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Interestingly, you allude to the fact that the sport's original rules or laws were not expressly "for
Association Football" or "for the Association game", i.e. not expressly within those rules or laws. I believe they were understood as rules or laws for that form of football - bearing in mind that
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So where does that leave us? Well, Rule 1 of the "Rules of The (Football) Association" includes the line: "All Clubs and
Affiliated Associations shall play and/or administer football in conformity with these Rules and also (a) the Laws of the Game and (b) the Statutes and Regulations of FIFA and
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I had been making the same point as you about the officialness of "association football" as a name some time ago so I wrote to the FA in
October of last year regarding their official position of whether the name of the sport is officially "football" or "association football" Here is their reply.
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However, I don't think there is any dispute that, in common parlance, we call it merely "football". There is a distinction now between "football" and "rugby" to follow a previous distinction between "Association
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Our official publication on the laws of the sport, updated every June, is called "Laws of
Association Football". On that basis it could be said that "Association Football" is the official name of the sport.
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there were many forms before 1863 - which the new "Football
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We call it "football" but its official name is "Association
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