Abstract
This paper explores the correlations between football (soccer), culture and religion. It offers a short historical introduction on the origins and rise of the game in Europe and in mission territories from the nineteenth century. The connection of football with cultic, superstitious and quasi-religious practices is then explored first in Africa and Latin America and then in Europe. Concluding theological reflections note that, while football is a quasi-religion in many ways, it is, after all, only a game.
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