Association: FIFA
First Played: 1863, England
Team Members: 11
Equipment: Football
Field: Outdoors
Olympics Played: Men: 1900 Summer Olympics Women: 1996 Summer Olympics
Description:
Football is a team sport played with a unique spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. As of the 21st century, it is played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries and is the most popular sport in the world.
History:
The rules of modern football are based on forms of football played with different rules in private schools in England in the mid-19th century. Cambridge rules, which were created at Cambridge University in 1848 with the participation of representatives from educational institutions such as Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury and are the first written rules of football, were influential in the development of football and similar sports. In the 1850s, various clubs in English-speaking countries began to operate as independent organisations, separated from their schools or universities. Some of these developed their own rules and played according to these rules. The Football Association (or FA) was founded after a meeting on 26 October 1863, and five meetings were held between October and November of that year to produce the first comprehensive rules for football. At the last meeting, the first treasurer of the association representing Blackheath announced that his club was leaving the association after the previous meeting's draft decision to remove the two rules, which were to be run by handling the ball and to prevent runs by kicking the opponent's leg, was rejected. The remaining eleven clubs, under the chairmanship of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, developed the first fourteen rules of football. The first match to use these rules was played on 18 December 1863 at Mortlake between Barnes and Richmond, which was not a member of the Union, and the goals were
Field Dimensions:
The football pitch is rectangular and the two long lines on the sides of the pitch are called touch lines, while the lines on the short sides are called goal lines. The goal lines must be between 45 and 90 m (50 and 100 yd), and the touch lines must be between 90 and 120 m (100 and 130 yd). In international matches, these lengths are determined as 64 to 75 m (70 to 80 yd) for goal lines and 100 to 110 m (110 to 120 yd) for touch lines. The pitch is divided into two by a line connecting the midpoints of both touch lines. The centre point is in the middle of this line and this point is surrounded by a circle with a radius of 9.15 m (10 yd). On the other hand, football fields can be made of natural or artificial grass, as long as the ground color is green.
