The football match in the Northern Song Dynasty, also called Cuju, was a very popular sport. Football at that time was very close to today's football in appearance. According to the fact garden of Song Dynasty, this kind of ball is inflated with animal carcasses, plus six or eight balloons sewn with pointed pimps. I think it should be very close to modern basketball in appearance.

At that time, there was no one from the emperor to the common people who was not fascinated by this game.

At that time, in order to manage the Cuju team well, standardize the competition and form large-scale and high-grade competition content, people also organized and established the mass association "Yuanyou Club" specializing in football, and individual members of the association were called "Yuanyou Club". The club has a strong lineup and a large number of personnel, and its influence is no less than that of today's Football Association. At that time, the jingle was: if you don't join the round club, you will not be happy when you are old.

In terms of competition mechanism and number of people, Cuju in Song Dynasty is also flexible, including large-scale competitions with hundreds of people and small-scale family competitions with several people. It is really hard to say what the pattern of today's football world is like if Jin Meng did not destroy the Song Dynasty, where civilian culture was highly prosperous.