List of types of football

Games descended from The FA 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:
• **Futsal – the FIFA-approved Five-a-side indoor game
• *Indoor soccer – the six-a-side indoor game as played in North America
• Paralympic association football – modified association football for disabled competitors.
• *Powerchair football
• Beach soccer – football played on sand, also known as sand soccer
• Crab football
• Jorkyball
• 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.
• Swamp football
• Street football - encompasses a number of informal varieties of football.
• Three-sided football
• Walking football

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
• ** Rugby Sevens
• * Beach Rugby – Rugby played on sand.
• * Wheelchair Rugby
• ** Quad Rugby
• 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 – 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">Public school (UK)">public school games

• Eton Field Game
• Eton Wall Game
• Harrow Football
• Winchester College Football

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

• Gaelic football
• Australian rules football
• 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
• * Atherstone in Warwickshire
• * Corfe Castle in Dorset The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers
• * Haxey in North Lincolnshire
• * 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

• Three sided football
• Combat football

  Tabletop games and other recreations

• Based on FA rules
• * Subbuteo
• * Blow football
• * Foosball
• * Penny football
• Based on rugby
• * Penny rugby
• Based on American Football
• * Blood Bowl
• * Paper football
• Others
• * Paper Soccer - paper and pencil game
• * Phutball - board game