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Open Access
Ownership in the League of Ireland: why Irish professional football clubs are transitioning to the co-operative model
Barry Kearney & Olive McCarthy
Pages: 701-716 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2457148
Habitus hinders: exploring the absence of players of global calibre from Malabar, one of India’s passionate football regions
Muhammed Haneefa & Noushad AP
Pages: 717-732 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2480059
Love ‘reciprocated’? The curious case of Argentina and social media fandom of Bangladesh and India during FIFA World Cup 2022
Srutayu Bhattacharya
Pages: 733-748 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2480054
Moments of difference: qualitative study of young players with immigrant background in two U17 football teams in Finland
Kari Saari & Marko Kananen
Pages: 749-765 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2492008
Open Access
Hosting a football club as a source of social trust and civic pride
Jaume García, Fernando Lera-López & José Manuel Sánchez-Santos
Pages: 766-783 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2497548
Women’s football in Türkiye from the perspectives of female footballers on the field
Levent Var & Sevde Mavi Var
Pages: 784-794 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2504386

Open Access
Staying in the game? Predicting intention to quit in Norwegian elite and high-level female football players
Susann Dahl Pettersen, Bjørn Helge Handegård, Roman Koposov, Monica Martinussen, Henriette Kyrrestad, Merete Aasheim, Lene-Mari Potulski Rasmussen & Frode Adolfsen
Pages: 795-806 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2506111
Kicking off prosperity: unraveling the football-marketing Nexus in Saudi Arabia’s tourism and economy
Ream N. Kinawy
Pages: 807-834 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2506109
CFK: a case study of a Dutch institutionalized instrument for financial stability of retired football players
Rafał Wysoczański-Minkowicz
Pages: 835-849 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2506113
Open Access
Athlete transitions in a Norwegian professional football academy: transition experiences and parental support
Nadine Ohla, Martin Erikstad & Stig Arve Sæther
Pages: 850-861 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2506108
Book Review
The British, soccer and identity in the Caribbean. Class, race and nation, 1908-1973
by Roy McCree, London, Routledge, 2025, 272 pp., £97.50 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-032-25901-7
Alan Bairner
Pages: 862-863 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2444801
The Kolkata football: history and representation
by Ankur Konar, New Delhi, Hawakal Publishers, 2022, 185 pp., INR 500 (hardback), ISBN 978-93-91431-52-5
Rahul Bhaumik
Pages: 863-865 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2444802
Commentary
‘Çarşı is against everything!’ But is it also against documentary? Politics of Turkish sports fan documentary Asi Ruh
İlyas Deniz Çınar
Pages: 866-880 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2448878

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