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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 ...
The Olympics were the de facto World Championship until FIFA decided to host its own tournament in between Olympics. With Uruguay winning the Gold Medals in 1924 and 1928, it was decided that the first men's football World Cup, the 1930 FIFA World Cup, was played in Uruguay, while there would be no football at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles ...
The World Cup has been held every four years since; [90] by 2019, it had expanded to 24 national teams, and 1.12 billion viewers watched the competition. [91] Four years later, FIFA targeted the 32-team 2023 Women's World Cup at an audience of 2 billion, [92] while about 1.4 million tickets were sold, setting a Women's World Cup record. [93]
The world's oldest currently active professional football club of any code of football is the Melbourne Football Club, founded in 1858.Melbourne play Australian Rules Football (Aussie Rules) in the Australian Football League (AFL) and were premiers as recently as 2021 after defeating the Western Bulldogs in the 2021 AFL Grand Final.
Many related games have emerged from Australian football, mainly with variations of contact to encourage greater participation. These include Auskick (played by children aged between 5 and 12), kick-to-kick (and its variants end-to-end footy and marks up), rec footy, 9-a-side footy, masters Australian football, handball and longest-kick ...
Numerous attempts were made to ban football games, particularly the most rowdy and disruptive forms. This was especially the case in England, and in other parts of Europe, during the Middle Ages and early modern period. Between 1324 and 1667, in England alone, football was banned by more than 30 royal and local laws.
The stadium used for the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup was known as Soccer City. Despite this, the country's national association is called the South African Football Association and "football" is mostly used in official contexts.
Australia beats American Samoa 31–0 in 2002 World Cup qualification, the world record in an international match. 2002 in football Brazil sets up a record fifth title in World Cup competition, the first ever to be played in Asia (also the first outside Europe and the Americas), defeating Germany 2–0 in the 2002 FIFA World Cup final.