i have a book, middlesex county records and inside it mentions football being played in 1614

football was invented in england and the oldest ever football club was sheffield fc , that s why pele came to bramall lane in sheffield not MIDDLESEX and defo not scotland.

tracey.

football was played all over the world in 1614 but not the way it is today the truth is scotland made the game playeble the oldest record of a football club is not sheffield wed or sheffield utd but an edinburgh pub team 1824 fifa will not except this because the team is no longer playing but fifa do except it is the oldest record of any football club in the world the first ever recorded official game was between to scottish border clubs and it was a scottsman who formed the efa and the first league system the truth is finely coming out it is going to rock the the foundations of world football that scotland invented football .

football was being played in the 1400s and SCOTLAND did invent football facts oldest football ball belonged to MARY QUEEN OF SCOTTS.R.I.P and is still in existance the oldest derby in the world is hibernian fc 1875 v heart of midlothian 1874 just ask the efa who formed it and you will find it was a SCOTT so theres my facts just like the comment above ask fifa the trueth SCOTLAND NOT england

Ian, first "Derby" match was played in the 1300's between two teams from Ashbourne in DERBY - hence the name. The contest continues to this day with an annual match played on Shrove Tuesday. So, 1870's or 1300's - which is the oldest?
Scottish Cup first played in 1873-1874, FA cup first played 1871-1872. Which of these is the oldest?

To whoever wrote this article, about England and Italy inventing football, please remember that scotland is a country and england is a country so please don't embarrass your own country men by not being able to tell the difference, so the article you have written is whether Scotland or Italy invented Football. fact. Scotland is a nation which is why we have a different team to england. now run along son.

No they did not, what about Richard Mulcaster whom in 1581, before that book was written wrote rules that resemble the modern game? His rules were built upon when the FA was created in 1863. He was born in Carlisle! Nice try...

And played in 1400? it was around in England in the 8th Century... you can say all you want it was invented there, but in actual fact the first reference to a ball being kicked is in China and it was being kicked around in England before Scotland.

"The game of football generally flourished in England from around the 8th Century onwards. The game was incredibly popular with the working classes and there were considerable regional variations of the game throughout the country. Games were normally violent and disorganised affairs with any number of players - it was not uncommon for 1000 people to play in a single game. By the 11th Century, games were often played between rival villages and the 'pitch' could be an incredibly large area. The 'pitch' was not a defined size with a parameter, but included streets, fields, village squares and anything else that got in the way!"

aberdeen can rightly claim to have it codified first,as we have the clearest documentation of that period, with the mention of goalkeepers or keepgoal, aberdeen fc 1 . the rest of the world 0. suck it up.

the game was concieved in china, played in scotland italy and england, the book vocabula, is the first to explain the set up of the game,and the mention of goalkeepers or keepgoal means you are left with only one result. aberdeen fc 1 the rest of the world 0

I invernted football, it's just a coincidence that I am Scottish

Is that why you can't spell "invented"?

Yes, The oldest team in the world is Sheffield fc of England, But The Second eldest team in the world is Queens Park From Scotland, Plus Scotland Has the oldest Football Trophy In The World In The Scottish Cup, This Is no evidence as such, just facts which could help to findings of the inventor of the game, Personally I think it was Scotland, they do have alot of inventions taken credit for by other countries such as the telephone and television which people think America Invented for some strange reason..

the worlds oldest football was discovered in 1970s during an excavation at stirling castle which has been forensicly dated back to 1540, which is on display at stirling smith art gallery and museum, furthermore the worlds first football club was formed in edinburgh in 1824 known simply as the football club, also the first recorded evidence of football was in 1424 in scotland, king james 1st attempts to ban the game by act of parliament, subsequent bans follow in 1457, 1471, and 1491, i think thst proves football began in scotland

cris mola!

This is all very entertaining! It might be jolly fun and let a few blinkered Scots claim Scotland invented the game but I think that's rather stretching the evidence.
"Vocabula" was Latin Grammar book which used sporting themes to teach boys Latin. Far from showing a "detailed story about the game's rules" there is one brief paragraph.
There may be mention of goalkeepers though the translation is ambiguous.
There is no mention of passing, despite what the article claims.

The book "Vocabula" lay unread in an archive from the early 18th c. until 1938 which is the first time it was published, so Aberdon's claim that Aberdeen "codified it first" on the strength of this is clearly nonsense.
The founders of the modern game are highly unlikely to have even heard of it, let alone be influenced by it.
So Aberdon, I'm afraid it's still very much aberdeen fc 0!

The earliest documented reference to the term "Foot Ball Club" is indeed from Edinburgh, possibly from as early as 1824. However, there are records of organisations or fraternities set up for the specific purpose of playing organised football going way before that. For instance there is reference to "The Footballers" in documents from the Brewers' Company in London from 1421 to 1423.

The truth is that football type games have been played all over the world from very ancient times. Italians claim the Roman Legions were the first to play it, hence their claim to have "invented" football, though there are apparant references from Ancient Greece predating the Roman Empire which would refute that claim.

But the modern game of Association Football was clearly and indisputably devised in England. Through the 19th c. there were various attempts to form unified laws of football, predominantly by English public schools. This culminated in the formation of the Football Association in 1863.

At Ian - please note the word "Association". It was not formed by one man, Scot or otherwise, it was an "association" of individuals from various clubs and public schools. And "rock the foundations of world football" - ROFL, what have you been smoking????

oi nobody is talking about the invention of the modern game but football itself.

Craigleith, re-read my comment again. Pay particular attention to the 4th paragraph.

It needs a little little more imformation like e.g. the amount of players bcuz football started with about 25 players per team then the final reduction was 11 per team.

discovery of football is greatest thought andwonderfool

Scotland were the nation that brought football first and spread it round the world -- brazil and holland to name but a few of the countries. Oldest football known is scottish, oldest football park known was in scotland, oldest rule book of the game is in scotland ( written by a scotsman ). Another invention by scotland which the english would like to claim as they can never seem to invent anything of their own.

England invented losing at cricket!

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Just because people kick things around doesnt mean you should say they are playing football. I mean the basic concept of football is one of the most basic movements of the human body, draw a leg back and kick an object. Even animals do that and little toodlers who have no basic idea what sport is. The modern game has been proven to have been around in scotland 200 odd years before the english fa existed. Not only that but in a form far more refined than the english version. Theres no doubt, until someone can come up with something to prove footy existed in the modern form earlier than that, scotland must be credited with inventing the modern game and the records should be changed. Is there anything those people havent given us. What a race. By the way is there anything the italians claim they didnt invent. Bloody frauds