What Was The First Sport In Uk To Have Floodlighting

[gollob]

Also which football club played the first match under lights?

[Lie-in King]

Polo.

"The first ‘official’ game played under floodlights took place when a Football Combination XI played Tottenham Hotspur on the first of October 1951."

https://tinyurl.com/vlh2lnr

[bookbinder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floodlight#Association_football

[johnny.5]

The first sport to play under floodlights was polo, on 18 July 1878. Ranelagh Club hosted a match in Fulham, London, England against the Hurlingham Club.[3

[curlyhair]

Cricket was first played under floodlights on 11 August 1952, during an exhibition game at Highbury stadium in England.

[JJ109]

Agree with Johnny 5

An experimental game was played under floodlights at Bramall Lane in Sheffield in 1878. The lights were powered by batteries and dynamos as the famous old club attempted to use the technology to brighten up a gloomy winter afternoon in South Yorkshire.

https://www.football-stadiums.co.uk/articles/history-of-floodlights-in-football/

[Lie-in King]

Yes, which is in the link I gave.