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List of types of football

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This is a list of various types of football, including most variations of gridiron, rugby and association football.

Games descended from The FA rules

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Some games, such as football tennis, footvolley and teqball, are not related to association football, but use a football to produce a variant of another game. The hockey game bandy has rules partly based on association football rules and is sometimes nicknamed "winter football" (Swedish: vinterns fotboll).[3]

Games descended from Rugby School rules

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Irish/Gaelic and Australian varieties of football

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Although both sports arose largely independently, Gaelic football and Australian rules football or "Aussie rules" share a number of common characteristics that separate them from the other football codes, most notably the lack of an offside rule, rules requiring bouncing of the ball when running with it in hand, passing by kick or handstrike, and a scoring system with major and minor scores (goals and points in Gaelic football, goals and behinds in Australian rules). Both sports are also very popular in their country of origin, indeed the dominant code in each, but with limited global spread, a feature they share with gridiron forms of football.

  • 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 English public school games

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Surviving medieval ball games

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Tabletop games and other recreations

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Summerscales, Robert (2022-04-05). "What Is OmegaBall? Rules Of Soccer's Newest Format Explained". Futbol on FanNation. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
  2. ^ Welch, Neil. "Stay on Your Feet: Ice Football Is Here". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  3. ^ "bandy - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se (in Swedish). 2023-03-01. Archived from the original on 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2023-03-01.