Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Encyclopedia
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world.
History
This enterprise according to its founders was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) UsenetUsenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation" , but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew.
Today the RSSSF has members and contributors from around the world, and has spawned seven spin-off projects to more closely follow the leagues of that project's home country. The spin-off projects are dedicated to Albania
Football in Albania
Football is the most popular Sport in Albania, both at a participatory and spectator level. The Sport is governed by the Football Association of Albania -League system:...
, Brazil
Football in Brazil
Football is the most popular sport in Brazil. The Brazilian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup tournament a record 5 times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every World Cup competition ever held. It is among the favourites to win...
, Denmark
Football in Denmark
Association football is the national sport of Denmark, with 342,955 players and 1,647 clubs registered under the Danish FA.- League system :The top 4 levels in Denmark are governed by the Danish Football Association...
, Norway
Football in Norway
Football is the most popular sport in Norway in terms of active membership . The Football Association of Norway was founded in 1902 and the first international match was played in 1908. There are 1,822 registered football clubs and about 25,000 teams...
, Poland
Football in Poland
Football is the most popular sport in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally. The first professional clubs were founded in the early 1900s, and the Polish national football team played its first international match in 1921.There are hundreds of...
, Romania
Football in Romania
Football is the most popular sport in Romania. The Romanian Football Federation , a member of UEFA, is the sport's national governing body.-League system:...
, Uruguay
Football in Uruguay
Football is the most popular sport in Uruguay. The Uruguay national football team has won two FIFA World Cup titles. The team won the first edition of the tournament in 1930 and won again in 1950.- History :...
and Venezuela
Football in Venezuela
Football is a widely practiced and popular sport in Venezuela, although the sport has lagged behind baseball in terms of popularity. The country has proven one of the biggest underachievers in CONMEBOL and was formerly known as the Cenicienta of the region....
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This enterprise was for many years closely tied with the newsgroup RSS, and it still maintains an archive (last updated 15 June 2003) of what some of its contributors consider to be the best posts of RSS.