List of types of football
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Games descended from The Football Association 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:
- Indoor soccer — the six-a-side indoor game as played in North America
- Paralympic Football — modified association football for disabled competitors.
- Beach soccer — football played on sand, also known as sand soccer
- Street football - encompasses a number of informal varieties of football.
- 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.
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
- Beach Rugby — Rugby played on sand.
- Wheelchair Rugby
- Rugby league
- 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
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
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
