Lower League Football in Crisis: Issues of Organisation and Legitimacy in England and Germany

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football. This book explores the relationship between the top and lower leagues, laying open the drastic schisms that exist between the different levels.

The study links the developments at the top level of English and German football in the past 30 years to transformational processes in lower league football. Illust...