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January 30, 2019

NFL 1962 season, map with helmets/jerseys & final standings + offensive stats leaders; champions: Green Bay Packers./+ Chart: NFL teams’ helmet-logos and changes in design in a 10-year span (1953 to 1962 seasons).

Filed under: NFL>1962 map/season,NFL/ Gridiron Football — admin @ 3:07 pm

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NFL 1962 season, map with helmets/jerseys & final standings + offensive stats leaders





By Bill Turianski on 30 January 2019; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-1962 NFL season
-1962 NFL Championship Game (en.wikipedia.org).
-1962 NFL season (pro-football-reference.com).
-1962 NFL uniforms (gridiron-uniforms.com).

    In 1962, the Green Bay Packers repeated as champions.
    This was start of the Packers historic run of 5 NFL titles in 7 seasons (1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967).

The season before, in 1961, the Green Bay Packers, under third-year head coach Vince Lombardi, had won their first NFL title in 18 years (their last title had been won in 1944). In the 1961 NFL title game, the small-town Packers had demolished the big-city New York Giants 36 to 0, at the then-4-year old City Stadium [now called Lambeau Field] in Green Bay, WI. (Population of Green Bay in 1960: 62,000 {en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay,_Wisconsin#Demographics}.) Although the Packers had a decent new stadium, one which was capable of expansion, the fact still remained that the Green Bay NFL franchise was the last vestige of the small-town era of the NFL (1920-34).

The small-town Green Bay Packers were a team that played in a league that was becoming exponentially more popular each year. Every NFL or AFL team in 1962 played in a city that was at least 10 times larger than tiny and isolated Green Bay. Even the creation of the new rival-league the AFL, which started up in 1960 with 8 teams, had not changed that fact. (The NFL had 14 teams as of 1962, so by 1962, there were 22 major-league pro football teams in the USA.) Yet by 1962, many cities ten times the size of Green Bay still did not have an NFL or AFL team, and they were clamoring for one.

1962 NFL Championship Game – Green Bay Packers 16, New York Giants 7.
In 1962, both the Packers and the Giants had repeated as conference [divisional] winners. The Packers went 13-1, winning the West by 2 games and losing only to the 2nd-place-finishing Lions. The Giants went 12-2, winning the East by 3 games, with losses to the 2nd-place Steelers and to the 3rd-place Browns. The Packers’ offense, which was the league’s best in ’62 (at 29.6 points per game) was built on a strong ground game. The Packers starting QB was Bart Starr, and they were led offensively by FB Jim Taylor, and HB/K Paul Hornung, but Hornung was partially injured in 1962. Jim Taylor led the league in rushing yards, yards from scrimmage, and TDs, and was voted the NFL’s MVP in 1962. The Packers’ main receiving threat was WR/P Max McGee, and TE Ron Kramer was an All-Pro in ’62. The Packers’ defense was best in the league as well, allowing just 10.5 points per game. There were 5 All-Pros in the 1962 Packers’ D: linemen Willie Davis and Henry Jordan, LBs Bill Forester and Dan Currie, and CB/KR Herb Adderley. The Giants were almost as high-scoring as the Packers (at 28. 4 ppg). The Giants were led at QB by former 49er YA Tittle, and Tittle led the NFL in TD passes in 1962. Tittle’s main targets were End Del Shofner, HB Frank Gifford, and TE Joe Walton. The Giants were coached by Allie Sherman, who was in his second season.

Due to the rotating home-field-advantage rule in the NFL back then, it was the Eastern Conference’s turn to host the NFL title game, so that meant the New York Giants would be playing the Packers at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NY, on Sunday, December 30, 1962. (It was the 3rd time in 7 years that Yankee Stadium hosted the NFL title game [previously in 1956 and 1958].) Green Bay was favored by 6½ points.

(Yankee Stadium was where the Brooklyn-born Vince Lombardi, former Offensive coach of the Giants (from 1954-58), had first established his pro football coaching credentials. That is why the Packers-at-Giants 1962 NFL title game was so important to Lombardi.)

The game was played under severely cold conditions: temperature was 17 °F (−8 °C), with 35 mph winds. The conditions made throwing the ball difficult.

The game was a hard-fought and low-scoring affair. Although the NY Giants slightly out-gained the Packers, Green Bay caused 3 turnovers (2 fumbles and one interception). Packers MLB Ray Nitschke (#66) recovered both fumbles, and Nitschke also had a pass deflection which caused the interception. Nitschke was selected as MVP of the game. Packers FB Jim Taylor (#31) ran for 85 yards, plus he gained 20 yards receiving, and Taylor scored the Packers’ only TD. The Packers defense did not allow New York to score on them (the Giants’ TD was scored by their special teams, off a blocked punt in the 3rd quarter).

The Packers’ Guard Jerry Kramer (#64) was also their replacement Kicker in 1962. (Kramer replaced partially-injured HB/K Paul Hornung.) In the 1962 NFL title game, Jerry Kramer’s kicking game proved to be the difference, as he converted all 3 of his FG attempts (of 26, 29, and 30 yards). Those 3 Field Goals were no chip-shots, due to the 35-40 mph winds. Here is an article, {Packers vs. Giants in the 1962 NFL Championship Game: Jerry Kramer Does It All, by Bob Fox at bleacherreport.com from Nov. 2011.} (Jerry Kramer was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame by the Seniors Committee, in 2018.)

With Green Bay beating the Giants in the 1962 title game, the Packers had just made straight 3 NFL title-game appearances, winning two of them. But the New York Giants had just made 4 NFL title-game appearances in 5 years…and they had lost all 4 times (losing to Baltimore in 1958 and ’59, and losing to Green Bay in 1961 and ’62). And the Giants would lose, again, in the title-game the following season (losing to the Bears, in 1963).

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Photo and Image credits above -
Packers 1962 and NY Giants 1962 helmets, illustrations by gridiron-uniforms.com/[1962]. Vince Lombardi on the sidelines at Yankee Stadium, photo by Neil Leifer at neilleifer.com. Nitschke stopping Giants’ Alex Webster, photo by Neil Leifer at neilleifer.com. Nitschke recovering fumble, photo by Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel at archive.jsonline.com. Ray Nitschke, photo unattributed at cmgww.com/football/nitschke. . Jim Taylor scoring in 1962 NFL title game, photo by Vernon Biever via nydailynews.com/sports. Jerry Kramer, photo by Frank Rippon via packers.com. Jerry Kramer kicking a FG in 1962 title game, photo unattributed at fs64sports.blogspot.com. Packers congratulating Kramer after his 4th quarter FG, screenshot of video from nfl.com/videos.

1962 Green Bay Packers: 10 All-Pro players; plus 10 from the ’62 Packers were later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Note: All-Pro, below, means: 1962 AP, 1st team.
-Jim Taylor (FB): 1962 All-Pro, and 1962 MVP [AP]; Taylor was inducted to the HoF in 1976.
-Forrest Gregg: 1962 All-Pro (T); Gregg was inducted into the HoF in 1977.
-Herb Adderley: 1962 All-Pro (CB/KR); Adderley was inducted into the HoF in 1980.
-Willie Davis: 1962 All-Pro (DE); Davis was inducted into the HoF in 1981.
-Jim Ringo: 1962 All-Pro (C); Ringo was inducted to the HoF in 1981.
-Jerry Kramer: 1962 All-Pro (G/K); Kramer was inducted to the HoF in 2018.
-Dan Currie: 1962 All-Pro (LB).
-Bill Forester: 1962 All-Pro (LB).
-Henry Jordan: 1962 All-Pro (DT).
-Ron Kramer: 1962 All-Pro (TE).
-Bart Starr (QB); Starr was inducted into the HoF in 1977.
-Ray Nitschke (LB); Nitschke was inducted into the HoF in 1981.
-Paul Hornung (HB/K); Hornung was inducted to the HoF in 1986.
-Vince Lombardi (Head coach of the Packers from 1959-67). Lombardi was inducted into the HoF in 1971.

    Helmet changes in 1962 NFL: Bears, 49ers, and Steelers introduce helmet logos (see further below).

The chart below shows NFL teams’ helmet-logos and changes in design, in a 10-year span (1953 to 1962 seasons). This was the time period that saw the most drastic changes in helmet logo design in the NFL. By 1962, the iconography of NFL teams had been set. And with very few exceptions, the helmet logo-designs of each of the 14 NFL teams of 1962 have not changed much at all to this day…only Washington’s helmet is different today, while the Cowboys and the 49ers changed helmet colors [both did so in 1964]).

Below: NFL teams 1953 to 1962: Helmet logo-design changes (10-season-span)
NFL teams (franchises) listed in order of establishment. Helmet-logo-changes are indicated by an arrow, with date shown.
Click on image below for full-size chart…
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NFL teams 1953 to 1962: Helmet logo-design changes (10-season-span)
Helmet illustrations from gridiron-uniforms.com.

1962: Chicago Bears introduce their helmet-logo (a wishbone-shaped-C), on their midnight blue helmet.

Below: Chicago Bears’ helmet evolution (since the post-War era/1946-2018)…
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Bears helmets from gridiron-uniforms.com/[CHI].

1962: San Francisco 49ers introduce their helmet-logo (S-F-in-football), on a silver helmet.
(Two years later, in 1964, the 49ers would introduce their S-F-in-football logo, on a gold helmet.)

Below: San Francisco 49ers’ helmet evolution (since their inception in the AAFC in 1946/1946-2018)…
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49ers helmets from gridiron-uniforms.com/[SF].

1962: the Pittsburgh Steelers introduce their helmet-logo (the US Steel Steelmark), on their gold helmet.
(One year later, in 1963: the Steelers would introduce their revised Steelmark logo, on a black helmet.)

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Photo and Image credits above – researchgate.net.

In January of 1960, the U.S. Steel Corp. introduced the Steelmark logo. The original Steelmark logo was a grey-edged circle enclosing three hypocycloids (diamonds with inward-curving edges) with the word ‘Steel’; the three star-shapes were in yellow, orange and blue. It was used to promote the steel industry, both in print ads and on labels on the steel products themselves. Throughout the Sixties and the Seventies the Steelmark logo was on labels of American-made steel products ranging from kitchenware to filing cabinets to steel tanks to tricycles. In 1962, Republic Steel of Cleveland, a co-owner of the Steelmark logo, approached the Pittsburgh Steelers organization about using the Steelmark logo in their football uniforms. The Steelers debuted the Steelmark logo on their gold helmets in the 10th week of the 1962 NFL season, on Sunday the 18th of November (the Steelers beat Washington 32-21 that day).

So the Pittsburgh Steelers new helmet-logo, with their first version of the Steelmark logo, was worn for the last 5 games in 1962. The orange star from one of the the original designs was replaced with a red star (making the 3 stars Yellow, Red, and Blue). The logo was worn on only the right side of the gold 1962 Steelers helmet. The reason for this was because the team was not sure the look would be popular. So the equipment manager of the Steelers was instructed to affix the Steelmark logo-decals to only the right-side of the helmets, in case the helmets didn’t look good (so that there would be less work scraping them off, if they didn’t look OK). Well, they looked fine.

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Steelers helmets from gridiron-uniforms.com/[PIT].

Encouraged by the success of the Steelmark-logo helmet, the Steelers decided to try it out on a black helmet. And so 8 weeks later, the Steelers introduced their now-iconic black-helmet-with-Steelmark-logo, on Jan. 6 1963, in the exhibition-game called the Playoff Bowl, versus the Lions, in Miami, FL. The helmet was simply a reverse of their existing helmet: black-with-a-gold-stripe instead of gold-with-a-black-stripe.

For the next season of 1963, the Steelers petitioned the Steelmark logo’s owner, the American Iron and Steel Institute, to let the football team change the word ‘Steel’ in the logo to ‘Steelers’. Also, the outside grey circle on the logo was made a lighter grey, and was a wider ring. The Steelers added small white player-numbers to the front of the helmet (the team had worn large player-numbers on the sides of their helmets from 1957-61/ see helmet-logos chart further above to see that).

The Steelers never placed the Steelmark-logo on the left side of their helmets. The Steelers have worn this helmet design since September 1963. The only changes made have been…1) the Steelers changed from grey facemasks to black facemasks, in 1977; and 2) they made the blue star a tiny bit darker, in 2002 {sportslogos.net/Pittsburgh_Steelers}.

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Photo and Image credits
Packers players on map page,
Reproduction of early-1960s Packers helmet, from ebay.com. Early-1960s Packers pennant, from sports.mearsonlineauctions.com. Bart Starr & Jim Taylor, photo by George Silk/Getty Images via gettyimages.com. Jerry Kramer [photo circa 1963], unattributed at pinterest.com. Jim Ringo [photo circa 1962], unattributed at thegridfe.com. Jim Taylor & Forrest Gregg [SI cover from Sept. 1962], from si.com/vault. Willie Davis [photo circa 1964], photo unattributed at pinterest.com. Henry Jordan [1961 Topps card], from ebay.com. Dan Currie [photo circa 1963], photo unattributed at fs64sports.blogspot.com. Ray Nitschke, photo by Sports Illustrated via lombardiave.com. Bill Forester [1962 Topps card], unattributed at pinterest.com. Herb Adderley [photo circa 1962], photo unattributed at pinterest.com. Ron Kramer [photo circa 1963], unattributed at pinterest.com.

Offensive stats leaders on map page,
Eddie LeBaron [photo from 1961], photo by Neil Leifer via gettyimages.com. Sonny Jurgensen [photo from 1963], photo by Neil Leifer via gettyimages.ae. YA Tittle [photo from 1961], photo by Neil Leifer via si.com/vault. Jim Taylor [photo circa 1965], photo by Getty Images via 247sports.com. Bobby Mitchell [photo circa 1962], unattributed at pinterest.com. Frank Clarke [1962 Post card], from amazon.com.


-Blank map by anonymous US federal government employee, at File:StatesU.svg (commons.wikimedia.org).
-Thanks to the contributors at pro-football-reference.com
-Thanks to the contributors at NFL 1962 season (en.wikipedia.org).
Special thanks to Tim Brulia, Bill Schaefer and Rob Holecko of The Gridiron Uniform Database, for giving billsportsmaps.com the permission to use football uniforms illustrations from Gridiron Uniform Database {GUD}.

January 23, 2019

2018-19 FA Cup 4th Round Proper- map with current league attendances & fixture list./+Biggest upset in FA Cup 3rd Round: Sheffield Utd 0-1 Barnet.

Filed under: 2018-19 FA Cup — admin @ 4:12 pm

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2018-19 FA Cup 4th Round Proper- map with current league attendances & fixture list




By Bill Turianski on 23 January 2019; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-The competition…FA Cup .
-2018-19 FA Cup 4th Round (us.soccerway.com).
-BBC.com/fa-cup.

Update
FA Cup 4 R Saturday 26 Jan 2019 – Upsets
Wins:
AFC Wimbledon 4-2 West Ham Utd (Wimbledon: 58 places lower)
Millwall 3-2 Everton (Millwall: 28 places lower)

Draws:
Middlesbrough 1-1 Newport County (Newport: 56 places lower)
Shrewsbury Town 2-2 Wolves (Shrewsbury: 54 places lower)

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Chart: Clubs in the 4th Round, by Division (with current league crowd-sizes shown)…

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Attendance figures from soccerway.com.

    Biggest upset in 2018-19 FA Cup 3rd Round – Sheffield Utd 0-1 Barnet
    Barnet (of the 5th division/National League) were 84 league-places and 3 divisions lower than 2nd-division side Sheffield United…

Barnet FC. Est. 1888. Nick-name: the Bees. Ground: The Hive. Capacity 6,500 (5,419 seated). Canons Park, northwest London Borough of Harrow. Colours: Orange and Black. Located, by road, about 6 miles (10 km) south-west of the club’s former location in Barnet.

Barnet have played 21 seasons in the Football League.
Barnet were in the Southern League when they became a founding member of the 5th division in 1979 {Alliance Premier League 1979-80}. In 1990-91, under longtime manager Barry Fry, Barnet won promotion to the 4th Division of the Football League. This was in the 5th year that an automatic promotion-spot, into the Football League, was allocated to the 5th division. Barnet won the Conference by 2 points over Colchester United in 1991. And then, 2 years later, in their second season in the Football League, Barnet won promotion again, to the 3rd division (in 1992-93). Barnet went back down to the 4th tier the next season (’93-94).

Barnet ended up staying 10 seasons in the Football League (1991-2001), with relegation to non-League [the Conference] in 2001. Their peak attendance was in their debut season in the League in 1991-92, at 3.6 K per game. It took Barnet 5 years to get back to the League, which they did in 2004-05, winning the 5th division with ease, 12 points ahead of Hereford United. At this point (2005-06), Barnet were drawing 2.2 K per game. Barnet’s second spell in the Football League lasted 8 seasons, all in the lower-half of the 4th division table. So you could say that it was becoming an ingrained fact that it was an uphill battle for Barnet to maintain League status. Relegation back to non-League came in 2013. It just so happened that this came about exactly as Barnet were about to leave their home of over 100 years, Underhill Stadium (1907-2013).

2013: Barnet are relegated out of the League again, and re-locate from Barnet to Harrow…
Underhill Stadium was famous for its sloped pitch. It was also the home of the Arsenal reserves. After the club’s 100-year lease expired, an ongoing dispute with Barnet Council forced the club to eventually sell the ground, and look elsewhere for a new home {see images and captions further below}. The club had to re-locate to find a suitable set-up. Barnet’s new venue, the Hive, is in the adjacent borough of Harrow, about 6 miles away (by road). They have plenty of room there for training fields, which they are able to rent out. (Note: the Hive is on the London Metro’s Jubilee Line, at the Canons Park station, which happens to be 3 stops north of Wembley Stadium, the site of the FA Cup Final {see map and aerial photo below}.)

Barnet’s 2013 relegation-/and-re-location did not drastically reduce crowd-size that much in 2013-14, given that a drop-off in crowds is to be expected when a club loses League status. {See Barnet attendance chart in the illustration below.} Barnet ended up dropping about 700 per game (down from 2.4 K in League Two, to 1.7 K in the Conference). It only took Barnet two seasons, this time, to re-gain promotion to the League, which was done in 2014-15, with Barnet beating out Bristol Rovers by one point for the Conference title. Barnet then ended up with a 3-season stint in the Football League, once again finishing in the lower half of League Two the whole way.

On the 5th of May 2018, for the third time in their history, Barnet were relegated out of the League, on goal difference (Morecambe survived). Barnet have become somewhat of a League/non-League yo-yo club, with two relegations out of the League since 2013. But 5 years later, relegation, this time, has hit Barnet harder…attendance has dropped around one-thousand-per-game (down from 2.2 K in League Two, to 1.2 K, currently, in the National League). In August 2018, Barnet started their fourth stint in non-League, and went winless in their first 5 games. They have recovered, and sit in 16th place with 4 games in hand (at the close of January 2018). But survival, and not a promotion push, is the best that can be salvaged. In other words, Barnet will be stuck in non-League next season. And Barnet just lost their manager, John Still [age 68], who retired a few days after Christmas in 2018. The 44-year-old Darren Currie, who was Still’s assistant coach, has taken over as caretaker manager.

Yet while their National League campaign was sputtering, Barnet were putting together a decent Cup run…
On 3 November, in front of 1.7 K at the Hive, Barnet held on to a 1-1 score versus 3rd-vision side Bristol Rovers. Then in the replay, they beat Rovers 1-2 at the Memorial Stadium in Horfield, Bristol, on Wednesday 21st November 2018. Goals were scored by MF Craig Robson in the 75th minute, and by substitute FW Byron Harrison two minutes later, on an assist by MF Dan Sparkes (77′).

Then a late-November 2nd Round draw, with 6th-tier-side Stockport County, saw Barnet win 1-0 at the Hive, in front of 2.8 K (with Stockport bringing down over one thousand traveling supporters). Barnet’s winning goal was scored in the 8th minute, by MF Dan Sparkes, on a header from a cross by DF Cheye Alexander.

Then in the FA Cup 3rd Round, Barnet were drawn, away, to 2nd-division-side Sheffield United…
Sheffield United, sitting 3rd in the Championship, and in a quest to return to the Premier League, might not have placed that high a priority on the FA Cup right then. But, regardless, the Blades went into the match 84 league-places and 3 divisions higher than Barnet. The Blades’ fanbase might not have prioritized the match either, as there were just 9.9 K in attendance there at Brammall Lane. That figure included 966 traveling Barnet fans, who made the 160-mile journey up north, to South Yorkshire. Barnet scored the winner in the 21st minute on a penalty, scored by FW Shaq Coulthirst. To win the penalty, Coulthirst had threaded a pass to 19-year-old LW Ephron Mason-Clark, who was brought down in the box by a lunging Richard Stearman. Barnet held on for the win, greatly aided by a 89th-minute point-blank save that ‘keeper Mark Cousins made on a header by Blades’ FW Leon Cousins {see screenshots below}.

In the 4th Round draw, as just rewards for a brilliant 3rd Round Cup-upset, Barnet got a nice 4th Round tie, versus fellow London side Brentford.
Brentford, who are also nick-named the Bees, are in 17th place in the Championship. Brentford’s Griffin Park in West London is located only about 8 miles south of the Hive. The match will be played at the Hive, on Monday night, the 28th of January. The match was, of course, selected for television broadcast, and it is sold out.

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Photo and Image credits above – Barnet 18/19 small kit illustrations, from en.wikipedia.org/Barnet. Barnet 18/19 jersey illustration from historicalkits.co.uk/Barnet. Underhill Stadium, photo unattributed at dailymail.co.uk/football/article-Barnet-leave-Underhill-104-years. Aerial shot of the Hive from barnetfc.com. R Stearman penalty on E Mason-Jones, screenshot from video from streamable.com/4ms55 via reddit.com/soccer. Ephron Mason-Clark, photo by Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo via barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk. Penalty goal by Shaq Coalthirst, photo by Matt West via theguardian.com/football. Shaq Coalthirst, photo by James Williamson/AMA/Getty Images via hitc.com. GK Cousins’ save, and Mark Cousins after the save, screenshots from video uploaded by FA Emirates Cup at youtube.com. Traveling Barnet fans, photo by Mark Cosgrove/News Images/REX via dailymail.co.uk/football. Darren Currie & Barnet players thank the traveling fans, photo by Getty Images via dailymail.co.uk/football.

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Thanks to all at the links below…
-Blank map of UK historic counties, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:United Kingdom police areas map.svg (commons.wikimedia.org).
-Blank relief map of Greater London, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater London UK relief location map.jpg.
-Blank relief map of Greater Manchester, by Nilfanion (using Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater Manchester UK relief location map.jpg.
-Blank relief map of West Midlands, by Nilfanion, at File:West Midlands UK relief location map.jpg -Attendances from us.soccerway.com.
-2018-19 FA Cup (en.wikipedia.com).

January 10, 2019

2019 Copa Libertadores: location-map for the 47-team tournament, with Club Histories (Libertadores appearances & titles listed).

Filed under: Copa Libertadores — admin @ 8:12 am

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2019 Copa Libertadores: location-map for the 47-team tournament, with Club Histories (Libertadores appearances & titles listed)



By Bill Turianski on 10 January 2019; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links/Sources…
-2019 Copa Libertadores (en.wikipedia.org).
-Copa Libertadores 1960-2017 Club Histories (rsssf.com).

    2019 Copa Libertadores…the 60th edition of South America’s most prestigious fútbol competition.

Shown on the map are all 47 teams that have qualified for the 2019 Libertadores (including the 28 teams which have qualified for the Group Stage of 32).

Qualified teams by country: Brazil has 8 teams (7+ Copa Sudamericana holder). Argentina has 7 teams (6+ Copa Libertadores holder). The eight other countries all have 4 teams each, in the tournament (Uruguay, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela).

Teams are shown in the two flanking sections on either side of the map, organized by country. Shown there in the country-groupings are each team’s all-time total Libertadores appearances (in the tan-colored column), and Libertadores titles (in the pale-blue-colored column).

For the 2019 Libertadores, there are 12 cities with more than one team qualified, and those 12 cities are labelled, and the teams from those cities are shown in small boxes.

At the far left of the map-page is the Libertadores titles list by club (25 clubs have won the Libertadores title). At the far right is the Libertadores titles list by country (of the 59 Libertadores titles, 25 have been won by Argentine teams, and 18 have been won by Brazilian teams).

Finally, at the top is a banner which includes the reigning champions, River Plate, of Argentina. By beating Boca Juniors 3-1 aggregate, River won their 4th Libertadores title (1986, 1996, 2015, 2018).

The Preliminaries (3 stages) start on 22 January…
Within each country, the top-ranked spots get a bye to the Group Stage. The 19 lower-ranked spots must play in the 3 Preliminary Stages. The Preliminary spots are portioned out two-per-country, except for 1 preliminary-spot in the country of the Cup Holder (Argentina, this year). On the map-page, the 19 teams that comprise the Preliminary rounds are shown in italics. From these 19 lowest-ranked qualifiers, only 4 will qualify for the Group Stage of 32. The three Preliminary rounds last a little over a month (ending on the 28th of February).

The Group Stage (of 32) begins on 5-7 March (1st game-week)…
The Group Stage lasts 2 months, and has 6 game-weeks, with the final game-week played on 7-9 May. {2019 Copa Libertadores schedule.}


Below, Argentina’s 7 Libertadores teams for 2019…

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Below, Brazil’s 8 Libertadores teams for 2019…

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Below, Uruguay’s 4 Libertadores teams for 2019…

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Thanks to all at the links below…
-Globe-map of South America by Luan at File:South America (orthographic projection).svg (en.wikipedia.org/[South America]).
-Blank map of South America by Anbans 585 at File:CONMEBOL laea location map without rivers.svg (en.wikipedia.org/[2018 Copa Libertadores]).
-2019 Copa Libertadores (en.wikipedia.org).
-Copa Libertadores 1960-2017 Club Histories (rsssf.com).
-Libertadores titles list {en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Libertadores#Performances_by_club}.

January 1, 2019

2018-19 FA Cup 3rd Round Proper- map with attendances & fixture list./+ chart: 64 qualified clubs by division./+ illustration for Woking FC (lowest-placed club to qualify for the 3rd Round)./+ 3 updates: biggest cup-upsets in Saturday’s matches; biggest cup-upsets in Sunday’s matches./+Clubs in 4th Round draw (36 clubs/4 replays),

Filed under: 2018-19 FA Cup — admin @ 1:04 am

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2018-19 FA Cup 3rd Round Proper- map with attendances & fixture list./+ chart: 64 qualified clubs by division





By Bill Turianski on 1 January 2019; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-The competition…FA Cup .
-2018-19 FA Cup/3rd Round (en.wikipedia.org).
-BBC.com/fa-cup.

Update (8th of January): Clubs in 4th Round draw (36 clubs/4 replays)
Chart: 2018-19 FA Cup 4th Round draw – Clubs in the draw, by division.
Current crowd-size [league matches] shown for each club.
Clubs in draw: 14 from Prem/ 12 from C’ ship/ 7 from L1/ 2 from L2/ 1 non-League (Barnet).
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Attendance data: soccerway.com.

Updates (5th & 6th of January):
2018-19 FA Cup 3rd Round, from Saturday 5 January 2019: chart of the biggest upsets & the best results for lower-placed team.
Biggest upset: Gillingham over Cardiff (Gillingham was 45 places and 2 divisions lower).
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Update:
2018-19 FA Cup 3rd Round, from Sunday 6 January 2019: chart of the biggest upsets & the best results for lower-placed team.
3 big upsets…
Barnet over Sheffield Utd (Barnet: 84 places/3 div lower);
Newport County over Leicester City (Newport: 74 places/3 div lower).
Oldham Athletic over Fulham (Oldham: 59 places/3 div lower).
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Below: the 64 clubs in the 3rd Round, listed by division…
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    Woking FC (National League South/6th level): lowest-placed team in the 2018-19 FA Cup 3rd Round Proper…

Woking FC, established 1889, are nicknamed the Cards (as in the Cardinal red in their Red-and-White halved jerseys). Woking play at the Kingfield Stadium in Woking, Surrey (located, by road, 31 miles south-west of central London). The Kingfield is an unusual ground in that it has spartan lower-non-League type stands on three sides, and a steep, roofed modern stand behind one goal: the Leslie Gosden Stand (2,016 seats; opened December 1995). This came about when Woking had large ambitions 25 years, or so, ago. But then the money ran out, and it has been a matter of consolidation since the early 2000s.

Many parts of the London commuter belt contain clubs that never have been able to grow their fan-base very much, because of being overshadowed by all the nearby big London clubs. And the county of Surrey certainly falls into this category. Surrey is a home county that has no Football League presence. There has never been a Surrey-based club in the League. Woking have come close (finishing 2nd in the Conference National, in 1994–95 and ’95–96), but Woking have never been higher than the 5th division.

Woking were a mainstay in the 5th tier fifteen years ago (Woking played 17 straight seasons in the 5th division, from 1992-93 to 2008-09). But this is now their second spell in the 6th tier, after 3 seasons up in the 5th tier. So, in other words, Woking are becoming somewhat of a 6th-tier-/-5th-tier yo-yo club. Woking draw solid for a life-long non-League club (2.2 K last season), and still draw well above 1 K now that they are stuck back in the 6th tier. And Woking could bounce straight back to the National League…it is starting to look like the National League South could see a title-race between former League club Torquay United, and Woking. (As to the other NL-S promotion candidates: Billericay are fading now that the Tamplin-money is gone; Concord Rangers might be too small a club to mount a promotion-push; although Welling, Chelmsford, Bath, and Dartford could pose a threat.)

Woking have qualified for the FA Cup 3rd Round three times.
Woking’s first appearance in the FA Cup 3rd round, back in the 1990-91 season, was their greatest moment. At that point in their history, Woking had not yet been promoted to the 5th division, and were an Isthmian League side. Woking beat three 5th division sides to get to the 3rd round (Bath City in the 4th Q, Kidderminster in the 1st R, Merthyr Tydfil in the 2nd R). Then in the 3rd round, Woking beat Second Division side West Bromwich Albion, away, 2-4, to reach the 4th round. Woking beat a team four levels higher, playing away, and despite being 1-0 down at the half. The hero that day was Surbiton, Surrey-born and Gibralter cricket international Tim Bazaglo, who had a hat-trick {see image below}. (In the 4th round in 1991, Woking lost 1-0 to Everton.)

Video – FA Cup Upset – Woking (Non-League) 4-2 West Brom (1991) | From The Archive (1:35 video uploaded by The Emirates FA Cup at youtube.com).

Below: January 1991: Woking beat West Bromwich, a team 4 divisions higher (1990-91 FA Cup 3R at the Hawthorns in West Bromwich)…
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Image above – screenshot from youtube.com. Old Woking badge from vintagefootballshirts.com. 1990-91 FA Cup wordmark from sportspages.com.

Woking’s second appearance in the FA Cup 3rd round came six years later, in 1996-97. Woking qualified for the 3rd round in ’96-97 by beating two Football League clubs: the then-3rd-tier-side Millwall (away) in the 1st round, and 4th-tier-side Cambridge United (away), in the 2nd round. (In the 3rd round, Woking lost to Coventry City, in a replay, 1-2.)

Now Woking will make their third appearance in the 3rd round.
Here are the 5 clubs Woking beat in mid-to-late-2018, to qualify:
2nd Qualifying round, Tooting & Mitcham Utd (8th tier)
3rd Qualifying round, Kempston Rovers (8th tier)
4th Qualifying round, Welling Utd (6th tier)
1st Round, (away at) Torquay Utd (6th tier)
2nd Round, (away at) Swindon Town (4th division). (Winning goal in the 54′, Jake Hyde (FW), headed in a cross from the left, by Josh Casey (LB; captain).

Video – Swindon Town 0 – 1 Woking | Match Highlights (12:00 video uploaded by Woking FC TV at youtube.com…Jake Hyde’s goal can be seen at ~5:30 in video).

In the draw for the 3rd round, Woking were handed a sweet home match, versus Premier League side Watford (on Sunday the 6th of January). Watford is located just north-west of Greater London, in south-west Hertfordshire, and is situated just 34 miles (by road) north of Woking. So that makes for a very good match for traveling Watford fans – and, as of 31st of December, the match has essentially been sold out (250 tickets remain). And the Woking v Watford tie has been selected for television coverage, so Woking will be earning a significant sum from the match.

Below: Woking beats Swindon Town, away, 0-1, to qualify for the FA Cup 3rd Round for the first time in 22 years…
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Photo and Image credits above – Aerial image of Kingfield Stadium, from bing.com/maps. Old Woking coat of arms, from old.woking.gov.uk/woking/people/crest. Photo of Family Stand, Directors Stand & Moaners’ Corner, photo by groundhopping.se/Woking. Leslie Gosden Stand, photo by DL Chadwick via geograph.org.
Jake Hyde scores winner v Swindon, photo by David Holmes via wokingnewsandmail.co.uk/sport. Jake Hyde goal at Swindon: Woking players celebrating with traveling fans, screenshot from video uploaded by Woking FC TV at youtube.com. Woking manager Alan Dowson, arriving back at the supporters’ celebration, at the Kingfield Stadium, later that night: screenshot from video uploaded by Woking FC TV at youtube.com. Traveling Woking fans at Swindon, photo from twitter.com/WokingFCFans. Woking players and coaches celebrate after win, photo unattributed at thenonleaguefootballpaper.com.

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Thanks to all at the links below…
-Blank map of UK historic counties, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:United Kingdom police areas map.svg (commons.wikimedia.org).
-Blank relief map of Greater London, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater London UK relief location map.jpg.
-Blank relief map of Greater Manchester, by Nilfanion (using Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater Manchester UK relief location map.jpg.
-Blank relief map of West Midlands, by Nilfanion, at File:West Midlands UK relief location map.jpg -List of Greater Manchester settlements by population.
-Attendances from us.soccerway.com.

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