Double (association Football)
The Double, in association football, is the achievement of winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season. It can also mean beating a team both home and away in the same league season, a feat often noted as doing the double over a particular side.
The first club to achieve a double was Preston North End in 1889, winning the FA Cup and the Football League in the inaugural season of the league.
Read more about Double (association Football): League & League Cup Double, Doubles in Lower Divisions, Trans-State Double, European Doubles, Continental Double, Other, International Double, Total Number of Doubles, Notable Double Winning Managers
Famous quotes containing the word double:
“To be a woman and a writer
is double mischief, for
the world will slight her
who slights “the servile house,” and who would rather
make odes than beds.”
—Dilys Laing (1906–1960)