"Soccer" redirects here.

For other uses, see Soccer (disambiguation)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer,[a] is a team sport 🌟 played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular 🌟 field called a pitch.

The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the 🌟 ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing team.

Traditionally, the game has been played over 🌟 two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes.