Foreign Team Tours: 1905-1968

Foreign Team Tours: 1905-1968

In the years before and just after World War II, many teams from Europe and South America criss-crossed North America by train playing in both the United States and Canada. In addition some teams played exclusively in the United States others exclusively in Canada. With the increased availability of air travel most teams stopped traveling by train and as a result tours were not as long. As a result more teams visited and it became increasingly difficult to keep track of all the games.

The National Soccer Hall of Fame offers the following list as a guide to the tours or single games up to 1968 and does not claim that the list is complete but it is an indication of most of them. This list does not include teams that played in the International Soccer League of the early 1960's or in the United Soccer Association and NASL of 1967 and 1969.

Argentina 1930 - Sportivo of Buenos Aires. 1931 - Velez Sarsfield of Buenos Aires

Austria 1926 - Vienna Hakoah 1927 - Vienna Hakoah 1953 - Rapid Vienna 1954 - Wacker 1955 - Wacker 1956 - Austria Vienna 1958 - Austria Vienna 1959 - Austria Vienna 1960 - Austria Vienna 1960 - Rapid Vienna

Brazil 1936 - Botafogo (Rio de Janeiro) 1941 - Botafogo (Rio de Janeiro) 1954 - Olaria 1957 - Vasco da Gama (Rio de Janeiro) 1967 - Santos 1968 - Santos 1970 - Santos

Chile 1933 - Audax Italiano S.C. (Santiago)

Cuba 1941 - Puentes Grandes F.C. 1946 - Puentes Grandes F.C. 1949 - University of Havana

Czechoslovakia 1926 - Sparta (Prague) 1934 - Kladno 1948 - Bratislava F.C. 1960 - Red Star (Bratislava)

England 1905 - The Pilgrims 1907 - Corinthian F.C. 1909 - The Pilgrims 1911 - Corinthian F.C. 1922 - Dick Kerr Ladies (Preston) 1924 - Corinthian F.C. 1926 - English F.A. (Canada only) 1929 - Preston North End 1931 - English F.A. (Canada only) 1937 - Charlton Athletic (London) 1938 - Islington Corinthians (Canada only) 1946 - Liverpool 1948 - Liverpool 1949 - Newcastle United 1950 - Manchester United 1950 - English F.A. team 1951 - Fulham (London) 1951 - English F.A. team 1952 - Manchester United 1952 - Tottenham Hotspur 1953 - English national team 1953 - Liverpool 1954 - Chelsea (London) 1954 - Plymouth Argyle 1955 - Huddersfield Town 1955 - Sunderland 1956 - Everton 1957 - Tottenham Hotspur 1958 - Manchester City 1959 - West Bromwich Albion 1961 - Birmingham City 1962 - Sheffield United 1963 - Wolverhampton Wanderers 1964 - Liverpool 1966 - Tottenham Hotspur

France 1955 - Sochaux 1961 - Rheims

Germany 1950 - Hamburg S.V. 1951 - Eintracht Frankfurt 1952 - Stuttgart Kickers 1953 - Nurenberg F.C. 1954 - Borussia Dortmund 1954 - Fortuna Dusseldorf 1954 - Rot-Weiss Essen 1955 - Nurenberg F.C. 1956 - Police Stars 1956 - Schwaben (Augsberg) 1957 - Kaiserslautern 1958 - Kickers Offenbach 1959 - West Berlin All-Stars 1960 - Munich 1860 1961 - Karlsruher 1962 - North German All-Stars 1962 - A.S.V. Nuernberg 1962 - 1st Saarbruecken 1963 - Schalke 04 (Gelsenkirchen) 1964 - Hamburg S.V. 1968 - Borussia Dortmund

Hungary 1929 - Sabaria (Budapest) 1930 - Hungaria (M.T.K.) (Budapest) 1947 - Ferencvaros (F.T.C.) (Budapest)

Israel 1927 - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1936 - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1947 - Hapoel Tel Aviv 1948 - Israeli National Team 1956 - Israeli Olympic team 1957 - Hapoel Tel Aviv

Italy 1928 - Palestra Italia 1949 - Inter Milan 1959 - Napoli 1967 - Inter Milan

Mexico 1930 - Marte F.C. (Necaxa) 1940 - Atlante F.C. (Mexico City) 1942 - Atlante F.C. (Mexico City) 1948 - Atlante F.C. (Mexico City) 1950 - Atlas 1955 - Occidente 1956 - Occidente

Northern Ireland 1949 - Belfast Celtic 1953 - Irish F.A. team

Poland 1959 - Legia Warsaw

Portugal 1957 - Benfica

Scotland 1921 - Scottish F.A. team (Third Lanark) 1928 - Glasgow Rangers F.C. 1930 - Glasgow Rangers F.C. 1930 - Kilmarnock 1931 - Glasgow Celtic F.C. 1935 - Scottish F.A. team 1939 - Scottish F.A. team 1949 - Scottish National Team 1951 - Glasgow Celtic 1954 - Glasgow Rangers 1956 - Aberdeen 1957 - Glasgow Celtic 1958 - Hearts (Edinburgh) 1959 - Dundee 1960 - Hearts 1960 - Kilmarnock 1961 - Third Lanark 1962 - Dundee 1964 - Hearts (Edinburgh) 1965 - Hibernian (Edinburgh) 1966 - Glasgow Celtic 1967 - Dundee

Spain 1927 - Real Madrid 1931 - Racing Club Madrid 1937 - Barcelona F.C. 1961 - Real Madrid 1968 - Real Madrid

Sweden 1948 - Djurgarden F.C. (Stockholm) 1949 - Kamraturna F.C. (Goteborg) 1950 - Jonkopping 1951 - A.I.K. Stockholm 1957 - A.I.K. Stockholm 1958 - Norkopping 1959 - Halsingborg

Switzerland 1953 - Young Boys (Berne) 1955 - Grasshoppers (Zurich)

Turkey 1950 - Besiktas (Istanbul)

Uruguay 1927 - Nacional F.C. (Montevideo) 1931 - Bella Vista (Montevideo)

U.S.S.R. 1956 - Moscow Lokomotive (Canada only) 1960 - Leningrad Zenit (Canada only)

Wales 1929 - Welsh F.A. team (Canada only