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Made in Sheffield

THE HOME OF FOOTBALL

Goal posts being installed at Wembley stadium before the 1936 Football Association Challenge Cup Final. Wooden crossbars and uprights were used in the days before extruded aluminium. In the background is the podium where a conductor in a white suit used to lead community signing before the footballers anthem” Abide with Me” as the finale before kick off.

THE FIRST FOOTBALL CLUB
THE FIRST GAME OF FOOTBALL
THE FIRST DERBY GAME
THE FIRST FOOTBALL GROUND
THE FIRST FLOODLIT GAME
THE FIRST GOAL POSTS
THE FIRST GOAL POST CROSSBAR
THE FIRST MINI SOCCER GOAL
THE FIRST PORTABLE GOAL IN A BAG

Sheffield & Football
Recognised by F.I.F.A as the oldest football club in the world Sheffield F.C who currently compete in the Football Association Non-League pyramid (Unibond League) were founded in 1857. Initially members of the club played between themselves much the same as they did in the local golf clubs of the time. They were varied games married men against single men ,older men against younger men and chosen teams from club members.

The second oldest team is also Sheffield based: Hallam F.C. who still play on their original ground, the oldest continually used existing football ground in the world.Sheffield F.C.,on the other hand , have played on numerous grounds in and around Sheffield since their formation. The very first football challenge match between constituted football clubs was at the Hallam ground on Boxing Day 1860 and this fixture continues to this day and is the oldest derby game in the world.

Forms of rugby type football that kicked ,punched, carried by hand and generally tried to force objects into opposing goals took place for many centuries prior to 1857 however Sheffield F.C pioneered the modern rules and practices of soccer, including corner kicks, ,free kicks for fouls, no use of hands other than goalkeepers, throw-ins ,heading and the use of crossbars to determine a goal as a target area.. When professional football started Sheffield F.C. decided to maintain their amateur status and play for no other reward than the love of the game. Other local teams Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday who at that time decided to reward players went on to be more successful local teams both winning the F.A.cup and League Championships.

It is with this historical background that ITSA goal developed the very first uPVC portable goal in a bag .With the concept of smaller proportional goals and pitches for children less players for more touches Mini-Soccer was born. The Football Association adopted the idea and the game has been introduced nationwide. Other innovative patented products have followed and the company has been the driving force behind safety and innovation in goal post design for over two decades. “Innovation that nets results.

This is why Sheffield is recognized the world over as being the Home of Football.

Football - born in Sheffield - now loved and enjoyed the world over

ITSA GOAL Driving goal post Industry standards for over two decades

THE HISTORY OF GOAL POSTS

Three years after the very first first game of football the English Football Association decreed,in 1863,that the upright posts on goals should be 8 yards apart (7.32m), a measurement which has never altered from that time.
Tape was used between the tops of the uprights until the next leap forward in goal post design ,in 1875,when wooden crossbars were introduced at a height of 8 feet (2.44m) above the ground . The basic goal post shape and size has remained the same to this day.

The shape of the posts and crossbar was initially round or square until 1920 when Nottingham Forest introduced elliptical shaped posts for the first time. Goal posts were still being made in wood into the 1970’s and It would take another forty years before extruded elliptical aluminum posts became the preferred choice of major stadiums around the world.

Steel goal posts secured with nuts and bolts are common place around the parks pitches in the UK however this may soon change as the latest innovation in goal post design provides for totally secure, accountable, anti- vandal and lockable goal posts that do away with rusting nuts & bolts.

It is fitting that a Sheffield company should introduce the first proportional uPVC Mini Soccer goal in a bag for children and now complete the innovation in goal post design that started in the city some one hundred and thirty years ago.