[[فائل:football iu 1996.jpg|تصغیر|ایک کھلاڑی (10 نمبر) اپنی مخالف ٹیم کے گول کیپر کے پاس سے گول کرنے کی کوشش کر رہا ہے]]
'''ایسوسی ایشن فٹ بال''' (Association football) جسے عام طور پر '''فٹ بال''' یا '''فٹ بال''' اور امریکا میں سوکر کے نام سے جانا جاتا ہے، ایک '''گیند پا''' کا کھیل ہے - اس کھیل میں گیارہ گیارہ کھلاڑیوں پر مشتمل دو ٹیمیں ایک کروی شکل کے گیند کے ساتھ کھیلتی ہیں۔ یہ دنیا کا مشہور ترین کھیل ہے۔<ref>{{cite book |last=گوٹمین|first=ایلین|editor=ایریک ڈننگ, جوزف اے. میگوئر, رابرٹ ای. پیرٹون|title=کھیل کا طریقہ کار : ایک تقابلی اور ترقیاتی نقطہ نظر |origyear=1993 |accessdate=2008-01-26 |publisher=Human Kinetics |location=[[الینوائے]] |isbn=0-88011-624-2 |page=129 |chapter=The Diffusion of Sports and the Problem of Cultural Imperialism |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=tQY5wxQDn5gC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=world's%27s+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=6ns3wVUEGV&sig=SZPKYSDMJBrO1uV4mPxNbKyAuJY#PPA129,M1 |quote=the game is complex enough not to be invented independently by many preliterate cultures and yet simple enough to become the world's most popular team sport}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=Eric |authorlink=Eric Dunning |title=Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation |origyear=1999 |accessdate=2008-01-26 |publisher=[[روٹلیج]] |location=London |isbn=0-415-06413-9 |page=103 |chapter=The development of soccer as a world game |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=X3lX_LVBaToC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=world's%27s+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=ehee9Lr9o1&sig=nyvDhcrPoR8lXhYKE7k4CZYg_qU#PPA103,M1 |quote=During the twentieth century, soccer emerged as the world's most popular team sport}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Frederick O. Mueller, Robert C. Cantu, Steven P. Van Camp |last= |first= |coauthors= |title=Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports |origdate= |origyear=1996 |accessdate=2008-01-26 |publisher=Human Kinetics |location=[[شیمپین، الینوائے|Champaign]] |isbn=0-87322-674-7 |page=57 |chapter=Team Sports |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=XG6AIHLtyaUC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=soccer+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=QzydYB5Am0&sig=w_ouIgmegjytYFfWy7k92guTNfU#PPA57,M1 |quote=Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and is an industry worth over [[امریکی ڈالر]]400 billion world wide. 80% of this is generated in Europe, though its popularity is growing in the United States. It has been estimated that there were 22 million soccer players in the world in the early 1980s, and that number is increasing. In the United States soccer is now a major sport at both the high school and college levels}}</ref>
