Club-militants, institutionalists, critics, moderns and globalists: A quantitative governance-based typology of football supporters
Borja Garcia-Garcia
Ramon Llopis-Goig
2134/38363
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Club-militants_institutionalists_critics_moderns_and_globalists_A_quantitative_governance-based_typology_of_football_supporters/9629360
This article presents a quantitative typology of football fans’ attitudes towards governance. Data collection is done through an online survey in six European countries: France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Results reveal the existence of five types of supporters: Club-Militants, Institutionalists, Critics, Moderns and Globalists. The critics, moderns and globalists fans share a preoccupation for football governance problems but differ in the intensity of their views. At the same time, critics and globalist are heavy consumers of football games and merchandise. The results suggest that existing fan typologies that understand supporters in dichotomic terms of authenticity or consumerism fail to explain the complex reality of a game that has developed new structures over the last decades. Existing typologies need to be superseded in favour of a more multi-disciplinary approach that integrates a governance turn to inform a more nuanced and better understanding of football’s social reality.
2019-07-19 09:41:59
Football
Supporters
Governance
Europe
Quantiative research
Typology
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Sociology