Football (Soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. There are 250 million players in over 200 countries.
How does it called in different countries?
Here you will find Football in 50 languages.
| Language | |
| Afrikaans | sokker |
| Albanian | futboll |
| Arabic | كرة القدم (kurat alqadam) |
| Armenian | ֆուտբոլ |
| Bengali | সকার / ফুটবল (sakāra / phuṭabala) |
| Bosnian | nogomet |
| Cantonese | 足球 (juk1 kau4) |
| Catalan | futbol |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 足球 (Zúqiú) |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 足球 (Zúqiú : ㄗㄨˊ ㄑㄧㄡˊ) |
| Croatian | nogomet |
| Czech | kopaná |
| Danish | fodbold |
| Dutch | voetbal |
| English (American) | soccer |
| English (British) | football |
| Esperanto | futbalo |
| Finnish | jalkapallo |
| French | football |
| German | Fußball |
| Greek | ποδόσφαιρο (podósfairo) |
| Haitian Creole | foutbòl |
| Hindi | फुटबॉल (phutabol) |
| Hungarian | futball |
| Icelandic | fótbolti |
| Indonesian | sepak bola |
| Italian | calcio |
| Japanese | サッカー (sakkā ) |
| Korean | 축구 (chuggu) |
| Latin | pediludium |
| Latvian | futbols |
| Macedonian | фудбал (fudbal) |
| Norwegian | fotball |
| Polish | piłka nożna |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | futebol |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | futebol |
| Romanian | fotbal |
| Russian | футбол (futbol) |
| Serbian | fudbal |
| Slovak | futbal |
| Spanish (Latin America) | fútbol |
| Spanish (Spain) | fútbol |
| Swahili | soka |
| Swedish | fotboll |
| Taiwanese (MinNan) | that-kha-kiû (踢跤球) |
| Tamil | கால்பந்து (kālpantu) |
| Thai | ฟุตบอล (futbxl) |
| Turkish | futbol |
| Vietnamese | bóng đá |
| Welsh | pêl-droed |
You can see that the word is similar to “football” in more than half languages among 50 languages, but there are also languages the word is close to “soccer” like Japanese or Swahil.
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