1892 in Sports - Association Football

Association Football

England

• The Football League – Sunderland 42 points, Preston North End 37, Bolton Wanderers 36, Aston Villa 30, Everton 28, Wolves 26
• FA Cup final – West Bromwich Albion 3–0 Aston Villa in the last final to be played at The Oval.
• 13 March — Liverpool Football Club is founded after Everton is split by a faction fight at board level over the proposed purchase of the freehold at Anfield. One faction, retaining the club's name and players, quits Anfield and moves across Stanley Park to establish a new home at Goodison Park. The other faction, which owns Anfield, decides to establish a new club there and this is called Liverpool FC. The new club joins the Lancashire League prior to the 1892–1893 season.
• With the demise of the rival Football Alliance, the Football League is able to expand by inviting former Alliance members to join it. Membership doubles from 14 to 28 clubs with divisions introduced for the first time in the 1892–93 season. The original Football League becomes the new First Division, expanded to 16 teams; and the new Second Division is formed with 12 teams, many of them former members of the Alliance.
• Darwen is relegated from the First Division; Newton Heath (Manchester United), Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday are elected to the First Division for 1892–93. Members of the new Second Division are Ardwick (Manchester City), Bootle (league members 1892–93), Burton United (1892–1907), Crewe Alexandra, Darwen, Grimsby Town, Lincoln City, Northwich Victoria (1892–94), Burslem Port Vale (1892–1907), Sheffield United, Small Heath (Birmingham City) and Walsall.

Germany

• 25 July — Hertha Berlin founded as one of the oldest clubs in Germany

Scotland

• Scottish Football League – Dumbarton
• Scottish Cup final – Celtic 5–1 Queen's Park at Ibrox Park
• The SFL is reduced to 10 teams for 1892–93 after Cambuslang and Vale of Leven are expelled.