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This Special Issue of Football Studies explores the multifaceted impact of the expanded FIFA World Cup. It welcomes contributions that address athlete preparation, scheduling and workload management, performance analysis and training methodologies, environmental sustainability, infrastructure and urban planning, media and digital engagement, fan culture and experience, as well as governance, policy, and legacy debates.

This special issue explores the sport consumer experiences of people with disabilities, treating sport consumption as a multidimensional phenomenon shaped by cultural, social, economic, legal and institutional forces. It seeks to shed light on how disabled fans navigate barriers, develop meaning through their fandom, and encounter inclusion and exclusion in their participation within sports consumption.

Sport, both as a cultural phenomenon and as a symbolic field, has played an important but relatively little-studied role in Polish literature and culture. This special issue will explore how sport has been represented, narrated, and interpreted in Polish literary and cultural texts across different historical periods. We are particularly interested in critical approaches that consider sport not only as a subject but also as a cultural phenomenon characterized by national identity, ideology, memory, and artistic expression.

We are particularly interested in how social change affects the structures, practices, and cultures of sport—and conversely, how sport contributes to or resists social transformation. This includes change within sport (e.g., policy shifts, organisational reforms, or evolving norms), change through sport (e.g., activist interventions, grassroots movements), and change outside sport (e.g., broader societal shifts) that impacts the sporting realm. Discrimination, marginalisation, and exclusion remain persistent challenges, but they are also being confronted in new and creative ways that merit rigorous scholarly attention.

We welcome proposals for papers that put PQI (or related approaches) into practice in theoretically and/or empirically innovative ways; engage with creative more-than-human methods and/or modes of representation; and/or engage critically with the potential of such approaches for sport and movement studies. We are particularly interested in papers that expand current ways of doing more-than-human research in sport and movement studies, and/or that advance such theory-method approaches in grounded, contextualized ways.

This special issue seeks to explore the diverse set of contemporary challenges grassroots and community football faces amid technological, social, economic, governance, political, and cultural developments and shifts. We therefore encourage and advocate for inter-disciplinary research that is informed through scholarly (and practitioner) collaborations, and welcome submissions from across the globe and those at all stages of their career including early career researchers. All methodological approaches (including conceptual papers) will be considered.

These questions are pressing in the face of increasingly fragmented forms of support. In the past, fans mainly supported a local club, often the one in their town or region. Today, the global media coverage of football – first via television, then digital platforms – has profoundly redefined practices. Fans can now follow, cheer on and even identify with clubs located thousands of kilometres away, without ever setting foot in a stadium. In a world where following football has become extremely accessible, how is club loyalty evolving? Is it being diluted or redefined?

This special issue will build on this research by centralizing novel, innovative, and rigorous qualitative research methods/methodologies to expand understanding of less explored topics, in the motherhood and high performance sport research nexus. For this collection, high performance sport will encompass national or international level competitors, medal winners, Olympians, and professional or semi-professional contexts, where athletes strive for peak performance and achievement.

This Special Issue will take a broad-minded and holistic approach to Euro 2028. It welcomes contributions from researchers situated in different academic fields, including, for example, sociology, international relations, history, media and communication, sport management, urban geography and more. As situated in a pre-event setting, the types of papers that are encouraged include not only original research articles, but also shorter commentaries or discussion pieces, case studies or review articles.

This special issue will highlight emerging opportunities and critical challenges posed by AI in sport, offering implications that extend beyond the sport sector. Through empirical studies, theoretical explorations, and case-based insights, the special issue will offer a comprehensive and timely contribution to both scholarship and industry. Contributions will be solicited through a targeted call for papers, outreach to leading researchers, invitations to authors of recent relevant publications, promotion via academic listservs, and, where appropriate, by encouraging collaboration with industry practitioners.