Sao Paulo Athletic Club was founded before 14th May 1888 .
In Uruguay , the Montevideo Cricket Club , established in 1861 , has however been ranked as the oldest rugby union club outside Europe by the World Rugby Museum of Twickenham , World Rugby 1820-1870 at RFU.com `` Decano entre decanos '' by Claudio Barragán & Gustavo Castro at El Area website although the first certain rugby match played by MVCC was in 1875.A Game for Hooligans : The History of Rugby Union by Richards , Huw ( Mainstream Publishing , Edinburgh , 2007 , MVCC Timeline on MVCC website , retrieved 25 Jan 2017Historia del MVCC on MVCC website < /small > São Paulo Athletic Club was founded on 15 May 1888 by English immigrants , and was the first football club in Brazil .
Oldest football clubs