This is a list of various types of football, most variations found as gridiron, rugby, association football.
Games descended from The FA rulesEdit
- Association football, also known as football, soccer, footy and footie.
- Association football varieties with reduced number of team members
- Five-a-side football - played throughout the world under various rules including:
- Indoor soccer – the six-a-side indoor game as played in North America
- Paralympic association football – modified association football for disabled competitors.
- Beach soccer – football played on sand, also known as sand soccer
- Crab football
- Jorkyball
- Rush goalie is a variation of football in which the role of the goalkeeper is more flexible than normal.
- 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.
- Swamp football
- Street football - encompasses a number of informal varieties of football.
- Three-sided football
- Walking football
- Ice football
Some games, such as footballtennis, are not related to association football but use a football to produce a variant of another game.
The hockey game bandy has rules partly based on the association football rules and is sometimes nicknamed as 'winter football'.
Games descended from Rugby School rulesEdit
- Rugby football - game which split into rugby union and rugby league
- Rugby league
- Rugby league sevens
- Rugby league nines
- 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 indicate a tackle.
- OzTag – a form of rugby league replacing tackles with tags.
- Wheelchair rugby league
- Rugby union
- Beach Rugby – Rugby played on sand.
- Wheelchair Rugby
- Rugby league
- 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 (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 simply "football" in Canada.
- Canadian flag football – non-tackle Canadian football.
Other surviving English public school gamesEdit
Irish/Gaelic and Australian varieties of footballEdit
Although both sports arose largely independently, Gaelic football and Australian rules football or 'Aussie rules' share a number of common characteristics that separate their sports from the other football codes, most notably the lack of an offside rule, rules requiring bouncing of the ball when running with it in hand, passing by kick or handstrike, and a scoring system with major and minor scores (goals and points in Gaelic football, goals and behinds in Australian rules). Both sports are also hugely popular in their country of origin, indeed, the dominant code in each, but with limited global spread, a feature they share with Gridiron forms 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.
Surviving Medieval ball gamesEdit
- 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 at St 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 derivationsEdit
Tabletop games and other recreationsEdit
- 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
- Based on American Football
- Others
- Paper Soccer - paper and pencil game
- Phutball - board game
