association football
sport that is practiced between two teams of eleven players
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Summary
association football is a type of sport[1]. It ranks in the top 0.46% of type of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74,071 views/month, #2 of 435).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: team sport[3], Olympic sport[4], spectator sport[5], hobby[6]
- Main regulatory text: Laws of the Game[7]
- Named after: foot[8], kick[9]
- Subclass of: ball game[10]
- Commons category: Association football[11]
- Industry: sports industry[12]
- Unicode character: ⚽[13]
- Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1863[15]
- Authority: FIFA[16]
- Topic's main category: Category:Association football[17]
- Commons gallery: Association football[18]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Association football[19]
- OpenStreetMap tag: sport=soccer[20]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23]
- Has characteristic: association football museum[24], association football hall of fame[25]
- Short name: football[26], soccer[27]
- Minimum number of players: 7[28]
- Maximum number of players: 22[29]
- Different from: Football[30], minifootball[31], American football[32], Canadian football[33], gridiron football[34], Socca[35], street football[36], five-a-side football[37]
- History of topic: history of association football[38]
- Uses: association football kit[39], association football ball[40], association football pitch[41], association football goal[42], association football boots[43]
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Influence
Things named for association football include FK Daleron-Uroteppa[44], an it club[45], in Tajikistan[46], founded in 2011[47], headquartered in Istaravshan[48].
Why It Matters
association football has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]
Entities named for it include FK Daleron-Uroteppa[44], an it club[45], in Tajikistan[46], founded in 2011[47], headquartered in Istaravshan[48].