Buckingham Palace to host first official football match



On the day the Buckingham Palace garden will host its first ever football match, featuring two of the oldest amateur clubs in England. The game, which will be an official Southern Amateur League fixture, will be played between Civil Service FC, the sole surviving club from the XI that met to create The FA in 1863, and Polytechnic FC, which was formed in 1875.

The event, which forms a key part of The FA’s 150th anniversary celebrations, will entail an official ceremony at Buckingham Palace with 150 specially selected grassroots heroes being awarded a medal from HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

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