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The history of association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, stretches back at least to medieval times. [1][2][3] FIFA cites Cuju in ancient China is the earliest form of a kicking game for which there is scientific evidence, a military manual from the Han dynasty, and it closely resembles modern association football.
5-a-side since 2004 and 7-a-side from 1984 to 2016. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, [a] is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by ...
The Football Association is founded in 1863 (the first football association in the world), and it ratifies the original 14 rules of the game. In 1860, the first non-British team in Europe, Lausanne Football and Cricket Club of Switzerland, is formed. In 1862, Notts County F.C. is founded.
Kickball – a hybrid of association football and baseball, invented in the United States about 1942. Underwater football – played in a pool, and the ball can only be played when underwater. The ball can be carried as in rugby. Speedball – a combination of American football, soccer, and basketball, devised in the United States in 1912.
The earliest known organized soccer game in the United States was played on October 11, 1866, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, under the 1863 London Football Association laws between Carroll College and Waukesha Town. Carroll won 5–2, and each goal was referred to as "game".
The oldest still active football club is Panionios F.C. founded on 14 September 1890. [citation needed] This club was founded in the city of Smyrna, on the Aegean coast of the Ottoman Empire in present-day Izmir (Turkey). The club was relocated to Greece in 1922.
A football or soccer ball is the ball used in the sport of association football. The ball's spherical shape, as well as its size, weight, mass, and material composition, are specified by Law 2 of the Laws of the Game maintained by the International Football Association Board. [1] Additional, more stringent standards are specified by FIFA and ...
The earliest known reference to football that was written in English is a 1409 proclamation issued by King Henry IV. It imposed a ban on the levying of money for "foteball". [3] It was specific to London, but it is not clear if payments had been claimed from players or spectators or both. The following year, Henry IV imposed fines of 20 ...