Abstract: This study examined the football shoe collar types (high, sock and low) effect on ankle stability during 45° side-step cutting. Fifteen university football players who are from Quanzhou Normal University are recruited in current study. Three-dimension kinematic and ground reaction force data were collected using VICON motion capture system and Kistler force plate, respectively. The dependent variables are including: ankle angle and moment at initial of foot contact, peak ankle angle and moment and total range of motion at all three planes. Sock collar were significantly larger peak ankle dorsiflexion compared to low collar (p = 0.001, dz = 0.68), while a significantly smaller total ROM was observed in the high collar compared to the low collar (p = 0.009, dz = 0.61) in the sagittal plane. The moderate and large effect size were observed in transverse plane. These findings indicated that high collar football footwear restricted ankle joint freedom movement in sagittal and transverse plane.