THE MAKING OF EUROPEAN HEGEMONIC ORDER: HEGEMONIC STRUGGLES THROUGH FOOTBALL

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2022-9-14

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This thesis investigates the hegemonic struggles in European football. This study aims to unfold how the global popularity of sport, specifically football have been utilized by various actors both with in/out the global field of sport to establish a hegemonic order and to expand it. The process of commodification and internationalization have caused football to become a contested field where there is a constant struggle for hegemony between the elite football clubs and the UEFA. This struggle revolves around the UEFA Champions League, the premier European level competitions and the apex of football in the world. The elite football clubs have tried to formulate a breakaway league in which they can group the best teams in Europe so that a much more competitive, more prestigious, and a more revenues can emerge at the expense of a further alienation of the fans, rupture in the existing hierarchical and institutional order in the European football. However, this pursuit driven by purely greed and endless pursuit of glory have crumbled, and the current hegemonic order in the European football is maintained which is designed and progressed, and utilized by the European Union to implement its hegemonic projects through its institutional capacity and power.

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UEFA, Elite football clubs, Hegemonic struggle, UEFA Champions League, European Union

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98784

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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C. IRGALI, “THE MAKING OF EUROPEAN HEGEMONIC ORDER: HEGEMONIC STRUGGLES THROUGH FOOTBALL,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.