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.

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

Australian football is played in more than 30 countries around the world.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

( The oldest football stand in the world is considered to belong to Great Yarmouth Town, though Wolverton A. F. C.

In April 2012 it was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the seventh most valuable football club in the world, at £ 473 million ($ 761 million ).

Only weeks after Super Bowl XXVIII, however, friction between Johnson and Jones culminated in Johnson stunning the football world by announcing his resignation.

England is the oldest national football team in the world alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872.

The England national football team is the joint oldest in the world ; it was formed at the same time as Scotland.

It has been estimated that there are 250 million association football players in the world, and many play the other forms of football.

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.

Though the FA Cup is the oldest domestic football competition in the world, its trophy is not the oldest ; that title is claimed by the Youdan Cup.

The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to an audience of 643 million viewers.

Formed in 1859, Geelong is the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.

The club is one of the oldest football clubs in the world, however many of its official records before 1920 have disappeared.

* 1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F. C.

After their triumph in the Intercontinental Cup the same year, the club also became the first in football history — and remain the only one at present — to have won all possible confederation competitions and the club world title.

In April 2010 business magazine Forbes ranked Liverpool as the sixth most valuable football team in the world, behind Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Barcelona and Bayern Munich ; they valued the club at $ 822m (£ 532m ), excluding debt.

won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A. F. C.

Manchester United is one of the wealthiest and most widely supported football teams in the world.

Manchester United is reputed to be the most popular football club in the world, with one of the highest average home attendance in Europe.

Ewbank and quarterback Joe Namath led the Jets to prominence in 1969 when New York defeated the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III and solidified the AFL's position in the world of professional football.

* Ron Weaver, football player who prolonged his eligibility under an assumed name

On 18 June 1994, UVF members machine-gunned a pub in Loughinisland, County Down on the basis that its customers were watching the Republic of Ireland national football team playing in the World Cup on television and were therefore assumed to be Catholics.

A few months later, he forced out longtime general manager Tex Schramm, and assumed complete control over football matters.

Following the sudden death of football coach Randy Walker in 2006, 31-year-old former All-American Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald assumed the position, becoming the youngest Division I FBS coach at the time.

Charlie was a skilled all-round athlete, who had played college football for The Ohio State University Buckeyes, and had gone on to play semi-professional football under an assumed name for the Portsmouth Spartans ( which later became the NFL's Detroit Lions ).

The issue assumed ever greater urgency by 2007, following a series of inspections which questioned the suitability of Windsor Park to host international football.

The word " soccer " was added to the name in 1945, making it the U. S. Soccer Football Association, and it did not drop the word " football " until 1974, when it assumed its current name.

In 1988, Schembechler assumed the role of athletic director at Michigan, succeeding Don Canham, the man who hired him as football coach in 1969.

However, recent studies have questioned the effectiveness of even American football helmets, where the assumed protection of helmets promotes far more head impacts, a behavior known as risk compensation.

Charles Joseph " Charlie " Weis ( born March 30, 1956 ) is an American football coach who is currently the head football coach at the University of Kansas, a position he assumed in December 2011.

Before going to Temple University, and playing under college coach Wayne Hardin ( the former Navy coach who coached two Heisman Trophy winners in Joe Bellino ' 60 and Roger Staubach ' 63 ), Klecko played semi-pro football for the Aston ( Pa .) Knights of the Seaboard Football League and kept his eligibility by playing under the assumed name " Jim Jones " from fictional " Poland University.

Upon induction into the Aggie family, she quickly assumed the roles and duties of her predecessor and began attending university functions including football games.

According to legend, they assumed that nickname upon acquiring some reddish hand-me-down jerseys from the University of Chicago football team, the Maroons.

In 1999, an enterprise called Sport News assumed the club's football section for a short time period.

Both WAOL and WOXY continued to broadcast Ohio State University football and men's basketball games for the remainder of the 2010-2011 season, in order to fulfill the contract First Broadcasting had signed with the University before TSJ assumed daily operations for WOXY.

He is currently the head football coach at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a position he assumed in December 2011.

Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.

North caused a sensation in 1907 after announcing an amalgamation with fellow VFA football club West Melbourne, which at the time had lost its home ground.

During the late 19th century and early 20th century there were different football teams organized in Ferrol, though only one of them has survived, and as a result of an amalgamation of some other previous teams.

* Dagenham & Redbridge football club, currently a professional Coca-Cola League Two team, is an amalgamation of several amateur football clubs, including Leytonstone F. C., who played along Leytonstone High Road.

* Waterside Karori, a current New Zealand football club, formed by the amalgamation of Waterside and Karori Swifts.

1914 saw the complete amalgamation of the Hamilton Alerts and the Hamilton Tigers and the football club continued playing under the name " Tigers ".

FC Metz was founded in 1932 by the amalgamation of two amateur athletic clubs, and shortly thereafter became a professional team ; it is one of the oldest professional football teams in France.

The extant City Botanic Gardens was formed by the amalgamation of the original Botanic Gardens with the Domain ( the southern side of Gardens Point ) and Queen's Park in 1916, bringing its total area to around 20 hectares ( Queen's Park comprised a 10 acre ( 4 ha ) strip along Alice Street, which originally served as a park and a sporting field, where regular cricket and football matches were held ).

It was formed in 1990 from an amalgamation of the neighbouring Woodville and West Torrens football clubs and played its inaugural game in 1991.

In 1914 and 1915 an amalgamation of rugby league and Australian rules football was considered and trialled.