Outline of association football

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to association football

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to association football:

Association football – sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] More commonly known as football or soccer.

What type of thing is association football?

Association football can be described as all of the following:

Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
- Aerobic exercise – physical exercise that intends to improve the oxygen system.^[5] Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's energy-generating process (the citric acid cycle).
Game – structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional sports).
- Ball game – game played with a ball.
  - A type of football – sport that involves kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.
Sport – form of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants.
- Competitive sport – sport in which one or more participants or teams compete against one another. The one that is the most successful in achieving the objective of the game or sport event is the winner.
  - A type of football – sport that involves kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.
- Goal sport – sport in which an attacking team must send a ball or puck into a physical structure or area called a "goal" in order to score points.
- Team sport – sport that involves players working together towards a shared objective.
- Recreational sport – sport engaged in as a leisure time activity.
- Spectator sport – sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches. Spectator sports are a form of entertainment.
- Professional sport – sport in which the athletes receive payment for their performance.

Names for association football

football
- futbol
- futboll
- fotbal
soccer

Equipment

Association football pitch – playing field.
Football – ball used in the sport of association football. The ball's spherical shape, as well as its size, weight, and material composition, are specified by Law 2 of the Laws of the Game maintained by the International Football Association Board.
Kit – standard equipment and attire worn by players.
- Basic:
  - jersey
  - shorts
  - socks
  - footwear
  - shin pads

Rules of the game

Laws of the Game – the rules.

Law 1: The Field of Play
Law 2: The Ball
Law 3: The Number of Players
Law 4: The Players' Equipment
Law 5: The Referee
Law 6: The Assistant Referees
Law 7: The Duration of the Match
Law 8: The Start and Restart of Play
Law 9: The Ball in and Out of Play
Law 10: The Method of Scoring
Law 11: Offside
Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct
Law 13: Free kicks (direct and indirect)
Law 14: The Penalty Kick
Law 15: The Throw-In
Law 16: The Goal Kick
Law 17: Corner kick

Variants of association football

Crab football
Jorkyball
Powerchair football
Swamp football
Three-sided football
Walking football
Beach soccer – football played on sand, also known as sand soccer
Freestyle Football – modern take on Keepie uppie where freestylers are graded for their entertainment value and expression of skill.
Indoor varieties of Association football:
- Five-a-side football – played throughout the world under various rules including:
  - Futsal ('futebol de salão') – the FIFA-approved Five-a-side indoor game
- Indoor soccer – the six-a-side indoor game as played in North America
Keepie uppie – art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.
- Footbag – small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of keepie uppie variations such as hacky sack.
Paralympic Football – modified association football for disabled competitors.
Rush goalie – variation of football in which the role of the goalkeeper is more flexible than normal.
Street football – encompasses a number of informal varieties of football.
Women's association football – played with the exact same rules and equipment as men's football.

Gameplay

Strategy

Training ground (association football)
Formation (association football)
Association football positions

Tactics and techniques

Association football tactics and skills

Anti-football
Behind The Leg Flip Flap
Bicycle kick
Catenaccio
Combination Game
Corner kick
Cruijff Turn
Curl
Direct free kick
Diving
Flip flap
Flo Pass
Formation
Last man
Long ball
Marseille turn
Nutmeg
One touch
Passing
Pelé runaround move
Push and run
Rabona
Rainbow kick
Revie Plan
Seal dribble
Shooting
Sliding tackle
Step over
Tiki-taka
Total Football
Volley
Work rate

Association football teams

Football club (association football)
List of association football clubs
List of men's national association football teams
List of women's national association football teams
List of women's association football clubs

History of association football

History of association football, by period

Timeline of association football
- Timeline of English football
- Timeline of Scottish football
Prehistory of association football
Association football during World War I
Association football during World War II
- List of footballers killed during World War II

By year

1840s · 1850s · 1860s
1870 · 1871 · 1872 · 1873 · 1874 · 1875 · 1876 · 1877 · 1878 · 1879
1880 · 1881 · 1882 · 1883 · 1884 · 1885 · 1886 · 1887 · 1888 · 1889
1890 · 1891 · 1892 · 1893 · 1894 · 1895 · 1896 · 1897 · 1898 · 1899
1900 · 1901 · 1902 · 1903 · 1904 · 1905 · 1906 · 1907 · 1908 · 1909
1910 · 1911 · 1912 · 1913 · 1914 · 1915 · 1916 · 1917 · 1918 · 1919
1920 · 1921 · 1922 · 1923 · 1924 · 1925 · 1926 · 1927 · 1928 · 1929
1930 · 1931 · 1932 · 1933 · 1934 · 1935 · 1936 · 1937 · 1938 · 1939
1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945 · 1946 · 1947 · 1948 · 1949
1950 · 1951 · 1952 · 1953 · 1954 · 1955 · 1956 · 1957 · 1958 · 1959
1960 · 1961 · 1962 · 1963 · 1964 · 1965 · 1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969
1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989
1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019
2020

History of association football, by region

History of football in Tibet and the diaspora
History of soccer in the United States
- History of professional soccer in Seattle

History of association football, by subject

History of CAF
Christianity and association football
History of the Copa Libertadores
History of FIFA
History of the FIFA World Cup
Homosexuality in association football
Mental health in association football
Football club mergers
Oldest football clubs
Oldest football competitions
Professionalism in association football
Racism in association football
Unrelegated association football clubs

Association football culture

Professionalism in association football

Association football around the world

Names for association football (what it is called, where)
List of association football stadiums by country

Association football organizations

Association football competitions

International competitions

List of association football competitions

Domestic competitions

Geography of association football
Geography of women's association football

Governing bodies

FIFA
Asian Football Confederation
CONCACAF
Confederation of African Football
CONMEBOL
Oceania Football Confederation
UEFA
International Football Association Board

Association football publications

Kicker
Match
FourFourTwo
France Football
Kick Off
Offside
Onze Mondial
Shekicks
Shoot
World Soccer

Persons influential in association football

Contributors

Players

List of top association football goal scorers
Lists of association football players

Coaches

References

↑ "Overview of Soccer". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/550852/football.
↑ Guttman, Allen (1993). "The Diffusion of Sports and the Problem of Cultural Imperialism". in Eric Dunning. The Sports Process: A Comparative and Developmental Approach. Champaign: Human Kinetics. p. 129. ISBN 0-88011-624-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQY5wxQDn5gC&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&pg=PA129. "the game is complex enough not to be invented independently by many preliterate cultures and yet simple enough to become the world's most popular team sport"
↑ Dunning, Eric (1999). "The development of soccer as a world game". Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation. London: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 0-415-06413-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=X3lX_LVBaToC&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&pg=PA105. "During the twentieth century, soccer emerged as the world's most popular team sport"
↑ Mueller, Frederick; Cantu, Robert; Van Camp, Steven (1996). "Team Sports". Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports. Champaign: Human Kinetics. p. 57. ISBN 0-87322-674-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=XG6AIHLtyaUC&dq=soccer+most+popular+team+sport&pg=PA57. "Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and is an industry worth over US$400 billion world wide. 80% of this is generated in Europe, though its popularity is growing in the United States. It has been estimated that there were 22 million soccer players in the world in the early 1980s, and that number is increasing. In the United States soccer is now a major sport at both the high school and college levels"
↑ Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)

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[EB-1] "Overview of Soccer". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/550852/football.

[2] Guttman, Allen (1993). "The Diffusion of Sports and the Problem of Cultural Imperialism". in Eric Dunning. The Sports Process: A Comparative and Developmental Approach. Champaign: Human Kinetics. p. 129. ISBN 0-88011-624-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=tQY5wxQDn5gC&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&pg=PA129. "the game is complex enough not to be invented independently by many preliterate cultures and yet simple enough to become the world's most popular team sport"

[3] Dunning, Eric (1999). "The development of soccer as a world game". Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation. London: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 0-415-06413-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=X3lX_LVBaToC&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&pg=PA105. "During the twentieth century, soccer emerged as the world's most popular team sport"

[4] Mueller, Frederick; Cantu, Robert; Van Camp, Steven (1996). "Team Sports". Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports. Champaign: Human Kinetics. p. 57. ISBN 0-87322-674-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=XG6AIHLtyaUC&dq=soccer+most+popular+team+sport&pg=PA57. "Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and is an industry worth over US$400 billion world wide. 80% of this is generated in Europe, though its popularity is growing in the United States. It has been estimated that there were 22 million soccer players in the world in the early 1980s, and that number is increasing. In the United States soccer is now a major sport at both the high school and college levels"

[5] Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)

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