English language Football Books

Recommended English language football books. We’ll continue to add more recommendations to the list.

The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century

David Goldblatt

Tears at La Bombonera: Stories from a Six-Year Sojourn in South America

Christopher Hylland

Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

Christoph Biermann

And it was Beautiful: Marcelo Bielsa and the Rebirth of Leeds United

Phil Hay

Different Class: Football, Fashion and Funk - The Story of Laurie Cunningham

Dermot Kavanagh

Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography

Guillem Balague

Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

David Winner

Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

Sid Lowe

The Coach's Guide to Teaching

Doug Lemov

Football's Principles of Play

Peter Prickett

101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions

Tony Charles and Stuart Rook

Mensch: Beyond the Cones

Jonathan Harding

Cloughie: Walking on Water

Brian Clough

Maradona: The Hand of God

Jimmy Burns

Bobby Moore: The Man in Full

Matt Dickinson

Messi: The King of Camp Nou

Jason Pettigrove

Soccernomics: Why England Lose, Why Germany, Spain and France Win...

Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

Michael Cox

Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager

Alex Ferguson with Michael Moritz

The Frying Pan of Spain: Sevilla v Real Betis: Spain's Hottest Football Rivalry

Colin Millar

Teambuilding: the road to success

Rinus Michels

Constraining Football: A vision for player development

Ben Bartlett

The Modern Soccer Coach: Pre-Season Training

Gary Curneen

Blue & Gold Passion: A History of Boca Juniors

Daniel Williamson

In The Technical Box: With The Olympian Gods Of Football

Jack Porter

Formations in modern Soccer: Overview and Organization

Simon Schröttle & Moritz Demmer

Theories & Concepts for Football Coaching & Management

Mr Michael P Loftman

Developing Skill: A Guide to 3v3 Soccer Coaching

Peter Prickett

A Life in Football: My Autobiography

Ian Wright

My Turn: A Life of Total Football

Johan Cruyff

The Miracle Of Castel Di Sangro

Joe McGinniss

Football Against The Enemy

Simon Kuper

Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina

Jonathan Wilson

Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough

Duncan Hamilton

Barça: The rise and fall of the club that built modern football

Simon Kuper

My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes

Gary Imlach

Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

Tony Mee

Coaching Youth Football: What Soccer Coaches Can Learn From The Professional Game

Ray Power

Rondo Soccer Drills: 100+ Rondo Soccer Skills and Drills to Escalate Your Individual and Team Soccer Game

Chest Dugger

The Intelligent Soccer Coach: Player-Centered Sessions to Develop Confident, Creative Players

Carl Wild

The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football

Harry Pearson

The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

Mike Carson

Mister: The Men Who Gave The World The Game

Rory Smith

The Beautiful Game?: Searching for the Soul of Football

David Conn

The Three Kings

Leo Moynihan

Gazza: My Story

Paul Gascoigne

Thomas Tuchel: Rulebreaker

Daniel Meuren & Tobias Schächter

Red: My Autobiography

Gary Neville

The Price of Football: Understanding Football Club Finance

Kieran Maguire

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

The Modern Soccer Coach: Position-Specific Training

Gary Curneen

Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

Carlo Ancelotti

Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway and Katie Yezzi

Coaching Psychological Skills in Youth Football: Developing The 5Cs

Chris Harwood and Richard Anderson

101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions Volume 2

Tony Charles and Stuart Rook

The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story

Paul McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt

And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain

Adrian Tempany

Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje: The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football

Gary Thacker

The Crazy Gang: The True Inside Story of Football's Greatest Miracle

Dave Bassett and Wally Downes

Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World

Raphael Honigstein

Pep Guardiola - 88 Attacking Combinations and Positional Patterns of Play Direct from Pep's Training Sessions

SoccerTutor.com

Pep Guardiola - 85 Passing, Rondos, Possession Games & Technical Circuits Direct from Pep's Training Sessions

SoccerTutor.com

Making the Ball Roll: A Complete Guide to Youth Football for the Aspiring Soccer Coach

Ray Power

Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Passing & Possession Football Exercises to Improve Decision-Making

Ray Power

Stillness and Speed: My Story – Dennis Bergkamp

Dennis Bergkamp

How to Become a Football Agent: The Guide

Dr Erkut Sögüt LL.M.

The Bottom Corner: Hope, Glory and Non-League Football

Nige Tassell

How Not to Be a Professional Footballer

Paul Merson

1982 Brazil: The Glorious Failure: The Day Football Died

Stuart Horsfield

Full Time: The Secret Life Of Tony Cascarino

Paul Kimmage

Welcome to Hell?: In Search of the Real Turkish Football

John McManus

Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story

Raphael Honigstein

The Soccer Coach's Toolkit: More Than 250 Activities to Inspire and Challenge Players

Rob Ellis

Mastering the Premier League: The Tactical Concepts behind Pep Guardiola's Manchester City

Lee Scott

Hijacking Laliga: How Atletico Madrid Broke Barcelona and Real Madrid's Duopoly on Spanish Football

Euan McTear

The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul

Jonathan Wilson

Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

David Sumpter

Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football

Michael Cox

The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper

Jonathan Wilson

My Life in Football: The Autobiography

Kevin Keegan

The Modern Soccer Coach 2014: A Four Dimensional Approach

Gary Curneen

Developing Skill 2: A Guide to 3v3 Soccer Coaching

Peter Prickett

The Soccer Academy: 140 Overload Games and Finishing Practices

Michael Beale

Edge: Leadership Secrets from Footballs's Top Thinkers

Ben Lyttleton

The Immortals: How My Milan Team Reinvented Football

Arrigo Sacchi

We Lose Every Week: The History of Football Chanting

Andrew Lawn

Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager

Michael Calvin

The Gaffer: The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager

Neil Warnock

Coaching the Tiki Taka Style of Play

Jed C. Davies

Rotations and Interchanges: A book inspired by Marcelo Bielsa

John Wall and Hans Backe

Brave New World: Inside Pochettino's Spurs

Guillem Balague

Alex: The Man Behind The Legend

David Lyons

The Nowhere Men: The Unknown Story of Football's True Talent Spotters

Michael Calvin

Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game

Grant Wahl

When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

Jon Henderson

Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team

Robbie Dunne

Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football

Phil Ball

A Season With Verona

Tim Parks

How to Be a Footballer

Peter Crouch

My Liverpool Home

Kenny Dalglish

Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble

Graham Hunter

Forza Italia: The Fall and Rise of Italian Football

Paddy Agnew

The Quality of Madness: A Life of Marcelo Bielsa

Tim Rich

Calcio: A History of Italian Football

John Foot

The Football Fitness Bible

Matchfit Conditioning

The Second Half

Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle

Andrea Pirlo: I think therefore I play

Andrea Pirlo with Alessandro Alciato

Managing My Life: My Autobiography

Alex Ferguson

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