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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...

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...

With a 1900 POD how can the US be turned into a soccer/football powerhouse in the men's game? Being a world power with their national team aswell as having a league that competes with Europe? In the early 1900s soccer was very popular in the US and had one of the highest paying leagues in the...

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...

Using ice hockey as a point of reference: Olympic Ice Hockey is the most prestigious international ice hockey tournament. Achieving gold there is typically considered to be a much greater achievement than winning the IIHF's World Championship. Further, with the exception of instances like last...

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...

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...

What if FIFA took away Qatar's rights to host the World Cup after they used slave workers to build their stadiums? It's not likely to have been possible, but still, just think about it. Scenario 1: All other countries (except Iran) host three or four home games. Eligible countries in Groups A...

Obviously inspired by current events and put in post-1900 since most of the scenarios would probably have a PODs in the 20th century, this is a what is says in the title: come up with PODs that would make your country better at men's Football/Soccer. Without further ado, allow me to start the...

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...

Hereby, I invite you to AHFA World Cup 2022! I hope for a tournament that is better than the one to be held in Qatar, in every aspect. Maybe even including the human rights record of AHFA and the hosts, but we don't know that yet. Here is the OP by @Baconheimer for AHFA World Cup 2020: And...

"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...

@Atzyn has a superb TL that examines how the history of the World Cup would have been if it began back in 1906 instead of 1930. Highly recommended. However, after reading it I couldn't help but ponder: What if it had begun even earlier? After all, the first international association football...

Major League Soccer (and by extension, the United States Soccer Federation) has been one of the biggest success stories in worldwide sports over the past few decades. The momentum from hosting the 1994 World Cup carried on to the new upstart league in the United States, with the last few games...

A SOLUTION TO DISSOLUTION If the UEFA Nations League Began in 1998 By NTF aka Seb Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, UEFA sees the need to launch another international tournament to “meet the increased demands of this expanded European national team...

The first official competition for European football (soccer) teams was played in 1960, with four participating teams. This format remained unchanged for 20 years until the 1980 Euros, where twice as many nations played. This lasted for 12 additional years, but from 1996 onward, 16 and later 24...

What if a FIFA World Cup ended up consisting of teams that normally have to be kept apart in World Cup qualifiers for political reasons? In Asia the 'problem team' is Israel. In Europe its Armenia, Azerbajian, Georgia, and Kosovo. Fifa are lucky that these smaller nations don't normally...