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196 entries · 35 Documentaries · 6 Series · 27 Films · 41 Books · 22 Photography · 28 Music · 22 Art · 15 Museums
John Huston1981Europe
Allied POWs led by Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone play an exhibition football match against their German captors.
Gurinder Chadha2002Europe
A British-Indian teenager defies her traditional family's expectations to pursue professional football.
Tom Hooper2009Europe
Dramatizes Brian Clough's disastrous, feud-fueled 44-day tenure as Leeds United manager in 1974.
Stephen Chow2001Asia
A disgraced footballer recruits Shaolin monks who use martial arts skills to dominate the football pitch.
Jafar Panahi2006Middle East
Young Iranian women disguise themselves as men to sneak into a men's World Cup qualifier, defying the stadium ban on women.
Sönke Wortmann2003Europe
A boy's reunion with his POW father intertwines with West Germany's stunning 1954 World Cup final victory.
Ken Loach2009Europe
A depressed Manchester postman finds life advice from an imagined Eric Cantona, who appears as his guiding spirit.
Khyentse Norbu1999Asia
Young monks at a Himalayan monastery scheme to get a satellite dish to watch the 1998 World Cup final.
Gerry and the Pacemakers (orig. Rodgers & Hammerstein)1963Europe
A Broadway show tune adopted by Liverpool's Kop as its defining pre-match anthem since 1963.
New Order with the England squad1990Europe
Manchester band New Order teamed with the England squad (including John Barnes's rap verse) for the 1990 World Cup song.
Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds1996Europe
Written for Euro 96, this song became England's default football anthem with its 'It's coming home' refrain.
The Chelsea Football Team1972Europe
Chelsea's entire playing squad recorded this single ahead of the 1972 League Cup final, an early club-anthem trend.
Tony Britten (adapted from Handel's Zadok the Priest)1992Europe
Adapted from Handel's coronation anthem, this became the instantly recognizable sound of European club football's elite competition.
Shakira featuring Freshlyground2010Africa
Shakira's official 2010 World Cup song, blending Colombian pop with South African group Freshlyground, became a global hit.
K'naan2010Africa
Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan's song became Coca-Cola's global anthem for the 2010 South Africa World Cup.
David Goldblatt2006Europe
A sweeping single-volume history tracing football's spread from Victorian England to a global obsession.
Jonathan Wilson2008Europe
Traces how football tactics evolved from the 2-3-5 pyramid to modern pressing systems.
Eduardo Galeano (trans. Mark Fried)1995South America
A lyrical vignette-based history of football's beauty and politics from a legendary Uruguayan writer.
Simon Kuper1994Europe
A journalistic tour connecting football to nationalism, war and politics across dozens of countries.
Franklin Foer2004North America
Uses football fandom and clubs worldwide to explore globalization, tribalism and nationalism.
Sid Lowe2013Europe
A history of Spanish football's greatest rivalry, entwined with Catalan and Spanish politics.
Asif Kapadia2019South America
Chronicles Maradona's transcendent and turbulent years at Napoli using exclusive archival footage.
Tom Mallion, Leo Pearlman (exec.)2018Europe
Tracks Sunderland's painful collapse from Premier League club to League One amid boardroom chaos.
Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist2010South America
Interweaves drug lord Pablo Escobar's football investments with the tragic murder of national captain Andrés Escobar.
L.S. Lowry1953Europe
Lowry's signature matchstick-figure style captures the mass ritual of working-class fans heading to a match.
Umberto Boccioni1913Europe
Boccioni's Futurist masterpiece fragments a footballer's movement into overlapping planes of color and force.
Henri Rousseau1908Europe
Rousseau's self-taught Primitivist style renders football players in his signature flat, dreamlike manner.
Philip Jackson2007Europe
A 20-foot bronze statue of England's World Cup-winning captain stands at the main entrance to Wembley Stadium.
Philip Jackson2008Europe
A bronze statue depicting United's three Ballon d'Or winners embracing in celebration of the 1968 European Cup win.
Emir Kusturica2008South America
Serbian director Kusturica follows Maradona's life, politics and cocaine addiction across multiple years.
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade1962South America
Captures Brazilian winger Garrincha at the peak of his dribbling fame using footage from the 1958 and 1962 World Cups.
Daniel Gordon2002Asia
Reunites surviving members of North Korea's stunning 1966 World Cup quarter-final run decades later.
Yang Li-chou2006Asia
Follows a Taiwanese youth football team's journey and a coach's dream in a country dominated by baseball.
Danny Bugsy Cohen2014Africa
Follows coach Bob Bradley and Egypt's national team's fight to reach the 2014 World Cup amid political upheaval.
Suridh Das-Hassan2011Africa
A feature documentary celebrating African football's grassroots culture around the continent's first World Cup.
Victor Buhler2012Africa
Follows several African communities using soccer to drive social change, including Ghanaian star Sulley Muntari.
Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali, Peta Jenkin, Jermain Raffington2020Africa
Follows young Senegalese players' path from academies to professional trials in Europe, framed by Sadio Mané's own story.
Billy Dosanjh2022Africa
Tells the story of Cameroon's national team's historic achievements, including the 1990 World Cup quarter-final run.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas2018Africa
Undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas exposes referee and official corruption throughout Ghanaian football.
Eric Cantona, Gilles Perez2013Europe
Eric Cantona profiles five footballers, including Didier Drogba, who used their platform to resist political oppression.
Maziar Bahari2001Middle East
Documents Iranian football fan culture and its social role inside the Islamic Republic's restrictions.
Lucian Read2024Middle East
Revisits the Iraqi national team's improbable 2007 Asian Cup championship amid the height of the Iraq War.
Lee Hicken2019Europe
Follows Leeds United's 2018-19 promotion campaign under new manager Marcelo Bielsa, narrated by Russell Crowe.
Misha Kumar2022Asia
A love letter to football in Kerala, covering academies, veteran coaches and die-hard local fans across the state.
Scott Ferguson2006Oceania
Follows Australian professional footballers pursuing careers abroad in the mid-2000s, before the A-League's rise.
Damon Fepulea'i2018Oceania
Profiles former Pacific Island footballers navigating life and identity after their playing careers ended.
Olallo Rubio2014North America
Explores why Mexico's football team repeatedly underachieves relative to the country's football passion.
Emanuel Josué Galván2016South America
Made by and for fans, this crowd-funded documentary follows supporters travelling to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup final.
John Barker2010Africa
Traces the history of township football clubs south of Durban's Umbilo River amid apartheid-era segregation.
Pascal Plisson2020Africa
Investigates the exploitative pipeline of young African footballers lured to Europe by unscrupulous agents.
Kishisugu Ki2026Asia
Documents Japan's national team (Samurai Blue) journey under coach Hajime Moriyasu toward the 2026 World Cup.
Johan Kramer2003International
Documents an unofficial 'final' match between Bhutan and Montserrat, the two lowest-ranked FIFA nations, held on 2002 Final day.
Jonathan Wilson2016South America
Charts Argentina's footballing identity from its British origins through Maradona and beyond.
Phil Ball2001Europe
Explores the concept of 'morbo' (needle/rivalry) that defines Spanish football's regional passions.
Raphael Honigstein2015Europe
Explains how Germany rebuilt its footballing infrastructure to win the 2014 World Cup.
Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski2009Europe
Applies economic analysis to debunk myths about transfers, national success and club value.
Simon Kuper2011Europe
A collection of Kuper's profile journalism on managers and players shaping modern football.
Andrew Jennings2015Europe
An investigative account of decades of corruption inside FIFA's leadership.
James Montague2014Europe
Follows the qualifying journeys of football's minor nations chasing a place at the World Cup.
James Montague2013Middle East
Reports from Middle Eastern football during the Arab Spring, tracing the sport's political entanglement.
James M. Dorsey2016Middle East
Analyzes how football intersects with authoritarianism, protest and soft power across the Middle East.
Abdullah Al-Arian (ed.)2022Middle East
An academic anthology examining football's role in state power, gender and identity across the Arab world.
Chuck Korr, Marvin Close2008Africa
Tells how political prisoners on Robben Island organized a football league under apartheid.
Alex Bellos2002South America
An immersive account of Brazilian football culture, from Pele's legacy to witchcraft on the touchline.
Nelson Rodrigues (ed. Ruy Castro)1993South America
A collection of Nelson Rodrigues's football chronicles capturing Brazil's footballing soul.
Nelson Rodrigues1994South America
Continues Rodrigues's chronicles into the 1970s, tracking Brazil's shifting football fortunes and mood.
Osvaldo Soriano1973South America
A genre-blending noir novel entwining classic Hollywood comedy with Argentine football and exile.
Osvaldo Soriano1998South America
A collection gathering all of Soriano's football stories, blending memory, myth and reportage.
Warren St. John2009North America
Follows a refugee youth soccer team and its coach in a small Georgia town.
Rowan Simons2008Asia
A memoir of building grassroots football culture and youth clubs in China from the 1990s onward.
Hans van der Meer2006Europe
Wide-angle landscape photographs of amateur football matches across 22 European countries, pulling focus away from the players.
Hans van der Meer2026Europe
A follow-up to European Fields focusing specifically on goalkeepers isolated within wide rural landscapes.
Various Magnum photographers, ed. Simon Kuper2002Europe
Collects Magnum photographers' football images worldwide, from Cartier-Bresson in Italy to McCurry in Burma.
Peter Robinson2005Europe
A career retrospective by one of English football's most trusted photojournalists, spanning dressing rooms to World Cup finals.
Julian Germain, Murilo Godoy, Patrícia Azevedo1998South America
A collaborative project in which 50 children from a Belo Horizonte favela photographed their own relationship to football.
Eleven Brazilian photographers incl. Nair Benedicto, Marlene Bergamo2014South America
Eleven female photographers document women's football fandom in indigenous villages, quilombos, hospitals and islands.
Andrew Dosunmu (photography), Knox Robinson (text)2010Africa
Commissioned to document Puma-sponsored African national teams, blending documentary photography with cultural essays.
Various photographers, curated by Middle East Archive2024Middle East
Assembles four decades of football photography from Algeria to Iran, Palestine to Turkey, sourced from renowned photojournalists.
Peet Pienaar (creative director), 40 photographers2023Africa
Combines photography, graphic design and interviews (including Didier Drogba) to celebrate African sport visual culture around AFCON.
Will Robson-Scott, Zak Waters (archival)2026Europe
Combines new documentary photography of fans worldwide with 1990s archival images from British football magazine Total Football.
Stuart Roy Clarke1996Europe
A landmark project photographing British football grounds and their crowds on medium-format film without cropping.
Jessica Hilltout2010Africa
A seven-month photo journey across Togo, Mali, Ghana, Mozambique, Lesotho and South Africa documenting improvised football gear and pitches.
Émile-Samory Fofana2023Africa
Documents Malian fans' relationship to European club jerseys, bootlegs and aspiration through street photography in Bamako.
Daniele Segre1980Europe
One of the earliest sustained photographic and interview-based studies of Italy's nascent Ultras subculture.
Patrick Potter2019International
The first book-length visual archive attempting to survey Ultras culture globally, from its 1950s South American roots.
Juan José Campanella2013South America
An animated tale in which a boy's foosball table figures come to life to help him win back his town from a corrupt star.
Chiu Keng Guan2016Asia
Follows Malaysia's multiethnic national team's real 1980 Moscow Olympics qualifying campaign, disrupted by the boycott.
Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt2018Europe
A dim, sweet superstar footballer loses his magical ability after a disastrous World Cup penalty, spiraling into a surreal conspiracy plot.
Zoltán Fábri1961Europe
Hungarian POWs are forced to play a propaganda match against their German captors under threat of death.
Michael Corrente2001Europe
A veteran coach (Robert Duvall) leads a small Scottish club through an improbable Scottish Cup run.
Jean-Jacques Annaud1979Europe
A talented but volatile player, kicked off his team after a fight, returns to expose the club's corruption.
Enrique Segoviano1979North America
Comedy legend Chespirito plays a devoted, luckless waterboy for a struggling Mexican football club.
Eran Riklis1991Middle East
An Israeli soldier taken hostage by PLO fighters during the 1982 Lebanon War bonds with his captors over shared love of the World Cup.
Arun Roy2011Asia
Dramatizes Mohun Bagan's historic 1911 victory over the British East Yorkshire Regiment, a landmark in colonial-era Indian football.
Vivek Agnihotri2007Asia
British-Indian youths in London form a football team to challenge racism and prove themselves on the pitch.
Amit Ravindernath Sharma2024Asia
Dramatizes coach Syed Abdul Rahim's transformation of the Indian national team during its golden era in the 1950s-60s.
Manchester City fans (orig. Rodgers & Hart)1990Europe
A 1930s standard adopted informally by Manchester City fans as a mournful, ironic club anthem from the 1990s.
Liverpool F.C. squad (John Barnes, Craig Johnston)1988Europe
Liverpool's 1988 FA Cup Final squad recorded this novelty hip-hop single as a team bonding and publicity exercise.
West Ham United fans (trad., popularized 1920s)1920Europe
A 1918 American vaudeville song adopted by West Ham fans in the 1920s, reputedly via a schoolboy nickname connection.
Real Madrid CF featuring RedOne2014Europe
Commissioned to mark Real Madrid's tenth European Cup/Champions League title ('La Décima') in 2014.
Jaume Picas (music), Josep Maria Espinàs (lyrics)1974Europe
Commissioned as FC Barcelona's official anthem, sung in Catalan and closely tied to Catalan identity and pride.
Die Toten Hosen2000Europe
German punk band Die Toten Hosen, based in Düsseldorf, recorded this anthem in tribute to Bayern Munich.
Attik1931Europe
An early officially composed club anthem for Greek giants Olympiacos, among the oldest club hymns still sung today.
Hussain Al Jassmi2012Middle East
Emirati singer Hussain Al Jassmi released this Arabic-language love song to FC Barcelona, reflecting the club's vast Arab fanbase.
Argentina fans, adapted from La Mosca Tse-Tse's 'Muchachos'2022South America
Argentine fans adapted a 2003 pop-rock song into the defining chant of Argentina's 2022 World Cup championship run.
Joan Miró1974Europe
Miró created this abstract print combining Catalan surrealist motifs and the FC Barcelona crest to mark the club's 75th anniversary.
William Reginald Howe Browne1923Europe
Depicts the famous overcrowded 1923 FA Cup Final, controlled by a mounted policeman on a white horse, 'Billie'.
Thomas M. M. Hemy1895Europe
A large-scale (12x8.5ft) canvas depicting a real 1895 First Division match between Sunderland and Aston Villa.
Georg Eisler1989Europe
An Expressionist painting based on a TV freeze-frame of the fatal crush at Hillsborough that killed 96 Liverpool fans.
Peter Edwards1991Europe
Commissioned for the 25th anniversary of England's 1966 World Cup win, this portrait shows a retired Bobby Charlton at home.
Peter Hodgkinson2004Europe
A bronze statue recreating a famous 1956 photograph of Tom Finney sliding through a tackle on a waterlogged pitch.
Adel Abdessemed2012Europe
A giant bronze statue freezing the moment Zinedine Zidane headbutted Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup Final.
Philip Jackson2003Europe
A bronze recreation of the iconic photograph of Bobby Moore raised on teammates' shoulders after England's 1966 World Cup win.
Tom Murphy1997Europe
A bronze statue of Bill Shankly, arms raised, stands outside Anfield's Kop end, frequently draped in fan scarves.
Jessica Hilltout2010Africa
Part of Hilltout's wider Amen project, this image depicts a rural Malawian football team with homemade kit and equipment.
Thomas Webster1839Europe
Depicts a rabble of Victorian village boys bearing down on a nervous goalkeeper, from before football's codified rules.
FIFA2016Europe
FIFA's Zurich museum stages the World Cup story and global football heritage for a paying public.
National Football Museum (England)2001Europe
England's national museum preserves the largest public football collection, now based in Manchester's Urbis building.
Scottish Football Museum / Hampden2001Europe
Hampden's museum holds Scotland's national football archive, including the oldest surviving major association trophy.
DFB-Stiftung Deutsches Fußballmuseum2015Europe
Germany's national football museum in Dortmund presents DFB and league history as a permanent public exhibition.
IDBrasil / São Paulo State2008South America
São Paulo's football museum under Pacaembu's stands narrates how the game became Brazilian cultural heritage.
AUF / CAFO (Estadio Centenario)1975South America
Under the Centenario's Olympic stand, Uruguay keeps a permanent museum of national and early World Cup heritage.
Fondazione Museo del Calcio / FIGC2000Europe
Italy's national-team museum at Coverciano documents the Azzurri through objects and a digital archive.
FC Barcelona1984Europe
Barça's 1984 club museum pairs trophy heritage with a permanent art collection inside the Camp Nou complex.
Club Atlético Boca Juniors2001South America
Boca's Bombonera museum was Argentina's first dedicated football club museum when it opened in 2001.
Club Atlético River Plate2009South America
River's Monumental museum walks visitors through club decades rather than a single trophy room.
S.L. Benfica2013Europe
Benfica's Cosme Damião museum treats club heritage as multi-sport history with a serious object collection.
The Lowry (Salford)2000Europe
Salford's Lowry arts centre permanently holds Going to the Match, football's most famous British painting of the crowd.
Japan Football Association2003Asia
JFA's 2003 museum documented Japanese football and the 2002 World Cup before closing with the JFA House move.
FC Porto2013Europe
Porto's Dragão museum spreads club history across 27 interactive thematic areas under the east stand.
National Football Museum2001Europe
Preston's Deepdale research centre holds most of England's national football collection off-gallery.
Lamartine Babo1945South America
Carnival marchinha that overtook Flamengo's formal hymn and became the song the stands actually sing.
Argentine fans (from 1974 campaign melody)1978South America
Club crowds reworked a 1974 political campaign melody into the national team's default stadium chant.
Argentine fans (melody: Bad Moon Rising)2014South America
San Lorenzo-rooted terrace lyric set to Creedence's Bad Moon Rising, sung at Brazil during the 2014 World Cup.
Antonello Venditti / Giampiero Scalamogna et al.1974Europe
Romanista writers and Venditti cut the hymn now known as Roma Roma Roma; the club later locked it in as inno.
Italian fans (melody: The White Stripes)2006Europe
Italian crowds claimed the White Stripes riff as a wordless national football call during Italia 2006.
Gianna Nannini / Edoardo Bennato (Italia 90)1990Europe
Official Italia 90 theme that still returns whenever Italian football looks back at that tournament.
Fecri Ebcioğlu / Nesrin Sipahi (1974 recording)1974Europe
Official Fenerbahçe march, recorded with squad voices and still played before home matches.
Raja Casablanca ultras2019Africa
Raja ultras released Rajawi Filistini on Land Day 2019; the song traveled far beyond Casablanca.
YB (Yoon Do-hyun Band) / public adoption2002Asia
YB's 2002 World Cup song spread from stages into streets and stadiums as Korea's sure-to-win call.
South Korean fans (Red Devils)2002Asia
Elongated 'Daehan Minguk' call that Red Devils used to fuse stadium and street in 2002.
Abdullah Al Manai / Qatari public adoption2017Middle East
A 2017 national song became Qatar's unofficial football anthem through locker rooms and stands, not a FIFA brief.
Assala Nasri (for Al Hilal)2020Middle East
Al Hilal commissioned Syrian star Assala Nasri for a polished club theme in 2020.
Topical Budget1921Europe
A contemporary newsreel records the FA's proposed ban on women playing football in 1921.
David Assmann and Ayat Najafi2008Middle East
A Berlin women's team tries to organize a historic public match against Iran's national women's side.
Marwa Zein2019Middle East
Young women in Khartoum pursue a national football team despite state restrictions on their participation.
John Ford2023Middle East
Saudi players and administrators chart the rapid emergence of a women's national football program.
Yugo Hattori2017South America
Follows a Brazilian girls' team through youth championships and memories of its grassroots triumphs.
Kimberly Mason2025Africa
Asisat Oshoala, Rasheedat Ajibade and Michelle Alozie describe representing Nigeria amid unequal support.
Amirose Eisenbach and Tamara Rosenfeld2021International
Thirty women from thirty countries play record-breaking matches on Mount Kilimanjaro and beside the Dead Sea.
Katie Bender Wynn2023Oceania
Australia's Matildas prepare for a home World Cup while balancing injuries, scrutiny and national expectations.
Maggie Eudes and Maggie Miles2024Oceania
Past and present Matildas recount their national team's long struggle for equality, visibility and respect.
Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine2023North America
Archive footage and players' testimony recover the largely erased 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico.
David Belton and Sarah Hamilton2019Asia
Japan's 2011 triumph after the Tōhoku disaster is paired with the United States' women's football ascent.
Nastia Tarasova2021Asia
A documentary follows girls playing football in China amid family expectations and unequal opportunities.
Claudia Jardim2018South America
Marta recounts overcoming isolation and gender prejudice to become Brazil's defining women's football star.
Ouisie Shapiro2007North America
Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and teammates chart the USWNT's rise from neglect to Olympic and World Cup success.
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine2021North America
USWNT players document their legal fight to secure equal pay from the United States Soccer Federation.
Suzanne Wrack2022Europe
Charts British women's football from Victorian pioneers through the FA ban to the modern professional game.
Barbara Jacobs2004Europe
Recounts the Dick, Kerr Ladies' rise from Preston munitions workers to international football celebrities.
Gail J. Newsham1994Europe
Documents the Dick, Kerr Ladies from wartime factory team through decades of defiance after the FA ban.
David J. Williamson1991Europe
Surveys British women's football pioneers, teams and public controversies before the modern revival.
R. S. Titford2014Europe
Investigates the events and motivations behind the FA's December 1921 ban on women's football.
Tim Tate2015Europe
Recovers the players, crowds and press attention surrounding women's football before its abrupt institutional suppression.
Gail J. Newsham and Thy Bui2021Europe
An illustrated guide introduces the Dick, Kerr Ladies' wartime origins, achievements and struggle against the FA ban.
Fan Hong and J. A. Mangan2004International
International scholars examine women's football, resistance and social emancipation across fifteen national contexts.
Chuka Onwumechili2024Africa
Traces women's football across Africa from exclusion and informal play to national teams, broadcasting and professional ambitions.
Aira F. Bonfim2023South America
Recovers early Brazilian women's football through carnival, circus, suburban and working-class sporting cultures.
Mariana Zuaneti Martins and Ileana Wenetz2020South America
Essays examine athletes, coaches and administrators confronting policy barriers to professional women's football in Brazil.
Silvana Vilodre Goellner and Ludmila Mourão2020South America
An interdisciplinary collection examines women footballers, fans and researchers across Brazilian football environments.
Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan2019Oceania
Traces Australian women's football from early matches through the Matildas' long struggle for recognition.
Fiona Crawford2023Oceania
Explores how the Matildas' players, performances and public presence transformed Australian football culture.
Marion Stell and Heather Reid2020Oceania
Recounts Australia's pioneering women internationals against New Zealand through football, feminism and player testimony.
Elaine Watson1994Oceania
An insider history records the Australian Women's Soccer Association's early struggle for legitimacy and organization.
Khalida Popal2024Middle East
Former Afghanistan captain Khalida Popal recounts building a national team while confronting misogyny, threats and exile.
Alexa Vachon2018Europe
Portraits and testimonies follow refugee women playing football together in Berlin.
Barley Nimmo2026Europe
A staged photographic fairytale imagines a women's team founded after the FA lifted its 1971 ban.
Lela Ahmadzai2013Asia
Documents young Afghan national-team players pursuing football amid political and social restrictions.
Benjamin Rasmussen2024Africa
Photographs follow a grassroots organization growing football opportunities for women and girls across Cameroon.
Goal Click, founded by Matthew Barrett2019International
Players worldwide used cameras to document their lives around the 2019 Women's World Cup.
Sylvie Belbouab2022Europe
Social-documentary photographs celebrate local women, girls and non-binary football communities across Newham.
Nadine Barth and Katharina Mouratidi2025Europe
A group photography exhibition traces women's football from historic exclusion to contemporary European visibility.
Sarah Sculley and Kim Walmsley2021Oceania
A permanent mural portrays Australian women footballers, coaches, officials, fans and First Nations sporting histories.
Josephine Henning2022Europe
Former Germany international Josephine Henning designed the title poster for UEFA's women’s football art exhibition.
Jill Iliffe2018Europe
A painting confronts the suppression of women’s football and its enduring effects on participation and recognition.
Suzanne Lacy2024Europe
A five-channel installation asks women footballers about ambition, working conditions and the future of their game.
Ruth Davis2019Europe
A vivid painting channels the color, rebellion and fever surrounding the 2019 Women's World Cup.
Nilé Livingston2019North America
A Philadelphia mural honors Carli Lloyd's local roots and USWNT career before the 2019 Women's World Cup.
Julien Hallard2018Europe
A sports journalist assembles a women's football team in 1969 Reims despite ridicule and institutional resistance.
Atlee2019Asia
A former footballer coaches a women’s team whose players confront violence, family pressure and social prejudice.
Davis Guggenheim2007North America
After her brother's death, a teenage footballer fights to join her boys' varsity team in 1970s New Jersey.
Norm Hunter2007North America
A gifted teenage footballer balances school, romance and pressure after receiving a chance to join the US national team.
Andy Fickman2006North America
When her girls' team is cut, Viola impersonates her brother to prove she can play on the boys' team.
Joona Tena2005Europe
Women frustrated by their partners' football obsession form a team and challenge the men to a decisive match.
Mohamed Hamidi2020Europe
A suspended men's coach assembles local women into a football team to save a struggling rural club.
Stephen Chow2026Asia
A fictional Chinese women's team uses martial-arts skills to compete in an extraordinary football tournament.