soccer football_team - freebase-schema/freebase GitHub Wiki

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A football (soccer) team is a sports team which participates in association football (soccer) games, or games of a variant form of association football (such as futsal). The type includes professional and amateur football teams, as well as international football teams.

• Professional football teams (e.g. Estudiantes, FC Gold Pride, Bayer Leverkusen)

• Amateur football teams (e.g. Whitehaven A.F.C., Hampton Rovers Football Club, Annecy F.C.)

• Reserve teams (e.g. Manchester United F.C. Reserves and Academy, Liverpool F.C. Reserves, JEF United Ichihara Chiba Reserves)

• Youth football team or feeder clubs (e.g. Celtic Boys Club, Foyle Harps Y.F.C.)

• National football teams of countries (e.g. Spain national football team, Netherlands national football team, Brazil national football team)

• Teams of other variants of association football such as indoor soccer, futsal and five-a-side football (e.g. Spartans Futsal Club, Anaheim Splash)

• Football leagues (e.g. Major League Soccer)

• Use the Football League type for these.

• American football teams (e.g. New York Giants)

• Use the American football team type for these.

• Other kinds of professional football teams such as Rugby clubs, Canadian football teams, Australian rules football teams and Gaelic football teams (e.g. South Sydney Rabbitohs)

• Use the Sports Team type for these.

• Football associations (e.g. FIFA)

• Use the Sports Association type for these.