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Although the Football Association's England amateur team was formed in 1906, there was already growing dissatisfaction with the FA's shifting priorities towards professionalism. Six months earlier, in May 1906, the Amateur Football Defence Council was formed by around a hundred amateur clubs in response to the FA's move (in March 1905) to force the county football associations of London, Middlesex and Surrey, all of which had been formed with the express purpose of fostering amateur football, to admit professional clubs into their memberships.

This was the beginning of football's 'great split'. Eight clubs, including former FA Cup winners, Old Carthusians, withdrew from the 1906-07 London FA Senior Cup in protest. The new body then became the Amateur Football Defence Federation, and by May 1907, momentum and support for this new revival of amateurism, was such that the Amateur Football Association (AFA) was formed as an exclusively all-amateur rival to the FA. A club knockout competition, the AFA Cup, was introduced, to run alongside the FA Amateur Cup, and the Southern Amateur League was formed. The FA subsequently banned any players affiliated to the AFA from playing for a professional club.

The formation of an AFA England team was the next ambition of the fledgling organisation, but it was not until November 1908 that a squad was selected to play two games in Prague. The Český svaz footballový, representing Bohemia, had been denied entry to FIFA, five months earlier, as had the AFA. Bohemia was part of the Austrian Empire and it was the protestations of the Austrians that prevented their admission to FIFA.

Five months later, in March 1909, the AFA found another international opponent, in France, with the formation of the Union Internationale Amateurs de Football Association (UIAFA). The French sports governing body, the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA) was also sympathetic to the AFA's cause and withdrew from FIFA when the AFA request was turned down. This meant that they lost the right to select the French full international team which was taken over by another rival professional sporting body. With Bohemia also joining, the UIAFA thus began its intention to become the amateur-only equivalent of FIFA.

Season 1908-09
x		International Selection Committee
Friendly matches
1	7 November 1908 - Bohemia 0 England 2 [0-1] Letná Hřiště Sport Klubu, Praha (tbc)	Crisp, Farnfield	AW
	England: H.Milestone, C.Page, W.Jack, W.Curwen, G.Joseph, J.Read, A.Birks, N.Grice, B.Tuff, B.Farnfield, H.Crisp.
	A second game was played on the following day against a team representing the home club, Slavia, who beat the visitors, 3-0 with a side not dissimilar to the previous day's Bohemian line-up. The other two members of the AFA squad were E.Stokes and I.Witherington.

2	18 March 1909 - France 0 England 8 [0-5] Stade du Matin, Paris (5,000)	Day (3), Brisley (2), Farnfield (2), Young	AW
	England: H.Milestone, C.Page, R.Braddell, A.Clarke, J.Barnsdale, G.Canny, R.Turner, S.Day, C.Brisley, B.Farnfield, R.Young.
	England goalkeeper, Harold Milestone did not touch the ball in the first half and the ball did not go beyond the English goal-line.

Season 1909-10
3	25 September 1909 - England 10 Bohemia 1 [4-1] Portman Road, Ipswich (3,000)	Farnfield (2), Day (5), Bache (3) Košek	HW
	England: H.Milestone, C.Page, H.Milton, H.Wood, J.Barnsdale, P.Sargeant, R.Holloway, S.Dayᶜ, H.Bache, B.Farnfield, H.Yates.
	With over a thousand amateur clubs now in its membership, the AFA staged its first international at home. Wood, Sargeant and Holloway were replacements for A.Clarke, G.Canny and R.Turner, respectively.
4	6 January 1910 - England 4 Wales 3 [1-1] Tufnell Park, Islington (2,000)	Howell-Jones OG, Bache (2), Farnfield Morgan, Edwards, Francis	HW
	England: N.Turner, C.Page, H.Milton, G.Joseph, G.Canny, R.Sale, R.Turner, C.Brisley, H.Bache, B.Farnfield, W.Harris.
	Brisley replaced S.Day in the England line-up, Harris replaced H.Yates, and Canny came in for J.Barnsdale. All of the Welsh team played for English clubs and were selected by the AFA.
5	12 March 1910 - England 20 France 0 [6-0] Portman Road, Ipswich (1,500)	S.Day (6), Gardner (5), Bache (4), Maples (3), Brisley (2)	HW
	England: A.Day, D.Brooker, C.Page, H.Wood, W.Chester, H.Milton, C.Brisley, S.Dayᶜ, H.Bache, R.Maples, W.Gardner.
	The French team was clearly of a much-lower standard than England's other opponents.

Season 1910-11
6	29 October 1910 - Bohemia 1 England 2 [-] Letná Hřiště Sport Klubu, Praha (tbc)		AW
	England: T.Powell, J.Hobbs, H.Churchill, S.Bryant, J.Douglas, E.Wiseᶜ, R.King, E.Stokes, A.Edwards, E.Cotton, W.Gardner.
	Eight of the original selection withdrew: A.Day, H.Simpson, A.Clarke, P.Farnfield, H.Milton, F.Smith, C.Brisley and I.Snell. Their respective replacements were Powell, Hobbs, Bryant, Douglas, Wise, King, I.Kerr and Edwards. Kerr was then a late withdrawal and replaced by Stokes. P.Campbell and R.Holloway were also in the travelling party which was due to arrive in Prague just two hours before kick-off, after several long train journeys, beginning two days earlier, followed by a channel crossing and an overnight stay in Dresden in Germany. Two further games were played against Slavia before the squad returned home, three days after their arrival.

7	12 January 1911 - England 4 Wales 0 [1-0] Tufnell Park, Islington (2,500)	Brisley, Roberts, Bache (2)	HW
	England: A.Day, J.Tetley, J.Hobbs, G.Joseph, F.Roberts, S.Wilson, R.Young, S.Dayᶜ, H.Bache, C.Brisley, H.Yates.
	Six weeks earlier, a trial match had been held in which the North beat the South, 4-2 at Cambridge University. Five players from the trial were selected to face Wales. W.Gardner withdrew and was replaced by Yates. England's victory was won despite the appalling weather which included blizzard-like conditions in the second half.
8	23 March 1911 - France 1 England 3 [0-1] Parc des Princes, Paris (tbc)	Eloy Brisley, Gardner, Bache	AW
	England: C.Pinkham, J.Tetleyᶜ, H.Milton, I.Snell, F.Roberts, S.Wilson, H.Short, C.Brisley, H.Bache, R.Maples, W.Gardner.
	A much-stronger French team managed to score against England for the first time, on a day when the FA's amateur team were also beating France in Paris, by 3-0.
Grand Tournoi Européen in Roubaix

-	semi-final		AW
	25 May 1911 - France B 1 England 2 [0-1] Stade de l'Exposition, Roubaix (-)
	England: G.Taylor, G.Stretton, W.Johnson, H.Bryant, N.Smit, S.Wilson, R.King, H.Stebbings, S.Bryant, F.Dickson, W.Gardner.
	The French amateur body, the UFSFA, organised a four-nation tournament to be played at the International Exhibition of Northern France in Roubaix. Switzerland had been invited but withdrew, so England faced a French B team that was hastily put together to replace them. England's winning goal came in the last minute (possibly scored by S.Bryant). The following ten England players were initially selected for the tournament, but withdrew: J.Tetley (replaced by Stretton), J.Hobbs (replaced by Johnson), H.Milton (replaced by H.Bryant), B.Farnfield (replaced by Smit), I.Snell (replaced by Wilson), F.Smith (replaced by King), C.Brisley (replaced by Stebbings), H.Farnfield (replaced by S.Bryant), A.Birks (replaced by Dickson), and reserve, G.Joseph (replaced by Melliar-Smith).

9	FINAL	Košek, Bohata	NL
	29 May 1911 - Bohemia 2 England 1 [0-0] Stade de l'Exposition, Roubaix (3,000)
	England: G.Taylor, G.Stretton, W.Johnson, H.Bryant, N.Smit, S.Wilson, R.King, E.Melliar-Smith, S.Bryant, F.Dickson, W.Gardner.
	The AFA's only international defeat. Bohemian goalkeeper, Pimmer, saved an 83rd-minute penalty. Curiously, the second semi-final had only been played on the previous day, three days after England's. Bohemia defeated the hosts, France, 4-1, with England's Wallace Gardner refereeing. The French team included three players that appeared in both semi-finals.

Season 1911-12
Friendly matches
10	1 January 1912 - England 7 France 1 [3-0] Tufnell Park, Islington (2,000)	Dodd, P.Farnfield, H.Farnfield (2), Brisley, Yates (2) Eloy	HW
	England: T.Powell, I.Snellᶜ, J.Hobbs, R.Weeks, P.Farnfield, B.Evers, E.Dodd, C.Brisley, H.Farnfield, H.Yates, W.Gardner.
	A trial match had been played in late-November at Ipswich, where the South beat the North, 9-2, with four players impressing enough to play against France. J.Tetley was replaced by Snell, and the original captain, S.Day, by Dodd. This was to be the last meeting with France, as the UFSFA ended the year by re-joining FIFA after being admitted to the Comité français interfédéral.
11	11 January 1912 - England 10 Wales 0 [2-0] Tufnell Park, Islington (1,200)	Gardner (2), Bache (4), Yates, Day (3)	HW
	England: T.Powell, H.Simpson, I.Campbell, G.Joseph, P.Farnfield, B.Evers, H.Yates, S.Dayᶜ, H.Bache, H.Farnfield, W.Gardner.
	I.Snell was replaced by Simpson, and R.Weeks by Joseph, as England ran into double figures for the third time in just two-and-a-half years. Other reports suggest that Herbert Farnfield scored twice, instead of goals by Gardner and Day.

Season 1912-13

-	1 November 1912 - SK Slavia 0 England 4 [0-] Letná Hřiště Sport Klubu, Praha (tbc)	Cotton (3), Cox	AW
	England: N.Turner, I.Snell, M.Doll, N.Smit, J.Douglas, E.Morris, E.Dodd, C.Brisley, N.Cox, E.Cotton, R.Dower.
	Though their opponents were billed as the local club team, a number of English newspapers claimed that it was actually the Bohemian national team, presumably because of the inclusion of guest players. Bohemia had not played any official internationals since beating England in the tournament final in France in the previous year, and then being denied entry to the 1912 Olympic tournament as they were not a member of FIFA. They would not play any more internationals, with the kingdom becoming part of the new Czechoslovakia after the war. R.Thompson and W.Wrightson withdrew from the England squad before departure and they were replaced by Cartwright and Doll.

-	3 November 1912 - AC Sparta Praha 0 England 1 [0-] Letná Hřiště Sport Klubu, Praha (tbc)	Brisley	AW
	England: N.Turner, I.Snell, M.Doll, N.Smit, J.Douglas, E.Morris, G.Cartwright, C.Brisley, C.Deakin, E.Cotton, R.Dower.

-	4 November 1912 - SK Slavia 2 England 1 [-] Letná Hřiště Sport Klubu, Praha (tbc)	Brisley	AL
	England: N.Turner, I.Snell, G.Cartwright, N.Smit, J.Douglas, E.Morris, C.Deakin, C.Brisley, N.Cox, E.Cotton, R.Dower.

12	8 January 1913 - England 6 Wales 0 [4-0] Tufnell Park, Islington (1,800)	Cotton, Bache (2), P.Farnfield, Smith, H.Farnfield	HW
	England: H.Milestone, I.Snell, H.Cutts, G.Joseph, P.Farnfield, G.Foster, F.Smith, H.Farnfieldᶜ, H.Bache, E.Cotton, C.Brisley.
	Joseph was a replacement for S.Wilson in what turned out to be, the AFA's last international match. In the Welsh team was the great sports all-rounder, Max Woosnam, who captained England in a full international against Wales, nine years later.

 

The AFA was now left with no foreign opponents to play, even though its club membership was thriving. In 1914, they agreed to become affiliated to the Football Association, with representation on the FA Council. The AFA Cup continued and they were allowed to champion the retention of the amateur spirit. Twenty years later, at the FA's request, it was renamed the Amateur Football Alliance, and forty years after that, in 1974, following the FA's recognition of semi-professional football as separate to the amateur game, the AFA was left to administer leagues and cups for the truly amateur clubs, primarily in London and the home counties, with the same status as a county FA.