Abstract: Football belongs to physical ball games. Therefore, it has a connection with hunting. From the perspective of competition, football, like other ball games, is a way of commemorating ancient hunting behavior. The English word “sports” originally contains the meaning of hunting. The hunting gene of football is scattered in the body of football game and the hunting implication of football also involves the multiple relationship between human and animals. Football has not been completely banned in England for it carries the thinking characteristics of the island people, continues the German style of behavior and inherits the life style of the Roman Empire. The hunting spirit has a common effect on ball games. Football has three roles on players: hunting gear, partner and prey. As a result, the relationship between football and hunting shows a complex characteristic. Football always has a simple, natural and convenient sense of happiness, making itself a new cultural carrier, and in reality gives birth to a new concept of nature, life and ecology.

Key words: football game, hunting reproduction, primitive skills, animal interaction, new ecological concept