association football

1. 1.

   a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal

   Synonymssoccer

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Questions about association football

What does association football mean?

association football means "a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal".

What is another word for association football?

Close synonyms include soccer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is association football a common word?

association football is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.