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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = Milford F.C. | image = | fullname = Milford Football Club | nickname = | founded = 1885 | dissolved = 1897? | ground = Milford| capacity = | chairman = | manager = | league = Irish Football League | season = | position = | | pattern_la1 = | pattern_b1 =_collar_buttons | pattern_ra1 = | leftarm1 = 4169E1 | body1 = 4169E1 | rightarm1 = 4169E1 | shorts1 = FFFFFF | socks1 = 4169E1 }} thumb|Milford Football Club, 1888-89 '''Milford Football Club''' was an Irish football club based in the village of Milford, County Armagh.
==History== The club was founded in 1885, joining the Irish Football Association in 1886<ref>''Belfast News-Letter'', 4 October 1886</ref> and won the inaugural Mid-Ulster Cup in 1887–88 with a 3–1 win over Loughgall.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football |journal=Armagh Standard |date=4 May 1888 |page=3}}</ref>
The club was subsequently a founding member of the Irish Football League in 1890,<ref>{{citebook|title=The History of Irish Soccer|author=Malcolm Brodie|year=1963|page=22}}</ref> but retained membership only for one season.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nilhist.html Northern Ireland - Final League Tables 1890-1998]</ref><ref>{{citebook|title=Football in Northern Ireland: A Statistical Record 1881-2005|author=Alex Graham|year=2005|page=8}}</ref> It continued in at a junior level in the Midland League until 1896.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Midland League |journal=People's Advocate and Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Tyrone News |date=4 January 1896 |page=1}}</ref>
The club is most notable for being the place where the penalty kick was first introduced in 1890, when local goalkeeper William McCrum suggested a way to combat illegal challenges near to goal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.homeofthepenaltykick.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27|title=Home of the Penalty Kick|date=2009-08-12|access-date=12 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002181028/http://www.homeofthepenaltykick.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27|archive-date=2 October 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Colours==
The club played in royal blue.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Mid-Ulster notes |journal=Ulster Football and Cycling News |date=5 April 1889 |page=11}}</ref>
== Honours ==
===Senior honours=== *'''Mid-Ulster Cup: 2''' **1887–88, 1888–89
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Former Irish League senior clubs}}
Category:Association football clubs established in 1885 Category:Defunct association football clubs in Northern Ireland Category:Defunct Irish Football League clubs Category:Association football clubs in County Armagh Category:1885 establishments in Ireland Category:Former senior Irish Football League clubs