COVID-19 and the Soccer World

Kausik Bandyopadhyay is Professor of History at West Bengal State University, Kolkata, India. Formerly a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2010) and of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (2006–2009 & 2013–2015), he is also Deputy Executive Editor of Soccer and Society (Routledge).

• 1. Introduction: COVID-19 and the soccer world Commentaries 2. Football’s dramatic pause - when Saturday doesn’t come 3. The future of officiating: analysing the impact of COVID-19 on referees in world football 4. Football Worlds: business and networks during COVID-19 5. English premier league football clubs during the covid-19 pandemic: business as usual? 6. Football in the time of COVID-19: reflections on the implications for the women’s professional league in Colombia 7. Football is not ‘a matter of life and death’. It is far less important than that. Football and the COVID-19 pandemic in England 8. Football and COVID-19: the effects of the pandemic on training and performance of South American and Brazilian referees Articles 9. Soccer, World War II and coronavirus: a comparative analysis of how the sport shut down 10. The Covid-19 Pandemic and the social life of English Premier League Football Fandom in Eldoret, Kenya 11. The effect of short-term and long-term coronavirus quarantine on physical performance and injury incidence in high-level soccer 12. No sports, no spectators – no media, no money? The importance of spectators and broadcasting for professional sports during COVID-19 13. Professional football in Portugal: preparing to resume after the COVID-19 pandemic 14. Are we all in this together? Footballing ethics in the age of Coronavirus 15. Exploring the sports economic impact of COVID-19 on professional soccer 16. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a community soccer organization in the United States: the case of Asheville City Soccer Club 17. Home advantage in European soccer without crowd