[3][4] Sevilla FC became the first team to ever win an organized match in Spanish football history with its 2–0 victory, thanks to goals by Rickson and "Clown Yugles", a player so-called due to his appearance on the pitch in "night dress".

[10] Rio Tinto FC was the catalyst of the Sociedad de Juego de Pelota (Spanish: "Ball Game Society"), founded by William Alexander Mackay in 1884, which organized football games between the members of Rio Tinto and later against crews of English ships that docked in the port of Huelva, which took place in a large area of marshes filled with flooded soil, opposite to the Gas Factory run by fellow Scotsman Charles Wilson Adam.

[12][13] Eventually, in the late 1880s, football started to gain some followers among the local youth, and as they became familiar with its rules, some of them asked Mackay to participate, which he happily accepted, as he did not conceive of his recreational club as something exclusive to the British colony.

[6][11][12] Just a month later, on 25 January 1890, Sevilla FC was founded by a group of young British residents in Seville, including Isaias White and Edward Farquharson Johnston.

[1] A few days later, on 3 March, some members of the Recreation Club, which had never played a football match of any kind, gathered at the Hotel Colón, and ultimately decided to accept Sevilla's invitation.

[4] The game was refereed by Sevilla's president Edward Johnston, who was also the British vice-council in Seville,[2][3][4] who walked onto the pitch "while holding a piece of tanned calfskin, spherical in shape, sewn together with rough cords".

[1] Recreativo's defeat was attributed to the fact that the Huelva team had never played together before, and had just returned from a four-hour train journey in that same morning, plus the match was refereed by the president of Sevilla.

[c] After the match, Sevilla FC, in what the Brits dubbed as the third half, marked this historic occasion by holding a large banquet in the saloon of a Suizo restaurant called Café Seville, hence honoring their opponents and guests with dinner.

[14] In total, they played six games between 1890 and 1893, home and away, in which they also fielded the likes of the Lindberg brothers (Hanaldo and Juan), William MacAndrews, Chabannan, Butler, and Félix Vázquez de Zafra, the latter being originally a member of the Huelva Recreation Club.

[18] In December 2014, the American sports media ESPN stated that "The game they played was not the first but it might be the first full lineup we have, the first record of a big away day [for Huelva]".