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 — the FIFA-approved Five-a-side indoor game
** Indoor soccer — the six-a-side indoor game as played in North 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 into rugby union and rugby 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 and Australian 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 during World War II.

urviving Medieval ball games

* "Traditional Shrove Tuesday matches in the United Kingdom -- annual town- or village-wide football games with their own rules:"
** Alnwick in Northumberland
** Ashbourne in Derbyshire (known as Royal Shrovetide Football)
** Atherstone in Warwickshire
** Corfe Castle in Dorset The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers
** Haxey in North Lincolnshire (the Haxey Hood, actually played on Epiphany)
** Hurling the Silver Ball takes place atSt Columb Major in Cornwall
** Sedgefield in County Durham
** In Scotland the Ba game is still popular around Christmas and Hogmanay at:
*** Duns in Berwickshire
*** Scone in Perthshire
*** Kirkwall in Orkney
*Outside the UK other medieval games include:
** Calcio Fiorentino — a modern revival of Renaissance football from 16th century Florence.
**La Soule in Normandy and Brittany

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