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Football is a family of team sports in which the object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts using merely the body (by carrying, throwing, or kicking).
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- Instance of
- type of sport
- Subclass of
- team sport
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Image
- Warrior Games athletes honored at Navy-Air Force football game 141004-D-DB155-022.jpg
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- practiced by
- football player
- different from
- association football
- uses
- football
- topic's main category
- Category:Football
- hashtag
- fussball
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Football
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Encyclopedic overview
57 sectionsContents
- Common elements
- Etymology
- Early history
- Ancient games
- Ancient China
- Ancient Greece and Rome
- Native Americans
- Oceania
- Turkic peoples
- Medieval and early modern Europe
- Calcio Fiorentino
- Official disapproval and attempts to ban football
- Establishment of modern codes
- English public schools
- Firsts
- Matches
- Clubs
- Competitions
- Modern balls
- Modern ball passing tactics
- Rugby football
- Cambridge rules
- Sheffield rules
- Australian rules football
- The Football Association
- North American football codes
- Gaelic football
- Schism in Rugby football
- Globalisation of association football
- Further divergence of the two rugby codes
- Use of the word ''football''
- Popularity
- Football codes board
- Football codes development tree
- Present-day codes and families
- Association
- Rugby
- Irish and Australian
- Recent and hybrid
- Association
- Rugby
- Hybrid
- Non goal sports
- Historical codes still played
- Medieval
- Britain
- British schools
- Tabletop games, video games, and other recreations
- Based on association football
- Based on American football
- Based on Australian football
- Based on rugby league football
- See also
- Notes
- Footnotes
- Citations
- References
Football is a family of team sports in which the object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts using merely the body (by carrying, throwing, or kicking).
Unqualified, the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “football” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.