The names of football refer to the terms used to describe the sport most commonly referred to as either football or soccer in the English speaking world. Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

For other usages of the word "football" see: football (word). In most English-speaking countries, the word football may mean any one of several games, or the ball used in that game. ...

Background

The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other versions of football played at the time. The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at (so called) public schools ... actually private schools; most people knew the game simply as football. Today the term association football is rarely used, although some clubs still include Association Football Club (AFC) in their name. The game is sometimes also known colloquially as footy and footer. Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England (and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man). ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... // Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... Charles Wreford Brown Charles Wreford Brown (9 October 1866 _ 26 November 1951) is usually credited with inventing the word soccer as an abbreviation for association football. ... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... A Rugby player Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... A public school, in current English, Welsh and Northern Ireland usage, is a (usually) prestigious independent school, for children usually between the ages of 11 or 13 and 18, which charges fees and is not financed by the state. ... Private schools, in the United States, Australia, Scotland, and other English-speaking countries, are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds. ...

English speaking countries

Football is more commonly known as soccer in certain English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Australia, Canada, the United States, and sometimes the Republic of Ireland, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic forms of the game, soccer became more widely used. Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A Rugby player Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School. ...

In the United States, the sport's governing body is the United States Soccer Federation. This body was originally called the U.S. Football Association, and was formed in 1913 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. The word "soccer" was added to the name in 1945, making it the U.S. Soccer Football Association, and it did not drop the word "football" until 1974, when it assumed its current name. Today, "soccer" is the standard name for the sport in the United States, with "football" referring instead to American football. The United States Soccer Federation (USSF) is the official governing body of the sport of soccer in the United States. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ...

In Australian English, the word football usually means either Australian rules football or rugby league depending on the regional background of the speaker. Soccer is the name used for Association football by most Australians. The usage of football to mean Australian rules or rugby football was already fixed when the first reports of Association football in Australia occurred, in 1880. However, the popular usages are not fixed in any legal form, such as a trademark on the word "football", and by the late 20th century, a few Australian authorities began to use the word football in relation to soccer. For example, the sports department at the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), has always used the name "football". In 2004, the Australian Soccer Association changed its name to Football Federation Australia (FFA), and announced that the official name of the sport in Australia had been changed to "football". The FFA mounted a campaign for the new name to be adopted by its subsidiary state organisations and clubs, most of whom have changed their names and/or terminology (with exception of Soccer New South Wales). This was met with antipathy and/or bemusement by followers of Australian rules and rugby league and the game is still mostly known as soccer. Some media sources besides SBS adopted the new usage or used qualifiers such as "the world game", to avoid confusion with the more popular codes of football. However, most media outlets have not adopted the new usage. The national team is still commonly known by its longstanding nickname, The Socceroos. Australian English (AuE) is the form of the English language used in Australia. ... Australian Rules and Aussie Rules redirect here. ... Rugby league is a team sport, played by two teams of 13 players. ... The Australian States and Territories comprise the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ... Football or soccer is one of the most popular recreational sports in Australia. ... 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is one of two government funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television networks, the other being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ... Football Federation Australia (FFA) is the governing body for the sport of football (soccer) in Australia. ... Soccer NSW logo Soccer New South Wales (Soccer NSW) is the governing body for football (soccer) in the Australian state of New South Wales, with the exception of the northern regons of NSW (the governing body for which is the Northern New South Wales Soccer Federation). ... First international New Zealand 3 - 1 Australia (Dunedin, New Zealand; June 17, 1922) Largest win Australia 31 - 0 American Samoa (Coffs Harbour, Australia; April 11, 2001) (World Record) Worst defeat Australia 0 - 8 South Africa (Adelaide, Australia; September 17, 1955) World Cup Appearances 2 (First in 1974) Best result Round...

In Canada, "football" (or le football) refers only to Canadian football or the closely related American football, in both of its national languages. The usage of "soccer" is so uniform that even in French-speaking Quebec, the game is known as le soccer and the provincial governing body is the Fédération de Soccer du Québec. Canadian football is a sport in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (100. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... For the capital, see Quebec City. ...

In Ireland, it is mainly called Soccer. When a person refers to Football, they are more likely to be refering to Gaelic Football. However the governing body The Football Association of Ireland uses the word Football. In the Irish language, the word for association football is sacar. GAA teams Offaly and Louth in action Gaelic football (Irish: peil ghaelach) is a form of football played mainly in Ireland. ... The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) is the organising body for the sport of Association football (soccer) in the Republic of Ireland. ... Irish (Gaeilge), a Goidelic language spoken in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Canada, and the United States, is constitutionally recognised as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland. ...

"Soccer" is the slightly more common name in South Africa, although black South Africans generally use "football" and the country's national association is called the South African Football Association. However, "soccer" is used by speakers of both English and Afrikaans, in which the name is sokker. The South African Football Association or SAFA is the governing body of football (soccer) in South Africa. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. ...

Outside of these countries the word "soccer" has not been commonly used and "football" remains by far the most common name to describe the sport, being the name officially used by both FIFA, the sport's world governing body, and the International Olympic Committee. However, the use of "soccer" is on the rise, perhaps due to the global influence of American culture on the English language. Bold textralf is gay IOC redirects here. ...

Non-English speaking countries

Football, in its modern form, was exported by the British to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the Spanish fútbol [ˈfutbol], Portuguese: futebol, Romanian: fotbal, Galician: fútbol, Catalan: futbol and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. Similarly, the Russian word is futbol (Футбол) and the Turkish word is futbol. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Romance languages in the world: Blue – French; Green – Spanish; Orange – Portuguese; Yellow – Italian; Red – Romanian The Romance languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, comprise all languages that descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. ... Galician (Galician: galego) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia. ... Catalan (Català IPA: ) also called Valencian (Valencià IPA: ) is a Romance language, the only official language of Andorra and co-official in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia. ...

In some languages in which a local word is used for the game, the English word "football" is used for American football. This is the case in German, where association football is known as Fußball and the peak body for American football is known as the German Football League (in English). The German football League (GFL) is the elite bundesliga for American football in Germany. ...

English aside, in other members of the Germanic family of languages, the word is usually translated: for example, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ...

This also applies to Finnish (jalkapallo), Greek podosfero (ποδόσφαιρο), Spanish: (fútbol), Arabic (kurat al qadam) and Hebrew (kaduregel/כדורגל). In Polish both ways (futbol and piłka nożna) are used, as well as in Czech (fotbal or kopaná). The official name in Slovak is futbal (fucík in common language) and in Hungarian there are futball or labdarúgás (meaning ball-kicking), but foci is used in the common langaugage. The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ transliterated: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ transliterated: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ...

In Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick. This is due to the game's resemblance to Calcio Fiorentino, a 17th century ceremonial Florentine court ritual, that has now been revived under the name il calcio storico (historical kick or kickball in costume). Calcio Fiorentino was an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value, which is prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. ...

In Japan, use of the term sakkā (サッカー) is more common than that of the term futtobōru (フットボール), although the latter term would seem to be gaining popularity.

In Korea, football is called 축구 (chook gu). Similarly, in Chinese, the term 足球 (Hanyu Pinyin: zúqiú, Cantonese: juk kau) is used. The term, a calque, literally means football (足=foot, 球=ball), and is always associated with association football. No other sport known as football (in English) shares this name. Rugby is known as 橄榄球 (olive ball). Korea (Korean: (ì¡°ì„  or 한국, see below) is a geographical area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, bordering China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast, with Japan situated to the southeast across the Korea Strait. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

In Thai, the word football (ฟุตบอล) is used.

In Vietnamese, the term "bóng đá" is used to denote "football". Its literal meaning is "kicking ball".

Aside from the name of the game itself, other foreign words based on English football terms include versions in many languages of the word goal (often gol in Romance languages) and schútte (Basel) or tschuutte (Zürich), derived from the English shoot, meaning 'to play football' in German-speaking Switzerland. There's also nogomet in Croatian and Slovene which is composed of the words for "foot" and "target". Also, words derived from kick has found their way into German (noun kicker) and Swedish (verb kicka). In France le penalty means a penalty kick, however the phrase tir au but is often used in the context of a penalty shootout Location within Switzerland Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian and Spanish: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands... Location within Switzerland (German pronunciation IPA: ; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... In Association Football (soccer), a penalty kick is a free kick from twelve yards (eleven metres) out with only the goalkeeper of the defending team between the penalty taker and the goal. ... Kicks from the penalty mark (commonly referred to as a penalty shootout) are sometimes used to decide the winner of a tied match of association football (soccer). ...

See also

• Football (undifferentiated) - an overview of the history and development of different football-style sports