Europe's 55 football nations in one season
After publishing a classic early interview in July 2017, the Guardian ran a second feature in October 2019. “A dog, a cat and 22 fans: watching European football’s worst top-flight team”, an edit of the San Marino chapter in Europe … Continued
Santa Clara, the leading club from the Azores, are the most westerly team competing in top division European football. Europe United features a second-tier match Santa Clara played at Varzim, overlooking a very different stretch of the Atlantic, in March 2018 and the … Continued
A flashback to the 55. Apart from watching the game, the only other thing I had to do was ask someone to take a photograph of me at every stadium. The backdrops varied whilst some 55FN photographers struggled with my … Continued
Only a few hundred Western football fans travelled to Egypt for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Matt Walker was one of them, watching all 24 teams compete in 15 matches over 9 days for the princely sum of £66. … Continued
Tall trees surrounded the still geothermal waters of Lake Hévíz. I paddled around the lily pads, hoping the minerals would soak away my strains. Hévíz was a brief stop between my second Slovenian match in Krško and Hungarian match in … Continued
Lonely Planet have published a 55 Football Nations interview with Matt Walker, intrepid football fan, as part of their Meet a Traveller series. It’s a routine familiar to millions of devoted football supporters: a sunny Saturday afternoon in the stands, a … Continued