1. Introduction; Stacey Pope and Gertrud Pfister .- Section 1: Women’s Football and Female Players .- 2. It’s Still a Man’s Game? The Experiences of Top-Level European Women Footballers; Sheila Scraton, Kari Fasting, Gertrud Pfister and Ana Bunuel .- 3. Women, Football and European Integration: Aims, Questions, Methodological and Theoretical Approaches; Gertrud Pfister .- 4. The Beginnings of Women’s Football in South-Western Germany: From a Spectacle to a Sport Event; Markwart Herzog .- 5. Women’s Football Leagues in Europe – Organizational and Economic Perspectives; Marie-Luise Klein .- 6. Outsiders on the Inside: Integrating Women’s and Men’s Football Clubs in England; Jo Welford .- 7. ‘Who Could Name an England Women’s Footballer?’: Female Fans of Men’s Football and their Views of Women’s Football in England; Stacey Pope .- Section 2: Female Football Fans and their Experiences .- 8. A Socio-Historical Account of Female Experiences of Football’s Golden Age in England; Stacey Popeand John Williams .- 9. Is there a Life beyond Football? How Female Fans Integrate Football into their Everyday Lives; Verena Lenneis, Gertrud Pfister and Svenja-Maria Mintert .- 10. ‘One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Fan’: The Socialization of Female Football Fans – A Case Study in Denmark; Gertrud Pfister, Svenja-Maria Mintert and Verena Lenneis .- 11. Women’s Football Supporter Culture in Sweden; Aage Radmann and Susanna Hedenborg .- 12. Challenging or Accommodating the Football System? A Case Study of Female Football Supporter Communities in Spain; Ramón Llopis-Goig and Helena Flores .- 13. Gender, Play and Identity: A Longitudinal Study of Structure and Agency in Female Football Fandom; Cornel Sandvoss and Emily Ball.

This edited collection draws on social science approaches to provide insights into the world of women’s football and female fans. Providing in-depth analysis of the development of the women’s game in different European countries, it examines both the experiences of female fans of men’s football and women’s views, perceptions and evaluations of women’s football.Female Football Players and Fans will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sports sociology, sport sciences, gender studies, women’s studies and fandom and cultural studies.

“The book provides insight into the complex network of gendered experiences that can be part of playing and spectating football. … Female Football Players and Fans there for is an important contribution to increasing the knowledge and raising awareness of women’s football, and perhaps encouraging people to question their own preconceptions and understandings of this sport.” (Lise Joern, idrottsforum.org, September, 2018)​

Provides in-depth information on the development and the situation of women’s football in different European countries Examines the experiences of female fans of men’s football Explores the experiences of top-level European women footballers