Soccer & Society, Volume 26, 2025, Issue 3

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Research Article

Thomas Beattie: a case study of coming out in men’s professional football
Rory Magrath
Pages: 395-408 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2444211

Political performativity within football fan communities: the case of anti-fascist football fan communities in Greece
Spyros Bolakis
Pages: 409-422 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446977

Fan zone vs. fun zone: FIFA fan festival, ‘wandering there’, and the triumph of Souq Waqif in Qatar 2022
Hamed Goharipour
Pages: 423-436 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446855

Open Access
World Cups apart: comparing New York Times coverage of the 2018 Russia and 2022 Qatar World Cup tournaments
Mohammed el-Nawawy & Mohamad Hamas Elmasry
Pages: 437-454 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446862

Dialogue between fans and their clubs in the Premier League and La Liga and the extent of the fans’ influence opportunities. A methodological analysis following the challenge of the European Super League
Guillermo Sanahuja-Peris & Xavier Ginesta
Pages: 455-473 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446974

Conflict and ritual convergence. Comparison between the finals of the Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores and the UEFA champions league (2000–2017)
José Luis Castilla, Manuel González-Ramallal & Aníbal Mesa
Pages: 474-491 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446975

Premium seating in MLS: game attendance motives of luxury suites and club level seats
Kurt C. Mayer, Olzhas Taniyev & Cole Hensen
Pages: 492-514 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446976

The game changer in French football: the case of Paris St. Germain
Goran Mirkovic, Tim Sauer & Henning Zülch
Pages: 515-532 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446970

Open Access
Discursive expression of football fandom in China: language, creativity and digital community
Jonathan Sullivan, Tobias Zuser & William Bi
Pages: 533-545 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446856

Panathinaikos fans celebrate winning the European championship for the 7th time in the team’s history, in May 2024. (Shutterstock/yiannisscheidt)

Beyond the game: Panathinaikos’ fandom and the political arena
Angeliki- Sofia Bakali & Torbjörn Andersson
Pages: 546-559 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2457162

Article Commentary

Gaza and the fracturing of the FC St Pauli fanbase
Jim Saul
Pages: 560-566 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2437212

Open Access
Defining and controlling violent fandom in Europe: more than meets the eye 
Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen & Anastassia Tsoukala
Pages: 567-580 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2437213

Book Review

Tales of South American football: passion, revolution and glory
by Jorge Knijnick, Australia, Fair Play Publishing, 2024, 124 pp., $ 18.99 (paperback), ISBN-10 1925914356; ISBN-13 978-1925914351
Mauro Greco
Pages: 581-583 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2425905

Futebol Feminino no Brasil: entre festas, circos e subúrbios, uma história social (1915-1941) (Women’s Soccer in Brazil: among parties, circuses, and suburbia, a social history
by Aira Fernandes Bonfim. São Paulo: Aira Bonfim, 2023, 350 pp., R$ 120, hardback version, ISBN 987-65-00-72480-6
Leonardo Do Couto Gomes & Leticia Cristina Lima Moraes
Pages: 583-586 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2425904


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