List of types of football

This is a list of various types of football, most variations found as gridiron, rugby, association football.

Games descended from The FA rules[]

• 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:
    • Futsal ('futebol de salão') – the FIFA-approved Five-a-side indoor game
  • Indoor soccer – the six-a-side indoor game as played in North America
• Paralympic association football – modified association football for disabled competitors.
  • Powerchair football
• 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 rules[]

• 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
    • Rugby Sevens
  • Beach Rugby – Rugby played on sand.
  • Wheelchair 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 (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 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.

Surviving 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 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 derivations[]

• Three sided football
• bubble 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
• Based on American Football
  • Blood Bowl
  • Paper football
• Others
  • Paper Soccer - paper and pencil game
  • Phutball - board game

See also[]

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