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 b...

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Main Author: Ziesche, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Chapter 1. Introduction: Football Clubs, Community and Legitimacy -- Chapter 2. Setting the Scene: Structural Differences and Theoretical Considerations -- Part I: A Threefold Dilemma of Legitimacy. Chapter 3. Economic Crisis: Number Games -- Chapter 4. Cultural Crisis: The Great Divide -- Chapter 5. Social Crisis: Building Bridges -- Part II: Ways of the Crises. Chapter 6. Case Studies from England and Germany -- Chapter 7. Economic Coping Mechanisms: Professionalisation, or: Creating Sustainable Structures -- Chapter 8. Cultural Coping Mechanisms: Communitisation, or: (Re-)Engaging with Communities -- Chapter 9. Social Coping Mechanisms: Societisation, or: Improving Credibility as Social Institutions -- Chapter 10. One Size Does Not Fit All: Comparison and Results -- Chapter 11. Conclusion: Towards Hybrid Organisations and Supermodern Football 
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520 |a 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. Illustrating how the hegemonic status of top football weighs hard on the spheres below, it depicts how it also serves as a blueprint for lower league football clubs’ strategies in coping with a threefold dilemma of institutional legitimacy that shows itself in economic, cultural and social dimensions. Taking the different club structures in both national contexts as a starting point, it portrays both the efficacy of institutional frameworks and how these can be challenged from below. This research will be of interest to students and scholars across football studies, sports studies, the sociology of sport, and organisation studies. Daniel Ziesche is Assistant Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany