• the Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion in Hanover is home to three different kinds of football, hosting the Hannover Spartans, Arminia Hannover and the German rugby union team?
• the press box at the University of Wyoming is named for Larry Birleffi, who announced all Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball games from 1947–1986?
• Ray Wilson, who was the eldest member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup team, became an undertaker after he retired from football?
• Kashima Antlers is the name of a professional football club in the Japanese J. League?
• César Sampaio is a former Brazilian football player who played offensive midfielder for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team?
• Joe Shell, the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940?
• footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?

Facts on topics related to Football

Medieval football

• golf in Scotland (example pictured) flourished despite "the fut bal ande the golf" (football and golf) being "vtterly criyt done" (utterly condemned) by a 1457 Act of the Parliament of Scotland?

Australian rules football

• Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
• VFL footballer Charlie Moore, the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War, played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid, who died in the same war six weeks later?
• Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon?
• Glenn James is the only Indigenous Australian to umpire top grade Australian rules football?
• James Wandin, the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club, was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people?
• Jimmy Melbourne, who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne, was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level?
• Keith Smith was a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and '40s?
• an Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse?
• recently-retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero?
• the Young Australia League was initially formed in 1905 to promote Australian rules football?

Association football

• amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds?
• association footballer Mikkel Diskerud played both for and against the United States national youth team in the spring of 2008?
• association footballers Jimmy Willis and Steve Finnan are the only players to have scored in the top five divisions of English league football?
• football manager Yvon Pouliquen led two clubs to victory in the French Cup Final and relegation from the top division in consecutive seasons?
• football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team?
• football champion Romualdas Marcinkus (pictured) was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
• footballer Abe Hartley used to place a rolled-up cigarette behind his ear prior to kick-off and then smoke it in the changing room at half-time?
• footballer Andy Leaning was named man of the match following York City's 3–1 extra time defeat at Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round in 1986, with his performance being described as "heroic"?
• footballer Arthur Wolstenholme was the first player to score four goals in a Third Division North match?
• footballer Arthur Wood had a metal plate inserted in his forehead following an injury received in the First World War, and was never again able to head the ball?

American football

• 5'5", 135 lb (1.65 m, 61 kg) Chris Limahelu set a USC Trojans football record with a 47-yard field goal at the 1974 Rose Bowl game?
• 1954 Michigan football MVP Fred Baer and 1953 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Lattner played in the same backfield for Fenwick High School in the Chicago Catholic League in 1949?
• Vanderbilt University's win in the 2008 Music City Bowl came 53 years to the day after the Commodores' last bowl game victory and gave them their first winning football season since 1982?
• All-American football player Art Walker played in 479 of 540 minutes in the Michigan Wolverines' 1954 season and later played seven years for the Edmonton Eskimos?
• American football center J. T. White played for NCAA national champions with both the 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team and the 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team?
• American football defensive tackle O'Brien Schofield, who completed his college career for Wisconsin in 2009, is a cousin of the National Football League veterans Vonnie Holliday and Bobby Engram?
• American football guard Dean Dingman was only the third true freshman to start on the Michigan Wolverines football offensive line?
• American football guard Justin Boren cited family values as the reason for transferring from the University of Michigan to its arch rival, The Ohio State University?
• American football halfback Franklin Morse (pictured) was the model for a drawing, prints of which reportedly "hung in most college rooms throughout the country" during the 1890s?
• American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams?

Gridiron football

• Big Ten MVP Willis Glassgow was called the "Dancing Master" for his shiftiness on the gridiron and because he managed the most popular ballroom in Iowa City?
• gridiron football defensive end Justin Brown was named in six All-American teams when playing at East Central University from 2001 to 2004?
• gridiron football quarterback Mike Quinn was the final member of the Houston Texans' first signings left on the team?
• gridiron football wide receiver Chris Jackson did not play football until attending Orange Coast College in 1994?
• gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008?
• gridiron football player Malik Jackson has played at every defensive position in his professional career?
• Raghib Ismail became the highest paid player in gridiron football history when he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League?
  

Canadian football

• Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' only blocked punt of 2006?
• Canadian football wide receivers and Murray State University graduates Andrew Nowacki and Jason French caught touchdown passes nearly one minute apart?
• Bouse Hutton (pictured) played ice hockey, lacrosse, and Canadian football at the highest respective level of competition, winning championships in each sport?
• yards from scrimmage, total offense, all-purpose yardage, and return yards are all American and Canadian football statistics to measure advancement of the football?
• all three former head coaches of the BC Lions already inducted to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, Annis Stukus, Eagle Keys and Cal Murphy, had losing records coaching this Canadian football club?
• during the offseason, Canadian football linebacker, Raymond Fontaine, works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields?
• the 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television?
• the 91st Grey Cup was a Canadian football game in Regina, Saskatchewan that featured the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes?
• while with the Edmonton Eskimos, Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?

Rugby football

• George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler?
• Thomas Gisborne Gordon is the only one-handed rugby football player to ever have been capped at international level?
• the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding?

Rugby union

• Australian rugby union player Steve Williams was selected to play for the German national rugby union team while backpacking around Europe?
• Czech children's writer Ondřej Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia?
• Irish international rugby union captain Dolway Walkington sometimes played matches wearing a monocle, removing it only when he needed to make a tackle?
• New Zealand rugby union footballer Ali Williams did not start playing until he was aged 17, but earned three international caps before he was 22?
• New Zealand rugby union footballer Jimmy Hunter's 44 tries on the 1905 All Blacks tour is a record that is unlikely to ever to be surpassed?
• New Zealand rugby union player Billy Stead co-authored The Complete Rugby Footballer while on tour with the All Blacks in 1905-6?
• New Zealand rugby player Andy Dalton suffered an injury that kept him from captaining the All Blacks side that went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup?
• New Zealand Test cricketer Martin Donnelly also played rugby union for England?
• Irish rugby union commentator Ryle Nugent has worn sheepskin gloves whilst clinging to his microphone "for dear life"?
• rugby union footballer Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three consecutive Women's Rugby World Cup titles?