- List of types of football
=Games descended from
The Football Association rules=* Association football, also known as "football", "soccer", "footy" and "footie".
* Indoor varieties of Association football:
**Five-a-side football - played throughout the world under various rules including:
***Futsal — theFIFA -approved Five-a-side indoor game
**Indoor soccer — the six-a-side indoor game as played inNorth America
*Paralympic Football — modified association football for disabled competitors.
*Beach soccer — football played on sand, also known as 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.
*Cubbies is a game originating on Merseyside played in Britain and parts of Sweden.
*Keepie uppie 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 such as hacky sack.
*Freestyle Football a modern take on Keepie uppie where freestylers are graded for their entertainment value and expression of skill.Games descended from
Rugby School rules*
Rugby football - game which split intorugby union andrugby league
**Rugby league
***Rugby league nines
**Rugby union
***Rugby Sevens
**Beach Rugby — Rugby played on sand.
**Touch Rugby a.k.a. Touch Football — a form of rugby without tackles.
*** Federation of International Touch codified version of Touch Rugby
***Tag Rugby a form of Touch Rugby but a velcro tag must be taken to indicte a tackle.
**** OzTag — a form of rugby league replacing tackles with tags.
**Wheelchair Rugby
*** Wheelchair Power Tag Rugby
*** Quad Rugby*
American football — called "football" in the United States, and "gridiron" or "gridiron football" in Australia
**Arena football — an indoor version of American football
**Touch football — non-tackle American football.
***Flag football — non-tackle American football, like touch football but a token must be taken to indicate a tackle.*
Canadian football — called simply "football" in Canada.
**Canadian flag football — non-tackle Canadian football.Other surviving English
public school games*
Eton Field Game
*Eton Wall Game
*Harrow Football
*Winchester College Football
=Irish andAustralia n varieties of football=*
Gaelic football (called football by this sporting community)
*Australian rules football (called football in the south and west of Australia and also in Victoria)
*International Rules — a compromise code used for games between Gaelic and Australian Rules players.
*Auskick — a version of Australian Rules designed for young children
*Austus — a compromise between Australian Rules and American football, invented in Melbourne duringWorld War II .urviving Medieval ball games
* "Traditional
Shrove Tuesday matches in theUnited Kingdom -- annual town- or village-wide football games with their own rules:"
**Alnwick inNorthumberland
** Ashbourne inDerbyshire (known asRoyal Shrovetide Football )
**Atherstone inWarwickshire
**Corfe Castle inDorset The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers
**Haxey inNorth Lincolnshire (theHaxey Hood , actually played on Epiphany)
**Hurling the Silver Ball takes place atSt Columb Major inCornwall
**Sedgefield inCounty Durham
** InScotland theBa game is still popular around Christmas andHogmanay at:
***Duns inBerwickshire
*** Scone inPerthshire
***Kirkwall inOrkney
*Outside the UK other medieval games include:
**Calcio Fiorentino — a modern revival of Renaissance football from16th century Florence .
**La Soule inNormandy andBrittany More recent inventions and derivations
* Based on Medieval 'mob' football
** Murder Ball
* Based on FA rules
**Cubbies
**Three sided football Tabletop games and other recreations
* Based on FA rules
**Subbuteo
**Blow football
**Foosball (also known as table football/soccer, babyfoot, bar football or gettone)
**Penny football (also known as coin football)
* Based on rugby
**Penny rugby
* Based on American Football
**Blood Bowl
**Paper football
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