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Football history
Welcome to FootballHistory
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The history of football (soccer)
Football (or soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long history
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But
alternative versions of the game existed much earlier and are a part of the football
history
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It was by the
Aztecs called Tchatali, although various versions of the game were spread over large
regions
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A unique feature of the Mesoamerican
ball game versions was a bouncing ball made of rubber – no other early culture had
access to rubber
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Cuju was played with a round ball (stitched leather
with fur or feathers inside) on an area of a square
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Perhaps even older cuju was Marn Gook, played by Aboriginal Australians and
according to white emigrants in the 1800s a ball game primarily involving kicking
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The rules are mostly unknown, but as with

many other early versions of the game keeping the ball in the air was probably a chief
feature
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The ball was made
by shreds of leather filled with hair (the first documents of balls filled with air are from the
7th century)
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In the Ancient Rome, games with balls were not included in the
entertainment on the big arenas (amphitheaters), but occurred in exercises in the military
by the name of Harpastum
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It is, however, uncertain in which degree the British people
were influenced by this variety and in which degree they had developed their own
variants
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In this century, games that resembled football were played on meadows and
roads in England
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This early form of football was also much more rough and violent than the
modern way of playing
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The rampage of these games would
cause damage on the town and sometimes death to the participants
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But the football-like games would return to the streets of London in the
17th century
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It took, however, long time until the features of today’s football had been taken into
practice
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There were also many variations concerning the size of the ball, the number of players
and the length of a match
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At Rugby the rules included the possibility to take up the ball with the hands
and the game we today know as rugby has its origin from here
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The game in Rugby was called “the running game”
while the game in Eton was called “the dribbling game”
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Another important
event in the history of football came about in 1863 in London when the first Football
association was formed in England
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The meeting also resulted in a standardization of the size and weight of
the ball
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The game would, however, continue to develop for a long time and there was still much
flexibility concerning the rules
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Neither were uniforms used to distinguish the appearance of the teams
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Further reading: The development of football rules
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Whereas the English teams preferred to run forward with the ball in a
more rugby fashion, the Scottish chose to pass the ball between their players
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The sport was at first an entertainment for the British working class
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The game would soon expand by British peoples who traveled to other parts of the
world
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The first football clubs
Football clubs have existed since the 15th century, but unorganized and without official
status
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Some historians
suggest that it was the Foot-Ball Club formed 1824 in Edinburgh
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The oldest among professional football clubs is the English club Notts County that
was formed in 1862 and still exists today
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Football
teams were established in the larger cities and the new railroads could bring them to
other cities
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Another change was successively
taking place when some clubs became willing to pay the best players to join their team
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The motivation behind paying players was not only to win more matches
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And finally, in 1885 professional football was legalized and three years later
the Football League was established
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For a long time, the British teams would be dominant
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As with many things in history, women were for a long time excluded from participating
in games
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The
first official women's game took place in Inverness in 1888
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Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup) became the first important
competition when it was run in 1871
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The match that involved England and Scotland
ended 0-0 and was followed by 4,000 people at Hamilton Crescent (the picture shows
illustrations from this occasion)
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Football was for a long time a British phenomenon, but it gradually spread to other
European countries
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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in 1904 and a
foundation act was signed by representatives from France, Belgium, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland
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Still, they joined in the following year, but would
not partake in the World Cup until 1950
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The first was, as already mentioned, the
English Football League which was established in 1888
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In 1908 would football for the first time be included as an official sport in the Olympic
Games
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Women's football
was not added until 1996
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In football black
players started being present relatively early and in comparison with, for example,
tennis, football has traditionally been known as a sport with a mix of black and white
players
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A game of passion

Few other sports show
examples of passion to that extent as football
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Already in the late 19th century, Goodison Park was built in England in purpose of
hosting football games
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A milestone in the development of football
stadiums is the construction of Maracanã Stadium
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No other sport has seen
stadiums of that capacity built to host its games
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The British fans adopted the tradition of singing, the repertoire was
inspired from pub and working songs among other areas
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Fans in other countries have later adopted
a mixture of these traditions
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The first edition of the FIFA World Cup was played in 1930 in
Uruguay and has since then returned every fourth year (with two exceptions due to the
Second World War)
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Today the biggest global tournament for clubs is the Champions League (played since
1992), the former European Cup (1955–1991)
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Today there are 211 national associations included in the Fédération Internationale de
Football Association (FIFA), the world governing body of the sport
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The world regions have been divided into six confederations: Confédération Africaine de
Football (CAF), Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Union des Associations
Européennes de Football (UEFA), The Confederation of North, Central America and
Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), Oceania Football Confederation (OFC),
and Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)
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A
quote from David Goldblatt's book The Ball is Round is one way to answer why:
It offers the spotlight for individual brilliance while relishing the defiance and heart of
collective endeavor
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It does
imperious triumph, lucky escapes, impossible comebacks and stubborn stalemates
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The name of the game: football or soccer?
In most parts of the world, football is used as the name for the “chess of the green pitch”,
the biggest sport in the world
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A more formal name sometimes used is
association football, but in popular speech, it is either football or soccer

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