The first international football match was played in 1872 between England and Scotland, although at this stage the sport was rarely played outside Great Britain. As football began to increase in popularity, it was held as a demonstration sport (with no medals awarded) at the 1900, 1904 and 1906 Summer Olympics before football became an official competition at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Organised by England's Football Association, the event was for amateur players only and was regarded suspiciously as a show rather than a competition. The England national amateur football team won the event in both 1908 and 1912.
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The Scotland national football team have played international football longer than any other nation in the world along with England, whom they competed against in the world's first international football match at the West of Scotland Cricket Club, Partick, in 1872. The match ended 0-0.
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Yes but Soccer was in fact invented as a name in the UK even though we call the game football.\n\n\n\nThe English still called it a game of "football" because the ball was played primarily with the feet but in the late 18th Century, the word, "soccer", was first used by a student of Oxford University by the name of Charles Wreford Brown. The students at Oxford were known for using slang where they added "er" to the end of words that they intentionally shortened. The game of Rugby was called "rugger". Brown shortened the word "association" and added "er" and the term "soccer" was born.\n\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?The-Origin-of-Soccer&id=244527
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the first soccer world cup was held in Uruguay in 1930.It was won by Uruguay too.\nThey beated Argentina at the final 4-2.\nThere were 13 teams particpating.\nThe link below have what U want to know about all the world cups history.\nGOOD LUCK,I hope that I supplied U with what U needed to know.
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9. 1930 was the First World Cup. Only 13 nations took part, and Uruguay won.
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Yes, football (don't call it soccer!!!) plays a major role in this country, at all levels and all ages.   It is a major topic of conversation / debate (and unfortunately fights) in English pubs.  There are intense, almost tribal, feelings of dedication to your team, and there are major rivalries, such as Man United and Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs and Plymouth and Exeter.  (However, probably the biggest is Rangers and Celtic in Scotland).\n\nFootball cuts across boundaries of class, age and (mostly with a few major exceptions) religion - your club is in your heart.  \n\nHaving said that, there are always so-called fans who jump on the bandwagon of whichever club is most successful, in the 80s, it was Liverpool (boo!!!), in the 90s, Man United, and today, Chelsea.  No true fan can change their allegiance though - even when a club goes to the wall (look at Accrington Stanley for a contemporary example).\n\nInternational football is another matter altogether, England fans have a bad reputation in Europe, which was well deserved some years ago; hooliganism by England fans (I say fans very loosely) is largely now a thing of the past, thankfully.  \n\nThere is no sport in England bigger than football, and the same goes for most of Europe.\n\nApart from supporting a team, football is played regularly by millions of men (and women) across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland at every level from a kick-about in the local park, through pub teams who play on a Sunday morning, to top level professional players and everything in between. There are leagues for 5-a-side, 6-a-side, 7-a-side and 11-a-side in most towns.\n\nHistorically, the first officially organised competition was the 1872 FA Cup, a competition which is still going today, and is highly prestigious - this year's final will be between Liverpool and West Ham United.  The Football League started in 1887, and the first champions were, I think Preston North End in 1888 (although I could be wrong).  You can see, then, that there is a lot of history to the game.\n\nSo yes, football is a HUGE part of English culture.
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In Turin in 1909, in what is sometimes described as The First World Cup, Sir Thomas Lipton organised a football tournament to contest the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy. Italy, Germany and Switzerland sent their most prestigious professional club sides to the competition but The Football Association of England refused to be associated with it and declined the offer to send a team. Not wishing to have Britain unrepresented in the competition, Lipton invited West Auckland FC, an amateur side from the north-east of England and mostly made up of coal miners, to take part. West Auckland won the tournament and returned to Italy in 1911 to defend their title. In the second competition West Auckland beat Juventus 6-1 in the final and were awarded the trophy outright. In the Olympic games of 1924 and 1928, Uruguay won the football gold medal, in what was considered a proto-world cup. Unofficialy, FIFA recognized Uruguay as World Champion. These victories led the FIFA to choose Uruguay as the home of the first FIFA sanctioned World Cup.
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For the beginning of American Football go to the NCAA website.  The first known game was a college game between Princeton and Rutgers back in the 1890's.  Professional football has a sorted past.  There were many "regional leagues" from the early 1900's.  These were primarily in the NE and MidW.  An example of these teams would be the Philadelphia Yellowjackets and Pittsburg Steelers.  Look up either/both teams for that background.  The NFL, as we know it, arrives in the 40's.  The NFL Hall of Fame in Canton can supply you with all the details.
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I dont want you to lose 5 points this week by falling for the Northern Ireland answer.\n\nAlexander George Cheyne (ref got spelling wrong) scored the winner for SCOTLAND direct from a corner in 89th minute of a British Championship game against England on 13th April 1929.\n\nThe match was played at Hampden Park in front of 110512 people.\n\nWorth a beer from all you MX fantasy football managers?
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American Football!\n\nWalter Camp contibuted the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football:\n\n    * one side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations\n    * the line of scrimmage\n    * 11 on a team instead of 15\n    * created the quarter-back and center positions\n    * forward pass\n    * standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring\n    * created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone\n    * tackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888\n    * a touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912
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firstly "PLEASE CALL IT FOOTBALL NOT soccer"\n\nsorry yanks football in UK came first,and we play with it with the feet. your football is rugby over here.\n\nyou may get some enlightenment from the F.A. IN UK.
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What has the size of the crowd got to do with the quality of the football? Scottish football was in a much better state in the 70's than it is now or has been for many years. I saw Celtic play Leeds Utd in the European Cup at Hampden around 1971 and there was a crowd of around 130,000 but those teams were much better than some of the rubbish that is dished up today.
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Many different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\n  \n \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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The first World Cup was in Uruguay in 1930.
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The sport is called soccer in the United States and Canada. But in many countries it is called football, the name Americans give to an entirely different game. In Spanish-speaking countries, where the game is especially popular, the name is fútbol. \n\nWHAT IS SOCCER?\n\nSoccer is a game played by two teams on a field that is shaped like a rectangle. Players on one team try to knock a round ball through the other team’s goal. The field they play on is roughly the size of an American football field.\n\nWHAT ARE THE RULES?\n\nEach soccer team has 11 players. The players can use any part of their bodies to hit the ball, except their hands or arms. Players generally use their feet and heads as they kick, dribble, and pass the ball toward the goal. One player on each team guards the goal and tries to prevent the other team from scoring. This player is the goalkeeper, or goalie. The goalkeeper is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while the ball is in play.\n\nThe other players are divided into defenders, midfielders, and forwards. Defenders, also called fullbacks, try to stop the opposing team from reaching the goal with the ball. Forwards, also called strikers, do most of the scoring. Midfielders, or halfbacks, play defense but also try to score.\n\nHOW LONG DOES A GAME LAST?\n\nMost soccer games are 90 minutes long. They have two 45-minute halves divided by a short break, or halftime. Besides halftime, the action stops only when a team scores, a foul is committed, or a player is injured. The official who makes sure the rules are followed is called the referee. The referee can add extra time at the end of each half to make up for time lost during delays.\n\nHOW OLD IS SOCCER?\n\nPeople have played kicking games with balls since ancient times. The modern form of soccer came from Britain. It dates from the 1860s, when the rules were first written down. \n\nBy the late 1800s, British sailors, traders, and soldiers had carried the game all over the world. Professional soccer leagues soon appeared in many countries. Today, almost every country in Europe, North America, and South America has professional soccer leagues. So do many countries in Africa and Asia.\n\nOne country where soccer didn’t grow very fast was the United States. It wasn’t until the 1970s that many Americans began to follow it. After that, the sport took off. Today, millions of Americans play soccer in schools, colleges, and local leagues.\n\nTHE WORLD CUP\n\nThe World Cup is an international soccer tournament held every four years. There is one World Cup tournament for men and another one for women. The World Cup for men is the most popular sporting event in the world. More than a billion people around the world watch the men’s World Cup on television. \n\nThe 1994 men’s World Cup took place in the United States, as did the 1999 women’s World Cup. Both tournaments helped increase the popularity of soccer in the United States.\n\nWHO ARE SOME FAMOUS SOCCER PLAYERS?\n\nMany soccer fans consider the Brazilian forward named Pelé to be the best soccer player of all time. Pelé led Brazil to three World Cup titles, the last one in 1970. He won fame for his amazing ball control and powerful shots.\n\nEnglish player David Beckham is famous for his long, curving shots. An attacking midfielder, Beckham led the English national team to the quarterfinals in the 2002 World Cup.\n\nRonaldo, another Brazilian forward, is known for his great speed and scoring ability. In 2002, Ronaldo scored both goals in the World Cup final, giving Brazil the championship.\n\nThe American player Mia Hamm is considered one of the greatest female players ever. A forward, Hamm is the all-time leading scorer in international soccer. In 1999, she led the United States to the women’s World Cup title.
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On 25 August 1928, Arsenal and Chelsea wore numbered shirts in their matches against The Wednesday (renamed Sheffield Wednesday soon after) and Swansea Town, respectively.  This is the earliest record of the use of shirt numbers in Football League play.\n\nCards were introduced in the 1970 WC in Mexico\n\nThe 2006 ball is about 10% lighter and 10% more accurate than the previous one, no idea abt the weight\n\nThe offside rule has been constantly modified over the ages most recently in 2003, the first versions were drawn out in 1848 if my memory is right.
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Football was developed in England. In fact, the UK has invented more sports than any other country in the world.\n\nAs to why its so popular, that is something of a social phenomenon, but a lot of the teams were developed from low income area - Arsenal was developed from the military depot in London, Blackburn Rovers was developed by old members of Blackburn Grammar school. In its early days, because of the low cost involved in watching the matches, and the limited time (all matches pretty much finish in under 2 hours, including stopages), it became very popular with the working class - mill workers, factory workers, general labourers, who did not have a great deal of disposable income or a lot of leisure time, so would go to watch a match to "escape" from the reality of their lives.\n\nOh, and its not just the UK. It is very popular in all European countries (Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and France all have great domestic leagues), is very popular in Africa (with the emergence of more and more world class African footballers), and is amazingly popular in South America (Brazil is pretty much always the best team in the world, and Argentina is always up there amongst the best). America is pretty unique in not having a massive following in football. It is about the only country to show any major interest in "Grid Iron" (American football) or Baseball (both developed from UK sports - rugby and rounders). Basketball is pretty popular in countries like Greece, and volleyball is quite popular in a lot of warm countries - but the UK is just too cold for it.\n\nBasically, football is the number one sport in the world - more people watch it than any other sport, and it has a lot more money involved in it in total than any other sport. The football world cup is a true world cup, with countries from around the world participating, as opposed to the world series, which involves a team from America versus, erm, a team from America...
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Arguably soccer was invented in London in 1863 when men sat down to codify the games that they had enjoyed playing at their "public schools". An association called "The Football Association" was formed. The word "soccer" is short for "Association Football", as distinct from "Rugby Football", which was another sport codified by ex public schoolboys in the late 19th century.