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Football at the Summer Universiade
Football at the Summer Universiade was a men's and women's competition run by FISU, which began as a European tournament in Galicia in 1966 and became compulsory in 1985.
Football club villefranche beaujolais
FC Villefranche Beaujolais (FCVB), French football club from Villefranche-sur-Saône founded 25 March 1927; plays at Stade Armand Chouffet, reached Division 2 in 1983-84, National in 2018, and professional Ligue 3 status in 2026.
Football hooliganism
Football hooliganism is spectator violence and disorder at football matches, originating in 1960s England, peaking in the 1970s-80s, curbed by banning orders and all-seater stadia, with recent UK arrest statistics and tournament flashpoints.
Football hooliganism in the United Kingdom
Football hooliganism in the UK, also called football-related disorder, is spectator violence at matches. It peaked in the 1970s-80s, prompted the Taylor Report after Hillsborough 1989, and is now policed through football banning orders lasting 3-10 years.
Football in England
Football in England, also known as association football, is the sport as played in England, where the FA codified the game's laws in 1863; the Premier League tops its pyramid.
Football in India
Football in India, or Indian football, the second-largest sports audience at 305 million viewers behind cricket: ISL top tier since 2022-23, AIFF-FSDL deal ending 2025, FIFA ranking 126-138, Durand Cup founded 1888, Kolkata derby and Kerala fan strongholds.
Football in London
Football in London: the FA, the world's oldest football association, was founded there in 1863; Fulham (1879) is the oldest professional club; six London clubs play in the 2026-27 Premier League.
Football in Russia
Football in Russia (Russian football), governed by the Russian Football Union (RFS/FUR), spans the 1912 founding, Soviet-era titles, the 2018 World Cup, and the post-2022 FIFA/UEFA ban.
Football in Spain
Football in Spain (fútbol), introduced by Britons in the late 19th century, is organized around LALIGA and the RFEF, with La Liga founded in 1928, a peña-based fan culture, and ultras history.
Football League First Division
Football League First Division: England's top football tier from 1892 to 1992, rooted in the 1888 Football League; its 22 clubs broke away in February 1992 to form the FA Premier League.
Football League Second Division
Football League Second Division, English football's second tier 1892–1992, formed from the Football Alliance merger; first champions Small Heath; succeeded by Division One then the Championship after the 1992 Premier League breakaway.
Football League War Cup
The Football League War Cup was an unofficial knockout competition organized by the Football League as a wartime replacement for the FA Cup in England, held from 1940 to 1945.
Football Manager
Football Manager (FM): football club-management simulation series by Sports Interactive, published by SEGA Europe; descended from Championship Manager. FM25 was cancelled, FM26 launched 4 November 2025 on Unity; distinct from EA Sports FC career modes.
Football Manager 2024
Football Manager 2024 (FM24) is a Sports Interactive/SEGA football management simulation released 6 November 2023 on PC, console, Switch, Apple Arcade and Netflix mobile; the 20th and final old-structure entry, with 7 million players in 100 days and Metacritic 84.
Football Manager 26
Football Manager 26 (FM26) is Sports Interactive and SEGA's football management sim, the first on the Unity engine, launched November 2025 with the Premier League license and women's football; it received mixed critic and negative Steam reviews.
Football pitch
Football pitch (soccer field): the rectangular playing surface for association football, defined by IFAB Law 1. Touchlines 90–120 m, goal lines 45–90 m, 105 x 68 m recommended; natural, artificial, or hybrid turf.
Football player
Football player (soccer player): an athlete who plays association football under IFAB Law 3, with two teams of eleven including a goalkeeper, minimum seven players, defined substitution rules, a record transfer market, and documented workload, injury, and working-condition issues.
Football pools
Football pools: British pari-mutuel betting game predicting football results, especially score draws, on weekly coupons. Founded as Littlewoods Pools in 1923 by John Moores; peaked at about 15 million weekly players before the 1994 National Lottery caused collapse.
Football records and statistics in England
Football records and statistics in England cover league football from the 1888 Football League founding and the 1992 Premier League era: Manchester United's 13 titles, Manchester City's 100-point season, Shearer's 260 goals, Arsenal's 49-match unbeaten run.
Football records and statistics in Italy
Football records and statistics in Italy cover the championship founded in 1898 and Serie A: Silvio Piola's 274-goal record, Inter's 21st title in 2025/26, 922 goals that season, and FIGC/Lega Serie A data collection.
Football team
Football team: the eleven-a-side playing unit fielded by a club or national association under IFAB Laws (max 11, min 7 players, five substitutes). Covers squads, promotion/relegation, finances, and post-2023 reforms.
Football War
Football War, also Soccer War or Hundred Hours' War (La Guerra del Fútbol), the 14–18 July 1969 war between El Salvador and Honduras, triggered in name by 1970 World Cup qualifiers but rooted in land, migration, and border disputes.
Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives is a British ITV1 drama series that ran from 2002 to 2006, following the wives and girlfriends of players at fictional club Earls Park FC.
Footbridge
A footbridge, also called a pedestrian overpass or overcrossing, is a bridge that carries pedestrians, and sometimes cyclists, over roads, railways, or rivers without vehicular traffic.
Footbridge safety and failure patterns
Footbridge safety and failure patterns describe how pedestrian walking forces, at roughly 1.0–3.0 Hz, can resonate with footbridges, making vibration serviceability, not strength, the frequent governing design check.
Footbridges in China
Footbridges in China span two traditions: modern urban pedestrian overpasses and ancient covered timber bridges, with more than 3,000 timber corridor bridges (langqiao).
Footbridges in Japan
Footbridges in Japan are pedestrian bridges, about 11,235 nationwide, mostly built in the 1955 to 1973 high-growth era and now aging, with removal an active policy option.
Footbridges in the United Kingdom
Footbridges in the United Kingdom are bridges carrying pedestrians over roads, railways, or water. Britain's railway network alone has almost 2,400, most owned by Network Rail.
Foothills Parkway
The Foothills Parkway is a 72-mile scenic parkway along the Tennessee side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, authorized by Congress in 1944 and still unfinished.
Foothills System Gas Pipeline
The Foothills System is a TC Energy natural gas pipeline carrying western Canadian gas from Caroline, Alberta, to US border points at Kingsgate, British Columbia, and Monchy, Saskatchewan.