АнглоВИКИ (а им, подозреваю, виднее) говорит о 1314 годе, и что запрет относился к "футболу в городах из-за шума".
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In 1314, comes the earliest reference to a game called football when Nicholas de Farndone, Lord Mayor of the City of London issued a decree on behalf of King Edward II banning football. It was written in the French used by the English upper classes at the time. A translation reads: "[f]orasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large foot balls [rageries de grosses pelotes de pee] in the fields of the public from which many evils might arise which God forbid: we command and forbid on behalf of the king, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in the future."
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То есть в оригинале нет даже слова "футбол", оно появилось в позднейшем переводе с госязыка.