Classici

• Gianni Brera
  Storia critica del calcio italiano, Milano, Bompiani, 1975
• Herbert Chapman
  Herbert Chapman on football, London, Garrick, 1934
• Eduardo Galeano
  El fútbol a sol y sombra, Madrid, Siglo XXI España Editores, 1995
• Antonio Ghirelli
  Storia del calcio in Italia, Torino, Einaudi, 1954
• Brian Glanville
  Soccer nemesis, London, Secker & Warburg, 1955
• David Goldblatt
  The ball is round. A global history of football, London, Penguin Books, 2006
• Simon Kuper
  Football against the enemy, London, Orion, 1994
• Willy Meisl
  Soccer revolution, London, Phoenix Sports Books, 1955
• Desmond Morris
  The soccer tribe, London, Jonathan Cape, 1981
• Jonathan Wilson
  Inverting the pyramid. The history of football tactics, London,  Orion Books, 2008