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.
- Indoor varieties of Association football :
- *Five-a-side football - played throughout the world under various rules including:
- **Futsal – 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
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 – 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">Public school (UK)">public school games
- Eton Field Game
- Eton Wall Game
- Harrow Football
- Winchester College Football
Irish">Ireland">Irish and [Australia]n varieties of football
- Gaelic football
- Australian rules football
- 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
- * Atherstone in Warwickshire
- * Corfe Castle in Dorset The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers
- * Haxey in North Lincolnshire
- * 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
- Combat football
Tabletop games and other recreations
- Based on FA rules
- * Subbuteo
- * Blow football
- * Foosball
- * Penny football
- Based on rugby
- * Penny rugby
- Based on American Football
- * Blood Bowl
- * Paper football
- Others
- * Paper Soccer - paper and pencil game
- * Phutball - board game