Union des Clubs Professionnels de Football
Union Nationale des Footballeurs
Professionnels French Players' Union
UNECATEF : Union Nationale des Entraîneurs et Educateurs
Union Nationale des Arbitres Français
Stade de France site of
French National Stadium
French football clubs
Ligue 1:
A.J. Auxerre ,
U.S. Boulogne Côte d'Opale ,
F.C. Girondins de Bordeaux ,
Grenoble Foot 38 ,
Le Mans Union Club 72 ,
R.C. Lens ,
LOSC Lille Métropole ,
F.C. Lorient Bretagne Sud ,
Montpellier Hérault S.C. ,
Olympique Lyonnais ,
Olympique de Marseille ,
A.S. Monaco F.C. ,
A.S. Nancy Lorraine ,
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 ,
Angers S.C.O. ,
A.C. Arles Avignon
S.C. Bastia ,
Stade Brestois 29 ,
La Berrichonne de Châteauroux ,
Stade Malherbe Caen ,
Clermont Foot Auvergne 63 ,
Dijon Football Côte-d'Or ,
E.A. Guingamp ,
F.C. Istres Ouest Provence ,
Stade Lavallois Mayenne F.C. [Laval] ,
Le Havre A.C. ,
F.C. Metz ,
F.C. Nantes ,
Nîmes Olympique ,
CSSA (Sedan Ardennes) ,
R.C. Strasbourg ,
Tours F.C. ,
Vannes O.C. and
Le p'tit footeux de Vannes .
National:
Amiens S.C.F. ,
Aviron Bayonnais ,
ASBO (AS Beauvais Oise) ,
A.S. Cannes ,
SO Cassis-Carnoux ,
U.S. Créteil Lusitanos ,
Evian Thonon Gaillar ,
Frejus-St Raphael FC ,
F.C. Gueugnonnais ,
Hyères ,
C.S. Louhans-Cuiseaux 71 ,
US de Luzenac ,
A S Moulin Football Auvergne ,
Pacy Vallée d'Eure Football ,
Paris F.C. ,
Stade Plabennecois ,
Stade de Reims , et son
webzine ,
Rodez Aveyron Football ,
F.C. Rouen 1899 ,
E.S. Troyes Aube Champagne .
Others relegated in recent years from National:
CRUFC (Calais Racing Union Football Club) ,
A.S. Cherbourg Football ,
F.C. Libourne-Saint-Seurin-sur-L'Isle ,
Chamois Niortais F.C. ,
Entente S.S.G. (Sannois-Saint-Gratien) ,
Besançon R.C. ,
F.C. Bourg-Péronas ,
Pau F.C. ,
Racing Club de France (unnofficial site),
U.S. Raon-L'Etape ,
Stade Olympique Romorantinais ,
Entente Sportive de Wasquehal .
Villemomble Sports ,
A.S. Yzeure Football 03 Auvergne .
Old media sports sites
France 2 Football pages
L'Equipe the premier
sports daily
France Football twice weekly magazine
New media sports sites
Web TV: Club sites:
Bordeaux ,
Olympique Marseille ,
OGC Nice ,
FC Sochaux ,
Paris SG .
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 ,
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
Footbot 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
Colloque: 14e carrefour d'histoire du sport: Le sport et la guerre (XIXe -XXe siècles), Rennes, 28-30 octobre 2010
Appel à communications
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
- unavailable Dec 2009
European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS)
GEPECS (Groupe d’étude pour l’Europe de la culture et de la solidarité ) Axe 4 Techniques et Enjeux du Corps : Jeux, Sports et Santé en Europe (Université Paris Descartes)
Institut
national du Sport et de l'Education physique [access problem Dec. 2009] and INSEP Socio
Research Lab responsable Patrick Mignon
Médiathèque de l'INSEP (incl. searchable catalogue)
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 et citoyenneté Sport and Citizenship Association in French & English - "Faire vivre le débat et engager la réflexion sur la place et le rôle du sport dans la société européenne : telle est l'ambition de Sport et Citoyenneté, dont le positionnement atypique fait de cette association le seul think tank européen spécialisé dans le domaine du sport".
Sport, Cultures et Sociétés en Europe au XXe siècle CHEVS, Sci-Po, Paris
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.
Includes Eric Cantona en Angleterre by H Dauncey
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 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. Centre for event and Sport Research (CESR) Bournemouth University
Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS) Coventry University (see their Working Papers series)
Sociology of Sport Research Loughborough University ; and
COS&R, Centre for Olympic Studies & Research joint initiative of Loughborough University and the British Olympic Foundation [off-line? Dec. 2009]
Chester Centre
for Research into Sport and Society (CCRSS) and its
list of links to Sports Journals University College Chester CCRSS site - temporarily unavailable [Dec. 2009]http://www.davidhandonline.com/ - the late David Hand's site - no longer available
David Ranc's personal site
personal site: his own football research, on supporters and identity in Glasgow, London and Paris
De Montfort University International Centre for Sports History and Culture
EASM - European Association for Sport Management
FIG - University of
Liverpool's Football Industry Group see their Factsheets link
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.
Plus Writers on Soccer . "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. "
Sport and Citizenship Association/Sport et citoyenneté offers a forum for new thinking and a vehicle for advocacy vis-à-vis the political and corporate as well as associative communities
sportpolitics.net PSA sport and politics specialist study group, incl.
day conference 26 Feb. 2010: "Critiquing Sport: Theory and Practice" Leeds Metropolitan University
International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship
INTUTE: Social sciences - sport Browse down on the site 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." Includes list of forthcoming conferences. 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 Research page
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 [disappeared ? Dec. 2009] was part of Official Olympic Games site
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 Journal"Get your kit on for the lads": Adidas versus Nike, the other World Cup by G Hare
List of links to Sports Journals University College Chester CCRSS site - under reconstruction Dec. 2009
idrottsforum.org Nordic Sports Forum
Blogs
Bioethics and Sport Andy Miah's site The Sport Economist Blog The Political Economy of Football Blog The Business of Sport Management Blog
Other football sites
Association of Football Statisticians "The world's most comprehensive football statistics"
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 version
The World Football Historian , new improved version of
Histora.org
Football Programmes.com On-line shop buying and selling programmes
Football Squads up-to-date site of club stats across the world
OPTA Soccer site tickets site
Planet soccer Soccer news and statistics
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 sadly unavailable Dec 2009
Ronglish Spotter's badge for Lucy on this one, Clive. under reconstruction Dec 2009. see its related site:
Danger Here: Football quotes and humour Round Not Oval The US National Soccer Team's Players Monthly now taken over by US Soccer Players 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
SportsVL.com football pages
Stadium Guide
football stadium details across the world
In the Winning Zone Scottish Sports News (Winning Scotland Foundation) - football, rugby, etc.
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 27th December 2009 by Geoff Hare.
All sites on this page last systematically checked 27th December 2009 by Geoff Hare.
( geoff@frenchlinks.org.uk )
There is a contents list on the Home Page .
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Musée national du sport includes link to sports databases