📚 Association Football

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The world game: tactics, clubs and the great competitions, and how a simple kick-about became the biggest sport on earth.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject soccer in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Football in Sun and Shadow	Eduardo Galeano	1995	29
Soccernomics	Simon Kuper	2009	22
Football	Hugh Hornby	1999	18
Referees' Chart and Players' Guide to the Laws of Association Football	Football Association.	1975	12
Among the thugs	Bill Buford	1991	11
Soccer	Joseph A. Luxbacher	1982	9
Football Against the Enemy	Simon Kuper	1994	9
Miracle of Castel Di Sangro, The	Joe McGinniss	1999	9
Dynamo	Andy Dougan	1999	9
Handbook of soccer match analysis	Christopher Carling	2005	8
Soccer (Know the Game)	Football Association.	1986	7
Football Quiz	Gordon Jeffery	1976	6
What We Think About When We Think About Football	Simon Critchley	2017	6
Coaching soccer for dummies	Greg Bach	2006	5
Inverting the pyramid	Jonathan Wilson	2009	5
The numbers game	Christopher Anderson	2013	5
Cristiano Ronaldo	Iain Spragg	2014	5
Leading	Alex Ferguson	2015	5
Neymar	Nick Callow	2017	5
Soccer	Goldman, Ken.	1988	4
Brilliant Orange	David Winner	2000	4
How Soccer Explains the World	Franklin Foer	2004	4
The ball is round	David Goldblatt	2006	4
Soccer anatomy	Donald T. Kirkendall	2011	4
How to Watch Football	Ruud Gullit	2016	4
Mixer	Michael Cox	2018	4
Pep Guardiola	Martí Perarnau	1900	3
PEP Confidential	Martí Perarnau	2014	3
Quiet Leadership	Carlo Ancelotti	2016	3
Futsal	Peter Sturgess	2017	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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