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222:(FISTF), with an annual world cup competition since 1993, and Confederation Championships or Cups, hosted in a rotating fashion in one of the countries with a national FISTF-affiliated Association (called Member National Association, MNA). Though originally begun with Newfooty-brand (1929) and Subbuteo-brand (1947) equipment, many specialist companies now produce game pieces, such as bases, figures, goalkeepers, goals, pitches, complete playing board and tables, boxes or coffers for sets and many other fine accessories, for serious players. 46: 402: 115:
Model figures may be attached to the board with springs or magnets, and flicked with a forefinger to "kick" the ball without moving away from their fixed positions. The board is indented around each figure so that the ball will always roll into a flickable position. The goalie may be independently
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The player figures may each be on a weighted or magnetic base, so that one can be flicked across the flat field to strike the ball (which may actually be a disc or a non-spherical object similar to
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of football, a ball-carrying figure may be moved magnetically down-field, with the player trying to dodge the controlled or randomly-moving figures of the opposing player's "team".
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Provides examples of several Polish-made implementation of the fixed-figures-on-springs type of game (a plastic one, named Football, from the company
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in its own right – tabletop association football (some countries call it soccer) with freely movable figures on weighted bases is known as
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is the best-known brand of this sort of game, using tiny models of human players. A competitive sport in its own right,
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Illustrates various 1965 and later non-Subbuteo models by British, Portuguese, and Swedish manufacturers including
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of players on a bounded playing board or table that looks like a football pitch (field).
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Inspired by home-made games involving children flicking marbles, bits of paper (as in
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and various related games with a disk-flicking action but without a team-sports theme.
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This article is about the tabletop game. For the same, played competitively, see
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uses colored disks instead of figurines; game play is similar to that of
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in 1946 (later also available to simulate non-football sports like
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in 1929, and this style of game was popularised much further by
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Index

Football (board game)
Sports table football
Table football
Table football (disambiguation)

tabletop game
association football
either of the codes of rugby
American football
Australian rules football
figures
polyhedral dice
Subbuteo
sports table football
Button football
carrom
gridiron forms
table football
paper football
penny football
button football
Newfooty
Subbuteo
cricket
hockey
franchise
Lego
computer simulation
video game
Magnetic Soccer

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