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Football, commonly known as association football or soccer, is a sport in which two teams of 11 players attempt to advance the ball to the goal of the other team by using any other body part but their hands and arms. The only person who can handle the ball is the goal, and they may only do so in the area around the goal handle the ball is the goalie, and they may only do so in the area around the goal that is specified as the penalty area. The team with the most goals scored wins.

According to the number of players and viewers, football is the most watched sport in the world. Due to its fundamental principles and required equipment, the sport can be played almost anywhere, including football fields, gyms, streets, playgrounds at schools, parks, and beaches. In 2010, more than 26 billion people watched the quadrennial month-long World Cup finals on television, which are the top event in football. FIFA estimates that at the start of the twenty-first century, there were over 250 million football players and more than 1.3 billion people who were “interested” in the game.

History of Football

The 19th century saw the birth of modern football in Britain. In Britain during the 19th century, modern football was created.been played in cities and villages since before the Middle Ages, following regional traditions and requiring the fewest possible regulations. From the early 19th century on, the status of the game was weakened by industrialization and urbanization, which decreased the amount of free time and space available to the working class, as well as by a history of legal restrictions against particularly violent and destructive forms of folk football. But in public (independent) schools like Winchester, Charter-house, and Eton, football was adopted as a winter sport between resident houses. Each school had its own set of regulations; some permitted just a certain amount of handling of the ball, while others did not urbanization.

Public school boys who entered universities found it challenging to continue playing, outside of with previous classmates, due to the disparity in regulations. The University of Cambridge made an effort to regulate and codify the game’s regulations as early as 1843. By 1848, most public schools had adopted these “Cambridge rules,” which were then further popularized by Cambridge alums who founded football clubs. The written football regulations, which forbade carrying the ball, were created in 1863 following a series of discussions with clubs from metropolitan London and neighbouring counties. As a result, the rugby “handling” game was excluded from the newly established Football Association (FA). In fact, the FA forbade the handling of the ball by anybody other than the goalkeeper by 1870. However, the new regulations were not adopted by all clubs in Britain, particularly those in and around Sheffield. While the Sheffield Football Association, the progenitor of later country organizations, was founded in this northern English city in 1867, it was also the location of the first provincial club to join the FA. Two games were played between Sheffield and London clubs in 1866, and the following year a game between a Middle sex club and a Kent and Surrey club was played under the new set of regulations. 15 FA clubs agreed to participate in a cup tournament and pay the cost of a trophy in 1871. The organizations in Great Britain had settled on a common code by 1877. There were 43 clubs competing, and the London clubs’ early supremacy had waned. The development of modern football in Victorian Britain had a clear correlation with the industrial and urbanization processes.

The majority of the new working-class residents of Britain’s industrial towns and cities eventually stopped participating in ancient rural pleasures like badger-baiting and sought out new types of communal recreation. With an increase in the likelihood that industrial employees would have Saturdays off starting in the 1850s, many of them began to watch or participate in the new sport of football. Important urban organizations like churches, unions, and schools formed football leagues for working-class boys and men. Growing adult literacy encouraged the media to cover organized sports, while transportation infrastructure like railroads and urban trams made it possible for players and spectators to get to football games. In England, the average attendance increased from 4,600 in 1888 to 7,900 in 1895, 13,200 in 1905, and 23,100 at the start of World War I. The popularity of football lowered public interest in other sports, particularly cricket.

Leading teams, particularly those in Lancashire, began charging fans for entrance as early as the 1870s, and as a result, in violation of the FA’s amateurism regulation, they were able to pay illegal wages to entice highly skilled working-class players, many of whom were from Scotland. Working-class athletes and northern English clubs yearned for a professional structure that would, at least in part, compensate them financially for their “broken time” (time away from other jobs) and the risk of injury. The FA maintained its adamantly aristocratic amateurism stance, which protected upper- and upper-middle-class influence over the game.