This is a topical new book critically analyzing the significance of football in German sporting and cultural life. It examines football's place in post-war and post-reunification Germany up to the successful bid to host the 2006 World Cup Finals.

Professor Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies in the Sport and Leisure Cultures research group at the University of Brighton, UK and Head of the Chelsea School Research Centre. He is the former editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and author of Badfellas - FIFA Family at War.

Dr Christopher Young is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German, University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Pembroke College. He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is the author of seven books on German language, literature and culture.

1. German Football: A cultural history 2. Germany Versus Austria: Football, urbanism and national identity 3. A Tale of Two Germanys: Football culture and national identity in the GDR 4. Soccer Hooliganism in the German Democratic Republic 5. Turkish Immigrants in German Amateur Football 6. The Future of Football is Female!? On the past and present of women's football in Germany 7. The Europeanization of German Football 8. German Football: A media-economic survey - The impact of the Kirchmedia company on football and television in Germany 9. A Game of Nations? Football and national identities 10. Fandom and Sub-cultural Media 11. Selling Sex or Dealing with History? German football in literature and film and the quest to normalize the nation 12. Germany 1974: On the eve of the goldrush 13. All around the Globus: A foretaste of the German football imagination c.2006 14. German Football: Theatre, performance, memory - A philosophical epilogue