Football's 50 Most Important Clubs: The World's Most Influential Teams of All Time

Football's Fifty Most Important Clubs journeys into the history of football, exploring the successes, failures and innovations of the world's most influential clubs.

Football is not just a sport. It is a way of life built from a multitude of different elements, each with their own complexities and intricacies. There is none more important than those found in the 'club'. Bringing together people from different classes, identities and nations, there is much we can learn from the past, present and future of the game's most important institutions.

Alongside ever-expanding trophy cabinets, super stadiums and the sport's greatest players are stories of tragedy, identity and conflict, all of which have shaped how we watch and discuss the modern game. It's all very simple really: without the club, there could be no football.

The history of football's most important clubs helps us to better understand not only the current state of play, but the wider world around it.

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Football's 50 Most Important Clubs: The World's Most Influential Teams of All Time

Football's Fifty Most Important Clubs journeys into the history of football, exploring the successes, failures and innovations of the world's most influential clubs.

Football is not just a sport. It is a way of life built from a multitude of different elements, each with their own complexities and intricacies. There is none more important than those found in the 'club'. Bringing together people from different classes, identities and nations, there is much we can learn from the past, present and future of the game's most important institutions.

Alongside ever-expanding trophy cabinets, super stadiums and the sport's greatest players are stories of tragedy, identity and conflict, all of which have shaped how we watch and discuss the modern game. It's all very simple really: without the club, there could be no football.

The history of football's most important clubs helps us to better understand not only the current state of play, but the wider world around it.

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Football's 50 Most Important Clubs: The World's Most Influential Teams of All Time

Football's 50 Most Important Clubs: The World's Most Influential Teams of All Time

by Gareth James, Ben Jones
Football's 50 Most Important Clubs: The World's Most Influential Teams of All Time

Football's 50 Most Important Clubs: The World's Most Influential Teams of All Time

by Gareth James, Ben Jones

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Football's Fifty Most Important Clubs journeys into the history of football, exploring the successes, failures and innovations of the world's most influential clubs.

Football is not just a sport. It is a way of life built from a multitude of different elements, each with their own complexities and intricacies. There is none more important than those found in the 'club'. Bringing together people from different classes, identities and nations, there is much we can learn from the past, present and future of the game's most important institutions.

Alongside ever-expanding trophy cabinets, super stadiums and the sport's greatest players are stories of tragedy, identity and conflict, all of which have shaped how we watch and discuss the modern game. It's all very simple really: without the club, there could be no football.

The history of football's most important clubs helps us to better understand not only the current state of play, but the wider world around it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781801507479
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
Publication date: 07/14/2026
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.67(w) x 8.74(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Ben Jones and Gareth Thomas are perhaps better known for their award-winning blog, The Football History Boys. They started writing about football history in 2013 while studying at university, and still create content regularly through their YouTube channel, podcast and books. Both Ben and Gareth work in Cardiff as teachers where they enjoy sharing their love of football with the younger generation.

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