List of types of football

This is a list of various types of football, including most variations of gridiron, rugby and association football.

Games descended from The FA rules

• Association football, also known as "soccer".
• Association football varieties with reduced number of team members:
  • Five-a-side football – played throughout the world under various rules, including:
    • Futsal (from Portuguese: futebol de salão and Spanish: fútbol de salón) – the FIFA-approved five-a-side indoor game.
    • Omegaball (three 5-a-side teams in simultaneous competition with each other on a circular field)^[1]
  • Indoor soccer – the six-a-side indoor game as played in North America.
  • Seven-a-side football – a variation of minifootball played by teams of seven players.
    • Sevens football – a seven-a-side game played in India.
• Paralympic football – modified association football for disabled competitors.
  • Amputee football
  • Blind football (5-a-side)
  • Cerebral palsy football (7-a-side)
  • Powerchair football and wheelchair soccer
• Beach soccer – played on sand, also known as sand football. Like futsal, it is governed by FIFA.
• Jorkyball
• Rush goalie – a variation of football in which the role of the goalkeeper is more flexible than normal.
• Keepie uppie – the art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.
  • Footbag or hacky sack – a small bean bag or sand bag is 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.
• Walking football
• 3v3 Soccer
• Three-sided football
• Roller soccer
• Crab football
• Ice football^[2]
• Serbian rules football (Balkan football)
• Elephant football

Some games, such as football tennis, footvolley and teqball, 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 association football rules and is sometimes nicknamed "winter football" (Swedish: vinterns fotboll).^[3]

Games descended from Rugby School rules

• Rugby football – the game which split into rugby union and rugby league.
  • Rugby league
    • Rugby league sevens
    • Rugby league nines
    • Touch rugby or 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
    • Rugby sevens
  • Beach rugby – rugby played on sand.
  • Wheelchair rugby or 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 (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.

Irish/Gaelic and Australian varieties of football

Although both sports arose largely independently, Gaelic football and Australian rules football or "Aussie rules" share a number of common characteristics that separate them 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 very 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 football – 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 English public school games

• Eton field game
• Eton wall game
• Harrow football
• Winchester College football

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
• 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

Tabletop games and other recreations

• Based on association football:
  • 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
• Others:
  • Paper soccer – paper and pencil game.
  • Phutball – board game.
  • Bubble football

See also

• List of football video games (disambiguation)
• Table football (disambiguation)
• List of association football competitions

References