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Sep 9, 1000
1000 B.C
The Japanese version of 'soccer' is was called Kemari, a game much like modern hackysacks, played with two to twelve players, and played a larger ball stuffed with sawdust. There was also a field designated by four trees . -
1605
Football became ligal in England -
1815
Eton College of England established a set of rules for the games. -
1820
In the USA, football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown. -
1848
The rules were further standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools, college and universities, known as the Cambridge Rules -
1863
October 26 of 1863, the Football Association was formed when eleven London schools and clubs came together at the Freemason's Tavern to establish a single set of rules to administer any football match that were to be played among them. On December 8 1863, Association Football and Rugby Football finally split onto two different organizations. Later in the year, the first ever soccer match was played on Barnes common at Mortlake, London on 19th December 1863 between Barnes Football Club and R -
1872
The first official international football match was played, between the national teams of Scotland and England, played in Glasgow Scotland. The game was played on 30 November 1872, and finished with a 0-0 draw. -
1885
The first international match played by teams outside of Great Britain was between USA and Canada, played in Newark and ended with Canada winning 1-0. -
1900
Soccer played at the Olympic Games for the first time -
1930
In 1930, The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) held soccer's first World Cup tournament in Montevideo, Uruguay, with 13 teams. -
1991
The inaugural Women's World Cup in 1991 in China was won by the United States -
1996
The American women's team won the first-ever women's soccer event at the Olympics. -
2500 B.C
There was possibly a version of a type of ball game played by young women in Egypt during the age of Baqet III, as images of this sport were depicted on his tomb, though there is not much known of this sport except that it was played with a ball. -
5000-300 B.C.
There is evidence in China that military forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC played a game, originally named "Tsu Chu", that involved kicking a leather ball stuffed with fur into a small hole. Like Soccer, no hands were permitted during the play of the game.