Football and Communities Across Codes

This Football and Communities Across Codes volume brings together a diverse range of contributions on the theme of football and community across the footballing codes of Soccer, Australian Rules Football and Rugby League. It provides a unique global perspective to the shared cross-cutting challenges facing football clubs, communities, stakeholders, and of course, football fans. In this volume the authors discuss the nature of fandom, how we use football to communicate, transnational community building through sport, football as a vehicle for mobilising community assets, how new sports clubs can create new communities and new tribalism and the differences of fan and spectator experience inside stadiums and in virtual fan communities. This volume makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the reciprocal relationship between football and community.