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Justin Fashanu – the first openly gay male professional footballer & first Black British footballer to command a £1 million transfer fee

Vivian Anderson- first Black Briton to play for the senior men's England national football team

Arthur Wharton (28 October 1865 – 12 December 1930) is widely considered to be the first Black professional footballer in the world.

Laurence Paul Cunningham was an English professional footballer and first British footballer signed by Real Madrid

Emma and her sister are known to be the earliest known Black women footballers in the UK

Lieutenant Walter Tull was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of African-Caribbean descent.

To mark the winter FIFA World Cup 2023, we'll be exploring some UK Black firsts in football throughout December.