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No. In Australia, the term "Football" [colloquially "footy"], mainly refers to the Australian football game, also called, "Aussie Rules".
Even in the two states that play much more Rugby than Australian football, they do not reference soccer with the word 'football' - the 150+ year tradition within Australia has therefore long been to be speaking of either Australian football or one of the rugby codes - 'league or union' when football is mentioned.
The only change that has occurred is that the major soccer / "association football" league in Australia has changed its own lead name from "Soccer" to include the word "Football", but certainly, neither the general populous, nor the culture as a whole refers to soccer by the term football.
The chief governing body of Australian Football has long been named, "The Australian Football League".
The true name of the soccer brand of football, by the way, is actually "Association Football".
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soccer! But it is called football everywhere other than the US. Actually, it's called soccer in Australia as well. The US is not the only exception.
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Soccer.
