Gitanos F.C.


Gitanos F.C. was an English association football club.
The team primarily consisted of Old Etonians and Old Carthusians.
Reportedly founded in 1863, their name, Spanish for "gypsies", reflected that they had no home ground. They appear to have mostly played on the road until using Prince's Cricket Ground in Chelsea by the mid-1870s.

History

The club competed in the FA Cup in 1873, losing to Uxbridge F.C. in the first round, but did not enter the competition after that year.

Records

In 1891, an article in Fores's Sporting Notes reviewed a copy of the 1874 Football Annual and commented on how clubs had come and gone over time. The 1874 annual listed less than 200 football clubs in all of England, and by 1891 the author asked "what has become of such old giants as the Gitanos, Harrow Chequers, Pilgrims, and Woodford Wells."