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Longest football match: 3 hours and 23 minutes – Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, Football League Third Division North Cup, 30 March 1946 [166] [167] [note 43] Team that played most games on the same day: 3 – Grêmio , 1994 Campeonato Gaúcho , 11 December 1994 [ 168 ] [ note 44 ]
Yugoslavia, 1960 (coming from 1–3 and 2–4 down to win 5–4 vs France) West Germany, 1976 (coming from 0–2 down to win 4–2 after extra time vs Yugoslavia) Denmark, 1984 (coming from 0–2 down to win 3–2 vs Belgium) Portugal, 2000 (coming from 0–2 down to win 3–2 vs England)
Association football, more commonly known as "football" or "soccer" is the most popular sport at 3.5 billion fans. [1] [2] Significant association football attendance records listed below include those with over 100,000 attendance.
FIFA said it will consider changes to its policy that blocks league matches from being played in other countries as part of an agreement with a soccer promoter to dismiss the world governing body ...
FIFA moved Wednesday toward ending decades of soccer tradition by ordering a review of its policy that currently blocks domestic league games being played in other countries. Fans are likely to ...
The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win , 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
A total of 29 clubs have won the tournament since its 1971 inception, with Sevilla being the only team to win it seven times, and only one to win three in a row. A total of fifteen clubs have won the tournament multiple times: the forementioned club, along with Liverpool, Juventus, Inter Milan, Atlético Madrid, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid, IFK Göteborg, Parma ...
Most wins in the top-flight overall: 992, Marseille; Most wins in a top flight season: 30, Paris Saint-Germain , Monaco ; Most home wins in a top flight season: 19, Saint-Étienne ; Most away wins in a top flight season: 13, Monaco ; Most consecutive wins: 14, Bordeaux (round 28 2008–09 to round 3 2009–10)