association football

English

Noun

association football (uncountable)

1. A ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent.

   Synonyms: (shortened form) football, (slang) footy, (Mostly North American and Australian English) soccer; see also Thesaurus:football

Translations

soccer

• Armenian: ֆուտբոլ (hy) (futbol)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 足球 (zuk¹ kau⁴)

  Hakka: 足球 (chiuk-khiù), 足球 (chuk-khiù)

  Hokkien: 跤球 (zh-min-nan) (kha-kiû)

  Mandarin: 足球 (zh) (zúqiú)

• Chukchi: ӄапԓёчеттыргын (qapḷjočettyrgyn)
• Czech: fotbal (cs) m, kopaná (cs) f
• Danish: fodbold (da)
• Dutch: voetbal (nl) n
• Faroese: fótbóltur (fo) m
• Finnish: jalkapallo (fi)
• French: (Europe) football (fr) m, (Canada) soccer (fr) m
• German: Fußball (de)
• Hungarian: labdarúgás (hu)
• Italian: calcio (it) m
• Latvian: futbols (lv) m, kājbumba f
• Polish: piłka nożna (pl) f
• Portuguese: futebol (pt) m
• Romanian: fotbal (ro) n
• Russian: футбо́л (ru) m (futból)
• Spanish: fútbol (es) m
• Swedish: fotboll (sv) c
• Tajik: футбол (tg) (futbol)
• Turkish: futbol (tr)
• Urdu: ایسوسی ایشن فٹ بال
• Vietnamese: bóng đá (vi) (𩃳跢)

Further reading

• association football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia