The Champions? Thirty Years of the UEFA Champions League by Mark Doidge (Hardback)

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Published:
18 Apr 2025
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Hardback
Number of pages:
142 pages
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246mm
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Covering the impact on domestic leagues, clubs, fans, and players, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of 30 years of the Champions League and how it has impacted football. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
Covering the impact on domestic leagues, clubs, fans, and players, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of 30 years of the Champions League and how it has impacted football.The year 1992 has become a key year in the development of football. Not only was the Premier League formed in this year, but the Champions League was also launched. Both were designed to placate the larger clubs and have provided more money and resources for these elite clubs. The Champions League was also established to avoid the likelihood of a breakaway super league, although recent events has indicated that this was not successful. Despite the threat of the Super League, the Champions League continues to expand. Ultimately, this restructuring of European football's premier competition has resulted in a variety of impacts on domestic leagues, clubs, fans and players, all are themes that are explored here.This book is an essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals in sports marketing and management, sociology, cultural studies and media analysis.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

About the Author: Mark Doidge is Reader in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. His research focuses on social activism among football fans, climate action, anti-racism, and supporting refugees. He is the author of a number of books, including Ultras (2020), Collective Action and Football Fandom (2018), and Football Italia (2015).Yagmur Nuhrat is a Cultural Anthropologist based at Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Sociology. She investigates everyday ethics and morality. Her research on sport centres on fandom, fairness, gender, language and space. She has published in several volumes and journals including American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist and Sport in Society.Radoslaw Kossakowski is Associate Professor in Sociology, Director of Institute of Sociology at and Chair of the Scientific Council of Sociology at the University of Gdansk. He is active member of several scientific bodies and associations: European Sociology of Sport Association, International Sociology of Sport Association, Football Collective Group. His articles have been published in many well-recognized journals including Sport in Society, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for the Sociology of Sport and East European Politics and Societies.

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