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The Koninklijke HFC was the first Dutch football club. Ten years later, in 1889, the Royal Dutch Football Association (the KNVB) was founded. Association football was introduced in the Danish club, Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) by English residents, [42] in Swiss club FC St. Gallen in 1879 and in Belgium Royal Antwerp FC in 1880.
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 ...
Lev Yashin becomes the first goalkeeper to win European Footballer of the Year. The first CONCACAF Championship is played in El Salvador, won by Costa Rica. Tottenham Hotspur become the first British club to win a European football competition, European Cup Winner's Cup beating Atlético Madrid 5–1 in the final. 1964 in football
In the 2017 film Lost In Florence, Brett Dalton plays a former college football star who travels to Italy and becomes involved in playing calcio storico fiorentino. In episode 4, "Judgement Day" of the TV series, Medici: Masters of Florence , the main characters engage in a game of calcio storico fiorentino in the main square of Florence during ...
A 1721 illustration of so-called "mob football", a variety of medieval football. Medieval football is a modern term used for a wide variety of the localised informal football games which were invented and played in England during the Middle Ages. Alternative names include folk football, mob football and Shrovetide football.
Domestic association football season; List of national football teams; List of association football clubs; List of association football competitions; List of sports attendance figures – Attendances of many domestic and international competitions, compared with those of other sports around the world
European football by year (171 C) + Men's association football in Europe (5 C) Women's association football in Europe (67 C, 1 P) A. Football academies in Europe (16 ...
Having been firmly established in Spain and Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries, chess becomes increasingly fashionable in France which, by the end of the 17th century, is the main centre of the game in Europe. [citation needed]