List of types of football


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

Games descended from the FA">The Football Association">FA rules

With elements of another sport:
Some games, such as football tennis, footvolley and teqball, although they use a football and avoid the use of hands, are not goal sports. The hockey game bandy has rules partly based on association football rules and is sometimes nicknamed "winter football".

Games descended from [Rugby School] rules

Irish/Gaelic">Ireland">Irish/Gaelic and [Australia]n varieties of football

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. As such, the sports exist as a form of convergent evolution, which has led to the swapping of players between the codes, and some co-operation between their respective authorities. 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.

Surviving English public school">Public school (UK)">English public school games

Surviving medieval ball games

Tabletop games and other recreations