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  1. 1 day ago · American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron football, [nb 1] is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

  2. 4 days ago · The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...

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  4. May 20, 2024 · Football, any of a number of related games, all of which are characterized by two persons or teams attempting to kick, carry, throw, or otherwise propel a ball toward an opponent’s goal. In some of these games, only kicking is allowed; in others, kicking has become less important than other means.

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  5. 1 day ago · This article is about the history of association football, also known as soccer, at the Olympics. For gridiron football, see American football at the Summer Olympics. For the Australian rules football demonstration, see Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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    1 day ago · The Fédération internationale de football association (French for 'International Federation of Association Football'; abbreviated as FIFA and pronounced in English as / ˈ f iː f ə / FEE-fə) is an international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.

  7. 18 hours ago · The Australian Football League ( AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.

  8. 1 day ago · The 2024 AFL season is the 128th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season features 18 clubs and will run from 7 March to 28 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the ...

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