Foosball is known by many names, which can cause some confusion. In America, we have the good old foosball table. Sometimes, it's spelled with an "E", as in "fooseball table". Of course spelling-wise, that's just wrong, but hey, its a free country. You can spell fooseball with an "e" if you want.

Click to see some American style fooseball tables...

"A foosball table by any other name would smell as sweet..."

But Fooseball and Foosball is just the beginning of the debate. Lots of people call the game table soccer, which makes some sense, as foosball is basically a miniature form of that great game.

In Germany, you might see the word fussball, although "kicker" is more common. In fact, the American word foosball (or fooseball) is actually a corruption of the German word "fussball". You can learn why we have our secondhand foosball by learning a bit about foosball history.

In other parts of Europe, you might hear the game called "footy." That's common in Australia too. You might also hear it called table soccer. That name is pretty universal, in fact.

At OC Foosball, we call our foosball tables, well... foosball tables. But you can call them whatever you want!