About r/football
In its own words:
Home of Football. Official Sponsors of Redditch United. News, Rumours, Analysis, gossip and much more.
Community guide
r/football (#993, about 1.1 million) covers association football—news, rumours, analysis and gossip—and asks for English-language, sourced discussion rather than highlight videos or stream links.
What belongs
Match and league talk (about 26 posts/day; mostly text, some images). Rules require Reddiquette, sources, descriptive titles and English; they ban URL shorteners, NSFW, empty self-text, editorialized titles, stream requests or sharing, and videos. Image posts need to add something useful.
Versus nfl, CFB and sports
nfl and CFB are American codes; sports is a wider umbrella. This room is football as soccer, with a no-video rule that many highlight-heavy spaces do not share.
Practical pointers
Write a sourced text post; don’t ask for streams or upload match clips.
The community was created on Aug 1, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 830 subscribers (+0.08%). Among the 20 communities on our soccer list it is number 5 by size. It sits just behind r/oilpainting (#991) and ahead of r/euphoria (#993) in our ranking.
What sets r/football apart
r/football is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 74% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (17:00 UTC) sees about 22.0× as many posts as the quietest (01:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/football grew from 1,058,450 to 1,065,994 subscribers (+7.5K, +0.71%). That is about 148 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/football this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- BREAKING: Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel, 30 has died after suffering a head injury due to a heavy collision with goalkeeper Owono, the club has confirmed.u/bendubberley_ · Nov 3 · text post
- Does anyone else think Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher are genuinely awful commentators?u/Max_12345678910 · Nov 1 · text post
- Manuel Neuer surpasses both his German compatriot Thomas Muller, and Lionel Messi, to become move outright third on the all time Champions League appearances listu/mrjohnnymac18 · Nov 3 · image
- Cristiano Ronaldo has retired from the Portugal national teamu/Technical_Tone_5219 · Nov 5 · text post
- Is Japan's goal to win the world cup in 2050 realistic?u/DizzLiKe · Nov 6 · text post
- How did the South Korea national team become so bad so quickly?u/Rokusaburoz · Nov 3 · text post
- How fast was Ronald Koeman’s 1992 European Cup final free kick? Measuring it against the widely reported 188 km/hu/Longshotfootball · Nov 2 · text post
- It's weekend. Let's do a throwback: which was a more insane Champions League Finals comeback? 1999 Man Utd vs Bayern Munich or the Istanbul miracle?u/AffectionatePoet5033 · Nov 7 · text post
- Match Thread: Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City | Premier League | 07 Nov 17:30 UTCu/matchpal-live · Nov 7 · text post
- Match Thread: AEK Athens vs Real Madrid | Champions League | League Stage | 04 Nov 17:45 UTCu/matchpal-live · Nov 4 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/football, from 2022 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Lionel Messi’s ankle is absolutely destroyedu/Ok_bro_1 · Jul 15, 2024 · image
- VAR intervention rate in the 2026 World Cupu/JustMe3189 · Jul 13, 2026 · image
- The Hydration Break is ruining the natural flow of the gameu/mibu001 · Jun 14, 2026 · text post
- Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the first player in history to score in 5 different World Cups.u/Adam_Deveney · Nov 24, 2022 · 8,047 points · 1,305 comments · image
- How insane was Real Madrid signing Kaká and CR7 in the same window back in 2009? What would be the modern equivalent today?u/lawlietkkj · Jul 23, 2026 · image
- Thoughts on the new offside technology?u/amosmurphy_ · Nov 22, 2022 · 7,113 points · 2,468 comments · image
- Please stop calling French, Spanish, English, etc players "African" it's a very narrow way of seeing things and more than anything, it is racistu/No-Significance5659 · Jul 10, 2026 · text post
- The World Cup has been absolutely destroyed this year.u/conspiracyyyyyy · Apr 17, 2026 · text post
- Neymar’s downfall from the eyes of a Brazilian who watched it allu/caiopaz744 · Jul 14, 2025 · image
- As the world cup goes on, it'll become more evident only Mexico should've hostedu/tylerthe-theatre · Jun 12, 2026 · text post
What r/football talks about
Across 195 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “match”, “league”, “utc”, “champions” and “nov”. Other frequent themes are stage, premier, ronaldo, club, messi and united. Recurring phrases include “champions league”, “league league”, “league stage” and “premier league”. By format, 74% are text posts and 26% are images.
Popular post flairs: 💬Discussion (62), Match Thread (28), 📰News (15), Daily Discussion (14), 📊Stats (10), 📖Read (3).
Activity and best time to post
r/football gets about 26 new posts a day. The public archive holds 289,805 posts and 1,998,379 comments in total, about 6.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (40 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (21). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 01:00 UTC.
Rules of r/football
The moderators of r/football list 11 rules. In short:
- Follow Reddiquette!
- Provide sources
- No URL shorteners
- No NSFW
- Image posts with valuable content!
- Title description
- No Stream requests or sharing
- No Selftext with no content
- No editorialized titles
- English Language only please!
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/football and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/football?
r/football has 1,065,994 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #992 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,544 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/football?
r/football was created on Aug 1, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 24, 2009.
How active is r/football?
Very active: r/football gets about 26 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 289,805 posts and 1,998,379 comments. In a sample of 195 recent posts we counted 147 different authors.
When is r/football most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 01:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/football about?
The community describes itself as: “Home of Football. Official Sponsors of Redditch United. News, Rumours, Analysis, gossip and much more.” Recent post titles often mention match, league, utc, champions and nov. Most posts are text posts (74%).
Is r/football safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/football as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/football?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/football accepts both text and link posts, with images and videos enabled. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “Follow Reddiquette!”; “Provide sources”; “No URL shorteners”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/football?
Communities with similar topics include r/Bundesliga (1.3M), r/soccer (8.8M), r/soccercirclejerk (1.5M), r/PremierLeague (5.1M) and r/popculturechat (6.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/football.