A derby match between Galatasaray S.K. and Fenerbahçe S.K., two Turkish football teams.A match between Shrewsbury Town and Gillingham in England in 2011.African boys playing football.Three kids playing football on the beach.Boys play street football in the Adama Science and Technology University, in Ethiopia.At youth tournaments in Sweden, 5-year-olds play in teams of 3 in special paddocks measuring 10x15 meters.
Association football, or soccer, is a sport played between two teams. In the United States, Canada, Australia and Ireland, it is called soccer. In other English-speaking countries, it is called football. Association football is the most popular sport in the world.
Games like football have been played around the world since ancient times. The game came from England, where The Football Association made a standard set of rules for the game in 1824. The game has a black-and-white ball and originated in China, from its army. The players had a very heavy ball and goals high. England took the idea of the Chinese game and changed the rules a bit and now it is the modern game we know today.
Each team has 11 players on the field. One of the players is the goalkeeper, the only player who may touch the ball with the hands. The other ten are known as "outfield players" and try to kick the ball into their opponents' goal. The team that scores the most goals wins. A match has 90 minutes of play, with a break of 15 minutes called half-time.
Extra time may be added after half-time or after 90 minutes to make up for time that is lost during the game because of fouls, free kicks, corner kicks, injuries, bookings, substitutions or any other reason. A match may end in a tie except in some competition games in which a team must win. In that case, extra-time, with two halves of 15 minutes each, may be played, and if there is still a tie, a penalty shootout decides the winner. Sometimes,extra-time is skipped, and the game goes right into the penalty shootout.
Rules
A football field
Fundamental rules
The side which scores the most goals wins. If scores are equal, the result is a draw. In cup competitions, there may be extra time and penalties to determine a winner.
The officials in a football game are a referee and two linesmen.
Goals are scored by getting the ball into the opponents' goal more than halfway across the line.
In major tournaments, referees can use cameras to check whether a goal was scored.
The offside rule means that there must be at least two defenders between an attacker and the defenders' goal if the attacker's teammate passes the ball to the attacker. Usually, one of the two defenders is the goalkeeper. (This rule is complex and has many other details.) Before the rule was added, players would often stand next to their opponents' goal and score an easy goal as soon as the ball was passed to them.
Players may not use their hands or arms (handball) except goalkeepers, who may use them within their own penalty area (penalty areas are in front of both goals).
The ball is out of play if it crosses the field boundaries.
If a player hits the ball out of play at the side of the field, the other team gets to throw the ball back into play (a throw in).
If a player hits the ball out of play at their end of the field, the other team kicks the ball back into play from the corner (a corner kick).
If a player kicks the ball out of play at the other end of the field, the other team kicks the ball back into play from directly in front of the goal (a goal kick).
Football is a game of two halves. Each half is 45 minutes. The referee may add time to the end of each half when play is delayed by injuries or substitutions. There is an interval of ten minutes between halves.
Each team is allowed up to three substitutes from the bench during the course of a game. No player who us substituted may return during the game.
Behaviour rules
Players may not try to trip, push or hurt other players (a foul).
Players may not hold each other or stop other players from getting to the ball (obstruction).
When players scores, they are not allowed to jump into the crowd. If they do so, they will get a yellow card. The same applies to players lifting or removing their shirt in celebration.
Players who commit bad fouls get shown a yellow card. Players who commit serious fouls, or get shown two yellow cards in the same game, get shown a red card. Players who get shown a red card get sent off the field and may not finish playing the game. In some competitions like the Premier League in England, players miss the next game and are suspended if they get a red card or five yellow cards during the season.
Who plays football
Football is the world's most popular sport. It is played in more countries than any other game. In fact, FIFA has more members than the United Nations. It was originally an all-male sport, but it is now played by both males and females (separately except sometimes at the primary school level).
In football, fans encourage their team during the match.
There are many competitions for football for both football clubs and countries. Football clubs usually play other teams in their own country, with a few exceptions. Here are a list of some of those exceptions:
There are six associations (CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, CAF, UEFA, AFC and OFC). Each association has its own continental competition between clubs and national teams. Some examples are the Copa América for CONMEBOL national teams and the Copa Libertadores for CONMEBOL clubs. FIFA organises international competitions between worldwide clubs and countries. Clubs play in the Club World Cup, and countries play for the FIFA World Cup.
The FIFA World Cup takes place every four years between national teams and is the world's most popular sporting event, more than even the Olympic Games. In football, there are two main competition types. In a "league", all of the teams play the same number of games, but in a "cup", teams leave the competition when they lose, and the last two teams play each other to decide the winner.
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