Introduction
IntroductionIntroduction: perspectives on fans and identities in soccer
Kausik Bandyopadhyay
Pages: 385-396 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2342167
Whose Fan You Are? National, Local and Club Identities
Open Access
Race and whiteness in football talk amongst English fans: audience receptions of televised national team coverage
Jacco van Sterkenburg & Max Walder
Pages: 397-410 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332090
‘Liverpool daft’: the growth of British football clubs’ supporters’ clubs in the late twentieth century in Ireland – a history
Conor Curran
Pages: 411-425 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332097
The end of terraces? Fans’ identity in times of crisis in Poland
Radosław Kossakowski
Pages: 426-436 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332098
Why win a World Cup? Thirty-six years of football and nation(alisms) in Argentina
Pablo Alabarces, Juan Branz & José Garriga Zucal
Pages: 437-451 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332099
Multiple football codes and their spectators, fans and supporters in Australia
Roy Hay
Pages: 452-471 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332100
Club, nation, player: conflicted fan identities in African soccer
Wycliffe W. Simiyu Njororai
Pages: 472-486 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332101
Open Access
Becoming a Chinese football fan: an examination of the influence of national and local identities on the development of Chinese football fandom
Kaixiao Jiang & Alan Bairner
Pages: 487-504 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332102
Expressing Fandom: Players and Fans
‘Could have been a god but chose to be a Devil’. The 2004 European Championships and Wayne Rooney’s departure from Everton Football Club
David Kennedy & Peter Kennedy
Pages: 505-517 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332103
Open Access
Does anyone care where they are from? The importance of locally trained players in English football
Steve Bullough, Lee Edmondson & Andrew Mills
Pages: 518-534 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332080
‘You, me, we’: shared identities of African professional footballers’ diaspora in Thailand
Chuenchanok Siriwat
Pages: 535-546 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332081
Open Access
‘Weeping at Vasermil’: players, fans and tears
Amir Ben-Porat
Pages: 547-559 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332082
The role of soccer and identity in Egyptian society: fans and players
Mariam M. Hassan
Pages: 560-572 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332083
The Critical Fan: Social and Political Identities
Symbolic identities in football: a view from political science
Christos Kassimeris
Pages: 573-584 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332084
Taking sides in conflict and the question of antisemitism in Scottish football
Joseph. M. Bradley
Pages: 585-602 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332085
‘Brigate Verde…a terrible beauty is born’: an exploratory examination of the social leadership of the Green Brigade
Andrew Burnett
Pages: 603-617 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332086
Eurocentric globalization of football. Coloniality, consumption, social distinction and identities of transnational fans in Latin America
Kevin Daniel Rozo
Pages: 618-630 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332087
East Bengal-Mohun Bagan football fans and Indian politics: parochialism and nationalism in simultaneity?
Avipsu Halder
Pages: 631-646 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332088
Open Access
Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fans: exploring the mechanisms enabling football fans’ position as a stakeholder in the management of circulations
Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
Pages: 647-659 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332089
FIFA Men’s World Cup: The Ultimate Fan-Stage
Africa united: exploring the fandoms around the African Men’s Qatar 2022 World Cup teams among fans in Harare, Zimbabwe
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Pages: 660-672 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332091
Open Access
Victory for Africa or the Arab world? Moroccan nationalism, Arab exceptionalism, pan-African solidarity and digital fandom during the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Lyton Ncube, Chengeto Pauline Mkwendi & Amos Batisayi
Pages: 673-692 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332092
Nationalism or cosmopolitanism? How Chinese football fans viewed the Japanese team and Japanese fans during the 2022 Men’s World Cup
Chun Wing Lee
Pages: 693-704 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332093
The quest for authenticity amid activism and sportswashing: a netnographical study of Chinese satellite fans during the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup
Ryan Chen, Yiran Su & Adam S Beissel
Pages: 705-721 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332094
Open Access
‘Our team will definitely win the cup’: the Keralan support of Brazil and Argentina during Men’s World Cup 2022
Ana Raquel Romeu Aguiar
Pages: 722-736 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332095
Epilogue
The football commentator and the social commentator: a conversation
Jack Woodward & Kath Woodward
Pages: 737-747 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2332096
