* Kevin Kilbane-( Hull City AFC and Football Association Of Ireland )

* Australian Soccer Association, former name of Football Federation Australia

Previously, the Football Association had scorned the competition but United made progress, reaching the semi-finals where they lost to holders Real Madrid.

A successful ( though trophyless ) season with Manchester United had seen him take the honours of Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year and European Footballer Of The Year into the competition.

He has been an in-studio host for NBC's National Football League coverage and a play-by-play man for National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball coverage.

In 1876 at Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts, Harvard persuaded Princeton and Columbia to adopt an amalgam of rugby's laws and the rules that they were then playing, thus forming the Intercollegiate Football Association ( IFA ).

The NCAA Football Rules Committee determines the playing rules for Division I ( both Bowl and Championship Subdivisions ), II, and III games ( the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) is a separate organization, but uses the NCAA rules ).

* Cumberland United, an Association Football club in Adelaide, Australia

plays in the Scottish Junior Football Association, East Region.

The England national football team represents England in football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England.

A representative match between England and Scotland was played on 5 March 1870, having been organised by the Football Association.

His contract was extended by the Football Association by two years, however it was terminated by them at the 2006 World Cup's conclusion.

McClaren was sacked unanimously by The Football Association on 22 November 2007 after only 16 months in charge.

The stadium is now owned by the Football Association via its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Limited.

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

It had a " golden age " in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s when crowds reached 50, 000 at some matches ; this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs.

* Federation Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA )

Citing the Professional Football Researchers Association as his source, Peterson writes that " Parratt completed a short pass to end Dan Riley ( real name, Dan Policowski )" in a game played at Massillon against a team from West Virginia.

On 4 March 2004, at a gala ceremony in London, to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the international governing body of football revealed the FIFA 100.

* Faroe Islands Football Association

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world.

The " FA Cup " is run by and named after the Football Association and usually refers to the English men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held.

In the early years other teams from Wales, Ireland and Scotland also took part in the competition, with Glasgow side Queen's Park losing the final to Blackburn Rovers in 1884 and 1885 before being barred from entering by the Scottish Football Association.

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the sport's global governing body.

Banks played his 73rd England game in a 1 – 0 win over Scotland at Hampden Park on 27 May 1972 and was awarded the Football Writers ' Association Footballer Of The Year honour.

In 1960, the Houston Oilers began play as a charter member of the American Football League, and arranged to lease the stadium from HISD as their home stadium.

* Scott Schreer-Fox Football Theme ( from NFL on Fox ) ( arranged by Meghan Fitzgerald ' 04 )

Map showing the List of municipalities of Portugal | Portuguese municipalities arranged by their respective District Football Associations

He brought the game back to his native Nelson, and arranged the first rugby match between Nelson College and Nelson Football Club, played on 14 May 1870.

Just before the start of the match, after the Scottish team had spent a night at a youth hostel, the Irish Rugby Football Union prevented the teams from getting changed at the arranged Blackrook College.

Southport Football Club arranged rugby fixtures for 1881 – 82.

Derrick Robins, a millionaire businessman and chairman of Coventry City Football Club, had organised a number of private cricket tours in the past, arranged a tour to South Africa

Esiliiga is the second-top league arranged by the Estonian Football Association.

In 2006, the year the world cup took place in Germany, Titanic arranged an exhibition called " Wie Titanic einmal die Fußball-WM 2006 nach Deutschland holte " (" How Titanic once brought the Football World Cup 2006 to Germany ") in the Historical Museum of Frankfurt am Main, which displayed the events surrounding Titanic's bribery faxes.

Spielberg had arranged for a plane to fly over the stadium with a banner reading " 15 Years of Lousy Football — We've Had Enough.

The AIFA arranged a split and partial merger with the Southern Indoor Football League after the 2010 season.

-- Bobby Waters of Sylvania, Ga., relief quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, will undergo a knee operation tomorrow at Franklin Hospital here.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.

As of 2011 the Atlanta Falcons Executive Committee consisted of ten people: Arthur Blank, Owner and Chairman ; Rich McKay, President & CEO ; Thomas Dimitroff, General Manager ; Kim Shreckengost, Executive Vice President / Chief of Staff for AMB Group, LLC ; Greg Beadles, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer ; Jim Smith, Chief Marketing Officer ; Danny Branch, Vice President of Information Technology ; Dave Cohen, Vice President of Sales and Service ; Reggie Roberts, Vice President of Football Communications and Tim Zulawski, VP of Sponsorship Sales and Service.

One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.

Expansion and modernization of Raymond Field was completed in the fall of 2007 and features the installation of an eight-lane all-weather running track and a move to the same premium artificial turf used by the New England Patriots of the National Football League for its main playing field.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

The AFL became the de facto governing body when it pushed for the closure of the International Australian Football Council in 2002.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

The club entered the Football League in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division ( North ); after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965.

the College of San Mateo Football & Sports Hall of Fame websites for info on Walsh, Madden & others ).

* Chadrick Cone ( born 1983 ), an American football wide receiver for the Georgia Force in the Arena Football League

Supporters of English Premier League team Chelsea and Football League team Gillingham regularly sing songs about the vegetable and are famed for throwing celery during matches.

The Bears hold the NFL record for the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, with 27 members, and the most retired jersey numbers ( 13 ).

Ditka worked for both the NFL on NBC and CBS's The NFL Today, and he currently works on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and provided Friday night analysis on the Bears on CBS 2 Chicago, the CBS Chicago affiliate, called " 2 on Football " with former CBS 2 Sports Director Mark Malone.

Charlton finished second bottom in the Football League in 1926 and were forced to apply for re-election which was successful.

** Canterbury Rugby Football Union, the governing body for rugby union in the central Canterbury region

It was also the home stadium of the London Monarchs American Football team for the 1997 season.

Cowboys Stadium is a new domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas, for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.