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Table football, known as foosball [a] or table soccer in North America, is a tabletop game loosely based on association football. [1] Its objective is to move the ball into the opponent's goal by manipulating rods which have figures attached resembling football players of two opposing teams.
A table football game from the 1980s. Tabletop football is a class of tabletop game simulating mainly association football, but also either of the codes of rugby, or some other form of football such as American football or Australian rules football. The games employ miniature figures of players on a bounded playing board or table that looks ...
Subbuteo (/ s ʌ ˈ b (j) uː t i oʊ / sub-(Y)OO-tee-oh) is a tabletop football game in which players simulate association football by flicking miniature players with their fingers. . The name is derived from the Neo-Latin scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey commonly known as the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call ...
Penny football (also coin football, sporting coin, spoin, table football, tabletop football, [1] or shove ha'penny football [2]) is a coin game played upon a table top. The aim of the game is for a player to score more goals with the pennies than their opponent. [3] The game has been in existence since at least 1959. [4] An electronic version ...
Newfooty introduced the idea of flicking the figures with a finger towards the ball and was the initial table football game, long before the similar game of Subbuteo. Newfooty can lay claim to being the original finger-flicking table soccer game which many players enjoy today.
The game uses a piece of paper folded into a triangle, called the "ball". The starting player begins by kicking off the ball. To perform a kickoff, the ball is placed on the table, suspended by one of the player's hands with the index finger on the upper tip of the ball, then the player flicks the ball with the other hand's thumb and index finger.
Since 1992, the sport has been governed worldwide by the Federation of International Sports Table Football (FISTF). Informal play of such games date back to Newfooty Company in 1929, with Subbuteo Sports Games introducing the style of figure used in modern sports table football in 1947. (See Tabletop football § History for details.)
The Detroit Lions offense works deep from their end zone against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at the Electric Football World Championships.. The game is played on a metal field, which can range in size from 24 inches long by 13 inches wide up to 61 inches long by 27.5 inches wide.