Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players.football, also called association football or soccer, game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, ... Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form ...