National Association Football League

It drew its teams primarily from northern New Jersey and New York City.

[4] After its first spring-summer season in 1895, the NAFBL moved to a winter schedule in the fall of 1895.

On December 16, 1895, the NAFBL opened its second season with a game pitting the Kearny Scottish-Americans and the International Athletic Club.

[5] In 1899, a deep recession, accompanied by the Spanish–American War led to the collapse of several athletic leagues and teams, among them the NAFBL.

[6] That year, several of the top NAFBL teams, frustrated by the amateur/semi-professional nature of the league, joined with other top North Atlantic U.S. teams to form the first fully professional U.S. soccer league, the American Soccer League.