* 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.

Football is the most popular sport in Albania.

* Football Association of Albania

Still an unofficial event of Albanian Football, recently revealed by historians to be the very first championship ever played in Albania.

He was fielded in a game against Albania despite having been suspended after receiving two yellow cards in UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship games against Switzerland and Albania.

The Estonian Football Association is one of the present 21 UEFA members, who have not seen its national team take part in the final stages of the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Football Championship ( Other nations not to have qualified for either tournament are that of Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro and San Marino ).

The Albania national association football team is the national association football team of Albania and is controlled by the Football Association of Albania ( FSHF ).

On March 14, 2008, Albania was suspended from international football ( FIFA and UEFA ), due to heavy political interference in the Football Association.

He accepted the offer of the Football Association of Albania to become head coach of Albania in December 2002.

The Albanian Football Association (, or FSHF ) is the governing body of football in Albania.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

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

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.

FC Zaanstreek was formed in 1964, continuing the professional adventure of the Kooger Football Club ( KFC ).

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

The only major Roman club to resist the merger was S. S. Lazio because of the intervention of the army General Vaccaro, member of the club and executive of Italian Football Federation.

According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in the season 2010 – 11, Roma was the 15th highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of € 143. 5 million.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

In 1908, a Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival was held to celebrate 50 years of Australian Football.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

In 1993, he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

His master's thesis was entitled Flank Formation Football -- Stress :: Defense.

His success with the 49ers was rewarded with his election to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1993.

On Monday Night Football that week, the 49ers ' win was not included in the famous halftime highlights.

A reserves team has played in the Northern Conference of the North East Australian Football League since the competition was established in 2011.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

The AAFC was to compete with the dominant National Football League once it began operations at the end of World War II, which had forced many professional teams to curtail activity, merge or go on hiatus as their players served in the U. S. military.

Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.