Langton Football Archives are pleased to confirm support of an important exhibition in 2026, to be staged by The National World War I Museum and Memorial building, located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. This is the centrally located US venue for the tournament where several teams will also be based.
https://www.theworldwar.org/exhibitions/beautiful-game
The museum, a non-profit organization opened in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial, and was designated by the US Congress in 2004 as the country’s official museum dedicated to international as well as domestic aspects of World War I. The museum’s collection includes more than 350,000 items, making it one of the largest WWI collections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_World_War_I_Museum_and_Memorial
‘The Beautiful Game’, an ironic twist on ‘The Greater Game’, is currently scheduled to open on 02 April, will reveal the connections between Association Football (Soccer) and the First World War. It will chart the rise of football (for players and supporters) in the years leading up to the conflict, its interface with the fighting on land and sea, and explore its influence on people during wartime.
The museum already has a detailed information on aspects of American Football during WW1.
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/football-and-wwi
LFA has advised on content of the Soccer exhibition and will be loaning over around 25 artefacts and iconic images for the exhibition, several previously unseen to modern audiences. Selected with the help of UK-based Clive Harris, historian and director of historical tour specialists Battle Honours https://battle-honours.co.uk/ , and together with the team at the KS Museum led by Dr Christopher Warren, Vice President of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at The National World War I Museum and Memorial.
The exhibition will have loan material from all over the world, including naturally items from members of SASH https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/ who have been rapidly developing aspects of research into US Soccer History, including online context of historic film.
