1905–06 British Home Championship

1905–1906 British Home Championship
Tournament details
Host country	England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Dates	17 February – 7 April 1906
Teams	4
Final positions
Champions	Shared: England/ Scotland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	20 (3.33 per match)
Top scorer(s)	William Green and Harold Sloan (3 goals)
	← 1904–05 1906–07 →

The 1905–06 British Home Championship was the 22nd edition of the annual international football tournament played between the British Home Nations. The trophy was shared between the two sides which regularly dominated the competition, England and Scotland who each gained four points.

England and Ireland began the tournament in February 1906, with England scoring five goals without reply and rising to the head of the table. Wales joined them after their match with Scotland which they won in Edinburgh by 2–0. Scotland recovered to beat Ireland by a single goal and England then moved ahead by beating Wales with an identical scoreline in Cardiff. Playing for lower rankings, Wales and Ireland fought out a thrilling 4–4 draw in Wrexham before the deciding game between England and Scotland at Hampden Park; England needed only a draw to take the title outright, but Scotland played well and in a flowing match triumphed 2–1 to share the honours.

Parts of the Wales vs Ireland match at Wrexham were filmed by the Blackburn company of Mitchell and Kenyon, and is now the oldest surviving footage of an international football match.^[1]

Table[]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England (C)	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	4
Scotland (C)	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	4
Wales	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	3
Ireland	3	0	1	2	4	10	−6	1

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points. The points system worked as follows: 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw.
(C) Co-champions

Results[]

17 February 1906

Ireland	0 – 5	England
		26', 89' Dicky Bond 32' Arthur Brown 56' Stanley Harris 70' Samuel Day

Solitude, Belfast

Attendance: 14,063

Referee: Tom Robertson (Scotland)

3 March 1906

Scotland	0 – 2	Wales
		50' Lot Jones 65' John Love Jones

Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: John Lewis (England)

17 March 1906

Ireland	0 – 1	Scotland
		52' Thomas Fitchie

Dalymount Park, Dublin

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Frederick Bye (England)

19 March 1906

Wales	0 – 1	England
		86' Samuel Day

Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Robert Murray (Scotland)

2 April 1906

Wales	4 – 4	Ireland
13', 20', 28' William Green 55' Hugh Morgan-Owen		10', 25', 74' Harold Sloan^[2] 72' Jimmy Maxwell

Racecourse Ground, Wrexham

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Fred Kirkham (England)

7 April 1906

Scotland	2 – 1	England
James Howie 40', 55'		81' Albert Shepherd

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 102,741

Referee: William Nunnerley (Wales)

References[]

Guy Oliver (1992). The Guinness Record of World Soccer. Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-954-4.

Notes[]

^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
^ "Wales vs Ireland, 2 April 1906". EU-Football. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

[1] Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.

[EUF-2] "Wales vs Ireland, 2 April 1906". EU-Football. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

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