Editorial
EditorialOpen Access
Introduction: soccer’s growth and development in schools in Europe: a history
Conor Curran
Pages: 587-590 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481797
Research Articles
Open Access
The establishment of football at Swiss schools: from the mid-nineteenth century to the inter-war period
Christian Koller
Pages: 591-605 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481790
Football in Italian schools: the story of a failed relationship (1861–1943)
Marco Impiglia
Pages: 606-625 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481791
Irish schools and the struggle for competitive soccer at home and abroad, 1877–2000
Conor Curran
Pages: 626-640 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481792
The history of women’s football in Spanish schools
Celia Valiente
Pages: 641-653 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481793
Open Access
‘Grand little ambassadors’: schoolboy football in mid-twentieth century England and Wales
Matthew Taylor
Pages: 654-671 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481794
Football in German schools and the role of the German FA in the context of a discourse of ‘crisis’ and the World Cup 2006
Kristian Naglo
Pages: 672-686 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481795
The development of football refereeing in French schools, 1980–2023
Alexandre Joly & Alexandre Perreau-Niel
Pages: 687-699 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481796
