Football at the Inter-Allied Games

Football at the Inter-Allied Games was an unofficial football event organized by the United States military and the YMCA. It took place in June 1919, a year after the cessation of hostilities on the western front, and all the matches were played at the newly constructed Stade Pershing in Paris. The tournament featured some of Europe's top players. The Inter-Allied Games is the first football tournament, official or otherwise, with national teams from two different continents.

For this tournament, were invited teams from all the countries who had been on the winning side in the war as to celebrate their victory. Eight national teams participated in the competition: Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, hosts France, Greece, Italy, Romania and the United States.

Czechoslovakia, whose participation in the Allied-Games represented the first major international sporting appearance for the newly created nation, went on to make a memorable campaign, winning the tournament and finishing unbeaten. Along with Czechoslovakia, the Allied-Games was also the first taste of international football to Romania and Greece, but because the matches played in Paris are not recognized by FIFA or the International Olympic Committee, and therefore, they are not considered official international matches, the countries official debuts only came at the 1920 Olympics, for Romania came in 1922 and for Greece it only came 10 years later, in 1929.