Double (association Football)
The Double, in association football, is the achievement of winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season. It can also mean beating a team both home and away in the same league season, a feat often noted as doing the double over a particular side.
The first club to achieve a double was Preston North End in 1889, winning the FA Cup and the Football League in the inaugural season of the league.
Read more about Double (association Football): League & League Cup Double, Doubles in Lower Divisions, Trans-State Double, European Doubles, Continental Double, Other, International Double, Total Number of Doubles, Notable Double Winning Managers
Famous quotes containing the word double:
“The Cossack eats Poland,
Like stolen fruit;
Her last noble is ruined,
Her last poet mute:
Straight, into double band
The victors divide;
Half for freedom strike and stand;—
The astonished Muse finds thousands at her side.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)