Football Company founded in 1871.

They played on Peckham Rye Common five minutes walk from Peckham Rye Station and changed at the ‘Prince Albert’.

Football Company were the first side to play the game under the new laws of Rugby Union in 1871. Playing against Harlequins on Peckham Rye Common.

The newspaper match report wrote that ‘This was the first match where the play was under the Rugby Union Laws, and they worked admirably, more especially having the ball down at once, and thus preventing the long and serious mauls so long complained of in the London-Rugby game, while hacking through was entirely dispensed with, to the evident improvement of the good feeling of all the players.’

Football Company produced two notable England internationals; J.E. Bentley and Francis Luscombe, a founder member of Gipsies F.C. who would later become a vice-president if the Rugby Football Union.

Football Company played in white shirts with an F.C. monogram on the left breast.