When was the game of soccer inventeded?

Answer 1

The English invented Association Football in 1863, and compiled the official rules for the game. That is when the FA was formed. And, arguably, that is when the modern game of Football was born. FIFA were formed 40 years later.

Pre-Association has a history going back to centuries B.C. Throughout history, people have played sports involving ball and using hands, feet and sticks. Each local area had their own rules so there was no definitive global definition of any sport.

In the 1300's the king of England Edward II banned football, hockey and handball. This shows a difference between sports using the feet, hands and sticks.

In 1863 at Cambridge university a group of Englishmen formed the Football Association and invented football.

After this event many other "versions" of football were invented. Rugby and Australian rules were the first. In North America, Rugby and Football were both played, and a hybrid of these two sports was invented called Gridiron (american football).

The first sport called football with global rules is Association Football, other sports using the term football have words placed in front such as Rugby, American or Australian to differentiate them from football.

There is remains only one football accepted by FIFA and the Olympic committee.