The Spread of Football Historical travel shows that sea and land travel and the development of communications led to the emergence of the popularity of football in the world, and at the end of the 19th century the game reached Austria, where there was a British colony in the capital, which greatly influenced the social life of the Austrians, and this was a decisive moment in The development of football in Austria, making Hungary one of the first countries to start the “game of football” in general, as the game was transferred there by a student who returned from studying in Britain.

Denmark is one of the countries that was one of the first countries to learn this game. The first football tournaments The FA Cup is considered the oldest football competition in the world, dating back to 1871, and it even appeared before the local league championship. In 1892, the first international match was held in History between England and Scotland, ending in a goalless draw 0-0, and 12 years later, in 1883, the first international tournament was held with the participation of the national teams of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. For a long time, football was an exclusively British phenomenon, but it gradually spread to European countries. Others and then to other continents, and in Latin America the first people to practice it were British workers in Argentina, not the indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Codification of the rules of football. A historical document appeared in the city of Sheffield, which is inhabited by a working class, recording that a group of enthusiasts organized the first football club in the world. , Sheffield Football Club, at a time when rugby was still very popular in the city. It was not surprising that when former Harrow University students, Nathaniel Creswick and William Burst, published a set of football rules, it contained many Physical collisions such as those in the game "Rugby". The second set of rules dates back to the year 1862. These rules were born within the walls of the famous University of Cambridge, and for the first time a list of 11 players was recorded, including the goalkeeper, and the duration of the match was 75 minutes. In the year 1862, in Uppingham, John Charles Thring published his rules for playing football. In 1853, Ebenezer Morley, a lawyer, judge and sportsman, moved from his native southern England to the city of Barnes and, in 1858, established the Barnes Football Club.

Five years later, Morley wrote a letter to the famous newspaper "Bell's Life", proposing to hold a meeting to determine a unified set of football rules and establish a governing body to implement those rules, for club representatives to meet on the evening of Monday, October 26, 1863. Morley presented draft rules consisting of 23 items for discussion, and among the discussants was Charles Alcock, who, eight years later, organized the first official football competition with uniform rules, the FA Cup, and on December 8, in an old hotel, the first set of agreed-upon basic football rules was born. On it, which eventually consisted of 13 articles. The dimensions of the field (200 by 100 yards) and the goal (8 yards) were defined, consisting of two columns. Interestingly, after each goal was scored, the teams had to change the goals. The rules were published in a printing house on the street "Seymour" was published in the form of a booklet and was sold to everyone for one shilling and sixpence, and 11 days later, the first match under the newly adopted rules was played at Barnes, between the Barnes and Richmond teams, and ended in a goalless draw. Formation of FIFA on May 21, 1904, The International Football Association (FIFA) was established.