List of types of football
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This is a list of variants of football, including most variations of gridiron, rugby and association football.
Association football variants
- Association football, also known as "soccer".
- 3v3 Soccer
- Five-a-side football – played under various rules, including:
- Futsal - the FIFA-approved five-a-side indoor game.
- Beach soccer – played on sand, governed by FIFA.
- Indoor soccer – six-a-side indoor game played in North America.
- Seven-a-side football – a variation of minifootball.
- Sevens football – a version played in India.
- Paralympic football – modified for disabled competitors.
- Amputee football
- Blind football (5-a-side)
- Cerebral palsy football (7-a-side)
- Powerchair football and wheelchair soccer
- Crab football
- Jorkyball
- Keepie uppie – the art of juggling a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.
- Footbag or hacky sack – using a small bean bag or sand bag as a ball.
- Freestyle football – a modern take on keepie uppie where freestylers are graded for their entertainment value and expression of skill.
- Rush goalie – the role of the goalkeeper is more flexible than normal.
- Street football – a number of informal varieties.
- Swamp football
- Three-sided football
- Walking football
With elements of other sports
- Motoball
- Roller soccer
- Football tennis
- Footvolley
- Teqball
- Bandy hockey game partly based on association football, sometimes nicknamed "winter football".[2]
Rugby football variants
- Rugby football – the game which split into rugby union and rugby league.
- Rugby league
- Rugby league sevens
- Rugby league nines
- Touch football – a form of rugby league without tackles.
- Tag rugby – a form of rugby league, but a velcro tag must be taken to indicate a tackle.
- Wheelchair rugby league
- Rugby union
- Rugby sevens
- Beach rugby – rugby played on sand.
- Wheelchair rugby or quad rugby
- Rugby league
- Gridiron football
- American football – called "football" in the United States, and "gridiron" or "gridiron football" in Australia.
- Arena football – indoor American football.
- Touch football (American) – 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 "football" in Canada.
- Canadian flag football – non-tackle Canadian football.
- American football – called "football" in the United States, and "gridiron" or "gridiron football" in Australia.
Gaelic and Australian rules
- Gaelic football – called "football" in Ireland.
- Australian rules football – called "football" in much of Australia.
- Auskick – a version of Australian rules designed for young children.
- International rules football – a compromise code used for games between Gaelic and Australian rules players.
- Austus – a compromise between Australian rules and American football, invented in Melbourne during World War II.
Surviving English public school games
Surviving medieval ball games
- Traditional Shrove Tuesday matches in the United Kingdom – annual town- or village-wide football games with their own rules are played at:
- 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)
- St Columb Major in Cornwall (Hurling the Silver Ball)
- 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
- Calcio fiorentino – a modern revival of Renaissance football from 16th century Florence.
- La soule in Normandy and Brittany
Tabletop games and other recreations
- Based on association football:
- Blow football
- Bubble football
- Button football
- Elephant football
- Foosball – also known as table football/soccer, babyfoot, bar football or gettone.
- Ice football[3]
- Subbuteo
- Based on rugby:
- Based on American football:
- Others:
- Paper soccer – paper and pencil game.
- Penny football – also known as coin football.
- Phutball – board game.
See also
- List of football video games (disambiguation)
- Table football (disambiguation)
- List of association football competitions
- Episkyros and harpastum – precursors of medieval football.
- Cuju, kemari and sepak takraw – traditional Asian sports that share a few similarities with modern association football.