How To Pronounce Football

In British English, football is pronounced /ˈfʊt.bɔːl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈfʷʊt.bʷɔːɫ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈfʊt.bɔːl/.

Football has two syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.