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People used the severed head of a Danish prince they defeated in war, as a soccer ball
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King Edward III of England passes laws in 1331 to stop the game with severed heads because of the violence.
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King James I of Scotland also passed a law banning the game
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Queen Elizabeth I of England, enacted laws that could sentence a football player to jail for a week followed by penance in a church.
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1600 AD In Mexico & Central America the rubber ball was created, and used in a game on a recessed court 40-50 feet long shaped like a capital "I". In the middle of each wall, was a mounted stone or wooden ring and the object was to project the hard rubber ball through the ring. There was earlier evidence of the game as far back as 5000 BC
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Soccer became legal in England again.
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In North America, native American Indians in the original Jamestown settlement played a game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." It was a rough game, played the beach, the field a half-mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, with as many as 1000 players at a time
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Eton College of England established a set of rules for the games.
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In the USA, football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown.
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The rules were further standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools, college and universities, known as the Cambridge Rules.
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In 1855 Charles Goodyear designed and built the first vulcanized rubber soccer balls! this ball was on display at the National Soccer Hall of Fame which was located in Oneonta, NY, USA . The ball was used for a game between the Oneida Football Club, the first organized team in the US, and a team of players from Boston Latin and Boston English Schools.
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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.
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First ever soccer match was played on Barnes common at Mortlake, London on 19th December 1863 between Barnes Football Club and Richmond Football Club. The game ended in a 0-0 draw.
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The penalty kick is introduced
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Soccer becomes an olympic event.
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First world cup with only 13 teams played in Uruguay
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1949, dolf (Adi) Dassler invented a soccer shoe that had molded rubber studs. Adi, a German shoe factory worker, had a passion for designing shoes for athletes, which became his motivation for starting the company known today as Adidas.
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Birth of club competitions
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First world wide coverage of world cup games
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Before soccer was a violence sport , there were not rules players fight in the game . Red & Yellow carts were created to punish or warm players.More recent major changes included when goalkeepers were banned from handling deliberate back-passes in 1992 and when tackles from behind became red-card penalties in 1998.
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Pelé retired from international competition after Brazil tied Yugoslavia 2-2 before 150,000 people at the Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium.
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First FIFA World Championship for Women's Football in China won by the USA.
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Pelé, the most recognizable soccer figure in the world, is inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame along with John Nanoski and Dennis Long bringing the total to 194.
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The first World Cup Final to be decided on penalties results in victory for Brazil after Roberto Baggio misses the crucial final kick in the World Cup Final, held this year in the United States. The first time the finals had been played outside of Europe or South America.
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Major League Soccer (MLS) begins as the top USA pro-soccer league.
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Women's World Cup Final in Los Angeles, USA beat China in front of 90,185 fans. This was the largest ever attendance for a women's sporting event in world history. The tournament had over 658,000 attendees and over 1 billion television viewers worldwide, thus not only putting women's soccer but also women's sport into mainstream society forever.
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Brazil hosts the first FIFA Club World Championship, won by Corinthians of Brazil.
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Australian and American Samoa national football teams faced each other in a qualifying match for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The match was played at the International Sports Stadium in Coffs Harbour, Australia. Australia set a world record for the largest victory in an international football match, winning the game 31--0.
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Korea and Japan co-host the first World Cup outside Europe and the Americas.
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Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the most expensive player ever, £80m securing his transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid.
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The first ever World Cup Final to be played on African soil will begin in Johannesburg, South Africa on 11th June at 4pm with the match between the hosts South Africa and Mexico.
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Mexico wins first ever gold medal in olympic soccer.
