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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.
Juventus becomes the first team in Italian football history to win 5 national titles in a row. 1936 in football; Italy wins gold at the Olympics in Berlin and joins Uruguay to become Olympic and World champion. 1937 in football; The largest football crowd was recorded, 149,415 people turned up at Hampden Park, Glasgow, to see Scotland play ...
American football, with 1.1 million high school football players and nearly 70,000 college football players, is the most popular sport in the United States, [140] [141] with the annual Super Bowl game accounting for nine of the top ten of the most watched broadcasts in U.S. television history. [142]
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
The history of football in England dates back to at least the eighth century. [35] The modern rules of association football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played in the public schools of England. The "Laws of the University Foot Ball Club" (Cambridge Rules) of 1856
Football League with most clubs: +100 – Cape Verdean Football Championship [note 56] Shortest National Championship: 7 days – Greenlandic Football Championship [203] [204] Longest football match: 3 hours and 23 minutes – Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, Football League Third Division North Cup, 30 March 1946 [205] [206] [note 57]
REQUIRED READING: Look: Iowa football fan hilariously protests reversed punt return TD at World Series NFL Championships Five NFL championship games were played at Wrigley Field: 1933, 1937, 1941 ...