1905 in association football

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, in a transfer from Sunderland A.F.C. to Middlesbrough F.C.

  Clubs formed in 1905

• Charlton Athletic Football Club
• Crystal Palace Football Club
• Chelsea Football Club
• Club Atletico Boca Juniors
• Galatasaray SK - Turkey
• Sport Club do Recife - Brazil

  Winners club national championship

• Germany: Union 92 Berlin
• Hungary: Ferencvárosi TC
• Italy: Juventus
• Scotland:
• *Scottish Division One - Celtic
• *Scottish Division Two - Clyde
• *Scottish Cup - Third Lanark

  International tournaments

• 1905 British Home Championship

  Births

• January 18 - Enrique Ballesteros, Uruguayan footballer
• May 11 - Pedro Petrone, Uruguayan footballer
• September 25 - Aurelio González
• September 26 - Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and manager
• October 16 - Ernst Kuzorra, German international footballer
• December 28 - Fulvio Bernardini, Italian international footballer and trainer

  Deaths

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