Jean-Michel De Waele is Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His areas of expertise include Central and Eastern European politics, social-democracy, as well as the relations between sport and politics.

Suzan Gibril is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her fields of expertise include contentious politics in the Middle East and the relations between sport and politics in the region.

Ekaterina Gloriozova is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research interests are the relations between sport and politics in post-Soviet and contemporary Russia.

Ramón Spaaij is Associate Professor and Research Program Leader (Sport in Society) at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. His overarching research interests centre on questions of social cohesion, conflict and social change in sport and violent extremism.

Provides the first handbook exclusively covering the relationship between football and politics

Offers a global comparison, covering 35 countries across 5 continents

Covers topical themes relating to football and its main political and social issues

PART 1 - Introduction; Ramon Spaaij, Jean-Michel De Waele, Suzan Gibril, and Ekaterina Gloriozova.- PART 2 - Western Europe.- Belgium; Jean-Michel De Waele and Gregory Sterck.- France; David Ranc, and Nicolas Hourcade.- Germany; Albrecht Sonntag.- Greece and Cyprus; Christos Kassimeris.- Italy; Fabien Archambault.- Spain; Carles Viñas.- Sweden; Aage Radmann and Torbjörn Andersson.- Switzerland; Thomas Busset and Christian Koller.- United Kingdom; Matthew Taylor.- PART 3 - Eastern Europe.- Croatia; Loïc Tregoures.- Poland; Wojciech Wo¿niak.- Romania; Florin Faje.- Russia; Ekaterina Gloriozova.- Serbia; Richard Mills.- Ukraine; Olga Ruzhelnyk.- PART 4 - Africa & Middle East.- Algeria; Mahfoud Amara and Youcef Bouandel.- Egypt; Suzan Gibril.- Israel; Yair Galily and Tal Samuel-Azran.- Ivory Coast; Daniel Künzler.- Nigeria; Chuka Onwumechili, Totty O. Totty, and Leelanee Malin.- South Africa; Gustav Venter.- Zimbabwe; Manase Kudzai Chiweshe.- PART 5 - Americas.- Argentina; Pablo Alabarces, José Garriga Zucal, Verónica Moreira, Gabriela Garton and Nemesia Hijós.- Brazil; Rosana da Câmara Texeira and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda.- Mexico; Sergio Varela.- United States; Charles Parrish, and Jamee Pelcher.- Uruguay; Lincoln Bizzozero Revelez.- PART 6 - Asia and Oceania.- Australia; Roy Hay and Ian Syson.- India; Kausik Bandyopadhyay.- Indonesia; Andy Fuller.- Japan; John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter.- Turkey; Dähan Irak and Jean-François Polo.