Monday, February 7, 2011

Present day codes and families

Association football and descendants
Main article: Variants of association football
An indoor soccer game at an open air venue in Mexico. The referee has just awarded the red team a free kick.
  • Association football, also known as football, soccer, footy and footie
  • Indoor/basketball court varieties of Football:
    • Five-a-side football — played throughout the world under various rules including:
      • Futsal — the FIFA-approved five-a-side indoor game
      • Minivoetbal — the five-a-side indoor game played in East and West Flanders where it is hugely popular
      • Papi fut the five-a-side game played in outdoor basketball courts (built with goals) in Central America.
    • Indoor soccer — the six-a-side indoor game, known in Latin America, where it is often played in open air venues, as fútbol rápido ("fast football")
    • Masters Football six-a-side played in Europe by mature professionals (35 years and older)
  • Paralympic football — modified Football for athletes with a disability.[73] Includes:
  • Beach soccer — football played on sand, also known as beach football and sand soccer
  • Street football — encompasses a number of informal varieties of football
  • Rush goalie — is a variation of football in which the role of the goalkeeper is more flexible than normal
  • Headers and Volleys — where the aim is to score goals against a goalkeeper using only headers and volleys
  • Crab football — players stand on their hands and feet and move around on their backs whilst playing football as normal
  • Swamp soccer — the game is played on a swamp or bog field

Rugby school football and descendants

See also: Comparison of American football and rugby league, Comparison of American football and rugby union, Comparison of Canadian and American football, and Comparison of rugby league and rugby union

Irish and Australian varieties

International rules football test match from the 2005 International Rules Series between Australia and Ireland at Telstra Dome, Melbourne, Australia.
These codes have in common the absence of an offside rule, the requirement to bounce or solo (toe-kick) the ball while running, handpassing by punching or tapping the ball rather than throwing it, and other traditions.
  • Australian rules football — officially known as "Australian football", and informally as "football", "footy" or "Aussie rules". In some areas (erroneously) referred to as "AFL", which is the name of the main organising body and competition
    • Auskick — a version of Australian rules designed by the AFL for young children
    • Metro footy (or Metro rules footy) — a modified version invented by the USAFL, for use on gridiron fields in North American cities (which often lack grounds large enough for conventional Australian rules matches)
    • Kick-to-kick – informal versions of the game
    • 9-a-side footy — a more open, running variety of Australian rules, requiring 18 players in total and a proportionally smaller playing area (includes contact and non-contact varieties)
    • Rec footy — "Recreational Football", a modified non-contact touch variation of Australian rules, created by the AFL, which replaces tackles with tags
    • Touch Aussie Rules — a non-contact variation of Australian Rules played only in the United Kingdom
    • Samoa rules — localised version adapted to Samoan conditions, such as the use of rugby football fields
    • Masters Australian football (a.k.a. Superules) — reduced contact version introduced for competitions limited to players over 30 years of age
    • Women's Australian rules football — played with a smaller ball and (sometimes) reduced contact version introduced for women's competition
  • Gaelic football — Played predominantly in Ireland. Sometimes referred to as "football" or "gah" [74][75][76]
  • International rules football — a compromise code used for games between Gaelic and Australian Rules players
See also: Comparison of Australian rules football and Gaelic football

Surviving medieval ball games

The ball is hit into the air at the 2006 Royal Shrovetide Football match. (Photographer: Gary Austin.)

Inside the UK

Outside the UK

Surviving UK school games

Harrow football players after a game at Harrow School.
Games still played at UK public (independent) schools:

Recent inventions and hybrid games

  • Keepie uppie (keep up)
    is the art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.
    • Footbag
      is a small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of keepie uppie variations, including hacky sack (which is a trade mark).


  • Freestyle football

a modern take on keepie uppie where freestylers are graded for their entertainment value and expression of skill.

Based on FA rules

Based on rugby

Hybrid games

Tabletop games and other recreations

Based on Football (soccer)

Based on rugby

Based on American football

Based on Australian football

Based on Rugby League football

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