They are the same because they both use balls for play, they both play on a grass or turf field, they both have specific unimforms [uniforms*] and they both have referees.
AnswerFootball is the official name for soccer. Soccer comes from the football association. Only in the USA and Canada do they say soccer.The global name for football is of course football. The global name for American football is gridiron. Gridiron is a code of handball and not football.
Football is a sport where players control the ball with their feet and only football does this.
AnswerNo one in all of the USA calls football gridiron. For that matter almost no one has ever heard it called gridiron.Chat with our AI personalities