In the Football League, Liverpool is relegated from Division One to Division Two and Bury is promoted. Walsall is expelled from the league and replaced by Loughborough FC (league membership 1895–1900)
West Ham United founded as Thames Ironworks FC, a works team, by Arnold Hills who is a London shipyard owner.
Formation of the Swiss Football Association. It is generally known by the abbreviation of ASF-SFV based on its name in three of the national languages of Switzerland. ASF stands for both French (Association Suisse de Football) and Italian (Associazione Svizzera di Football), while SFV is the German (Schweizerischer Fussballverbund). In the fourth national language of Switzerland, Romansh, it is abbreviated as ASB (Associaziun Svizra da Ballape).
Events
Bandy is introduced to Sweden. The royal family, barons and diplomats are the earliest players.
Veteran player Bud Fowler and the Page Woven Wire Fence Company organise the Page Fence Giants, a black professional team touring out of Adrian, Michigan. Economic depression in the 1890s has eliminated all but the Cuban Giants in New York City and neighboring states.
W G Grace's "Indian Summer" in which he scores his 100th career century and becomes the first player to score 1000 first-class runs in a calendar month (i.e., May)
March — Queen's University defeats Trinity University 17–3 to win the Ontario Hockey Association title and the right to challenge for the Stanley Cup.
Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees play the first recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams leading to the formation of the Coloured Hockey League based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The league will feature teams from across Canada's Maritime Provinces and will operate until 1930.
The Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race is held and is the first real motor race as all competitors start together. The first to arrive is Émile Levassor in a two-cylinder 4bhp (3.0kW; 4.1PS)[6]1,205cc (73.5cuin)Panhard-Levassor. He completes the course in 48 hours and 48 minutes,[7] finishing nearly six hours before the runner-up. Levassor's was disqualified, having only two seats, instead of the required four.[8] The official winner is Paul Koechlin, the third to arrive, 11 hours after Levassor;[9] he is awarded a Fr31,000 prize.[10] Among the other entrants was André Michelin in a Peugeot, on his company's pneumatic tires; he suffered numerous blowouts.[11] The race is in retrospect sometimes referred to as the I Grand Prix de l'ACF.[12] The event proves cars and their drivers can travel very long distances in a reasonable time. It gives an enormous boost to the motor industry and the enthusiastic public interest in the event ensures the popularity of motor racing as a sport.
18 May, the first motor race in Italy is held. It is run on a course from Turin to Asti and back, a total of 93km (58mi). Five entrants started the event; only three completed it. It was won by Simone Federman in a four-seat Daimler Omnibus, at an average speed of 15.5km/h (9.6mph).[13]
24 September-3 October, the Automobile Club de France sponsors the longest race to date, a 1,710km (1,060mi) event, from Bordeaux to Agen and back.[15] Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by a Panhard, a Panhard, and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.[16]
November – subsequently, several French motoring pioneers form the Automobile Club de France (ACF), which thereafter will govern most major races in France.
