Gitanos F.C.

Gitanos F.C. was an English association football club.

Gitanos
Full nameGitanos Football Club
Founded1863
Dissolvedlate 1870s?
Lineups for November 8, 1873 match against Charterhouse School.

The team primarily consisted of Old Etonians and Old Carthusians (men who had attended Eton or Charterhouse).[1]

Reportedly founded in 1863, their name, Spanish for "gypsies", reflected that they had no home ground. They appear to have mostly played on the road until using Prince's Cricket Ground in Chelsea by the mid-1870s.[2]

History

The club competed in the FA Cup in 1873, losing to Uxbridge F.C. in the first round,[3] but did not enter the competition after that year.[4]

Records

Legacy

In 1891, an article in Fores's Sporting Notes reviewed a copy of the 1874 Football Annual and commented on how clubs had come and gone over time. The 1874 annual listed less than 200 football clubs in all of England, and by 1891 the author asked "what has become of such old giants as the Gitanos, Harrow Chequers, Pilgrims, and Woodford Wells."[5]

References
  1. (March 1900). g A Chance for the Public Schools, National Review, p. 86
  2. Morris, Terry. Vain Gains of No Value?, pp. 91-92 (2016)
  3. http://fchd.info/GITANOS.HTM
  4. (17 October 1874). Opening of the Season, Lads of the Village, p. 224 ("Twenty-nine clubs have entered for the Association Challenge Cup--one in excess of last year--but the Trojans, the Gitanos, 1st Surrey Rifles, and Amateur Athletic teams do not compete.")
  5. An Old Football Annual, Fores's Sporting Notes, p. 14 (1891)


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