Tag: football

The organisers of the International Football History Conference AKA FootyCon are pleased to announce that their 2026 annual conference will take place at Craven Cottage, Fulham Pier, Fulham Football Club, London, England on Friday the 12th & Saturday the 13th of June 2026. The organisers also welcome delegates to join them for a welcome social event on the evening of Thursday the 11th of June 2026. The conference organisers welcome any topic relating to the history of football of all codes.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A double-edged sword: understanding the influence of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) on viewer experience in the English Premier League from a team identification perspective by Ryan Chen, Yang Xu, James Du & Joshua I. Newman.

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.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Staying in the game? Predicting intention to quit in Norwegian elite and high-level female football players by Susann Dahl Pettersen, Bjørn Helge Handegård, Roman Koposov, Monica Martinussen, Henriette Kyrrestad, Merete Aasheim, Lene-Mari Potulski Rasmussen & Frode Adolfsen (open access).

Jonathan Wilson, who is visiting Malmö City Archives on September 23, is one of the world's leading football historians and he will be talking about the history of the offside rule during the evening. Wilson is the author of around ten books and writes regularly about football for the English daily newspaper The Guardian.

Following the enormous success of this summer’s UEFA Women’s European Championships, and in anticipation of the tenth staging of the women’s FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2027, the Shamrock Rovers in the Community Research Team n association with Technological University of Dublin School of Media and Shamrock Rovers Football Club invite proposals for a one-day, in-person, interdisciplinary symposium to be held on the TU Dublin, Tallaght campus.

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 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 of Soccer & Society is edited by independent historian Conor Curran and takes a pan-European approach in examining the game’s role within schools in seven European nations from the late 1800s until the early twenty-first century, including the homes to the ‘Big Five’ European leagues – England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Introduction: soccer’s growth and development in schools in Europe: a history by Conor Curran (open access).