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Football is a family of team sports that involve, tovaryingdegrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, thewordfootball is understood to refer to whichever form of footballisthe most popular in the regional context in which the wordappears.Sports commonly called 'football' in certain placesinclude:association football (known as soccer in some countries);gridironfootball (specifically American football or Canadianfootball);Australian rules football; rugby football (either rugbyleague orrugby union); and Gaelic football. Variations of footballare knownas football codes.

Various forms of football can be identified in history, oftenaspopular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can betracedback to the codification of these games at English publicschoolsduring the 19th century. The expanse of the British Empireallowedthese rules of football to spread to areas of Britishinfluenceoutside of the directly controlled Empire, though by theend of thenineteenth century, distinct regional codes werealreadydeveloping: Gaelic football, for example, deliberatelyincorporatedthe rules of local traditional football games in orderto maintaintheir heritage. In 1888, The Football League was foundedinEngland, becoming the first of many professionalfootballcompetitions. During the 20th century, several of thevarious kindsof football grew to become some of the most popularteam sports inthe world.

Association football, more commonly known as football orsoccer,is a sport played between two teams of eleven players withaspherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over200countries & dependencies, making it the world's mostpopularsport.The game is played on a rectangular field with a goalat eachend. The object of the game is to score by getting the ballintothe opposing goal.

The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch theballwith their hands or arms while it is in play and only intheirpenalty area. Outfield players mostly use their feet to strikeorpass the ball, but may also use their head or torso to dosoinstead. The team that scores the most goals by the end ofthematch wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, eitheradraw is declared or the game goes into extra time or apenaltyshootout depending on the format of the competition. TheLaws ofthe Game were originally codified in England by TheFootballAssociation in 1863. Association football isgovernedinternationally by the International Federation ofAssociationFootball (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale deFootballAssociation), which organises World Cups for both men andwomenevery four years.

The rules of association football were codified in England bytheFootball Association in 1863 and the name association footballwascoined to distinguish the game from the other forms offootballplayed at the time, specifically rugby football. The termsocceroriginated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as anOxford"-er" abbreviation of the word "association".

Within the English-speaking world, association football isnowusually called football in the United Kingdom and mainly soccerinCanada and the United States. People in Australia, Ireland andNewZealand use either or both terms, although national associationsinAustralia and New Zealand now primarily use "football" fortheformal name.

The various codes of football share certain commonelements.Players in American football, Canadian football, rugbyunion andrugby league take up positions in a limited area of thefield atthe start of the game.They tend to use throwing and runningas themain ways of moving the ball, and only kick on certainlimitedoccasions. Body tackling is a major skill, and gamestypicallyinvolve short passages of play of 5–90 seconds.

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