This is a list of various types of football, including most variations of gridiron, rugby and association football.
Some games, such as football tennis, footvolley and teqball, are not related to association football, but use a football to produce a variant of another game. The hockey game bandy has rules partly based on association football rules and is sometimes nicknamed "winter football" (Swedish: vinterns fotboll).[3]
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 (goals and points in Gaelic football, goals and behinds in Australian rules). 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.
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| American football |
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| Association football |
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| Canadian football |
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| Rugby league |
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