Question: What century does football in England date back to?
Answer: eighth century AD

Question: What organization has said that there is no historical connection to association football with any other game outside of Europe?
Answer: FIFA

Question: In what century did the modern rules of association football come from?
Answer: mid-19th century

Question: What country did kids play football in public schools in the 19th century?
Answer: England

Question: Which rules were influential to the codes of association football?
Answer: Cambridge Rules

Question: Which college where the Cambridge Rules written at?
Answer: Trinity College

Question: In what year did John Charles Thring come up with rules that were influential?
Answer: 1862

Question: What year did the Sheffield FA form?
Answer: 1867

Question: What year were the Cambridge Rules first drawn up?
Answer: 1848

Question: What is the only position specified by the Laws of the Game
Answer: goalkeeper

Question: The focus of strikers and forwards are to do what?
Answer: score goals

Question:  A team players layout is a what?
Answer: formation

Question: Who's job is to prevent the opponents from scoring?
Answer: defenders

Question: Who's the most responsible for the teams tactics?
Answer: team's manager

Question: What year did the Football Association form?
Answer: 1863

Question: At what establishment did the Football Association have their first Meeting?
Answer: Freemasons' Tavern

Question: What year did the Rugby Football Union form?
Answer: 1871

Question: How many clubs ended up ratifying the original laws of the game?
Answer: eleven

Question: Who played by their own rules till the 1870's?
Answer: The Sheffield FA

Question: What is C.W. Alcock responsible for founding?
Answer: FA Cup

Question: How long has the FA Cup been contested?
Answer: 1872

Question: Who founded the worlds first football league?
Answer: William McGregor

Question: How many clubs where in the first football league?
Answer: 12

Question: What country is the home of the first football league?
Answer: England

Question: What does the abbreviation IFAB stand for?
Answer: International Football Association Board

Question: What year was the IFAB formed?
Answer: 1886

Question: What city was FIFA formed?
Answer: Paris

Question: How many representatives did FIFA have in the IFAB?
Answer: four

Question: How many different British associations where part of the IFAB?
Answer: four

Question: In 2006, which team helps secure a truce during a civil war?
Answer: Côte d'Ivoire

Question: What city did a peaceful match between two armies take place in 2007?
Answer: Bouaké

Question: When did the Football War happen?
Answer: June 1969

Question: Football made which wars more tense in the 1990's?
Answer: Yugoslav Wars

Question: What decade is considered the "golden age" of women's football?
Answer: 1920s

Question: Since what year has women's football been an Olympic event?
Answer: 1996

Question: Who voted to ban women's football from its grounds in 1921?
Answer: England's Football Association

Question: In 1971, who officially recognized women's football?
Answer: UEFA

Question: What year was the FIFA Women's first World cup?
Answer: 1991

Question: What would you describe the shape of the football?
Answer: spherical

Question: How many players are on each team?
Answer: eleven

Question: What happens when both teams score the same amount of points?
Answer: a draw

Question: What is the captain a part of before the start of the game?
Answer: the coin toss

Question: What is another name for the football?
Answer: soccer ball

Question: When is it okay for regular players to use their hands?
Answer: throw-in restart

Question: A ball cannot be received in what type of position?
Answer: offside

Question: throughout when can players move the ball in any direction?
Answer: the pitch

Question: Who can only handle the ball with their hands or arms during play?
Answer: goalkeepers

Question: Who guards the goal?
Answer: goalkeeper

Question: Who is the only one who has the authority to stop the game when something is wron?
Answer: referee

Question: what is allowed but restricted?
Answer: physical contact

Question: Besides a referee interfering, when else is play stopped?
Answer: when the ball has left the field of play

Question: How many laws are there in the official Laws of the Game?
Answer: 17

Question: Who maintains the Laws of the Game?
Answer: International Football Association Board (IFAB)

Question: Broad terms in the laws allow for what?
Answer: flexibility

Question: Who publishes the Laws of the Game?
Answer: FIFA

Question: Out of the maximum amount of players allowed, one must be a what?
Answer: goalkeeper

Question: The maximum amount of players exclude what?
Answer: substitutes

Question: If there's a minimum amount of players it's usually what?
Answer: seven

Question: Players are usually strategically placed by who?
Answer: coach

Question: What is the maximum amount of players allowed?
Answer: eleven

Question: The equipment a player wears is also called a what?
Answer: kit

Question: What is highly recommended by medical experts for male players?
Answer: An athletic supporter and protective cup

Question: Who wears clothing that easily sets them apart from everyone else on the field?
Answer: goalkeeper

Question: wearing anything that could be dangerous is what?
Answer: forbidden

Question: What is not required but can be chosen to protect a player from head injuries? 
Answer: Headgear

Question: Imperial units where once used to express the dimensions of a what?
Answer: football pitch

Question: What unit of measurement is now expressed by the Laws?
Answer: metric

Question: The use of imperial units is still popular in what kind of countries?
Answer: English-speaking

Question: Laws were formulated in what country?
Answer: England

Question: What is the range for the length for international matches in meters?
Answer: 100–110 m

Question: In what year did the IFAB initially approve a fixed size as a standard pitch dimension for international matches?
Answer: 2008

Question: When was the IFAB's decision on the fixed size of the pitch become implemented? 
Answer: never

Question: What is the range for the length of fields for non international matches in meters?
Answer: 90–120 m

Question: What is the range for the width for international matches in meters?
Answer: 64–75 m

Question: What is the penalty area marked by?
Answer: goal line

Question: a penalty foul by the defending team can be punishable by a what?
Answer: penalty kick

Question: how many meters from the goalpost does a penalty area extend? 
Answer: 16.5 m

Question: Only who can handle the ball with his hands?
Answer: goalkeeper

Question: How many periods are in a standard football match?
Answer: two

Question: How long are each period in a standard football match?
Answer: 45

Question: What are the periods in a football match called?
Answer: halves

Question: Who gets to decide how long stoppage time can go on for?
Answer: referee

Question: In what year did an incident help introduce added time?
Answer: 1891

Question: Matches where a winner must be decided is called what type of competitions?
Answer: knockout

Question: Extra time has two periods which each are how long in minutes?
Answer: 15

Question: What are penalty shootouts officially known as in the Laws of the Game?
Answer: kicks from the penalty mark

Question: Which goals count to the final score of the game? 
Answer: Goals scored during extra time

Question: What is the golden goal?
Answer: the first goal in extra time

Question: Who was the first team to win using the golden goal to their advantage?
Answer: France

Question: Who experimented with creating winners without requiring penalty shootouts?
Answer: the IFAB

Question: What team did France beat in 1998?
Answer: Paraguay

Question: What year did the Czech Republic lose in the final of Euro?
Answer: 1996