* Club Atlas, a Mexican professional football club

* Club Atlético Atlas, an Argentinian amateur football club

Asociación Alumni, usually just Alumni, is a rugby union and former football club located in Tortuguitas, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

* Aston Villa F. C., an English football club

* AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Aias Salamina F. C., a football club based in Salamina, Greece birthplace of Ajax the Telamonian

* Ajax Cape Town FC, a South African football club

* Ajax de Ouenzé, a Congolese football club

* Ajax Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football club

* Ajax Kenitra, a Moroccan futsal ( indoor football ) club

* Ajax Sportman Combinatie ( ASC ), a cricket and football club in Leiden, The Netherlands

* FC Ajax Lasnamäe, an Estonian football club

* Rabat Ajax F. C., a Maltese football club

* Unión Ájax, a football club in Trujillo, Honduras

* FC Ajax Sofia, a football club in Sofia, Bulgaria

* Royal Antwerp FC, a football club in the Belgian city of Antwerp

* AS Poissy in French: Amicale Sportive de Poissy, is a French football club based in Poissy ( Yvelines )

The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.

* ABC Futebol Clube, a football ( soccer ) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ( Eredivisie ), the others being PSV and Feyenoord.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

AZ (), an initialism for Alkmaar Zaanstreek, is an association football club from the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands.

Lineker's father was a greengrocer in Leicester and he grew up with his family in the city, playing football with his brother Wayne.

He moved to the docklands of Govan, near Ibrox, home of Rangers football club, when he was 15, and he grew up supporting Rangers.

From 1979 onwards, punk-influenced skinheads with shorter hair, higher boots and less emphasis on traditional styles grew in numbers and grabbed media attention, mostly due to football hooliganism.

Shortly after becoming a director of Luton, Morecambe briefly grew a rather sparse moustache of only about two dozen hairs, which he explained to his fans was " a football moustache: eleven a side !".

* Bob Davie, former Notre Dame football coach and current ESPN sportscaster, grew up in Moon

* John McKay, ( USC Trojans football, 1960 – 75 and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1976 – 84 ) was not born in, but, grew up in Shinnston and graduated from Shinnston High School.

The roots of football in the city grew and various teams were founded.

* Don Holleder-All-American end on Army's 1954 football team, which led the nation in offense, grew up in Irondequoit.

* Bradbury Robinson, threw the first forward pass in football history, grew up in Baraboo

Newer popular team sports such as cricket and football failed to be sustained in Launceston before the population grew substantially.

and football players Trevor Benjamin and Bill Perkins both grew up in the town.

For years, the popularity of Fantasy football grew slowly.

Gordon grew up there and attended Shawnee High School, participating in football and track.

Walker's young partner grew up in Baltimore and used football as his ticket to college education.

As he grew up, Vick, who as a child went by the nickname " Ookie ", learned about football from a second cousin four years older, Aaron Brooks.

The U. S. market for sneakers grew steadily as young boys lined up to buy sneakers endorsed by football player Jim Thorpe and Converse All Stars endorsed by basketball player Chuck Taylor.

For some time Ashcroft wanted to be a professional football player, idolising George Best, but as he grew older he lost interest in this, turning to music instead.

Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Towns grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he played football in high school at Richmond Academy.

Brown began his coaching career at Severn School in 1931 before becoming the head football coach at Massillon Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, where he grew up.

Bill Willis, a defensive lineman who Brown coached at Ohio State, and Marion Motley, a running back who grew up in Canton and played for Brown at Great Lakes, became two of the first black athletes to play professional football when they joined the team in 1946.

The Gillette stable of radio sports programs spanned several different networks ( including NBC, CBS, and Mutual ) and grew to include not only ongoing sponsorship of the World Series and All-Star Game in baseball, but the annual Kentucky Derby in horseracing and football ’ s Cotton Bowl Classic and Orange Bowl.

During the late 1970s, Mossley grew into a formidable force in non-league football.

Gibson was born in Pontiac, Michigan on May 25, 1957, grew up in Waterford, Michigan ( attending Waterford Kettering High School ), and attended Michigan State University where he was an All-American wide receiver in football.

As a result of the expansion and allocation of places, tension grew between the governing body of European football ( UEFA ) and the FIFA leadership.