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Revision as of 21:05, 24 January 2023
The 1956 Southern Junior Floodlight Cup Final culminated the inaugural Southern Junior Floodlight Cup, a youth football competition. Occurring on 3rd January 1956 at Boleyn Ground, the Final saw Chelsea defeat West Ham United 2-1. It was also the first football match to be televised live by ITV.
Background
Heading into the encounter, Chelsea had invested greatly into its youth development.[1] In the 1953/54 season, the Juniors side won the North Surrey League, South East Counties Cup and the London Minor Challenge Cup.[1] A season later, they won the South East Counties League.[1] Thanks to the success in these competitions, as well as the fledging Southern Junior Floodlight Cup, Chelsea's academy was compared to Manchester United's run by Matt Busby by 1958.[1] Of the limited information surrounding the match, it is known that Chelsea won the encounter 2-1 at Boleyn Ground.[1] A year later, West Ham United exacted revenge, beating Chelsea by the same score to claim the 1957 Southern Junior Floodlight Cup.[1]
The match is also notable for being the first to be televised live by ITV.[2] ITV, which was founded on 22nd September 1955, consisted of various franchises.[3] Among them was Rediffusion, who established a broadcast company called Associated-Rediffusion to provide television in Croydon.[4] While televising Football League matches were off limits due to concerns by Football League authorities that television would reduce match attendances, other, typically smaller games, were freely available to broadcast.[5][2] To assess football's potential on ITV, Rediffusion opted to broadcast the final 45 minutes of the Final live.[2] Commentary was provided by Danny Blanchflower, who would later provide commentary for CBS' National Professional Soccer League games in 1967.[2][6]
Availability
Ultimately, the match was televised live in a period where telerecordings were rare until videotape was perfected in the late-1950s.[7] The broadcast has yet to resurface, and likely due to the match's lack of importance compared to senior matches, no images or other recordings are publicly available either.
See Also
- 1937 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1937)
- 1938 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1938)
- 1939 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1939)
- 1947 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1947)
- 1948 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1948)
- 1948 Summer Olympics (partially found television coverage of London Games; 1948)
- 1949 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1949)
- 1950 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1950)
- 1951 FA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1951)
- 1955 Scottish Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1955)
- 1966 FIFA World Cup Final (partially found original colour film of international football match; 1966)
- 1971 WFA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1971)
- 1973 WFA Cup Final (lost footage of football match; 1973)
- 1974 WFA Cup Final (lost footage of football match; 1974)
- 1976 WFA Cup Final (partially found footage of football match; 1976)
- 1977 WFA Cup Final (lost footage of football match; 1977)
- 1978 WFA Cup Final (lost footage of football match; 1978)
- 1979 WFA Cup Final (lost footage of football match; 1979)
- 1982 WFA Cup Final (lost footage of football match; 1982)
- 1985-1986 WFA Cup (lost list of entries for football tournament; 1985)
- Arsenal 1-1 Sheffield United (lost radio commentary of football match; 1927)
- Arsenal 7-1 Hibernian (lost footage of charity football match; 1952)
- Arsenal vs Arsenal Reserves (lost footage of early BBC televised football match; 1937)
- Atlético Madrid 1-1 Real Madrid (lost footage of El Derbi Madrileño La Liga football match; 1958)
- Barbados 4–2 Grenada (partially found soccer match footage; 1994)
- Barnet 3-2 Wealdstone (lost footage of Athenian League football match; 1946)
- Brian Clough's Football Fortunes (lost DOS port of football management game; 1987)
- Carlisle United 2-1 Plymouth Argyle (partially found footage of Football League Third Division match; 1999)
- Charlton Athletic 1-0 Blackburn Rovers (lost footage of FA Cup match; 1947)
- England 0-1 Scotland (partially found footage of international football match; 1938)
- England 1-0 Scotland (lost footage of Schools' International football match; 1952)
- England 1-1 Scotland (partially found footage of international football match; 1947)
- England 1-3 Scotland (partially found footage of international football match; 1949)
- England 2-0 Italy (partially found footage of international football match; 1949)
- England 3-0 France (partially found footage of international football match; 1947)
- England 3-0 Rest of Europe (partially found footage of international football match; 1938)
- England 6-0 Switzerland (partially found footage of international football match; 1948)
- Falkirk 3-2 Newcastle United (lost footage of football match; 1953)
- FIFA Soccer 2002 (lost build of cancelled Game Boy Advance port of football game; existence unconfirmed; 2001-2002)
- Hallo! Bundesliga (lost GolTV series; mid 2000s-mid 2010s)
- Juventus 1-7 A.C. Milan (partially found footage of Serie A football match; 1950)
- Manchester United Championship Soccer (lost build of Sega Mega Drive port of football game; 1995)
- Real Madrid 1-0 Barcelona (partially found footage of El Clásico La Liga football match; 1959)
- Real Madrid 3-0 Racing Santander (lost footage of La Liga football match; 1954)
- Scottish Universities 1-1 English Universities (lost footage of international football match; 1952)
- Serbia vs Albania (found footage of abandoned UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match; 2014)
- United! (lost British soap opera; 1965-1967)
- Walthamstow Avenue 0-2 Queen's Park (lost footage of friendly football match; 1951)
External Link
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Chelsea detailing the history of its Junior side. Retrieved 23rd Aug '22
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 From the Back Page to the Front Room summarising the match broadcast. Retrieved 23rd Aug '22
- ↑ Transdiffusion detailing the launch of ITV. Retrieved 23rd Aug '22
- ↑ Rediffusion detailing the launch of Associated-Rediffusion. Retrieved 23rd Aug '22
- ↑ Football in the New Media Age noting ITV could not broadcast Football League games during this time period. Retrieved 23rd Aug '22
- ↑ ITV Football noting Blanchflower commentated on the match. Retrieved 23rd Aug '22
- ↑ Web Archive article discussing how most early television is missing due to a lack of directly recording television. Retrieved 23rd Aug '22