1905 in association football

The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1905 throughout the world.

Events

Leeds City F.C. admitted to the English Football League.
On February 19, Alf Common becomes the first player to be transferred for a fee of £1,000 (a 2011 equivalent of roughly £95,000), in a transfer from Sunderland A.F.C. to Middlesbrough F.C.

January 18 – Enrique Ballesteros, Uruguayan footballer
March 17 – William Bell, English footballer^[2]
May 6 – Billy Dixon, English professional footballer (died 1956)^[3]
May 11 – Pedro Petrone, Uruguayan footballer
September 25 – Aurelio González (Paraguayan footballer)
September 26 – Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and manager (died 1996)
October 16 – Ernst Kuzorra, German international footballer (die 1990)
December 28 – Fulvio Bernardini, Italian international footballer and trainer (died 1977)

September 6 - Morris Bates, 39, former Nottingham Forest player and founding member of Woolwich Arsenal FC, tuberculosis.

^ "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890-1985. Beverley: Hutton. p. 18. ISBN 0-907033-34-2.
^ Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890-1985. Beverley: Hutton. p. 42. ISBN 0-907033-34-2.