wembley Stadium.

Derby pits Argyle against Exeter

Heaving terraces and goalmouth action at Highbury for this FA Cup fourth round encounter between Arsenal and Everton.

Great evocative shots from a boggy Upton Park, where West Ham play Tottenham in front of the Prince Of Wales.

Watford hosts the lowkey wedding of Tottenham and England captain, Arthur Grimsdell.

Cloughie waves his magic wand and it's the greatest day thus far for the lads of Forest. Their first European Cup victory and the city grinds to a halt in scenes of jubilation.

Top football footage from East London, where West Ham take on Leeds in an FA Cup fourth round encounter.

Arsenal footballers including Ted Drake, Eddie Hapgood and Cliff Bastin show off their skills in training for this council film to promote healthy living.