The Football Magazines

Year of Establishment : 1989

Country : Germany

Rating : ESM Team of The Month/Year

              UEFA Men Player of The Year Awards

European Sports Media was established in 1989 as an international body for football journalism.[1] Its nine founding members were: A Bola (Portuguese), Don Balón (Spanish), Sport/Foot Magazine (Belgium), La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italian), kicker (German), Onze Mondial (French), Sport (Switzerland), Voetbal International (Dutch), World Soccer (English). ESM membership has varied over time. Former members also include France Football

Year of Establishment : 1920

Country : Germany

Rating : Bundesliga Player Rating,

                Greatest Club of The Century

Kicker was first issued in July 1920 in Konstanz, Germany. The magazine's headquarters were originally in Stuttgart before relocating to Nuremberg in 1926. During World War II, the magazine merged with the publication Fußball, and was eventually discontinued in fall 1944. After the war, the magazine was again published (under the name Sport) by the newly incorporated Olympia-Verlag publishing company. Former chief editor Friedebert Becker again began publishing Kicker in 1951, and for a number of years, both Kicker and Sport appeared at the same time. In 1966, Kicker was sold to Axel Springer AG. In 1968, Olympia-Verlag in Nuremberg acquired Kicker and merged it with Sportmagazin, which had been published twice weekly since 1952. The first issue of the newly founded Kicker-Sportmagazin was released on 7 October 1968. Beside the two weekly publications, Kicker provides a digital edition since 2012. The online version of kicker.de offers a broad live ticker for over 80 different international leagues. The magazine has three apps in the iTunes store.

Year of Establishment : 1912

Country : Italy

Rating : Series A Player Rating, Guern D'Oro

            Bravo Award. 1980s World Player of the Year

Founded in 1912 in Turin, it is published every month. The title and the logo, depicting a medieval knight throwing a javelin, are inspired by the lead character in Andrea di Barberino's chivalric romance Il Guerrin Meschino ("The Wretched Guerrin"), written in 1410. Originally, it was printed on green paper, whence the popular nickname verdolino, and also housed satirical panels. Characters used in his panels by artist Carlin (a zebra for Juventus, a female wolf for Roma, a devil for Milan and others) inspired most of the symbols of Italian sides used today. In the mid-1970s, Guerin Sportivo moved from newspaper to magazine format, starting to include a greater number of photos. Since its origins, most of the content was devoted to football, other sports being given less detail. Since the 1990s, virtually all pages are dedicated to football. Guerin Sportivo is published by Conti Editore. The publisher itself is owned by the Corriere dello Sport – Stadio and Tuttosport groups. The two daily sports newspapers are owned by Roberto Amodei.

Year of Establishment : 1946

Country : France

Rating : Ballon'Dor Awards

France Football originated from the magazine Football, which was published from 1927 to 1944 and was for a time the semi-official print organ of the FFF. Initially, FF was published on plain newsprint and only in black and white; Since February 1977 (introduction of the color front page), the magazine has increasingly become an illustrated magazine with numerous large-format color photographs. Its circulation increased in parallel from 120,000 (1975) to 213,000 copies (2004). From 1974 to 1982 and from 1997 to 2013 there were two weekly issues (Tuesdays and Fridays), with the Friday issue from 1978 to 1982 being called France Foot 2, and since April 2013 only the Tuesday issue has been produced. In Issue No. 3587 of January 21, 2015, the publication date was changed to Wednesday. France's contribution to soccer and its training of top-level players is well known. Exceptional talents like Mbappe, Katoto, Diani, Griezmann and many others hail from this country. This is why the magazine itself and the awards it bestows are so highly regarded and considered authoritative. From November 3, 2008, on the website of Francefootball magazine. fr publishes a daily newsletter.

Year of Establishment : 1970

Country : Brazil

Rating : Campeonato Brasileiro Series A Player Rating

               Bola De Prata Awards

The magazine was published on a weekly basis throughout the 1970s, and the 1980s, until August 1990. It was launched just before the 1970 World Cup, in order to fill the void of a national publication about the sport, and Pelé was featured on the cover of the first edition, which sold almost 200,000 copies. The magazine defended the modernization of the administration of Brazilian football, and on issues number 23 and 24, in 1970, a series of articles by Michel Laurence and Narciso James proposed many changes, among them the creation of a forsooth national championship, which would be created in 1971 and since then it has become the most successful sports publication in Brazil, even though it focuses fully on football.

Year of Establishment : 1919

Country : Argentina

Rating : Argentinean Primera Division Player Rating

The foundation of the magazine was an initiative of Uruguayan entrepreneur Constancio C. Vigil, that had founded Atlántida magazine in 1918 with great success, but the tragic week riots in 1919 stopped the activities. After that event and its consequences, Vigil was persuaded in acquiring his own printing. With the machines and the installations ready, he established "Editorial Atlántida", his own publishing house, headquartered in Buenos Aires. The first magazine from the recently created publisher was El Gráfico, with its #1 being released on 30 May 1919. El Gráfico is widely the most regarded sports magazine in Argentina and Latin America. The magazine was nicknamed La Biblia del deporte ("The Bible of sports") due to its chronicles, notable journalists and collaborators and its photographies.

Year of Establishment : 1960

Country : United Kingdom

Rating : World Player of The Year, Eric Batty World XI

              World Manager of the Year

World Soccer is an English-language football magazine, published by Kelsey Media. The magazine was established in 1960 and is the oldest continually published football magazine in the United Kingdom. It specialises in the international football scene. Its regular contributing writers include Brian Glanville, Keir Radnedge, Sid Lowe, Tim Vickery, and Henry Winter. World Soccer is a member of the European Sports Media (ESM), an umbrella group of similar magazines printed in other languages. The members of this group elect a European "Team of the Month" and a European "Team of the Year". Since 1982, World Soccer has also organised "Player of the Year", "Manager of the Year" and "Team of the Year" awards.

Year of Establishment : 1975

Country : Spain

Rating : La Liga Spanish Player & Coach of the Year

Don Balon is a Spanish weekly sports magazine specializing in Spanish and international football. The magazine was published in Barcelona between 1975 and 2011. It was distributed on five continents. The magazine was founded in 1975[1] by José María Casanovas, a very well-known Spanish sport journalist, who had the idea of creating an internationally recognized sport magazine. Don Balón published special magazine supplements every year on La Liga and European competitions. In 1976 the magazine launched the Premio Don Balón (Don Balón Award) yearly to the best Spanish player, the best foreign player, the best coach, the best referee and the breakthrough player in La Liga. Since 2011 Don Balón has been a fully digital media outlet. It is still considered one of the most influential football media outlets in the Spanish speaking world.

Year of Establishment : 1946

Country : France

Rating : European Golden Shoe

is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling. Its predecessor, L'Auto, was founded by wealthy conservative industrialists to undermine Le Vélo, which they found too progressive. It was a general sports paper that also covered the auto racing which was gaining popularity at the turn of the twentieth century. The European Champion Clubs' Cup, the competition that would later be rebranded as the UEFA Champions League, was also the brainchild of a L'Équipe journalist, Gabriel Hanot. The participating clubs in the first season were selected by L'Équipe on the basis that they were representative and prestigious clubs in Europe.

Year of Establishment : 1976

Country : France

Rating : Onze' Dor

The magazine was established with name Onze in 1976. In 1989 the magazine merged with another sports magazine, Mondial, and began to use its current name, Onze Mondial. The magazine is published on a quarterly basis in Paris. It was previously published monthly by Lagardère Active. In May 2013 the magazine ceased publication when it went bankrupt. Sporteam Media SAS, a subsidiary of MenInvestMedia, bought it in October 2013 and the magazine was relaunched in November of the same year. Every year, Onze Mondial hands out the European Footballer of the Year (Onze d'Or) award, as well as awards for coaches. In 2014 Onze Mondial had a circulation of 20,954 copies.

Year of Establishment : 1918

Country : Uruguay

Rating :  South American Footballer of The Year

                European Footballer of the Year 90s - 2000s

is a national Uruguayan daily newspaper. It is based in the capital city of Montevideo and is regarded as the newspaper with the largest circulation in the country. It was first published on September 14, 1918, and previously belonged to the same media group as the television network Teledoce. Founded by journalists Leonel Aguirre, Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta and Washington Beltrán Barbat, in 1919 Carlos Scheck [es] joined the group. Originally, it was related to the National Party, precisely with the Independent National Party. However it later developed into a general interest newspaper. For decades, El País has been among the leading written media in Uruguay, with a circulation of 65,000 on weekdays and 100,000 on Sundays. Its editorial focus is on the social, political and economic news of Uruguay, as well as the Mercosur regional trade alliance.

Year of Establishment : 1994

Country : United Kingdom

Rating :  World Footballer of The Year

is an association football magazine published by British company Future. Issued monthly, it published its 300th edition in May 2019. It takes its name from the football formation of the same name, 4–4–2. Future acquired the magazine from Haymarket Media Group in 2018.[1] Haymarket previously acquired Future's earlier football magazine Total Football in 2001 in exchange of subscriber list and the rights to the masthead of its defunct internet magazine The Net, Haymarket later absorbed Total Football into FourFourTwo. FourFourTwo has a number of annual rankings and awards. In 2007, the magazine put together its first FFT100, their list of the 100 best footballers in the world.[5][6] At the end of the 2012–13 Premier League season, FourFourTwo announced its first Stats Zone Awards.[7] In May 2015, the inaugural list of the 50 best Asian players in world football was announced.[8] They have also produced a top 50 of players from the Football League