6 football clubs with cricketing origins

Cricket and football, on the face of it, don’t have much in common with each other apart from the fact that both are team sports, invented by Englishmen, which have 11 players featuring per side and are played with a round ball. However, you would be surprised to know that many of the iconic football teams of today had some sort of a cricketing connection at the time that they were founded.Here are six famous football teams with cricketing origins:

#1 AC Milan

AC Milan is a professional Italian football club based in Milan which currently plays in the Serie A. Apart from being the second most successful club in Italy, behind Juventus, with 18 Serie A titles to their name, they have also won 18 officially recognized UEFA and FIFA titles which is the second most in the world alongside Boca Juniors.

Going back to its history, it was founded as Milan Cricket and Foot-Ball Club on December 16, 1899, primarily by English expatriates Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards, who were originally from the city of Nottingham in England. As a tribute to the club’s English founders, it has retained the English spelling of the city’s name till date as opposed to the Italian spelling Milano.