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The earliest reference to football is in a 1314 decree issued by the Lord Mayor of London, Nicholas de Farndone, on behalf of King Edward II.Originally written in Norman French, a translation of the decree includes: "for as much as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large footballs in the fields of the public, from which many evils might arise that God forbid: we command ...
The governing body of the sport in the U.S. did not have the word soccer in its name until 1945, when it became the U.S. Soccer Football Association. It did not drop the word football from its name until 1974, when it became the U.S. Soccer Federation. Two further football leagues were started in 1967, the United Soccer Association and the ...
The England national football team represents England in international football. It is one of the two oldest national football teams in the world, the other one being Scotland. England is one of only eight national teams to have won the World Cup and did this in 1966.
1906 in football; England joins FIFA. Club Deportivo Guadalajara and Sporting Clube de Portugal is founded. 1907 in football; Fenerbahçe S.K., Al-Ahly and Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C. are founded. 1908 in football; For the first time, officially, a football tournament is played at the Summer Olympics in London, which was won by Great Britain.
In England, the first recorded game of football between women took place in 1895. [69] Women's football has traditionally been associated with charity games and physical exercise, particularly in the United Kingdom. [70] Association football continued to be played by women since the time of the first recorded women's games in the late 19th century.
The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved ...
Football was first introduced to Africa in the early 1860s by Europeans, [4] due to the colonisation of Africa.The first recorded games were played in South Africa in 1862 between soldiers and civil servants and there were no established rules for the game at this time; [5]" Initially, there were various forms of playing the game, which included elements of both rugby and soccer.
Football is the most popular sport in the United Kingdom.Football is organised on a separate basis in each of the four constituent countries, England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, that make up the United Kingdom (UK), with each having a national football association responsible for the overall management of football within their respective country.