As a highly popular cultural phenomenon, football connects people across social cleavages and entails manifold social interactions, constructions of community, and identifications. In Europe, football structures and governance, and consequently the lived experiences of football fans, have been Europeanised. As fandom is a complex phenomenon, this dynamic likely leads to the emergence of different types of fans. This article examines differentiation in football fan culture in Europe, focusing on how the Europeanisation of football affects the social, community, and identity dimensions of fandom. Using principal component and cluster analysis on survey data from four European countries, the article identifies five factors and six clusters that capture the variation of social, community, and identity dynamics in the European football sphere. It contributes to the understanding of football as a transboundary social phenomenon that facilitates the construction of overarching communities and discusses the implications of the typology for the future of European football governance and fan participation.
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