The first floodlit football match lit Bramall Lane, Sheffield on 14 October 1878, as arc lamps of 8,000 candlepower drew a crowd of nearly 20,000 people.
The first Merseyside derby in the Football League fell on 13 October 1894, when Everton beat newly promoted Liverpool 3-0 at Goodison Park before 44,000.
Austria 5-0 Hungary, Vienna, 12 October 1902: the first international match played on the European continent, billed as a city match, watched by just 500.
Tottenham 10-4 Everton, Saturday 11 October 1958: Bill Nicholson was given the manager's job that morning and watched fourteen goals at White Hart Lane.
Ecuador 1-3 Argentina, 10 October 2017: Lionel Messi's hat-trick in Quito sent Argentina to the 2018 World Cup on the night the entire group was settled.
Barrow 7-0 Gillingham, 9 October 1961: the Gills missed a train, chartered a plane, arrived late, and the referee abandoned it for bad light on 76 minutes.
South Africa Sierra Leone finished 0-0 in Nelspruit on 8 October 2011. Bafana Bafana danced in celebration, but CAF Article 14.1 had sent Niger through.
England 0-1 Germany, 7 October 2000: Dietmar Hamann's free kick was the last goal at the old Wembley, and Kevin Keegan resigned as manager minutes later.
England 2-2 Greece at Old Trafford on 6 October 2001: Beckham's stoppage-time free kick, Sheringham's ten-second header, and the point that beat Germany.
