French Rugby World Cup 2007 Official site and
Ski: Ski France Assoc. nationale des Maires des Stations de Montagne,
FFS Fédération
Française de Ski
Tennis: Roland Garros
World and European Football
FIFA Football's World Governing Body
UEFA Official site incl.
Champions League & UEFA Cup etc.
World Cup
98 (unofficial site); Coupe du Monde 1998 (unnofficial site)
Zidane vs Materazzi: le jeu video by TonaZ on dotball.net [off-line June 2008] ; and
"Zidane headbutt outrage" as seen by various countries (The Register)
French football
FFF (Fédération
Française de Football) official site of French FA and
their competitions, governing bodies, national teams, rules
etc., incl.
official Club des supporters de l'équipe de France [inactive since early 2006, email contact address]
Ligue de
football professionnel official site of French professional league and LFP
competitions; and
frenchleague.com
an English-language site launched by the LFP in January 2007Union Nationale des Footballeurs
Professionnels French Players' Union
Stade de France site of
French National Stadium
French football clubs
Ligue 1:
A.J. Auxerre ,
F.C. Girondins de Bordeaux ,
Stade Malherbe Caen ,
Grenoble Foot 38 ,
Le Havre A.C. ,
Le Mans Union Club 72 ,
LOSC Lille Métropole ,
F.C. Lorient Bretagne Sud ,
Olympique Lyonnais ,
Olympique de Marseille ,
A.S. Monaco F.C. ,
A.S. Nancy Lorraine ,
F.C. Nantes ,
O.G.C. Nice Côte d'Azur ,
Paris-Saint-Germain F.C. ,
Stade Rennais ,
A.S. de Saint-Etienne Loire ,
F.C. Sochaux-Montbéliard ,
Toulouse F.C. ,
VAFC (Valenciennes).
Ligue 2:
A.C. Ajaccio ,
Amiens S.C.F. ,
Angers S.C.O. ,
S.C. Bastia ,
U.S. Boulogne Côte d'Opale ,
Stade Brestois 29 ,
La Berrichonne de Châteauroux ,
Clermont Foot Auvergne 63 ,
Dijon Football Côte-d'Or ,
E.A. Guingamp [off-line?],
R.C. Lens ,
F.C. Metz ,
Montpellier Hérault S.C. ,
Nîmes Olympique ,
Stade de Reims ,
et son webzine ,
CSSA (Sedan Ardennes) ,
R.C. Strasbourg ,
Tours F.C. ,
E.S. Troyes Aube Champagne ,
Vannes O.C.
National:
Athlétic Club Arlésien [pages perso],
ASBO (AS Beauvais Oise) [pages perso],
CRUFC (Calais Racing Union Football Club) ,
A.S. Cannes ,
A.S. Cherbourg Football ,
U.S. Créteil Lusitanos ,
F.C. de Gueugnon ,
F.C. Istres Ouest Provence ,
Stade Lavallois Mayenne F.C. [Laval] ,
F.C. Libourne-Saint-Seurin-sur-L'Isle ,
C.S. Louhans-Cuiseaux 71 ,
Chamois Niortais F.C. ,
Paris F.C. ,
Rodez Aveyron Football ,
Entente S.S.G. (Sannois-Saint-Gratien) ,
F.C. Sète 34 ,
.
Promus 2008:
Aviron Bayonnais ,
SO Cassis-Carnoux ,
Olympique Croix-de-Savoie 74 (Thonon) ,
Pacy Vallée d'Eure Football ,
Others relegated in recent years from National:
A.S. Angoulême Charente F. C. (unnofficial site),
Besançon R.C. ,
F.C. Bourg-Péronas ,
F.C. Martigues ,
Pau F.C. ,
Racing Club de France (unnofficial site),
U.S. Raonnaise [Raon-L'Etape] ,
Stade Olympique Romorantinais ,
F.C. Rouen 1899 ,
Entente Sportive de Wasquehal .
Villemomble Sports ,
A.S. Yzeure .
Old media sports sites
France 2 Football pages
L'Equipe the premier
sports dailyFrance Football twice weekly magazine
New media sports sites
Bordeaux ,
OGC Nice ,
FC Sochaux ,
Paris SG .
AFP European leagues' football stats
Les Cahiers du Football 'premier journal satirique pour les amoureux du ballon rond' - see its mp3s under Documents
Culture Foot Solidaire 'mise en réseau de différents acteurs dans le but de stabiliser le jeune footballeur africain et accompagner son intégration socio sportive en France'
Espoirs du Foot news on young players across the football world
Football-365 Football
Magazine
Foot Citoyen Intelligent new site on French amateur football with interviews with pros
FFF site Fooball
féminin ,
Fooball
féminin in France and wider ;
Le Monde du Fooball féminin ;
FIFA's Fooball féminin ;
Wikipédia's Equipe de France du Fooball féminin ;
and a personal site on French women's football
Football Légende 'site consacré aux plus grands joueurs de tous les temps'
Foot Nostalgie
Kick 'n Rush Interesting French language site on British Football
Maxifoot news and
portal
Sélection A - le webzine des Bleus No longer updated. "La base de données du site reste accessible pour vous permettre de revivre les plus belles pages de l'équipe de France de football de 1994-2006."
So Foot and
compte rendu (Lucas de SoFoot) de la journée d’études sur le spectacle sportif organisée le 28 juin 2007 par Patrick Mignon à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Sport 24 Well designed
French sports news site
Soccerbot.com
Very full news site on French and other countries' football sports.fr portal French sports news - very full news site on French and other countries SportsStrategies.com Portail de l'économie et du marketing sportif. Serious site for the football industry, note the bibliography section tooFrench football link lists
AnnuFoot Well organised
links to world soccerFootbot specialist French
football portal Univers FOOT
portal
Academic sports sites - in French
AFS Sociologie du Sport réseau thématique 31 de l'Association française de sociologie
The Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union Newsletter 1
Centre International d'Etude du Sport attached to Univ. de Neuchâtel (note its bibliographies of sports studies)
Centre International Pierre de Coubertin
Comité Européen d’Histoire du Sport (with Conference on "Sport and the Arts" in Brittany, 20-22 Sept. 2007),
now European Committee for Sports History
European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS) (Vienna)
IASI - International Association for Sport Information Rome (in English, français,
italiano, etc) [off-line? June 2008]
Institut
national du Sport et de l'Education physique and INSEP Socio
Research Lab New sites
International Sociology of Sport Association AISS/ISSA (Otago)
Professional Football Players Observatory run by
CIES - University of Neuchâtel and CERSOT - University of Franche-Comté): database of players' career paths and the labur market in five major European leagues; plus their database of references to/articles on players and managers in major European football magazines: http://www.unine.ch/cies/football
Société de Sociologie du Sport en langue française runs conferences and has long list of academic links on sociology of sport
Sport, Cultures et Sociétés en Europe au XXe siècle CHEVS, Sci-Po, Paris
SportDoc Note its Heracles database of sport and PhysEd studies
Savoir-Sport Data bank (INFE/INSEP): Enrichir la documentation scientifique en langue
française accessible pour les entraîneurs de la
francophonie
SportsStrategies.com Portail de l'économie et du marketing sportif. Not really an academic site, but of same level of seriousness as a site for the football industry; note the bibliography section and dossiers
We are Football Association Cultures Mémoires Histoire - French academic articles on world and French football
Academic sports sites - UK
Birkbeck Sport Business Centre , and
Birkbeck Business of Sport Seminar Series
Brighton University Chelsea School (Sports Research)
British Society of Sports History Excellent source of information and links founded by Richard Cox, requires subscription
Richard Cox's Internet Gateway to Sports History needs registration and subscription, but free for limited access
British Studies Web Pages: Sport Themes in the History of Sport up to the Twentieth Century
British Sociological Association Sport Study Group (Dominic Malcolm, Grant Jarvie) and
British Sociological Association Leisure & Recreation Study Group (Emma Casey, Alan Tomlinson)
Ellis Cashmore page (Staffs) Leicester University Department of Sociology Sports Resources ; incl. Fact Sheets on football-in-society issues [N.B. this site is the archive of the resource which were offered by the Centre for the Sociology of Sport. The Centre has now closed and these pages are no longer updated.]
COS&R, Centre for Olympic Studies & Research joint initiative of Loughborough University and the British Olympic Foundation
Chester Centre
for Research into Sport and Society and its
list of links to Sports Journals University College Chester CCRSS site
David Hand online
Excellent site, mainly on football, see the French and European football news feeds
David Ranc's personal site
Very useful site on his own football research, on supporters and identity in Glasgow, London and Paris
De Montfort University International Centre for Sports History and Culture
European Association for Sport management
FIG - University of
Liverpool's Football Industry Group see their Factsheets
FURD Resources (Sheffield -
Football Unites, Racism Divides)
Gender, Sport and Society Forum Loughborough University - Emma Rich
The Global Game Soccer as a Second Language "launched in January 2003. Although based in the southeastern United States—in Decatur, Georgia—we try to privilege non-American stories. Our interest primarily is in the role of football in daily life around the world, the more remote from us the better. We are a one-person operation, with no budget, no sponsors, few advertisers and no FIFA connections. "
International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship
INTUTE: Social sciences - sport [formerly ALTIS] Sport and Leisure Practice section provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. "Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. We aim to match resources to the business curriculum and the needs of researchers. Our target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education."
See INTUTE Subject booklets, incl.
Internet resources for Olympic studies
JISC email discussion forums:
Sport,Culture and Society ;
Sport Business Management ;
Sports Engineering ;
Sports Law ; and
Sports medicine
LTSN Resource Guide to Sports History Learning & Teaching Support Network part of
Higher Education Academy resource guides in sports studies
Resource Guide to the Olympic Games Higher Education Academy -in
Higher Education Academy Resources
Stirling University Dept of Sports Studies
Women's Football (Donmouth)
Academic sports sites - Other
History of Air Racing from the Reims Air races and the Gordon Bennett Trophy onwards
European Journal for Sport and Society published in English for the European Association for Sociology of Sport, founded in 2001
Termcat football dictionary Football dictionary in English, French, Spanish, Catalan
ICSSPE - International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education
Centre for Olympic Studies, Sydney University of Technology Sydney
Olympic Studies
Centre Barcelona
Olympic Studies Centre, Lausanne
Scholarly Sports Sites Links (Calgary)
SIRC Sports Research Intelligence Sportive (Canada) claims to be the world's leading provider of sport information and research
Tenth Congress History of Sport papers presented in Spain
USA:
LA84 Foundation "Digital resources include academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications."
Northeastern University Center for the Study of Sport in Society
The North American Society for Sport History
The World Awheel. Early cycling books at the Lilly library Indiana University, Bloomington
Electronic Journals
SOSOL
Sociology of Sport On Line Electronic JournalList of links to Sports Journals University College Chester CCRSS siteBlogs
Bioethics and Sport Andy Miah's site Paisley UniversityThe Sport Economist Blog The Political Economy of Football Blog The Business of Sport Management Blog
Other football sites
Association of Football Statisticians
Bookshops:
Sports Books Direct/ Sports pages ;
La Mémoire du sport
BBC
football news site
european-football-statistics.co.uk
European Cup Football Kassie,Football
Unlimited (Guardian)Football League club sites Football Club History Database new version of :
fchd old versionHistora.org The World Football Historian
Football Squads up-to-date site of club stats across the world
OPTA Soccer site tickets site
Planet soccer Soccer news and statistics
Football Programmes.com On-line shop buying and selling programmes
RSSSF
Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Run from northern Europe, on-going archive of European and global soccer statistics and records, at club and international level from the earliest days of professional soccer.
New users see RSSSF Guide to Contents . The most comprehensive source on the web. Appears very reliable.
Redpath Albion philosphical football quotes
Ronglish Spotter's badge for Lucy on this one, Clive. see also home page of its original site Danger Here: Football quotes and humour Round Not Oval The US National Soccer Team's Players Monthly [off-line July 2007]; and US Soccer Players site
Scholars’ Pilgrimage to Olympia 24-25th November 2007 following fires on ancient Olympic site
Sky Sports
Football News Pages Soccer.Com Eurosport
Fabled Soccer TradersSoccer
Investor.com ("information & analysis resource on investing
in soccer industry")
SoccerNet by US sports channel ESPN Soccerway. Just soccer
sporting-heroes.net a photographic encyclopaedia of sports
The Sports Arena links to soccer lists around the world
Stadium Guide
football stadium details across the world
The Ultimate Soccer Gallery photos, posters & caricatures of players
WSC - When Saturday Comes
'The Half-Decent Football Magazine'
Women's Soccer
World ;
also women's soccer:
The Ultimate NZ soccer website ;
Directory of women's football in UK
Lincoln City FC Official
Website Red Imps World,
Impsight.co.uk unnofficial site powered by Rivals.net
Newcastle United FC official site and
NUFC.com
Newcastle unnofficial fans' collaboration
Last updated 22nd June 2008 by Geoff Hare.
All sites on this page last systematically checked 22nd June 2008 by Geoff Hare.
( geoff@frenchlinks.org.uk )
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