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Football from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia for Other Uses, See Football (Disambiguation) Football From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Football (disambiguation). Several codes of football. Images, from top down, left to right: Association football,Australian rules football, International rules football, a rugby union scrum, rugby league, and American football. Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union,[1] and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes. Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[2][3] The influence and power of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire,[4] though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage.[5] In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football competitions. During the twentieth century, several of the various kinds of football grew to become among the most popular team sports in the world.[6] Contents [hide] 1 Common elements 2 Etymology 3 Early history o 3.1 Ancient games o 3.2 Medieval and early modern Europe o 3.3 Calcio Fiorentino o 3.4 Official disapproval and attempts to ban football 4 Establishment of modern codes o 4.1 English public schools o 4.2 Firsts o 4.3 Cambridge rules o 4.4 Sheffield rules o 4.5 Australian rules o 4.6 Football Association o 4.7 Rugby football o 4.8 North American football codes o 4.9 Gaelic football o 4.10 Schism in Rugby football o 4.11 Globalisation of association football o 4.12 Further divergence of the two rugby codes 5 Use of the word "football" 6 Football codes board o 6.1 Football codes development tree 7 Present day codes and families o 7.1 Association football and descendants o 7.2 Rugby school football and descendants o 7.3 Irish and Australian varieties o 7.4 Surviving medieval ball games o 7.5 Surviving UK school games o 7.6 Recent inventions and hybrid games o 7.7 Tabletop games and other recreations 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References Common elements The various codes of football share certain common elements. Players in American football, Canadian football, rugby union and rugby league take-up positions in a limited area of the field at the start of the game.[7] They tend to use throwing and running as the main ways of moving the ball, and only kick on certain limited occasions. Body tackling is a major skill, and games typically involve short passages of play of 5–90 seconds.[7] Association football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football tend to use kicking to move the ball around the pitch, with handling more limited. Body tackles are less central to game, and players are more free to move around the field (offside laws are typically less strict).[7] Common rules among the sports include:[citation needed] .
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