{"id":327,"date":"2016-08-18T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.football-stadiums.co.uk\/first-football-team\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T20:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T20:51:51","slug":"first-football-team","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.football-stadiums.co.uk\/articles\/first-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Was The First Football Team?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Football is one of the most popular sports in the entire world.<\/p>\n
The notion of a game involving a ball and the kicking of it for sport is almost as old as time itself. Both the ancient Greeks and the Romans played ball games that involved the use of their feet, for example.<\/p>\n
So the question of which was the first football team is, unsurprisingly, a complex one.<\/p>\n
Many of the earliest games resembled what we now know to be rugby rather than football, so it\u2019s helpful to narrow down our question by discussing teams that played under the various different rules that were formed over the years.<\/p>\n
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