Why is it called a soccer match versus a soccer game?

There's a domestic game called football and there's no other good word for it at this time, so we call the other thing soccer. Now, between match and game, there is a bit of an informal hierarchy in the larger world of association football. read more

Annual staff vs. managers could probably just about qualify as a match, but could also be called merely a game. – Steve Jessop Jun 23 '14 at 11:34 "Soccer" was indeed coined in England (in Oxford, to be specific) and might well be used to distinguish soccer from rugger (rugby football). read more

a match means two teams or opponents playing against each other for the object of wining where as a game is a general term used to describe anything done for fun with specific rules played individually or in teams. read more