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The first country's league was the "Association of Argentine Football" (AAF), founded in 1891 by F.L. Wooley. This league organized the first ever championship to take place in 1891, [46] making Argentina's the oldest association football league outside mainland Great Britain [47] although it only lasted for one season.
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 ...
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, [a] is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
Argentina is the first country outside of Britain to have a national championship. 1893 in football; Argentine Football Association is founded, the first South American football association. Genoa Cricket and Football Club, the first Italian club football team, and F.C. Porto are founded. 1894 in football; Referee in complete control of game.
Bulgarian: футбол (futbol), the sport was initially called ритнитоп (ritnitop, literally "kickball"); footballers are still sometimes mockingly called ритнитопковци (ritnitopkovtsi "ball kickers") today. Catalan: futbol; Czech: fotbal (kopaná for "kick game" is also used) Filipino: futbol (ᜉᜓᜆ᜔ᜊᜓᜎ᜔ in ...
New Zealand Football is the governing body for Association football in the country. [26] The term can also be used to refer to rugby league or union, better-known as simply rugby. [27] The slang term footy generally only means either of the two codes of rugby football, while rugby league is traditionally known as rugby league or just league.
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 ...
FIFA (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is an international self-regulatory governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer.It is one of the world's oldest and largest NGOs, being founded on 21 May 1904. [1]