This is a list of various types offootball, including most variations ofgridiron,rugby andassociation football.
With elements of another sport:
Some games, such asfootball tennis,footvolley andteqball, although they use afootball and avoid the use of hands, are not goal sports. The hockey gamebandy has rules partly based on association football rules and is sometimes nicknamed "winter football" (Swedish:vinterns fotboll).[2]
Although both sports arose largely independently,Gaelic football andAustralian 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). As such, the sports exist as a form ofconvergent evolution, which has led to the swapping of players between the codes, and some co-operation between their respective authorities. 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.
