The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup, by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert (Simon & Schuster 2015)
The Official History of the Football Association, by Bryon Butler (Aurora Publishing 1991)
‘Stanley Rous’s “Own Goal”: Football Politics, South Africa and the Contest for the FIFA presidency 1974’, by Paul Darby, in Soccer & Society, 9 (2008), pp. 259–72
Africa Football and Fifa: Politics, Colonialism and Resistance, by Paul Darby (Frank Cass 2002)
The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, by James M. Dorsey (Hurst & Company 2016)
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer, by David Goldblatt (Riverhead Books 2006)
Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil, by David Goldblatt (Penguin 2014)
The Big Fix: How South Africa Stole the 2010 World Cup, by Ray Hartley (Jonathan Ball Publishers 2016)
Feet of the Chameleon: The Story of African Football, by Ian Hawkey (Portico 2009)
Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World, by Raphael Honigstein (Yellow Jersey Press 2015)
League Football and the Men Who Made it: The Official Centenary History of the Football League, by Simon Inglis (Willow Books 1988)
FOUL! The Secret World of Fifa: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals, by Andrew Jennings (Harper Sport 2006)
The Dirty Game: Uncovering the Scandal at Fifa, by Andrew Jennings (Arrow Books 2015)
100 Years of Football: The FIFA Centennial Book, by Pierre Lanfranchi, Christiane Eisenberg, Tony Mason and Alfred Wahl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004)
Platoche: Gloire et déboires d’un héros français, by Jean-Philippe Leclaire (Flammarion 2016)
American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich from–and Sold Out– the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports, by Mary Papenfuss and Teri Thompson (Harper 2016)
Reforming Fifa, by Mark Pieth (ed.), Lord Peter Goldsmith, Leonardo Grosso, Damian Heller, Michael Hershman and Geuillermo Jorge (Dike 2014)
The FIFA World Cup 1930–2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities, by Stefan Rinke and Kay Schiller (eds) (Wallstein Verlag 2014)
Football Worlds: A Lifetime in Sport, by Stanley Rous (Faber and Faber 1978)
Pitch Invasion: Adidas, Puma and the Making of Modern Sport, by Barbara Smit (Penguin 2006)
Young Havelange : FIFA in the Third Millennium, by Edgard Soares and Sérgio Baklanos (J.S. Propaganda 1995)
Fifa: The Men, the Myths and the Money, by Alan Tomlinson (Routledge 2014)
Great Balls of Fire: How Big Money is Hijacking World Football, by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson (Mainstream 1999)
Global Corruption Report: Sport, by Transparency International (Routledge 2016)
Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina, by Jonathan Wilson (Orion 2016)
How They Stole the Game, by David Yallop (Constable 2011)