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Sports Institutions

Secrétariat d'Etat aux Sports French Junior Ministry of Sport site
Comité international olympique in French and The International Olympic Committee (in English)
CNOSF French Olympic Committee site (incl. history of women in sport)
la FSGT - Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du Travail the historic militant workers' sports federation with its magazine la Revue Sport et Plein Air
INSEP Institut national du Sport et de l'Education physique (some access problems - demands Active-X) and in English
European Commission: Sports policy site
New! Musée national du sport much improved site. see also its home Stade Allianz-Riviera. See also its links page Où trouver de l'info sportive under 'Documentation'

Various Sports

New! Aéronautique : Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett The international gas balloon competition was initiated by the newspaper magnate James Gordon Bennett, owner and director of the New York Herald, in 1906, when he donated a trophy, which was competed for by 16 balloons taking off from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. The 57th race took place in 2013, from Nancy.
New! Gordon Bennett balloon race 2013 un extrait du documentaire "Un Grain de Folie" réalisé par Benoit Tanguy. Suivez Vincent Leys et Christophe Houver lors de la 57ème Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett dont le départ a eu lieu à l'aéropôle du Grand Nancy à Tomblaine le 25 août 2013. Des images à couper le souffle depuis leur ballon à gaz "le grain de folie".
Athlé : Fédération française Athlétisme
Auto : Automobile Club de France; Fédération internationale de l'automobile and Formula 1 TM Official site
Aviron : Fédération Française des Sociétés d'Aviron
Basket : Fédération Française de Basketball
Boule et pétanque : The WWW Boule and Pétanque Community; Official Rules of the Game of Pétanque (Pétanque in Great Britain);
Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules ; Fédération Internationale des Jeux de Boules
Boxe : Fédération Française de Boxe
Cyclisme : Fédération Française de cyclisme avec pages sur : Route, VTT, Piste, BMX, Cyclo-cross, Loisir et autres
Le Tour de France official site; Play the Game conference talk by Greg Lemond on current issues in Tour de France including doping
Vive le Tour! wonderful documentary video short of the Tour de France in 1962 as seen by Louis Malle and others.
New! Urban Cycling Revolutions Interview with Chris Froome
New! Bédoin descent of Mont Ventoux through on-bike camera (max speed 131.8 km/h)
Foot : Fédération Française de Football
Golf : Fédération Française de Golf
Hand : Fédération Française de Handball
Hockey : Fédération Française de Hockey
Natation : Fédération Française de Natation
Randonnée : Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre [see also "Walking Tours" - click "Tourism" in left hand frame]
Rugby : Fédération Française de Rugby and Rugby : équipe de France
French Rugby World Cup 2011 Official site
Fédération Française de Rugby à XIII
Stages Rugby passion now via Vacances Loisir Activ'
Ski : Fédération Française de Ski avec pages toutes les disciplines, y compris Free et Snowboard
Tennis : Fédération Française de Tennis; and Roland Garros
Volley : Fédération Française de Volley-Ball avec le Beach-Volley

World and European Football

FIFA Football's World Governing Body, and New! official site of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil
UEFA Official site incl.Champions League & UEFA Cup etc.
Zidane - Materazzi : "Zidane headbutt outrage" as seen by various countries (The Register)

French football

FFF- Fédération Française de Football official site of French FA and their competitions, governing bodies, national teams, rulesetc.
Ligue de football professionnel official site of French professional league and LFPcompetitions; and
frenchleague.com an English-language site launched by the LFP in January 2007
Union des Clubs Professionnels de Football
Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels French Players' Union
UNECATEF : Union Nationale des Entraîneurs et Educateurs de football
Union Nationale des Arbitres Français
Stade de France site of French National Stadium


French football club sites

Ligue 1 (season 2015-16):
S.C. di Bastia, Stade Malherbe Caen, F.C. Girondins de Bordeaux, E.A. Guingamp, LOSC Lille, F.C. Lorient, Olympique Lyonnais, Olympique de Marseille, A.S. Monaco F.C., Montpellier Hérault S.C., F.C. Nantes, O.G.C. Nice Côte d'Azur, Paris-Saint-Germain F.C., Stade de Reims, et son webzine, Stade Rennais, A.S. de Saint-Etienne Loire, Toulouse F.C., Promoted from D2: Gazélec Football Club Olympique Ajaccio. Angers S.C.O., E.S. Troyes Aube Champagne (ESTAC).

Ligue 2 (season 2015-16):
Relegated from D1: Evian Thonon Gaillard, R.C. Lens, F.C. Metz.
A.C. Ajaccio (be careful of sponsor's ad), A.J. Auxerre, Stade Brestois 29, Clermont Foot Auvergne 63, U.S. Créteil Lusitanos, Dijon Football Côte-d'Or, Stade Lavallois [Laval], Le Havre A.C. (HAC), A.S. Nancy Lorraine, Nîmes Olympique, Chamois Niortais F.C., F.C. Sochaux-Montbéliard, Tours F.C., VAFC (Valenciennes).
Promoted from National: Red Star F.C. 93, Paris F.C., F.C. Bourg-Péronas,

National:

Relegated from D2 in 2015: A.C. Arles Avignon, U.S. Orléans Loiret, La Berrichonne de Châteauroux,
Avranches U S MSM Amiens S.C.F., C.A. Bastiais, U.S. Boulogne Côte d'Opale, Chambly FC, S.R. Colmar, U.S.L. Dunquerque, Etoile Frejus-St Raphael FC, Luçon-Vendée Foot, R.C. Strasbourg Alsace, Marseille Consolat G.

Promoted from CFA 2015 (provisoire, sous réserve):

Relegated from National 2015: (provisoire, sous réserve): U.S. Colomiers Football, F.C. Istres Ouest Provence S.A.S. Epinal, Vendée Poiré sur Vie-Football,

Others relegated from Championnat National or demoted from League 2014 and before:
U.S. Jeanne d'Arc Carquefou, U.S. de Luzenac Ariège Pyrénées, E.S. Uzès-Pont du Gard, Vannes Olympique Club

Aviron Bayonnais, A.S. Beauvais Oise (ASBO), Besançon R.C.. A.S. Cherbourg Football, Le Mans Union Club 72, F.C. Martigues, U.S. Quevilly, F.C. Rouen 1899, CSSA (Sedan Ardennes),

U.J.A. Alfortville, CRUFC (Calais Racing Union F C), A.S. Cannes, Gap Hautes Alpes F.C., Grenoble Foot 38, F.C. Gueugnonnais, Hyères F.C., C.S. Louhans-Cuiseaux 71, F.C. Libourne-Saint-Seurin-sur-L'Isle, Pacy Vallée d'Eure Football, Pau F.C., Stade Plabennecois, Allez Racing (ex-Racing Club de Paris/Matra Racing) Rodez Aveyron Football, U.S. Raon-L'Etape, Stade Olympique Romorantinais, Entente Sportive de Wasquehal, Villemomble Sports, A.S. Yzeure Football 03 Auvergne, Allez Racing (ex-Racing Club de Paris/Matra Racing).

Old media sports sites

France 2 Football pages
L'Equipe the premier sports daily
France Football twice weekly magazine

New media sports sites

Web TV: Club sites: Bordeaux, Olympique Marseille, OGC Nice, Paris SG.
TOUTES LES DEMANDES ET OFFRES D'EMPLOI DU SPORT Déposez vos offres et demandes sur cette page spécialisée
Les Cahiers du Football 'premier journal satirique pour les amoureux du ballon rond' - see its mp3s under Documents
Foot Solidaire 'mise en réseau de différents acteurs dans le but de stabiliser le jeune footballeur africain et accompagner son intégration socio sportive en France'
Espoirs du Foot news on young players across the football world
Origine des chants du PSG fan site illustrating chanting on terraces at PSG
Football-365 Football Magazine
Foot Citoyen Intelligent new site on French amateur football with interviews with pros
FFF site Fooball féminin, Le Monde du Fooball féminin; FIFA's Fooball féminin; Wikipédia's Equipe de France du Fooball féminin pages - well documented; and a Good, non-commercial, personal site on French women's football
Football Légende 'site consacré aux plus grands joueurs de tous les temps'
Foot Nostalgie serious site but not updated since 2006.
Kick 'n Rush OFF-LINE - for sale (May 2014)
Maxifoot news andportal
Sélection A - le webzine des Bleus La base de données du site reste accessible pour vous permettre de revivre les plus belles pages de l'équipe de France de football depuis 1973-
So Foot Well designed French football news site
Sport 24.com Well designed French sports news site
taken over by Le Figaro
Soccerbot.com Very full news site on French and other countries' football
sports.fr portal French sports news - very full news site on French and other countries
SportsStratégies.com Portail de l'économie et du marketing sportif. Serious site for the football industry, note the bibliography section too

French football link lists

Footbot specialist Frenchfootball portal
Univers FOOT portal

Academic sports sites - in French (or partly)

Call for Papers: Sport and Place: Sport, Identity and Community Interdisciplinary Conference, Oxford, 30 Aug.-1 Sept. 2014.
AFS Sociologie du Sport réseau thématique 31 de l'Association française de sociologie
The Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union Newsletter 1
Colloque: 14e carrefour d'histoire du sport: Le sport et la guerre (XIXe -XXe siècles), Rennes, 28-30 octobre 2010
Colloque: 15e carrefour d'histoire du sport: Accueillir, organiser et célébrer les Jeux Olympiques, Rouen, 29-31 octobre 2012
Centre International d'Etude du Sport attached to Univ. de Neuchâtel (note its bibliographies of sports studies); and its
CIES Football Observatory and its weekly report on the big-5 European leagues
Centre International Pierre de Coubertin
European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS)
FREE (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe) a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project which seeks to understand the impact of the most popular and most widely shared of all expressions of popular culture, football, on the dynamics of identity, patterns of perception and cultural change in Europe. The project seeks to explore an apparently non-political, but fully existing sub-cultural European public space of communication: the European football scene in the largest sense.
includes Conference on Women's football in Europe
New! Histoire@Politique - Politique, culture, société Revue électronique du Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. No. 23 Mai 2014: dossier "Cultures sportives et cultures politiques. Le cas des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement dans le monde au XXe siècle. Coordination : Patrick Clastre
Institut national du Sport et de l'Education physique (some access problems - demands Active-X) and in English
INSEP SocioResearch Lab responsable Patrick Mignon - try via site above
Médiathèque de l'INSEP (incl. searchable catalogue)
New! Musée national du sport now in Nice (Boulevard des Jardiniers - Stade Allianz Riviera) - opening 21 June 2014.See also its links page Où trouver de l'info sportive under 'Documentation'
International Sociology of Sport Association AISS/ISSA (Otago)
Société française d'Histoire du Sport "une association composée principalement d'universitaires et de professeur(e)s agrégé(e)s appartenant au champ des STAPS (Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives). Après un premier élan dans les années 1980-1990, elle renaît au début des années 2000. Elle se donne comme fonction d'instiller une dynamique de reconnaissance à une discipline qui mérite de dépasser le cercle intime des initié.e.s pour s'épanouir, par ses analyses pertinentes, dans une société où "le sport appartient à tout le monde".
Société de Sociologie du Sport en langue française runs conferences and has long list of academic links on sociology of sport
Sport et citoyenneté Sport and Citizenship Association in French & English - "Faire vivre le débat et engager la réflexion sur la place et le rôle du sport dans la société européenne : telle est l'ambition de Sport et Citoyenneté, dont le positionnement atypique fait de cette association le seul think tank européen spécialisé dans le domaine du sport".
Sport, Cultures et Sociétés en Europe au XXe siècle CHEVS, Sci-Po, Paris
Savoir-Sport Data bank (INFE/INSEP): Enrichir la documentation scientifique en languefrançaise accessible pour les entraîneurs de lafrancophonie
SportsStrategies.com Portail de l'économie et du marketing sportif. Not really an academic site, but of same level of seriousness as a site for the football industry; note the bibliography section and dossiers
We are Football Association Cultures - Mémoires - Histoire - French academic articles on world and French football. Includes Eric Cantona en Angleterre by Hugh Dauncey

Academic sports sites - UK

Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, and Birkbeck Sport Business Blog
Brighton University Chelsea School (Sport and leisure Research)
British Library Sport & Society The Summer Olympics and Paralympics through the lens of social science
British Sociological Association Sport Study Group (Convenor John Horne) and
British Sociological Association Leisure & Recreation Study Group (Emma Casey, Alan Tomlinson)
Ellis Cashmore page (Staffs)
Leicester University Department of Sociology ; Hillsborough 25 years on (John Williams)
Centre for Event and Sport Research (CESR) Bournemouth University
Sociology of Sport Research Loughborough University; and COS&R, Centre for Olympic Studies & ResearchCentre for Olympic Studies & Research
Chester Centre for Research into Sport and Society (CCRSS)

De Montfort University International Centre for Sports History and Culture and the 2012 BBC radio series Sport and the British
EASM - European Association for Sport Management
New! ESDN - European Sport Development Network Mission:"A network of academics and practitioners committed to knowledge development and exchange, and critical debate which positively influences and informs sports development policies, programmes and management practice"
European Sport Development Network 2014 at the University of Wolverhampton
FIG - University of Liverpool's Football Industry Group see their Factsheets link top left
FURD Resources (Sheffield -Football Unites, Racism Divides)
Gender, Sport and Society Forum Emma Rich
The Global Game Soccer as a Second Language "launched in January 2003.
Sport and Citizenship Association/Sport et citoyenneté offers a forum for new thinking and a vehicle for advocacy vis-à-vis the political and corporate as well as associative communities
New! Sport in Modern Europe. Perspectives on a Comparative Cultural History - an Arts and Humanities Research Council network
sportpolitics.net PSA sport and politics specialist study group ; PSA Sport and Politics Study Group 8th Annual conference (Political Studies Association)
International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship
Sport & Society British Library site on the Summer Olympics and paralympics through the lens of social science
Stirling University Dept of Sports Studies Research page
Women's Football (Donmouth) see also below for section on women and football

INTUTE: Social sciences - sport Browse down on the site Sport and Leisure Practice section provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. "Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. We aim to match resources to the business curriculum and the needs of researchers. Our target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education." Includes list of forthcoming conferences.
See INTUTE Subject Support Documents incl. Internet resources for Olympic studies
Internet for Sport, Leisure and Recreation tutorial new edition from INTUTE's Virtual Training Suite

JISC email discussion forums:
Sport,Culture and Society;
Sport Business Management;
Sports Engineering;
Sports Law; and
Sports medicine

LTSN Resource Guide to Sports History Learning & Teaching Support Network part of
Higher Education Academy resource guides in sports studies
Resource Guide to the Olympic Games Higher Education Academy -in Higher Education Academy Resources

Academic sports sites - Other

Olympic Studiesa Stark Center (Calgary, Canada)
History of Air Racing from the Reims Air races and the Gordon Bennett Trophy onwards
European Journal for Sport and Society published in English for the European Association for Sociology of Sport, founded in 2001
Termcat football dictionary Football dictionary in English, French, Spanish, Catalan
ICSSPE - International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education
Olympic StudiesCentre Barcelona
SIRC Sports Research Intelligence Sportive (Canada) claims to be the world's leading provider of sport information and research
Tenth Congress History of Sport papers presented in Spain, Nov. 2005
USA: LA84 Foundation "Digital resources include academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications."
Northeastern University Center for the Study of Sport in Society
The North American Society for Sport History (under [re]construction May 2014)
The World Awheel. Early cycling books at the Lilly library Indiana University, Bloomington

Electronic Journals

SOSOL Sociology of Sport On Line Electronic Journal archive only - no longer current publication. Includes "Get your kit on for the lads": Adidas versus Nike, the other World Cup by G Hare
idrottsforum.org Nordic Sports Forum

Blogs

The Sports Economist Blog
Football Economy Blog
The Business of Sport Management Blog

Other football sites

National Sporting Heritage Day Facebook page. The first ever National Sporting Heritage Day will take place on the 30th September 2014. The event aims to create a focal point each year for preserving and sharing objects and stories about the sporting past
11v.11.com - Association of Football Statisticians "The world's most comprehensive football statistics"
Bookshops: Sports pages bookshop; La Mémoire du sport
BBC football news site
european-football-statistics.co.uk
European Cup Football Bert Kassies
FootballUnlimited (The Guardian site)
Football League club sites Real football, real fans
Football Club History Database OFF-LINE - see : Richard Rundle CD offer
The World Football Historian, NOW (Sept. 2011) TAKEN OVER? BY scoreshelf.com
Football Programmes.com On-line shop buying and selling programmes
Football Squads up-to-date site of club stats across the world
New! Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) the democratic organisation representing the rights of fans and arguing the views of football supporters in England and Wales, A Derby to be Proud of
OPTA Soccer site tickets site Planet soccer Soccer news and statistics
RSSSF Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Run from northern Europe, on-going archive of European and global soccer statistics and records, at club and international level from the earliest days of professional soccer. New users see
RSSSF Guide to Contents. The most comprehensive source on the web. Appears very reliable.
Redpath Albion philosphical football quotes
Ronglish Spotter's badge for Lucy on this one, Clive. Includes BONS MOTTYS. See its home site:
Danger Here: Football quotes and humour
see Bubble Football in Norway
US National Soccer Players site formerly "Round Not Oval"
Sky SportsFootball News Pages
Eurosport Soccer.Com Eurosport Fabled Soccer Traders
ESPN SoccerNet
Soccerway Scores, results, fic]xtures
sporting-heroes.net a photographic encyclopaedia of sports
The Sports Arena links to soccer lists around the world
The Stadium Guide Erik's non-commercial site giving football stadium details across the world
In the Winning Zone Scottish Sports News (Winning Scotland Foundation) - football, rugby, etc.
WSC - When Saturday Comes 'The Half-Decent Football Magazine'; read Ian Plenderleith

Women's Football/Foot féminin

New! La semaine du football féminin, 7-14 mai 2014

International level

New! FIFA Women's Soccer World Cup
New! FIFA: Women's Football Teaching Material
New! World Cup Women 2014-15 Results - Soccer24.com
New! UEFA Women's football
New! Women's Soccer Way Provides results, fixtures, tables and standings for all professional women soccer competitions.
New! Women's World Football Rankings
New! The Women's Game Talking Women's Football all over the globe (highly illustrated) wordpress.com

Women's Football in France

New! France: women's football (UEFA site) in English
New! Equipe de France féminine A (FFF site)
New! Championnat de France féminin Division 1 (FFF site)
New! Stats foot o féminin (100% foot féminin) tous les niveaux : équipes nationales, clubs pro, jeunes ...
New! FootFemLive Facebook

Other nations, incl UK

New! FA Women's Football (England) incl. Cup, Leagues, England team
New! BBC Women's soccer site
womens-football.co.uk Directory of women's football online, with database for clubs (part of Footballshops.co.uk, and is now more of a sales site)
New! Women's Football House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee 2005-6 session
New! Scottish FA Women's Football all levels
New! Promoting Women's Football in Scotland Andy Muirhead (Scotzine, June 2, 2013)
New! Glasgow City Ladies FC a model club site
New! FA of Ireland Senior Women and links to Under 19s
New! FA of Wales site see links to Senior women's teams, Under 19s and Under 17s fixtures on its homepage
The Ultimate NZ soccer website not updated for a decade, but remains a tribute to women's soccer in Australia and New Zealand (also some international coverage of women's football)
New! US Soccer
New! Women's Soccer Division I Championship : NCAA.com Turner Sports Digital (US)
New! Iran Women's National Football Team
New! Is This the Best Goal in Women's Football History? Well, it's a great commmentary.

Histories of women's football

New! Women's football history: The Honeyballers: Women who fought to play football
New! Women's football history: Women's football's forgotten heroines (BBC)
New! Women's Football (Donmouth) History: one of the most extensive collections of research into the early history of women's football (Patrick Brennan's "tribute to those largely-forgotten soccer pioneers")
New! History of women's football through photos and memorabilia (by Chris)
New! Women's Soccer Scene: women's football history
New! The Dick, Kerr Ladies FC 1917-1965 (Preston) by Gail Newsham
New! Blyth Spartans Ladies FC (WW1) BBC website
New! Derwent Mills Ladies Football Team, Cockermouth, 1917
New! Women and Football Spartacus Educational
New! Secret history of women's football reveals how riots during Auld Enemy clash led to Scotland banning the developing game Daily Record, Sept. 1, 2013.
New! Lifting the lid on the hidden history of women's football Jean Williams De Montfort University's Centre for Sports History
New! Women's football on Football Unites, Racism Divides site
New! 100 Years of Women's Soccer in USA
New! Women's Soccer in the United States: its recent history, in Soccer Politics / The Politics of Football
New! The Early History of Women's Football in South-Western Germany Markwart Herzog (Schwabenakademie Irsee)
New! Women's Football. Played. Watched. Talked About (F.R.E.E. Conference abstracts) Copenhagen, 21-22 June 2013
New! Book: Women, Football and Europe Magee, Caudwell, Liston, Scraton (eds)

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