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Most domestic league goals scored in a football season: 67 [note 12] Jaap Bulder, 1919–20 Netherlands Football League Championship for Be Quick; Archie Stark, 1924–25 American Soccer League for Bethlehem Steel; Most international club goals scored in a football season: 17 [29] Stéphane Guivarc'h, 1997–98 [note 13] Radamel Falcao, 2010–11
The history of association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, stretches back to at least 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.
Latvia is the first football team from the Baltic states to make an appearance in a major football competition, UEFA Euro 2004. 2004 in football; Greece produce one of the shocks in football history and become surprise winners of the Euro 2004 football tournament, defeating hosts Portugal 1–0 in the final. Waitakere United is founded.
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [2]
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of December 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA , football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
Association football is the official name of the sport governed by the International Federation of Association football . It is known in some parts of the world as "soccer"; a derivative of the word "association". In others, it is known simply as "football". For more information on the sport, see association football.
The first detailed sets of rules published by football clubs (rather than a school or university) were those of Sheffield F.C. (written 1858, published 1859) which codified a game played for 20 years until being discontinued in favour of the Football Association code, and those of Melbourne FC (1859) which are the origins of Australian rules ...
This is a list of the association football competitions past and present for international teams and for club football, in individual countries and internationally. Confirmed future competitions are also included.