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1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang, from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); cf. rugger, but they hardly could have taken the first three letters of Assoc.

soccer. (n.d.). Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved October 09, 2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/soccer