Football is a sports game in which two teams of 11 players take part and try to score as many points as possible by knocking the ball into the opponent's goal within a specified time. ¹⁾

Soccer is played by more than 265 million players, and 5 million referees.²⁾

The game with similar rules was played in China already 2 300 years ago. The first reports of the game can be found in writings dating back to around 476 BC. Soccer in its current form originated in Great Britain. The oldest club in the world is FC Sheffield, founded by two British officers in 1857. ³⁾