- AAmerican football
- BGaelic football
- CCricket
- DRugby union
Cricket is not a code of football.
The Football League was founded in England in 1888, becoming the first of many professional football associations.
Richard Mulcaster, a student at Eton College in the early 16th century and later headmaster at other English schools, has been described as "the greatest sixteenth Century advocate of football".
Mulcaster's writings refer to teams ("sides" and "parties"), positions ("standings"), a referee ("judge over the parties") and a coach "(trayning maister)".
Willughby mentions tactics ("leaving some of their best players to guard the goal"); scoring ("they that can strike the ball through their opponents' goal first win") and the way teams were selected ("the players being equally divided according to their strength and nimbleness").
Mulcaster believed that organizing football into teams with positions and a referee, and avoiding violent body contact, could make the game less barbarous and more beneficial to the body.
All FIFA tournaments generate revenue from sponsorship, which in 2018, amounted to over US$4.6 billion. FIFA had cash reserves of over US$2.7 billion at the end of the 2015-2018 cycle, indicating the financial success of the organization.
The division between "kicking" and "running" (or "carrying") games was first made clear at English public schools, but it was not a contribution of Richard Mulcaster. Mulcaster's contributions include references to teams, positions, a referee and a coach, as well as the earliest evidence of organised team football and a move away from the disordered and violent forms of traditional football.
The Vulgaria is a Latin textbook written by William Herman, who had been headmaster at Eton and Winchester colleges. It includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde", which provides the earliest evidence of games resembling football being played at English public schools.
FIFA was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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