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The names of the game football (soccer) in different languages are usually direct or indirect borrowings from the English "football", but several different etymologies present themselves. This table is based on the list of interlanguage links from Football (soccer), as of 22 February 2006, reproduced below. (Note that I've left off languages written in Indian, Chinese, Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic scripts because even if I did know how to read them, my computer doesn't even have the fonts to display them.)

[[af:Sokker]] [[als:Fussball]] [[be:Футбол]] [[bg:Футбол]] [[bn:এসোসিয়েশন ফুটবল]] [[bs:Nogomet]] [[ca:Futbol]] [[cs:Fotbal]] [[cy:Pêl-droed]] [[da:Fodbold]] [[de:Fußball]] [[el:Ποδόσφαιρο]] [[eo:Futbalo]] [[es:Fútbol]] [[et:Jalgpall]] [[fa:فوتبال]] [[fi:Jalkapallo]] [[fr:Football]] [[fy:Fuotbal]] [[ga:Sacar]] [[gd:Ball-coise]] [[gl:Fútbol]] [[he:כדורגל]] [[hr:Nogomet]] [[hu:Labdarúgás]] [[ia:Football]] [[id:Sepak bola]] [[io:Futbolo]] [[is:Knattspyrna]] [[it:Calcio (sport)]] [[ja:サッカー]] [[ko:축구]] [[la:Pediludium]] [[lb:Foussball]] [[li:Vootbal]] [[lt:Futbolas]] [[lv:Futbols]] [[ml:ഫുട്ബോള്‍]] [[ms:Bola sepak]] [[nds:Football]] [[nl:Voetbal]] [[nn:Fotball]] [[no:Fotball]] [[pl:Piłka nożna]] [[pt:Futebol]] [[ro:Fotbal]] [[ru:Футбол]] [[sco:Fitbaa]] [[simple:Soccer football]] [[sl:Nogomet]] [[sq:Futbolli]] [[sr:Фудбал]] [[sv:Fotboll]] [[th:ฟุตบอล]] [[tr:Futbol]] [[vi:Bóng đá]] [[wa:Fotbale]] [[zh:足球]] [[zh-min-nan:Kha-kiû]]

Key

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Language: Self-explanatory. Where a given language has more than one line, the first is the title of the Wikipedia article linked from Football (soccer) and the others are sourced.

Name in language: Roman letters in brackets are transliterations.

Etymology column:

LW = Loanword (more-or-less direct borrowing, usually allowing for phonological and spelling differences, of the word given in quotes)

LWS = Loanword ultimately based on English "soccer" LWF = Loanword ultimately based on English "football"

Sp = Kept English spelling

LT = loan translation or calque (word-for-word translation: e.g. Polish piłka nożna, where piłka means "ball" and nożna means "foot (adj.)")

LTC = loan translation in a Germanic language, where both parts of the compound word are cognate to English "foot" and "ball", e.g. German Fußball from Fuß and Ball

Table

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Language Name in language Etymology
Afrikaans Sokker LWS
Alemannic Fussball LTC
Belarusian Футбол (futbol) LWF
Bulgarian Футбол (futbol) LWF
Bosnian Nogomet poss. LT? "nogo-" = "foot" (Slavic root, cf. Russian "нога"), "met" = ?
(Wiktionary) Fudbal LWF
Catalan Futbol LWF
Chinese 足球 (zúqiú) LT (足=foot, 球=ball)
Czech Fotbal LWF
Welsh Pêl-droed LT, presumably
Danish Fodbold LTC
German Fußball LTC
Greek Ποδόσφαιρο (podósfairo) LT: Πόδι = "foot", σφαίρα = "ball, sphere"
Esperanto Futbalo LWS
Spanish Fútbol LWS
Estonian Jalgpall LT: jalg = "foot", pall = "ball"
Finnish Jalkapallo LT: jalka = "foot", pallo = "ball"
French Football LWF Sp
Frisian Fuotbal LTC
Irish Sacar LWS
(Wiktionary) Peil ???
Scottish Gaelic Ball-coise ???
Galician Fútbol LWF
Croatian Nogomet see Bosnian
Hungarian Labdarúgás ???
Interlingua Football LWF
Indonesian Sepak bola LT? (Is "bola" a loanword?)
Ido Futbolo LWF
Icelandic Knattspyrna ???
Italian Calcio "kick"; see Calcio Fiorentino
Japanese サッカー (sakkā) LWS
Korean 축구/蹴球 (chukku) LW from Chinese?
Latin Pediludium LT: pedi- "foot", ludium "ball"
Luxembourgish Foussball LTC
Limburgish Vootbal LTC
Lithuanian Futbolas LWF
Latvian Futbols LWF
Malay Bola sepak see Indonesian
Low Saxon Football LWF Sp
Dutch Voetbal LTC
Norwegian Nynorsk and Bokmål Fotball LTC
Polish Piłka nożna LT: piłka "ball", nożna "foot" (adj.)
Portuguese Futebol LWF
Romanian Fotbal LWF
Russian Футбол (futbol) LWF
Scots Fitbaa LTC
Slovenian Nogomet see Bosnian
Albanian Futbolli LWF
Serbian фудбал (fudbal) LWF
Swedish Fotboll LTC
Turkish Futbol LWF
Vietnamese Bóng đá bóng = ball, đá = kick
Walloon Fotbale LWF