The UFWC Hall of Fame celebrates the stars who have lit up the Unofficial Football World Championships throughout its history. Today we present the first inductee:

Charles William Alcock was a football pioneer, the instigator of international football, and – albeit inadvertently – the UFWC. As FA secretary in 1872 he noted, ‘In order to further the interests of the Association in Scotland, it was decided that during the current season, a team should be sent to Glasgow to play a match v Scotland’. As an England footballer he missed the match through injury, but later played and scored in a UFWC match against Scotland in March 1875. Alcock, born in 1842, also created the first organised football competition, the FA Cup, with the first round of ties being played on 11 November 1871. The first FA Cup final was won by Wanderers – captained, naturally, by one CW Alcock.

The official UFWC trophy is named in his honour as the CW Alcock Cup.