Library
Reports
Long-form studies of European clubs. Ownership, governance, economy, narrative. No reading is generic — each club is chosen for what it tells us about its time.
- Paris FC France
Fifty-six years after its accidental birth, Paris's second football club is back in Ligue 1, owned by Arnault and Red Bull, and has beaten PSG at the Parc des Princes.
— Read - Red Star FC France
The club founded by Jules Rimet, sold to an American fund now collapsed, plays in a stadium under judicial restructuring. A second death is possible.
— Read - Union Saint-Gilloise Belgium
Ninety years after its previous title, the Brussels club won the 2025 Belgian championship. Tony Bloom, Brighton, and statistical analysis as method.
— Read - FC Nordsjælland Denmark
The only European football club bought by an African academy, itself now the European tip of a system that begins in Ghana and ends in the Premier League.
— Read - Como 1907 Italy
Bought for eight hundred and fifty thousand euros by the richest men in Indonesia, the Lombard club went from the fourth division to Serie A in five years. Three weeks after its return, one of the two brother-owners died.
— Read - Parma Calcio 1913 Italy
Rebuilt after one of Europe's greatest financial frauds and three consecutive bankruptcies, the historic Emilia-Romagna club has belonged since 2020 to an American from Iowa whose great-grandparents were born in Sicily.
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