text: what country invented the game of soccer?   well obviously its england, but here is some infomation about its orgin:  the laws of the game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of england. the first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at trinity college, cambridge in 1848, at a meeting attended by representatives from eton, harrow, rugby, winchester and shrewsbury, but they were far from universally adopted. during the 1850s, many clubs were formed, thoughout the english-speaking world, independent of schools or universities, to play various forms of football. some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the sheffield football club (formed by former pupils from harrow) in 1857, which led to formation of a sheffield fa in 1867. in 1862, j.c. thring of uppingham school also devised an influential set of rules.